The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-14
PUBLIC OPINION.

The action Of the Pennsylvania Re
publican Convention was very signih
cant. II recalled irresistibly Gen. Nye't
dry remarks during the session OF tn
Chicago Nominating Convention OF 1860
"P~ennsylvania Is always ready for {
trade. The united vote OF Pennsylva
mia, we are told, will propably secure
not a nomination which will inspire
every patriotic American and sweep the
country, but-a place in the Cabinet for Q
Pennsylvania. And thus again it il
seen not to be a high and generous
State pride that makes the claim, but
the most selfish personal interests
Hnrpev's Weekly fRep.)
It is remarkable that the Republican
State Convention at Syracuse did not
select Gen. John A, Dix for n OF Its
delegates at large. Gen. Dix Is the
ripest scholar in the Republican party
Of New York, and he certainly might be
relied IN to give q vote at Gin
cinnati in accordance with the wishes
Of the party. We hope he may yet be
added to the delegation, SO that he can
exert his influence there in favor Of
nominating Roscoe Conkling for Presi-
dent.-N Y. SIM Rep.
Senator Bayard rebuked Senator Bout
well by expressing his belief that the
latter did not speak "the sentiments Of
M Massachusetts, in uttering words OF bit
terness and hate towards the Southern
people," Remembering the reception
OF Fitzbugh Lee IN Bunker Hill day by
the Bostonians, this would appear to be
true or are we to understand that the
people OF Massachusetts, are willing to
welcome an old rebel with one hand for
the sake Of the trade dollar, while they
shake the bloody shirt behind his back
with the other? 1t looks too mean to
believe Of men Of Boston raising, but
why don't they tell Mr.. Boutwell, to haul
in his ensanguined envelope this Cen
telnial year?
The Dover, N. H., Democrat thinks il
the Republicans don't nominate Bristow
at Cincinnati that the Democrats will
at St. Louis. Perhaps, but not alto
gether likely, although 1t will be all the
better ii the nnterrified don't take their
bourbon too Dem. straight.
III Blajne says he is not afraid OF Morton
AZ Conkling OF Bristow, but only Of the
+ great unknown" Wouldn't it be
strange tx the great unknown we're
found Ia Missouri. 81. Louis Repub-
ican lDem.) 4af ~ h rL -e
It is given out In st. Petersburg that
the Russian government thinks the ad-
fditi9nr OF empress OF India" to Queen
Victoria's title Is just about the right
thing, and will good naturally give it
official recognition as soon as the queen
officially assumes it. The ~imperial
family are evidently not so much an
n6yed lat Disraeli's senile vaporing
about the Significance OF the new desig- |
nation as the more seDsitiye Russian
people and press Chicago Times (Ind.)
V The result Of the election In little
Rhode Island shows that while thou
sands OF the Radicals OF that State are
unwilling to join with the Democracy,
they have at least dissolved their con
nection with the party OF addition, di
vision and silence" and came very near
beating it with the Temperance ticket.
h There was no election by the people.
and the Legislature will have to decide
who is Governor.-Aberdeen Examiner
(Dem.J
= After the dirty work Of robbing the
District Attorneys office Of papers was
the detective was discharged
at the request Of the President, who
spoke Of him as "a scoundrel." He was
not too much OF a sooundrel to be made
dseful TO destroy the evidence against
BabcOck, but only became u scoundrel
held in his hand tho evidence
Of Babcock's guilt. He was o patriot,
aud not a scoundrel, when he bounded
Southern citizens TO death in Texas and
Mississippi-but he is a scoundreI, and
to be believed when he rises in judg-
ment against Babcock and his accessory
after the fact, Grant. He is kissed and
Rugged by the Administration, as was |
Tilton by Beecher, but when he brings
crime home to the magnates OF the
God and Morality" party, he finds
like Tilton, denounced as a
scoundrel and perjurer. Mobile Regis
Ter fDem.) JfH7
4 1t il we'll known that the President
Babcoek and his counsel all the
Information that came into his hands,
rom Pierreponto or from the Grand Jury
room 30 that while the Government
ostcnsiblyprosecuting o conspirator
% defraud the revenue, the Executive,
sworn to see the laws faithfully executed,
md the Attorney General, charged with
heir upright administration, were sec :
'ectly c6nniving to thwart the course OF :
and betraying their trfrts to Q
the Presidents secretary a. III the
ttaa@ !
At all events, it is clear that the prob
In regard to the political COM
OF the new Senate are very
,ice1y balanced; and whether the Dem
'crhts or the Republicans shall have
majority, may depend upon the in
which will be exerted in two or
hree doubtful States by the personal !
and ~antecedents OF tho two =
for President.-N ?. SIN.
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