New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-17
THE vERDFor OF THE PEOPLE.


THE VERDICT OF THE PEOPLE.
There can be no installing the answers
made at the polls BY enlightened American
voters. The popular vote is jury. If the
voters are not bribed or inundated the
verdict decides the case. The party
losing grumbles. insinuates and ISLANDERS,
but the judgment stands. The gravamen
of old cases may come up in new forms;
the jury is always ready for trial Con-
federates in Congress have again put the
"Lost Cause" before the people, and it is
being tried by detail in all States. The
monster known as secession and rebellion
will not die 90 long as there is q DEM
ocratic party to give it life. Confederates
in Congress are the head and front Of the
party which sent them there. One speaks
for ALL The fuckers and Ben Hills have
the loudest voices. MI. Hill has in his
pocket 20 speech IN defense Of the right Of
secession" and is waiting to catch the
Speakers eye. Shrewder men have him
by the coat tails. and are holding him
down. He is in q safe place, and he can
not see why he should not be allowed to
tell the Yankees what he thinks of them
at all times.
Mr.. Hill did not fight for Georgia when
he had chance to smell Union powder;
but his jaws are just aching to talk about
States rights, and the tyranny of the
United States government. The Southern
champion draws his pay regularly and
damns the entire Republican party and
administration. For that is he Congress-
man from the ninth district of Georgia.
Hill is q radical, and in advance Of his
party; but others no less influential strive
for the same ends by different means.
The end sought for by Democrats is to
route the Republican party, drive it from
the country, and capture and occupy all
the Offices in sight It is not noble enter
prise, and is beginning to disgust intelli-
gent Democrats North and West, who are
obliged to work for q living. In the
South, where white young men are ruled
with shetguns and by fear of social
ostracism, the dead load Of Democracy is
not so easily thrown of. The same power
that forced laboring men into the Con-
federate army, and made men who never
owned q negro take up the cause Of
aristocrats who wished always to pit slave
labor against free labor, will keep un-
think ing men, who never had and never
will have an Office, in the ranks Of the
Democratic party, tools for their leaders
gains. Under the principles by which
our government is controlled it is right
for Brigadier Generals Of the Confederate
army to go to Congress; they are sup
posed to represent the majority Of the
people in the several congressional dis
tricts. About eighty of these Generals
are now in Congress, representing the
Democrats of certain portions Of the
States lately in rebellion. They are right
fully there. and We agree with Mr.. Ben
Hill that they should be allowed to speak
their sentiments. They use bad language
when speaking in opposition to the gov
ernment and its administration; but We
can not help that, for the unjudicious ap-
plause they get at home encourages them
to behave badly when abroad.
The people granted amnesty to those
engaged in the rebellion; the people al
low them to have voice in legislation as
q natural sequence; they have everything
to which they are entitled; if the people
choose them. COME derate Generals will
have the right to fill the highest positions
in the land. Here is the rub, and it Is
right on that issue that the Confederate
Democratic party will be foored at the
Presidential election. In the struggle
for power the Democratic party has aban-
doned all principles worth possessing.
The means taken to influence elections
have shocked the civilized world. The
SANDER committees appointed by DEM
ocratic Speaker of the House have dis
gusted all fair-minded men. Matters of
grave importance are manipulated to act as
assistants in the struggle for Office. Months
ago Mr.. Clymer had evidence enough to
impeach Secretary Belknap, or say as much
evidence as he now has. It was too good
to use Immediately. The President was
not informed, nor was Congress told q
bad man occupied the War Office. The
secret was kept to burn as fireworks in
New Hampshire. The Fort Sill sutler
was to be used as a torpedo to blow up
the President and the whole Republican
party. The thing fzzled at the fuse, and
the Secretary walked away Of his own ac-
cord, and New Hampshire Democrats
tainted. Now the people are judging Of
the unfair and shameful acts of Demo-
cratic leaders in caucus of the outrageous
and ill-tempered reasonable speeches de-
livered in Congress. Honest Americans
want fair play and the Union forever.
These things are not in the Confeder-
ate-Democratic party. That party has
been tried since the war and found
wanting. Even Copperheaded New
Hampshire rejects it; Maine, Vermont and
New York have lately rendered verdicts
against the patty, and they are but the