New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-13
ON THE COMBINATION PRINCIPLE.

Our neighbor of the Pioayune seems to
be run on the "combination" principle,
SO as to accommodate customers in the
choice of truly lucky numbers In one
column there is fierce ridicule of the RE.
PUBLICAN because We have expressed our
horror of assassination. This delights
the Coushatta chivalry. In another COL
umn there is an attractive schedule for
the Conservatives. We are told
The old South was slaveholding, aristo-
cratic, and firmly convinced of the right of
secession. The new South has andoned
all those principles and practices, together
with their associations. =
The new South is to be controlled by q
new order OF men, no longer by the aristO-
cratic and unyieldipg planter nabob, i'm
bued with ideas which belong to an extinct
school Of political philosophy.
This is extremely consoIng to a man
Of business not disposed to shut his doors
and put up his window shutters against
Coushatta running fire in the street. We
hear the chant of millennium in this:
The great mass Of the people, North and
South are growing tired OF hearing the long
settled issues of the past forever revived
upon the stump. They see that new and
more imperative issues demand their imme-
diate NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. reform and
internal imprOvements-princip and in
terests which are not sectional but national.
This article is all we'll on the combina-
ton principle, because there is interpo-
lated
The South still holds that, under the con-
stitutiOn, it had right to own slaves. and
to carry them into the Territories; til at the
Union was not ia its nature inseverable,
but was partDe rship 0. States which might
be dissolved at lie will of its members.
That is, gram matically, the South. still
holds that the doctrine of secession is
only in abeyanc', and may be brought up
at any favorable moment. The declara-
ton in regard to slavery is more distinct:
We recognize the emapcipated and en-
franchised Atric N as u fellow citizen in
every sense of tn. word. We mean to 90
to the polls with lin, and to count his vote
as we count our OWL; but we mean to con-
troll his vote, if We possibly can, by every
fair means. We 10 not mean to give him
demegogue. His interests and ours are
identical, and it will be our constant en-
deavOr to make him see that they are.
This will not be very acceptable in Cou-
shatta, nor can the colored voters be con-
vinced that those who have heretofore
held their lives SO cheap, and headlined
them as balloons and savages, can be
very sincere in the promise to s'count his
vote as we count our own" However,
the new South as thus outlined will suit
The secessionist and the friend Of internal
but it can not possibly be
l fit place for the habitation of the White |
Lacquer, who does not intend to count
he colored vote as he counts his own.
This is all pretty well for combination
but it does not pull the least |
strand Of wool over the eyes of the Demo-
rat That uncompromising journal
lespises the independent" press, and
will not have formulation and combina-
ion ticket at any price. We fear the
cheme will fail for want Of Democratic
onfdence. The best prizes will be still in
be wheel, and everybody will be disap-
ointed in the we'll meaning enterprise.