The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-19
in their day and generation, avow their pous de-
termination not TO get left

IL is very sad to get left. We all know how
that is. and the South, which liz out Of meat,
has an exceeding disfslish for any prospect Of
prolonged famine. Our friends, the managers OF
the Hayes programme, comprehend the peculiar
state OF the Southern mind at this juneture.
They understand that there are great many
! men In the South whose confidence In the North
ern Democracy as a. protector will be seriously
| shaken Ii Mt. Tilden and his friends should hap
pen 10 let the common enemy whip them La the
| retreat and capture the baggage after the battle
| itself has been fairly won. The Hayes managers,
1 say. know all thsss things, calculate upon
| taking advantage thereof, and have most adrntly
| Kept the aavory odor u the possible flesh pots
very close to the Southern noss during the last
| ninety days. II Ia o clear case Of guild pro quo
The Southern men want The control OF their To-
cal governments and the Federal patronage Of
their States a very natural desire, and l might
say Ia the language of the patent medicine vend.
ers, "a need long fels" The celebrated email
boy, who was willing to so TO hell in order
10 get out OF crowd Of bis neighbots who, At D
revival, had signiied their intsntIon Of going TO
heaven, was Ia something ike the frame of mind
which moves the disersst Southern Democrat TO
Join the Hayes party In etdsf to ercumvsnt The
|
ws II In tho Democratic ranks. genial fiieud
of mine, John Edwards, used to say that the
South had fought four years for its Democracy;
and 10 that might add, "Yss, and after fighting
four IL has suffered the torments Of the damned
ten years more for It's Democracy and now, II
Hayes is counted In and salvation 10 offered on
hot plate with pates de Joie gras. 10 the South to
spurn the savory morsei and go back with proud
and patriotic seorn 10 the chesrless husks OF pro-
longed though patriotic damnatipn2 This Ia the
question "a IL presents itself 10 --- =------
and TO .-= - =-=, and TO - =-, and TO
others and others whose nstnes will be developed
In due time by circumstance. AS for me, / Say
TO thsse my friends who are preparing TO Jump
with the cat, whichever way she leaps ON the 9th
of March, "Btep and consider whether 1t s the
real article Of salvation that ID offered you as
aforesaid ON q hot plate or villainoHs cheat
such ~ the devil tried TO deluds Jesus with one
morning when the two happened TO meet In .
stroll up ON the mountain side" But my friends
respond that the cases were not parallel, because
the devil In that casa had not even tho color of
title TO the lands which hs offered to convey TO
Jesus, while In this case the devil viii hold the
Federal and State possessions Of the South by
tho warranty Of legal Tribunal, backed up by
the convincing logic OF possible ships-oiwsr and
potential bssonets And field srtilery-whieh,
whstever may be their goral failings, are, as
Frederick the Great once said to Voltaire, "bet-
ter than all your id philosophy In the real
affairs of the worldi'
| You observe that Waterloo eliminated In Cam
bronne; but after him came Thenardier and 81.
Helena-~the sergeant riiled the bodies Of the
nlain end the Emperor folded his arms ON iook
in the ocean and hurled impudent defiance at
| Fate, while Fate moeked him. kow am ready
to admit that Oambronne, standing six feet high
In The midst Of the corpses of the last square Of
Victor Hugos-not Hiatory's-old Guard, and
hurting in thes bulldog teeth OF Maitland that
immortal moposyliable OF defiant despair, which
In untrsnslatab,e, because IL is the lowest vul-
garty become tho pinnacle OF grandeur: / ad-
NIT that all this 10 a sublime apeotaele--of the
Imagination. But there 10 no nourishmens
in the sublime. Now my Southern friends
say TO me- "D--n you Northern Democrats
We have been your Old Guard. We have
won the day at Hougomont and La Haye sainte
aud Brains rAllend while you have been lin.
gering with arouohy ct Wsvre We even rallied
after the Prussians came aud flung ourselves In
deapairing charges up the slope OK Mont st. Jean
uutil tho yell of Tipe pEmpereur WAS lost in the
wall OF sauue qai peuli And now you expect 10
To- play Cambronns Not much u And then they
tell me that 1 can play Cambronue IL lihs The
part, and our venerable uncle Samuel may 20
to-St. Helena If ho doesn't like 1t in the
United States but ~ for them they are hungry
and fiat broke and propose TO try the role OF
Thsnardierl
Politics IL curious trade. And there is 20
much lack OF virtue about 1t, anyhow, that ii 10
very difficult, In an emergency like the present,
to find q politician qualified TO cast the first
stone gracefully.
II Hayes is counted In, you may depend upon
10 that there will be shows here In Washington
for few weeks after his Inauguration. The
carpet-baggtra will maks tall efforts TO prevent
The contamination of tho new Southern policy
limited al in the foregoing. They will probably
be reinforced by Morton, John Sherman, Blaine
and Chandler, With their various clans. But Conk.
ling, understand, and Booth and Foster and
the Wisconsin Cameron, and all that respectful o
class of Republican influences, are 'in' with the
new deal. OF course 1t is d big undertaking.
don't undertake to say whether or not II can ever
be made to realize the results hoped for by those
who are engaged In IL on the Republican side OF
the bargain; for those expected results are
nothing less than total destruction Of the color
line in the South and the formation Of q new
party in that section, which shall be neither Re-
publican nor Democratic, nor yet Liberal, as
know OF, but Hayes party. Its numerical force
may ultimately be found limited to the payroll
Of Federal offceholders under the new regime,
but shouldn't wonder il 1t proved troublesome.
But il, on the other hand, our Uncle Samuel
should get in, then of these schemers perhaps
il might be said, as the poet inquired touching
Casabanca, "Where, oh where, was he r.
At all events, have advised my S1uthern
friends who are In this scheme that while it will
be o very good game If it wins, it will prove q