The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-17
CONS ERyATISM.

Editor Den,ocrat-I am pleased to see. through
your editorial headed "A Noble Group that
you appreciate the political situation revealed
under the nomination Of Efflngham Lawrence
to the post of Collector of this port You are
entirely right when you assert that it Is but the
effortNat reinstatement or revival Of Warmoth-
ism In Louisiana, for don't suppose that an
other man could have been found in the Dor
ders Of the State SO entirely the otter ego of
S WSm oased hrehe no US wh4
its brutal and shocking phases it seems
an impossibilitly for an, high toned. in
otic citizen Of Louisiana to be the intimate of
Warmoth, even in politics. and when we see q
man who has meyer commanded the respect Of
public man. of unswerving steadfastness. of
high purpose. of unrelenting opposition to
divines that these are essential features in the
character Of a. great man-.when we see such q
man manipulated into high place by Warmoth
But the wonder of wonders to all who have
had any real hand In the redemption of poor
Louisa zig that our ro own Dem4frae
the agonizing throes of deadly opposition to
Warmothism In all its phases, SHOULD have
God knows Lawrence alone. Lawrence sus-
tanned by his own business. capacity his own
high purpose, his own sagacity. his own ,patri-
have all these high qualities in Lawrence (2) but
for which he has never been distinguished
among men. and Lawrence sustained by War
moth! And our Congressman, too. have Joined
Warmoth in recommending Lawrence for this
high positionl
OF course to the unsophisticatsd voter who has
gone through the eight years battle against cor
ruption and despotism, and has learned-aye.
taught the world over again-that only brute
insolvable enigmas. We place this act beside
the appointments Of Pinchback, Longstreet,
Howe, ct ID onene genus, and we ask ourselves,
chi bOno2 No answer comes but the politician
whispers in our tired ear-c-o-n-s-e-r-v-a-
t-i-s-m!
Worcester says the word Conservative means
tending to preserve-preservative" And to
prese,De our property and our civilization has
been the fearful struggle of every decent white
man In Louisiana for eight long and weary
in vain bad only progressed to worse. At last
blood was spilled to preserve. and the era of
preservation dawned on US. Reason and solicit
tation were Knocked to scorn only force could
prevail for, good. Who, then. have been the
light of preservation of cherished civilization
once more to flicker through the dark cloud of
RadicaliSm? The Pinchbacks HoweS, Long
streets and Lawrences? Ask the blood-stained
stones that pave Canal street!
seething mass of corruption that fouls the air
of Washington: therefore. am staggered at
the action of eur Representatives in Congress.
To my mind their action in this matter. to say
the least of it. has been gratuitous. unneces-
sary, and yet it is fraught with dire evil If they
have done what their constituency would never
have done, and they have done wrong for
which they will not soon be forgiven Ii they
have counted on any promised good coming
out of the Warmothian Nazareth, God help their
political sag acity. bhOIUS.