New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-11
REPUBLICANS TO BE DRIVEN FROM THE
STATE.

STATE.
The Morehouse Clarion has evidently
not studied the situation thoroughly.
David said in his haste that all men were
liars. The Clarion, in its ignorance, says
that all Republicans and only Republi.
cans are thieves. The wild men of New
Orleans used to talk that way before oul
best citizens were tried for c1ookedness
and found wanting common honesty.
There is now growing disposition to
speak of men as they are found to be,
without regard to political parties. The
country parishes, unfortunately, do not
progress. Lawless men override the law,
and one man is as good as another, espe-
cially if he is Democrat. There is only
one thing which opposes the Clarion, and
that is the responsibility of the members
of the Republican party. They are all
thieves, according to the platforms
adopted by Democratic Office seekers, but
they are so respectable that it is difficult
to arouse against them the proper an
tagonism among voters. The Clarion
reasons with itself, saying:
If the demon of Radicalism in Louisiana
could stand before our people stripped of the
gloss OF responsibility which is given it by
q few individuals, q determined opposition
would be aroused which would sweep it
from existence and make its very name q
word OF opproDrium and insult for all time.
We do not mean by this strong language
that war of determination would
be waged against the colored race,
but We do mean that the miserable white
villains who lead and control poor, ignorant
creatures, and through them Cypress our
people and steal the nar6-earned fruits of
honest labor, would be driven from the
State and shown no more quarter than is
given the wild tiger that attacks the hunter
in the wild jungles of Africa. They de-
serve no more. They are thieves, and the
thief who protects himself by his official
robes deserves no more consideration than
the one who comes in the hours of night to
despoil. Men are too apt to say carelessly,
"Oh, we'll! he's stealing from the govern
ment, and that's not like stealing from me-"
But that will not do. The official thief
and in the State, and men should put an end
to such robbery as effectually and sum-
marily as though he were stealing from
them as individuals.
The Bastrop siren then goes on to re-
greet the want of unity in the shotgun
ranks, and to bemoan the good old days
of secession and rebellion when the diff
feriDg Wings and Democrats made COM
mon cause, and. united as one man to
repel the tyranny Of the United States
government. To arouse the people of to-
day to proper sense of the importance
of electing Democrats to Office, the Clarion
makes the startling assertion that Radical
ism is foe as dangerous as Yankee
armies. The present organ of the past
says:
Fifteen years ago when the tocsin of war
sounded on every hill in the South our
people were found terribly divided in feel
Union men we're arrayed against each other
here in the South. each fired by an honest
and fierce dissentions arose
The embittered feeling,which
was the result of years of political strife |
Detwet n the Democrats and the Wings still |
Waxed warm. But when the cloud alarum
If var" sounded, political animosities were
forgotten, Unicn men with q patriotism |
worthy Of emulation accepted the situation.
md all men Of ell olasses-Whigs and Dem |
'crats, secessi0nlsts and Union mentor. |
,ot their differences and grievances and |
ushed together in . strong brotherhood to |
rive back the invaders Of their common |
Ountry. A similar spirit should animate |
mr. people now. Radicaiism among us is = |
% az dangerous a. then were Yankee
rmies. Let all honest men, whether thew
% Conservatives or Democrats, white man
r black men, fall into line, and "a certain
Q God is Just, an army will be raised that