New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-16

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issue, nor is it usual for Northern Demo
crat to swagger around with revolve
| and terrify Republicans, who wea
nothing for the defense of their rights OK
cept vote, if permitted to cast it as the.
| would like.
Our distinguished visitors will hav'
then seen in New Orleans q Democrat,
press which teens with the most violen
abuse of the Republican party. Tht
Democratic Central Committee has com
piled the returns Of the board of bull
dozers. It has deducted from the sum o.
human existence those who have beer
counted out" by rope or pistol, who
have RETAINED from voting from consid
Grafton of the same agencies, or who
have, in remorse and agony of soul, beer
compelled to cast their votes for the re.
peal OF their rights.
The distinguished visitor will see this
Democratic Central Committee set up
and sustained by the Democratic press as
the supreme political authority, while the
State government is cited to appear be.
fore that authority and show cause, il
any it may, why sentence of nullifca-
ton and expulsion shall not be pro-
nounced against it.
We deprecate this incendiary course Of
publication. Should the Democracy pre-
vail by intimidation it could not but
create great distress and alarm among
those whose capital, enterprise and labor
contribute SO much to the welfare of this
community. Such result would inspire
the Democratic press with an enhanced
zeal to prove by competitive violence
which among them was best entitled to
the White League confidence and patron
age. When, however, the Republican
administration of the Federal and State
governments shall be installed, we may
anticipate in due time an entire change in
the tone Of the Democratic press, just as
was obvious when during the late war
the city fell under the military con-
troll Of the Federal government. One
or two journals really sincere in their
devotion to the Confederate cause main
tanned their consistency and took the
consequences. Among these consequences
was to furnish confscated type and presses
for the publication of Union journals.
Other journals, however, equally or even
more intensely sectional than those which
were suppressed, succumbed and saved
their bacon. Their editorial writer's were
withdrawn or discovered" and sent to
Ship island by General Butler, and the
violent journals took on a style SO deco
rous and peaceful, that two or three of
them are alive even unto the present day.
They are now, however, as violent as in
1861, but now, as then, as ready to abate
their political vehemenee until an occasion
shall return for the profitable expression
Of their professsd opinions.
Our distinguished visitors will note
this extraordinary intolerance and this
capacity for abusing their OPP
ponents now manifest in the Democratic
press of Louisiana. When the true will
Of the nation shall be known they will
find the same types talking in the most
amiable and conciliatory tones, and no.
ticing the arrival or departure Of a dis
tinguished Republican visitor with all the
which now greets the return
Of shopkeeper who sends an ADVERTISE
ment of his stocks with a notice of his
popularity to be inserted on the custom
ary terms of twenty cents line.
We trust our distinguished visitors will
therefore discount the dramatic fury of
Dur Democratic contemporaries. 1t signi-
les nothing more than purpose to COM
mend themselves to the political and COM
uercial favor Of the Democratic party.
t is only an advertisement to be con-
inued It'll stopped" by political results
which teach that intimidation does not
ntimidate worth cent. Defamation
will cease to be a marketable article, and
will be put away with the black ROSTERS
nd cannon for some future campaign.
n that campaign these inspiring en-
,lems of success are just as apt to be
Employed by our independent journals on
me side as on the other. They mean
lothing but money.