New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-25
CONGENIAI, SPIRITS.

The New Orleans Democrat has found
an echo in an equally able paper in Amite,
and the two have exchanged compliments.
The organ of New Orleans Democrats says
| We have been reading with much pleasure
| and qualification q number OF articles, ap.
pearing by chapters, ia the Amite City
Democrat. under the heading, Louisiana
Must be Redeemed" We copy this morn
ing portion of chapter one, and commend
it to our readers as being most excellen: in
expression.
These commendable chapters are mar
vels Of composition, italic Typography and
last ditch sentiment. Life and newspaper
| columns are too short to transfer whole
| paragraph, but we copy one sentence and
q quarter from one Of the chapters that
are giving the New Orleans Democrat pleas
ure and qualification. Discussing the Re-
publican party and the State government,
the brother organ in Amite speaks Of
A band of usurpers, with William Pitt KEEL
logg as their chief, a man who was not
| eligible to the office of Governor, who was
not elected, who is not and never has been
| fit to be Governor. whom the people hate,
and who would not cit in the Governors
chair ten minutes if General Grant were to
withdrawn from Louisiana. and the people
of the State and their affairs be left to
themselves. keliOggs wool would fly like
lint cotton from the f1ues of q gin stand,
and his infamous satellites. miniOne, cubs
! and imps would evsporate md disappear
like chat in the whirling winds Of cy-
clone, and John McEnery and Davidson B.
Al ~ @h-,4 L. u
were elected Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Of the State, and all those who were
on the ticket with them land for fear we
displease the New Orleans REPUBLICAN and
other Radical sheets, we will especially
mention Samuel Armistead, cOlored. elected
Secretary of State with McEnery), whom
the people have been true to, would be put
in possession of their Offices and be sus-
tanned there, and Kellogg and his crew,
Pack ard included, and radicalism gen,
orally, would be remembered only as a
shame, an infamy, Disgrace in the annals
of louisiana, time when her people were
stepped in sorrow and trouble and humilia-
ton and suffering.
For the sake of Brother Samuel Arm
stead, whose religious power has been
fully acknowledged by the Methodist con-
ference over which Bishop Haven re-
Gently presided, and to which Brother
Sam was delegate, we could have wished
this Democratic Endorsement made with
out fear of displeasing the REPUBLICAN.
1t lacks that hearty spontaneousness with
which Endorsements should come; but it
is strictly Democratic, and therefore valu-
able in its way. Mr.. McEnery's Secretary
Of State is said to be capable of signing
his name to public documents with q
cross; but physiologically and Democrat
ically considered, his heart is in the right
place, and he wanted Office. It will
please brother Sam to know that the Dem
ocratic people have been true to him, &C.
cording to the Amite and New Orleans
organs, and that if the next riot is sue
cessful he will be duly installed into Office
and put in charge of the great seal of
State.
The Democratic party, represented by
the organs whose cranks are now grinding
the old tunes, is more crabby than the
crab. 1t not only crawls backward, owing
to peculiar construction of body; it also
looks backward. It has no future; but |
continually looks on and cries over the
past. In word, there is no object de- |
veloped but to break down the compro-
misses which secured peace, overthrow
the State government, and put the old set |
Of pretenders in Office. The threat is
made that such q revolution would occur |
in ten minutes were it not for supposed |