The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-16

jacks sealawag and carpet-bag con-
vention, rise into respectabillty. The
people will have none of it. They
propose to go about the business of the
4 day-to restore order and peace in the
country, to revive commerce and in-
dustries, to reform their currency, and
wrest their Government! from the hands
of tho unworthy and the corrupt.
They only laughed at Poker Jack.
They refused to howl with Morton /;
they declined to curse with Williams !:
and they will not burrow with Blaine.
If his recent political crime-and the
opening Of that terrible and bloody
book is nothing less than q crime
shall have any effect beyond damaging
Blaine, it will be to bring the. canvass
Iof 1876 back to the issues of 1s74--to
the radical measures of reconstruction,
to Grants corrupt dealings with the
South, to carpet-baggery, hayonet
elections, lawless seizures of States
issues upon which the popular judg.
ment was clearly pronounced when a
Democratic House was chosen to super
se,le Mr.. Blaine's late majority. (.
3: But Mr.. Blaine, being fairly in the
bone business, was not content with
the CHASTITY spoils of the Andersonville
bitches. 1t will be observed that every
one of the "historic lcruelties" cited by
him We're cruelties inflicted by Roman
Catholics. He eagerly explored the
vaults of the Inqnisition, fondly traced
the ravages ofAlya, and hung gloating
over the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
That must have been a moment of
supreme triumpllto the learned politi-
clan. He had not only placed his
skeleton far in advance of Mr. Morton's
bloody shirt, but he was just then
about two lengths ahead of Grant in
his Anti-Catholic developments, These
chronicles Of tho darker ages were
sealed to the uneducated soldier. and
the studious Blaine was not slow. to
improve his advantage. But, on the
whole, the spectacle is not attractive
this Of reckless demagogue blowing
the embers of dying sectional passions,
and armed with glowing brand to
burn his mothers church. He might
have remembered his grandfather
| Epbraim, the pious beef contractor of
the revolutionary war; he might have
remembered the long line of ancestors
who have fallen asleep in tile faith
against which he agitates; he might
have remembered his mother, home
and baptism, or even those maiden
aunts who, with the Sisters of Charity,
still prosecute their self imposed mis-.
sion of healing and, mercy under the
ecclesiastical authority which lie ef-
fects to dread; he light have remem
berel any or all of these; but if he did,
1'they were dismissed as trifles which
his vanlting ambition would not brook.
In the vulgar strife for Grants old
boots, there is no room for either men
tai or moral integrity.
In case Mr.. Blaine succeeds in get
ting the. Republican nomination by
making the loudcst and coarsest bid,
the country artist who will paint his
picture for the campaign banners will
have the opportunity Of his life. Let
him draw the figure of a. well-fed' and
somewhat corpulent gentlemen, his ca
fpricious pockets filled with protruding
documents labelled "Credit Mobilier
Shares" STOPPING and industriously
clawing open a secluded grave, over
which the grass has grown green and
the flowers have bloomed through
many a year of peace IN. Y. Sun.