New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-05
TIE HERALD,s PRESCRIPTION.

The New York Herald shows more ca
pacity to manage political affairs at dis
lance than at home. Being entirely
without weight in New York politics, it
feels itself at liberty to look abroad for a
field Of usefulness. Having advised the
Pope till he lost his patrimony, the late
Emperor Napoleon till the surrender of
Sedan, and intertered generally with mat
tiers beyond its comprehension all around
the line, it generously offers its services
to assist in patching up Louisiana matters
We can not deny that the advice of the
Herald would be good and salutary enough
if it were feasible. But it reminds US of
the dogmatic conclusions which were so
common about sixteen years ago. The
Hcrdlds before the war were fond of say
ing, 'If the North would hang Greeley,
Sumner, Wilson, Seward, Lincoln and
about twenty more of that stripe Of aboli-
tionists, and the South an equal number
of such men as Yancey, JEFF Davis, Ma
son, Toombs, Slidell, etc., the two Sec
tons would speedily settle their differ
ences. Superficial thinkers can never be
brought to understand that men who
are pointed out as extremists are
usually the representatives of an ag-
gregate of public sentiment, when
they are no longefsustained and counte-
nanced by considerable constituency,
they are apt to flop from side to side like
the sails of q ship in an uncertain and
shifting wind. When the people want
conservative leaders there will be no diff
fculty in finding them among the very
persons who are now held up as extrem-
lists on the one side or the other. The
Herald should remember the burlesque
political motto: "When you are right,
you can't be too radical, and when wrong
you can't be too conservative" Neither
of the two great opposing parties in this
State is yet prepared to admit its fault by
embracing conservatism. But We give
the Herold's vice as that of well-mean-
ing but foolish intermeddler:
LOUISIANA POLITICS. |
Can it be true that neither party has yet |
learned wisdom in Louisiana, and that each |
is preparing to nominate State ticket tor |
which no conservative citizen of either |
side would willingly vOtes 1t is melan- |
chely story which comes to US to this effect. |
The Republicans, it is said, mean to nomi-
,af
Ludeling for Governor and the Democrats
talk of McEnery or Wilt Is it not time |
for new DEAF down there! Have not
the merchants of New Orleans, the sugar
and cotton planters and other men of sub
stance in the int ,rior, energy and in
huence enough to force one Of the two par
ties to noT mate some new men, men that
deserve to rule the State, and who have
character, ability and moderation! 1t is
pitiful to see so rich State as Louisiana
torn by political factions and injured in its
by the determination of poll:
ticians either corrupt or turbulent. or both,
to assert their petty ambitions. Louisiana
ought to be one of the richest and most
States in the Union. She has |
al the elements of great wealth. No State,
not even California, has greater future.
if emily her people could rid themselves of
the rule and strife of demagogues.
We warn the people Of the State that
they lose the sympathy of Northern men
and they repel Northern capital if they can
cot master their politicians. The Repub-
lean party has abominably abused the
State. 1t ought to be easy to drive ont of
power the thieves who have plundered it IN
The name Of the Republican party. But it
IAN only be done by the nomination of a
ticket containing the names of
men of known character and moderation,
md not by putting forward men who, what
yer their merits, are identified with scenes
# violence and known as leaders of the ex-
RENE wing of their party, disliked and dis
rusted by the substantial citizens. We
lope yet to see good counsels prevail in one
'arty or the other in louisiana