New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-24
Cennen sense.

If such short Wlrg00 J0utueto - tnOso
which threaten revolution here could reacn
the reading population of the North, We
should suppose that the following leader
from the New York Herald bore special al
fusion to them. We are compelled to be-
lieve, however. that the Herald and the San
must intend their reprobation for some Of
those Last Ditch organs in the West who
are TOO far from the scene of military re-
sistance to run any rick of being called ON
to participate in it:
ADVICE TO DEMoCRATs-DON'T scUTTLE
YOUR OWN SHIP!
Our esteemed COntempOry, the Sun, is
sagaoious az as we'll eprightIy. Behind the
tone of ligat mockery and sportive irony,
which make its columns so racy. it has more
reeOlute earnestnees than the solemn j0urn.
malls which look upon the owl as the bird of
wisdom. The Suns jsuntiness and talent
for pleasantly only irradiate its surface.
beneath which there is q downright persis-
tency of vehement purpose seldom equalled
and perhaps never surpassed. The vigor.
GUS service rendered by that journal to the
Democratic party throughout the presiden-
tial canvass gives it strong claim on Demo
cratic attention In this crisis. We rejoice to
see this influence excrted for wise ends.
The Sun s empathic leading article yester-
day deserves to be- thOughtfully weighed
by all Democrats. 1t ought to be copied
and commended by everv Democratic
paper in the United States. We advise the
whole press of that party to reprint II, as
we do this morning, aud exhort their read.
ers to pass it around among their Demo
cratic neighbOrs with the same urgency
that they exhort their readers, on the eve
of an election, to bring their neighbors to
the polls. We are glad that this wise ad.
vice appears in the Sun, because that
journal stands 80 high in Democratic con-
fdence that good counsel from it is more
likely to be needed than from any other
source.
The danger which the San sees and dep
recates, and warns tho Democratic party
against, is not unreal. II the party can be
gOaded and provoked into violence the Re-
publican schemers will have plain sailing.
1t ia as much for the interest of the Repub-
licans now as it was in the spring OF 1851,
to have their opponents commit some Gig
nal blunder. From the moment that the
Fort Sumter, the fortune OF the Republican
party was made for long, long period. 1t
would be political lunacy for the Democrats
to give their opponents q similar advantage
now. 1t would be downright insanity
to give them . pretext for raking. open
emouldering fires and appealing to
the country to put down new
rebellion. We have persistently cautioned
the Democratic party against 80 fatal
step, and we are too glad to be reinforced
by the wholesome warning and powerful
aid of the Sun, whose unfllnching friend
ship and zeal the party can not distrust.
ut ia for the interest of the Republican
party" says the San, land of the conspira-
tors who now control it that the progress
and the final contamination of the plot to
make Q President by fraud and force
that the just passions of the people should
be excited to the point of actual sedi-
tion, in order that they may selze
the opportunity to proclaim q new
war, to raise new armies, to subjugate
q new rebellion, to hide their own crimes
with new bloodshed and ruin, and to gain q
new and long lease of power for them
selves" We indorse this timely caution.
Why should Democrats cut club for their
enemies, to be welded with mighty effect
in giving themselves cudgelinga The
Sun wiseIy advises that, come what will,
"there should be no outbreak, no act of
violence, no attempt at forcible resistance
to the conspiracy and the usurpation, DO
opportunity for blcodshed and for armies"
The Democratic party never had sOunder
advice offered to it than this. nor advice
from u more Olsluterestcu duu lTlcuulS
source. Woe betide the party if it fails to
listen to il!
We are sorry that some other Democratic
organs, less clear-sighted snd sagacious,
think they can promote the interests of
their party by incendiary appeals to its
passions. There is no way out of this
dangerous complication without the CO.
operation of moderate, fair-minded Repub-
licans. Patriotic Republicans are not only
repealed by angry Democratic vaporing,
but their influence in their own party
would be destroyed if they should be
reduced to the alternative Of justifying
revolutionary violence CT compromising
their ideas of fair PLAY. If Repub-
licaus of position and influence can not
demonstrate against fraud without becom-
ing abettOrs of rebellion they will prefer
the peace of the country as the paramount
interest. But if they can be satisfied that
peace is insured in any event their candor
and sense of Justice may restrain them from
giving any support to fraudulent claims.
What indescribable folly it is for Demo
cratic journals to invent and circulate wild
canards, which can only disgust Repub-
licane, whose support they need! We refrain
from naming particular offenders, because
we are wiling to think the III rather thought
less than i'll intentioned. 1t always gives
us hearty pleasure to commend our contem-
p9nitentioe to such as unwarlly fall into
errors. We deem it g great error to
give currency to baseless incendiary canards
in such crisis as at the present. That kind
of tactics is hardly excusable in the heat of
an exciting election. 1t is suicidal folly
when tie decision bias passed out of the
hands Of squad of ignorant voters, and
depends on the action of intelligent, iude.
pendent men in the Federal Senate. IT the
reports of the committees sent to the South
should chow that Mr.. Tilden was really
elected, strong speeches by two or three
able Senators of the type of Mr.. Conkling
might insure justice in the fiual count. Why
should Democrats nut obstacles in the way
of such Senators? Why give handle to un-
scrupulous, passionate Republicans who
would be prompt to accuse Independent
Senators of aiding a new rebellions
The main reliance of the Democratic
party in this copjuncture must be on the
sense Of justice of high minded Senators,
who are unwilling to be accomplices IN a
palpable fraud. Why should these Sena-
tors be embarrassed and their il tlaence null
lifted among their political associates!
Why should they be put in euch position
that they can not expose and denounce
fraud without subjecting themselves to the
iDputation OF abetting violence Make the
case 90 easy for them as possible, and they
will still BE- assailed by hor-headed mem bers
Of their own party for infidelity to it's in
terests. But create such state of things
that these Senators can not speak for justice
without seeming to act in completely with
rebellion and their influence is wholly &C.
stroyed in their own party. They can carry
no Republicans with them in their protest
against wrong. Mr.. Tilden's chances will
be az hopeless with their support as without
it. Inasmuch az the decision does not de-
pend on crazy Democratic partisane but on
moderate and fair-minded Republican SEN
tors, the Democratic party owes it to itself
to maintain such an attitude that men like
Mr. Conkling Would NOT hiring nnlitical