The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-16
Blaine, the EesarreclIdGist.

Tho recent amnesty debate was a
thing infamous in ;tselfanl the record
of it will stand; as the browning shame
Of the party which brought it on. It
was its last aud fullest confession, of
criminal failure, in the use Of the lar
gest measure of power eyer given to a
political party in this country. After
more tina" ten years of absolute sway,
in a time Of profound peace, this party
selects its most conspicuous member in
Congress to ,ellus in his most dramatic
style, that the bloody citasm still yawns
at our; feet, not only unbrigded but
unbridgcable..
Partly because Of this very failure,
the people vnted that party down in
1874; the present House was chosen
with q view to something better, and
Mr.. Speaker B .aine' was required to
descend. from the chair to a place in
the ranks of a small minority. But
they are Bourbons all. They knew
nothing and they learn nothing. In
triumph and disaster, in power and
out, they are the same. We have
heard mach about dead issues: but
these issues which Mr.. Blaine, has dis.
inferred, are not only dead, but utterly
and horribly offensive. ,-ss,a =
Of'the shock and disgust which their
Reproduction above ground at this
time of day will certainly produce, the
|resurrectionlst himself must take the
responsibility. No doubthe thinks lie
has use for them. He intends to
bind to them the carcass of the Repub-
lican party, as to body of death, SO
that when the people again determine
to bury dead issues. they will find it
necessary to bpry the Republican par
ty also, if they desire to keep the is
snes down. This may not be precisely
what Mr.. Blaine expects, but it is pre-
cisely what he will accomplish; aud if
he had employed all the remarkable
talents lie is supposed to possess, in
}devising a method of running the Re-
publican party, he could not have
more perfectly adapted the means to
the end. .is&sit . i ~
But it should be remembered that in
precipitating this needless and acri-
monious debate, Mr.. Blaine was not
serving the Republican party. Ho was
merely serving Blaine. He was seek
ing a nomination, not looking to the
success of a party. He'thought it was
time for him to out Morton Morton
and out-Grant Grant. They had made
much of imaginary Ku-Klux and White
Leaguers, and host OF pllantoms,
which it suited their. convenience to
coiure up, before elections. There
was absolutely nothing left for poor
Mr. Blaine to operate upon but Ander-
sonville; and although the keepers
and the prisoners and the witnesses,
and indeed the entire issue, are dead
and gone, he laid hold Of it with tie
infinite. zeal of a struggling candidate,
who is determined to do large bust
ness on a very small capital. Accord:
ingly, 80 far as lies in the power Of
Blaine, the Republican party is mar
shalled, literally speaking, behind the
skeletons Of the dead past, as if to go
into the Presidential canvass on the
deadest of all dead issues. That such
a procession as this tends naturally to
the sepulch1e, there is no, manner Of
doubt; and We entertain a lively faitl1
that the Disguised people Of the United
States will this year provided grave
large and deep enough to contain the
whole of them forever. A
Mr.. Blaine's device is not of the kind
to win. tits shallow. mean, and base
aud in comparison with it, the bloody