New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-29
DIsBAyD TIE TROOPS AND DISMANTLE
THE NAVY.

tense party hate was expressed in the ap-
plication of the epithet hyena to MI.
Blaine, was restricted by no sense Of
dignity or delicacy in continuing this in
suit by his rulings and ratings, as
Speaker, upon the celebrated bear bait
ing to which Mr.. Blaine was subjected.
Mr.. Cox, without the power to persecute,
becomes as facetious as Nero or Jetries.
He said in the St. Louis convention: The
Democratic House had cut down Repub-
lican estimates eighty-four million dol
lars" This specific economy has not yet
been perfected. The Senate will stand by
the public interests. The Democratic
caucus will claim the benefit of the pro-
tossed reduction, accept the service Of the
Senate in preventing it, and if successful
in the election, can very safely restore the
salaries of its friends at the same time
that it does justice to its Southern allies
in passing the withheld appropriations.
Mr.. Cox considers in his speech ''the
asserted dangers of such action.
He said he thought We could do without
the army until s:+sr the NOvem DOR election;
the navy could i Z spared from protecting a
commerce which bad legislation and inju-
dicious taxation aad destroyed.
'.After the November election Here is
an admission Tat the hands of national
authority are t. be held; that the federal
government is d be disabled from per-
forming one of the highest duties of pre-
serving order il the States upon the ap-
plication of the State authorities. What
would have beer, thought at the South Of
William II. Sea ard had he moved re-
ducsion of the army or Of its means Of
movement to prevent the interference Of
the government in preventing the John
Brown or any other insurrectionary in
vasion? Mr.. Cox makes jest of navy
unnecessary because Of a commerce de-
stroyed by Republican administration.
Will the commercial constituents of Mr..
Cox consent that the protection of their
cargoes on the high seas or in foreign
ports shall be suspended to await the
results Of party election? The shipYards
and their patronage are undoubtedly
aimed at in this jocuiar exposure Of Dem
ocratic principles. To attribute the re-
duction of American tonnage to political
misrule can only be done by regarding
the war as wrong. The injury to Amer
lean shipping is attributed to that period,
and MIR. Cox could not hold those who
fought the war responsible for this Incl.
dental consequence without impeachine
the Justice of the war itself. The com.
MERGE of the United States has increased,
and will continue to increase so long a.
the industries of its people shall be en-
/ couraged and protected as at present.
The creates. values exported from the
United States are those produced by the
very free labor of the Southern States
which Mr.. Cox would reduce to political
bondage by depriving it of any protection
and multiplying its suffrage. It is instruc-
tive to see how close reefed will be the
Democratic convention and its resolutions
TIE barometer of pretended enthu'
siasm has sunk so low as to indicate the
Republican cyclone that is even now upon
it. Not one stitch of policy is left loose
not ropes end, lest it may supply the
means Of aassllating the unlucky Demo
cratic mariners. The platform resolu-