New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-15
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC RECRUITS.


II the Democrats are satisfied with such
| recruits as Craig, Poinde1ter, Ward,
| Flowers and Metz, they are welcome to
them, without exciting envy in single
Republican. But they must take them
| as they find them. II the Democrats find
| Ward TO be an ugly, brutal and repulsive
political child" they must attribute his
low condition to the degrading Influences
which surrounded him before Packard
and Kellogg cane to this State. No Re
publican in the United States is RESPONSE
bic for the degradation o: the colored race
or any member of it. but on the contrary,
| hundreds Of thousands, yes. millions of
poor blacks have been elevated by
| Republican laws and teachings from
selfs to citizens, from mere cbat,els
to men, from ignorant. irresponsible be-
| ings to intelligent factors in the great
| problem of life That hare and there enc
is found 50 completely ruined By the pois-
oning effects Of the patriarchsl institu-
| ton is not at all strange. And it is per-
fectly natural that creatures whom the
ciyiiizing Influences Of Rsrublicanism
and Christianity combined failed to tame,
should relapse into semi-barbarism and
fall an easy prey to Democracy. The few
colored men whom Republicans could not
fully civilize, take naturally to Democ-
racy. And it is for the benefit of the
whole Republican party that the natural
laws Of affinity should take their course
These renegade negroes like renegade
Yankees who affect an ultra Southernism,
serve as horrible examples to their honest
fellow-citizens. Like them too, they will
serve as convenient tools to designing mas
teIs on the eve Of an election, and be cast
aside Immediately after For little
money, paid in hand to one class and
vague promise Of future patronage to the
other, are sufficient to secure pretty fair
eye service from all such hirelings.
If the Democrat supposes we would re.
claim single renegade Republican who
las sold his services and promised his vote
to the enemy, it is mistaken. We remem-
Der the great reform party once seduced
Republican Governor from the party,
through whose fertility of resource and
audacity Of conception and execution, the
Democracy hoped to secure advantages
which their own paucity of numbers pre-
vented their securing by fair means. We
have never since seen the day when We
thought it would comport with the dig
nifty Of the Republican party to invite the
deserter back. But be was leader Of
men, and made a tolerable Moses even for
the Democracy. That is, he succeeded in
getting them all started on their way out
ofEgypt to the promised land, but neither
himself nor any Of the great host that fol-
lowed him has ever yet entered Ca
naan. He caught a glimpse of it when he
was nominated for Congress, but he has
descended to the valley OF Bethpeor by
old Nebo's side, where he will probably |
find his political grave. The party that |
can unanimously spare such leader with
out regret is not likely to take much pains |
to recover such riff-raff as Ward, Flowers,
ct al, who have found favor and employ
ment in the camp of the Democracy.
1t occurs to us, however, that there is
fearful step in degree between the first
named detection and the modern instance.
This shows that the character of the
Democratic recruits from our party is de-
cidediy on the down grade, in fact, has
touched bottom.