New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-24
The Lesson of New Hampshire.

The following article on TINS suggestive
subject appears as editorial in the Philadel
phis Times. the leading Democratic daily Of
the Centennial city:
The little Granite State is climbing up on
| it's Republican majority until it scores some
| 5000, and both branches Of the Legislature
have been thrown in to secure the seat of
Crsgin in the Senate. 1t was accepted as q
foreg0ne conclusion . month ago, that be.
tween Randall's imbecility and Hills and
Tucker's madness a. congressional leaders,
New Hampshire would vote Republican by
from 5000 to 1000. Had they gone into
their cause, they couldn't have made his
triumph more complete, nor more merci-
lessly exposed their own forces to the enc
my. When the administration was crush
ing Republicanism to the earth, and there
was scarcely a ray of hope visible for
it in New Hampshire, Connecticut and
Rhode Island, Randall opened the
Hill cut of the last prospect Of
retreat for their routed lines. And they
gave him just the weapons most destructive
against the Democl acy of New Hampshire.
The keenest Damascus blade never cut so
clean to the vitals as did the JEFF Davis
skull and bones which Blaine flung up from
the fatid tomb of the Confederacy, as he
slew the Pennsylvania Liliput and the i'm
petuous Georgian who mistOok Washington
for the Davis Congress of Richmond. They
settled New Hampshire, for that State Is
certain to settle only one way in political
storm, and they did their level best
toward settling Connecticut. The chilly
little commonwealth is fixed as its own
granite beds in political faith, and liberal
purpose would incite q political rebellion.
Officials are restricted in their religious
faith by fundamental law, and if the civil
war Of lS6l-65 shall there be reckoned as
over q generation hence, there must be
something out of the current of sll ordi-
nary events to precipitate the majesty of
peace. 1t is just the State for Blaines JEFF
Davis ghost to SILVER the last Republican
laggard into line, and even the Belknap
BON bshell gave only scarcely perceptible
shudder in the ranks, and in the end made
the column, if possible, more improbable
than before.
Disoounting from the result in New
Hampshire all that can be charged to the
notorious debsuchery of power, and con.
ceding much for the deep seated sectional
prejudices which abound among its people,
the verdict remains one OF pointed political
significance. It il an adm0nitiOn plain as
the light Of MONDAY that the Democracy
of Washington, with its Bourbon imbecil-
ity, is the last political commodity the ma
ton will accept, even a. against debauched
Republican rule. 1t il . notice that he who
runs may read, to the Randalls, the Hills
and the fuckers, who have assumed the
Democratic leadership, that If they repre-
sent Democracy there isn't q debstable
State that won't unqualifiedly condemn it.
1t is q declaration in advance that the min
gled stupidity and infidelity which make
the popular branch of Congress p0werless
and apparently Purposeless in practical
o<n hn Tod hv
people just as often as the opportunity is
presented. 1t is . finger board for 1876,
pointing unmistaksbiy to the success of
even q Grant Republican candidate in
preference to any man whose record does
dot place him beyond the suspicion
of Bourbon folly, or whose support of
the government in the dark days of
peril did not fill the full measure of
patriotism. 1t is, in short, proclamation
wanted; that no sympathizer with it's ef-
forts will be within the range of avail
ability, and that tools and restorationists
must 60 to the rear, or the whole train suf-
fer hopeless destruction. That there was
the open auction Of votes and the vigorous
use Of all the appliances of corrupt power
to swell the Republican majority in New
Hampshire can't be doubted; but over and
above the whole torrent of fraud is the
plaInly VlelOI0 IeebOu, GudG tn0 OAItl0 VI
1876 must be on the broad platform of I'M
questioned patriotism, and that Democracy.
as pictured by Democratic leadership in
Washington, couldn't carry State north
of the Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky
lines and east Of the Father Of Waters.
Connecticut will probably save her present
liberal and blsmeless Democratic govern
ment, and thus prove most distinctly from
the standpoint Of well-earned victory what
New Hampshire as we'll points from de-
feat-that the Democracy of the past has
outlived both usefulness and respect. and
that if there is to be . future for De-
it must be in its advance with
faithful purpose to the living issues of the