The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-03
A. H. STEPHENS.


Assault of the Now Orleans DEMOCRAT" tn
Atlanta tGa.) Conatituti0nnLjat prints the fol
} lowing communication
Editors Chronicle aud ConstitutionaIist:
see au article in your issue Of the twenty
sixth instant, headed doesn't Like Mr.
Stephens" copied from the Now Orean,
DEMOCRAT which caused mo very much pnir
and regret Now, whilst have not the honor
and pleasure TO know Mr. Stephens In per
son, have watched his principles for many
years. and must own that thore Is no publ,
man in the United States whose principles
esteem higher than those Of the Hon Alex
H. Stephens, and any State of the UniOr
can we'll afford to be proud of owning
such q SON and any abuse hpaDad unoT
him must fall harmless at his feet. If Il is
any harm for public man to love his country
| and his people, and TO counsel moderation and
tranquility, then Mr., Stephens is guilty o.
that charge NO one can accuse or throw up
to MI. Stephens that. his principles arc
! prompted by selfish motives, for the sake OF
em0lument, position or gain. He has had
| honor enough to last him for the remainder OF
| his life, and MS far ps know he has no family
| to bequeath it to; and have never yet seen
! him charged with sordid motives, that he can
! be bought over to any measure not consistent
with his views or principles and the country
has tried hun long enough to know how to
value and appreciate his Judgment
think the advice or suggestion of the New
people OF Georgia to find Mr.. Stephens out,
is perfectly supertluOus, because il the people
of Georgia do not know him by this time
they never will The only difference / can
see between the notion Of men of the stamp
OF the New Orleans DEMOCRAT and Mr.
Stephens is that one is altogether attached to
party, whilst the other shuts his eyes to
everything elso but holds on strongly to
principles.
concur entirely in your views in regard to
Potter | Il a ,,I,,I
good the carrying out will do to the country
or the Democratic party. The man that does
not know by this time of the Louisiana and
Florida frauds, never will know them, and |
do not know that an official declaration of
those frauds will tend to guard the country
from repetition of them in the future In the
meantime it gives the Radicals of the bloody
shirt stamp hook or bait to hang their rag
upon, and the opening of the question of the
presidential contest at this time is like dis
puted case that is left to an arbitration of
dtsinterested parties, both OF which agreed to
abide by the decision of the arbtratOrs, and
when they decided against one side for that
party to enter into q lawsuit on those grounds |
MY object in this communication Is only to
express my views in regard to the policy and
principles of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
which are held in such high esteem by every
person OF any intelligence within my knowi- |
edge. b,
Midway, S. G., May %.
very lengthy reply to this efrusion Of "a
South CarOlinian" is not required. A South
CarOlinian, Georgian, Louisianian, or. for that
matter, citizen If ayt State Of tito ETtt111
who hassO low an idea of the Importance of
the right Of free elections and of the title to |
The Presidency as to assume that the one can |
be ignored and the other established by I'D |
arbitration in the similitude of a vulgar law
suit, in which one hired legal sharper contends |
With another to subvert and misinterpret the
constitution and the law in the interest Of
lis client, cannot sufficiently comprehend
he political plane upon which the New Or
cans DEMOCRAT moves to enable him to
comprehend or appreciate our argument.
We shall not, therefore, waste much of our
reath upon this new-fangIed South Carolina
Democrat, who has come to the front as the
dmir0r and champion Of Mr.. Stephens
l0r, indeed, do we feel disposed to devote
ouch OF our space or time to this Georgia
enegade, We regard Mr.. Stephens as the
1ost contemplate public man of his genera
ion, and he is held in the same estimation by
he great body of the people of this State.
s Vice President of the Confedcracy he WAS
snarling, disseminated, ambitious marplot,
nd his public career, since the war, has de-
eloped his snarling qualities in a still higher
egree. The people of Georgia may forget
hough we do not believe ill., but the
outh Carolina correspondent of the Au-
usta paper may rest assured that those of
louisiana never will, that, after Grant had
3nt Dog Merrill tho same thief and MUIR
eror who had Ovcr-riddcn and robbed South
arollnal with his troops to ride down the
eople OF North Louisiana, imprisOn them
lth0ut civil process and break up their cleo
on6; after he had sent Phil Sheridan TO New
rleanS to break up our Legislature at the
ONT OF the bayOnet; threaten our peOple +
lth military arrest and defame them before
ne whole world, this cx-Vice President of the
outhcrn COnfcdoracy, this Georgia Demo- s
rat A IL. Stephens, came out in a letter or =,
latement and commended his action as en- 5
rely constitutional, and, if we remember cor {
9ctIy, expressed the opinion that Grant could
OF have done otherwise !
We and the people OF this State have deem
l these proceedings Infamous; the better e
OF the whole country, nav. of the +
mole world, has condemned them as cruel and t
nJustitiablc Mr.. Stephens, whom the South t
n
as eulogized, stands forth as their champion. r
nd no sentence of his is on record in con- e
of them. Those who choose to eu- E
glze this man who has approved the bitter r
ld cruel persecution of Louisiana, are well
'me to the task; they will find no pen or t
'ngue IN Louisiana eager to rival them in =
leir undertaking, q
But II the previous course Of this superan- 3
tted Georgia demagOgue were not sufficient G
condemn HMM the estimation of all South a
u men, who do not belong to that class of US n
presented by those members of Coprress {
ON our section who have devoted all their S.
ne, talent and energy to apOlogizing for the P
'uth his recent letter to Mr. Potter on the .
vestigation OF the presidential title ought e,
do So By that letter Mr.. Stephens has a
IN the rapturouS applause of the Republi- q
rs, and done all that he could do to thwart
Q policy of the Democratic party.