New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-20
THgY orrHR y moVI.

* 4 s7 " sFss ~ ass
THEY 0HTER 4 mOWl.
There are in the United States mum
! bsrs Who have smigrated from . monarchy
There are thousands descended from mer
who did not participate in the two wan
of freedom. The descendants of Amsri.
, can Tories may still respect the traditional
devotion Of their ancestors to the divine
right Of the king. These elements of dis
content exist, and it is proud evidence
; of free opinion that they can with I'M
punity display their detestation OF the
civil and religious liberty Of q republican
government.
The arrival Of the Emperor of Brazil is
q special gift to this class. Enough of
them gathered in New York to display
their insigni6csnce. Their fulsome adu-
lation could have had little effect upon
. man accustomed to the obedience Of
slaves. Whatsoever idea of democratic
admiration for king may have arisen
in the head of his majesty came very
near being with any other chance con-
tents. knocked ont by rude collision of
republican ice wagon. This reckless
wagon smashed the imperial sehicle into
demnition bits, and drove desperately
ON its errand. To the great indignation
of philo-monarchists this vulgar republic
had provided no other punishment for
this kse najestatis than arrest and fine.
Under genuine autocracy he would
have been impaled or decapitated.
Our neighbor of the Democrat said the
other day: ''There are numbers Of us who
would be willing to exchange our miser- |
able. vile and corrupt government for an
Emperor"
This preference for an absolute mon
arch is accompanied with description
of the kind of a king the Democrat would
like to have. 1t thinks Dom Pedro would
fit the description exactly, and SO hoists
his name for the next Emperor. This is
q specimen of Democratic principle. Last
week it was a landed aristocracy; now
there is q crown rendered to this peri
patetic Caesar.
We have recently seen Q similar conces-
sion of superiority to the royal govern
ment of Spain, made under festal indu-
ences by an ardent orator of our own
city. The Spanish King who has over
thrown the Spanish republic is contrasted
with the expressions extended by the Re-
publican government over Louisiana, the
being that it would have been
better for us if royal Spain and imperial
France had not sold out their benign {
way to republican Am erica, and that
he sooner that sway was restored the
happier We would be.
If the American people choose to adopt
be views of these malcontents they have I
be power to do so, since the will of the j
popular majority is supreme; but there is 9
cry small probability that the offer to be- .
ray the republic would provoke anything +
lore than Republican laughter at sug- q
estion SO absurd.
We apprehend that our violent neigh {
or, the Democrat, is not so well &C. o
tainted with Brazilian history as with Z
vents in Coushatta or Feliciana. The u
rand Emperor Napoleon run the small Il
mperor John vi. out of his royal boots Il
i'd kingdom. The latter transferred his #
npire from Portugal to Brazil The Il
rench people, not liking imperial stock, "
It rid of the grand Emperor Napoleon IL
I'd, also. the small Emperor Napoleon.
hey have closed o ut the imperial lot and tt
lopted an imitation of our own govern a.
emit, SO unpopular among some of our b.
onarchical fellow-citizens. st
The Democrat is not, perhaps, aware b.
at the institution of slavery is in pro- in
ss of abolition in Brazil? There would til
} little gained, therefore, under his gov Ii,
nment by an advocate of the restora- OF
IN of slavery. His imperial majesty st
s been death on the rights of small Sc
ates, and. as we believe, ''rectifed his pr
,ntiers" somewhat at the expense of his til
.gentine neighbors. to
We could not, however, afford our to
ighbor better example of the fitness 70
the Emparor to rule American citizens
an by an occurrence now historical At on
Q close of our civil war there were men foy
sincere in their hatred of the restored ad
m of government that they deter sa
ned to expatriate themselves with their tn
niles and their fortunes. We respect Co
men who, not satisfied with rule en-
ich they can not obey, brave the ocean co,
the wilderness and plant their future pe,
another than their native land. Our Tn
n ancestors did that very thing. They an,
o resisted with arms and endurance
attempt to compel their obedience to
form of government they had emil q
ted to escape. There were other Con- sta
crates who applied for pardon or were Go
'ored to full citizenship under the am Da
ty granted by the republican govern off;
R0N