New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-28

/ C0NsRRVATTvEs, 1EwA1R.
The old game is going on Of missing
cry against imputed abuses, for the pun
pose Of concealing the issues really in
volved in the next political campaign. I
is thus that under pretended purity Q
purpose Democracy proposes to snake in
in subdolous manner, the question o
State sovereignty, which has been re
gardsd Is question decided by the va
and the amended constitution. The Re
publican party is charged with having
some dishonest officials. Of course i
has. No party is without them. w
claim that the Republicans are the onl,
party which have prosecuted their owl
thieves. We have seem small reference il
the Bourbon organs to the stupendous
frauds of the Democratic officers of thu
city Of New York, or to the fugitive
Democratic Tweed and his Democratic
associates. We sincerely trust that thai
Democratic centennial thief will be cap
tured before the fourth of July next, as he
will be needed to illustrate the perfection
to which reptile of that species can be
cultivated under Democratic auspices.
The Democratic party profess pecu-
liar honesty, and repugnance to the
honors and profits Of Office When, how
ever, they securely came into the tempo
rary control of Congressional patronage,
the hordes of suffering patriots rushed for
the spoils as we are told the thirst-mad-
dened cattle, raided from Texas, rush
into the waters of the Rio Grande, or, in
deed, as some Democratic topper Of q
Nasty would rush from the compulsory
sobriety of month in the workhouse to
the hospitable counter Of gift lunch
saloon.
The Republicans admit the usual and
average impositions which cashiers and
clerks can practice upon their employers.
We propose to reform these abuses on
the same principle that actuates the mer-
chant, because, it would be neither
to our honor nor interest to make the
frauds of dishonest employees those of
the party.
The real issue to be decided in the
next election is simply whether the Sec
tional question shall be renewed, and the
war fought over again. The real charge
upon the duration of the Union is to be
made under cover of the fog and clamor
about Repu blican official dishonesty.
To carry the citadel Of power, all hands
who want either reform Of abuses or a
lucrative Office are invited to combine un-
der the Democratic Conservative banner
The citadel OF power carried, the Democ-
racy will proceed to inaugurate their car
dinal doctrine, and the question will
be again, shall each State govern itself, or
shall the people within the boundaries of
. State be governed by the whole people
Of the Union, as the citizens within the
limits Of town are governed by the whole
people Of the State?
We advocate such a preparation for |
This combat that the friends Of Union |
may find in the Republican party as much |
official integrity as among those Of any |
other party. This publication from YER
min which infest every business, social or
political, will allow US to show from the |
of the constitution q force
and united against those
whose object is the destruction of the
ortress.
The evidences of purpose to renew the
var of sections, by reviving the disputes
which preceded it, are conclusive.
1. Senator Bsyard has, in recent
peech, affirmed the sovereign rights of
State, as against the sovereign powers Of
he whole American people.
2. Mr.. Tucker, q Jeffersonian Democrat,
opposes the centennial celebration Of JET
erson's declaration Of independence, on
he ground that the sovereignty of the
states is no longer respected.
In both these prominent cases, pre-
ented in the Senate and House of Repre-
entatives, the question is stated and
rgued as if there had been no decision Of
his article to whom both parties referred
be disputation Of more than seventy
ears.
Among the smaller and subordinate
roofs that we are menaced with re-
ewal of this strife may be found numer-
us articles in Democratic journals Of
1ore or less circulation and authority.
he New Orleans Democrat restates and
eargues the case of certain States against
be Union. It simply implies that the
eople Of thirteen States gave the powers
,hich constitute the union of the thirty
even States which now compose the
Jnion. It afirms in effect that this al
,ged compact for the formation of q
lore perfect union can never be amended,
ut must bind all the people of all the
tatcs through all the time.
We have no disposition to reopen or re-
rgue the question. The Legislatures of
Of the States have conferred