New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-19
1NvECTIvE FOB ARGUMENT.

historian, Pollard, has from deliberate
knowledge characterized as despotisn
not surpassed in any country. This judg
ment is confirmed by the assertions o
Robert Toombs and Alexander 81
Stephens, men whose integrity or courage
has never been impugned. 1t is strength
ened by the protests of the Governors O.
Louisiana, Arkansas and Georgia against
the despotic orders of the ambitious ani
dictatorial ring which gobbled the Offices
and ordered the obedience of the Confed
crate people. The unpopularity Of thit
dictatorial Democracy is rendered proba'
BILE by the fact alleged in history that
there were at one time fifteen hundred
applications for relief from military ser.
vice on hsbeas corpus, and one hundred
thousand persons on the army rolls that
did not answer to their names in the hour
of battle. Had the North proper sense
of gratitude for services rendered, even
inadvertently, they would not only exempt
the head of this dictatorial Democracy
from any political disability, but see to it
that he should never want the substantial
comforts Of life. He not only did much
to disgust the Confederate people with the
temporary exchange of governments, but
taught them that, with such selfish, OBJ
| solete and impracticable party at the head
| of q government, none of those prin-
ciples of political amendment promised
| the South could ever be realized. The
| universal dislike and distrust with which
the Confederate soldiers at the close of
the war regarded Mr.. Davis and the clique
which surrounded him was lost in the
sense that he had been made respon-
sible for the acts OF whole peo-
pie. To exempt him from the pro-
visions of universal amnesty would be
persistence in mistake which elevates to
the dignity Of martyrdom man without
popularity, and clique without the slight
est sympathy in the sufferings or redemp-
ton of the Southern people. This dictate
rial sect has eagerly seized on every event
that has occurred since the war to revive
the sectional prejudices which threatened
at one time to tear the Union asunder
Those who direct the aspirations Of this
clique have thought proper to remove its
seat of agitation to New Orleans. With
the men in this city who fought in the
Confederacy the animositles Of war ceased
with the combat and new obligations
arose under the pledges Of reunion. The
business and property interests of the peo-
pie have suffered from diversion of trade,
from political abuses and partisan strife. |
There is, then, no substantial SEN
timent in this city in favor Of re-
newing party alliance with those
State rights Democrats of the North
who took contracts and commissions
in the Union army to subjugate their
State rights allies. The dictatorial De-
mocracy have been, therefore, compelled
to create special organ for the repre-
'entation Of their very peculiar and e1-
elusive opinions. Not finding readers or
journalists in this community to carry out
their purposes, they acquired control Of
staid and respectable journal which had
been purchased and paid for as an organ
md advocate of the people and business
If New Orleans. They also imported and
employed journalists who submitted to
his people the true policy Of the school
which they represented. A career marked
~ the advocacy of armed resistance to
aw, violent and even fatal personal alter
cations, and eliminating and concluding
Under the red flag and hammer of the
sheriff, extinguished for the moment the
spark Of intersectional strife and local in
which it seems the mission of
his unpopular clique to create every
where
The respectable old journal, relieved
rom these pestiferous boarders, very soon
esumed its legitimate position in the con-
idence Of conservative people, and is now
perhaps the most acceptable medium of
business journalism among us. The unani-
nous dread of all newspaper publishers,
With the exquisite antipathy Of the dicta-
orial Democracy to any journal which
would dirty its hands in the baser COM
of trade, or divert its thoughts
rom the perpetual abstraction OF political
has compelled this exclusive
chool to establish an organ of it's peculiar
enets. 1t was, Of course, necessary to
,ring from abroad professors who may
laily inculcate these doctrines. 1t was
not necessary to imply that this
'rgan was indispensable to the fearless
nd incorruptible representation of the
,eople This, however, was done in the
GLOWING editorial salutatory:
Those who have originated the plan of
his newspaper are impressed with the be-
ief that at this juncture of our public affairs
fearless and inc0rruptible organ of the
'eople has become necessity.
The REPUBLICAN takes its share of this
general imputation upon the New Orleans
press. It has also received an especial
portion of the contumely with which this
lictatorial Democracy visits all who differ
politically from them. We have had no ex-
position of principles from this new organ.
We are told it is Democratic organ: but
whether free trade, or State rights, or
or protective duty, and the popular