New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-06
THE HYPOCRACY.

becomes ueceptlNe anu ieI"AA " 49,
scriptive term. We have exercised TINS
right in coming the word which heads
this article. We can not well explain why
q Greek proposition and rule OF govern
ment can convey the meaning OF parry
governed by hypocrisy, but we are GER
lain the public will, without strlctness OF
philology, accept term which expresses
the sad dereliction of principle which has
marked the Democratic party. The term
EMPLOYED is, then, intended to substitute
for government Of the people govern
ment by deception of the people.
We find this trait demonstrated in
modern Democracy by the nomination OF
the second Buchanan on the national
ticket. This statesman was Freesoll
Democrat of the Van Buren, school
a Barnburner Of the Barnburners. 1t
was that section of Democracy which,
headed by such men as John A. Dix ana
B. F. Butler, united with the Repub-
licans to resist the admission OF more
slave States into the Union. Most OF
these men have continued with the Re
publicans, but Mr.. Tilden re-entered the
Democratic party through the portals OF
Tammany Hall. With this record he re-
ceives the support of the most violent
Democrats of the South Carolina school.
Why is it that with the political opinions
avowed by Mr.. Tilden, these violent men
can not live in peace with their Repub-
lican neighbors in the South whose ac-
tons and opinions are identical with his
own? It is because Mr.. Tilden is good
fgure-head. Because he is free thinker
in politics, and because in the forlorn
event of Hypocratic victory the sword
of the law will be held in his nerveless
grasp, as it was in that of his last Demo-
cratic predecessor.
We find the same deception practiced
in the silence Of Mr.. Ben Hill and the
speeches Of Mr.. Lamar. 1t can not be
that the lava of party hate that boils IN
the breast of that pacific soldier and
belligerent statesman can be repressed ex-
cept by the weighty impeachment OF eau
Gus order We have even found our Rep
resentative, Mr.. Ellis, uttering impreca-
tons against Mr. Blaine at home which
would have been more appropriate in his
place upon the floor Of Congress. MIR.
Lamar has been permitted by the caucus,
after several of the more prominent de-
monstrations of the bulldozers, to rise
and denounce these laWless men. He
has declared, on behalf of the Southern
Hypocracy, that they do not sanction any
such thing, and that they are as long suf-
fering and pate Mt as SO many Hebrews
under king and his barons. The
nomination Of Mr.. Nichols is a
part of the same strategy. The
extreme White Leaguers have for months
sought the control Of the anti-Republican
party. They were defeated by nominee
under platform which processes purely
Republican and conservative principles.
Instantly the White Leaguers change
front, seize upon the nominee and COM
plete the campaign organization by accla-
nation. Who do we find upon that
ticket? Precisely the same men that had
been not ten minutes before discarded in
the nomination of Nichols +. This gentle
man will become as much fgurehead as
Mr.. Tilden. His associates and alternates
no more agree with him in his professions
Of independence of party and liberation
of race, than does Mr.. Tilden agree
in opinion with his Vice President.
These extremists in national and State
politics have been discarded by the
people They take the desperate
chances of succeeding their nominal
principals, when the historical exam
pie Of Captain Tyler shall be repeated
Suppose Mr.. Nichols should die-be sent
per force to the Senate OF the United
States, or be elevated above the miasma
of politics, to the Supreme Court bench?
The White Leaguers would rush in upon
the then Governor, and precisely the dan
ger apprehended by the business men who
defeated Messrs. McEnery and Witt will
be in practical possession Of the govern
ment. In proof Of this concealment and
profession on the part Of the Hypocracy,
we may quote the advocate and organ of
Mr.. McEnery. 1t denounces any express
sion Of sincerity on the part of the sur
prise party which captured Mr.. Nichols,
and says:
It has been affirmed that General Nichols
represents only the extremity conservative
element 81 our populations; that the mod
crate men nominated him against the wishes
of the extremists, and that he ,rW not be able
to restrain the ertremc men. Never was any
statement further from the truth.
Then there are still extreme men, as We
have said. Ii Mr.. Nichols can restrain
''the extreme men," why did he not re-
strain them before the third ballot at
Baton Rouge? We had the headings dur
ing the convention, 'Nicholls the Choice
Of the Country" THE Fight Between
Nichols and Wilt" Wilt Gaining
Steadily" Nichols Weakening" We
had, on the third ballot, Wilt l50ll, Nc
Emery GIL, Heron q, Nichols 142. This
vote shows the extreme men were not
controlled by Mr.. Nichols; that they
would have beaten him if they could.
The Hypocracy has tried its last trick,