New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-02

as much and as often as they please.
Such action would unsettle values, would
10 fate and debase the currency, would
cheat labor of its Just wages, would breed
corruption and gambling speculation,
would battle all calculations of bust
ness, and make trade worse than q
raffie-a rattle in which honest industry,
not shrewd capital would be the heaviest
sufferer aEi
1t would defeat the very object in view,
and put back business recovery. 1t would
alarm the holders and handlers of money
| just at the time when our greatest need is
the confidence and certainty which will
induce capital to come forth and set labor
to work. Itwould be like man recovering
| from long sickness, thr wing himself
back into relapse. The Republican
party is against it, and one of its missions
is to manage t. final success and relief the
| ugly financial legacy of q war which it did
not make-a war in which every Republi-
can sin every State and on every spot was
on his country's side. When every obi
gatian has been sacredly performed; when
every promise to pay money has been
made and kept as good as coin; when
every tax, which can be spared is gone;
when every burden which can be lifted
from labor has disappeared; when honest,
lasting prosperity has been rooted too
deep to be torn Up by folly or faction,
then, and not till then, will the financial
mission Of the Republican Party be ended.
1t is not yet "ike an army whose term of
enlistment has expired"
Look over the country-East, West and
Southland see the position of the Dem
ocratic party. Its last national conven-
ton demanded the repeal Of the act to re-
sumo specie payments next January.
Then the assertion was that our paper
could not SO soon be brought to par.
| Now, when gold and paper have come
| together months beforehand, Senators
Thurman and Pendleton in Ohio, Voor-
bees and Governor Hendricks in Indiana,
General Johnston in Virginia, the West
ern and Southern leaders Of the Democ-
racy generally, and Democratic conven-
tons, even in New England, cry aloud
for huge schemes-more paper money.
In the West the Democratic party becomes
party Of initiation; in New Jersey and
other States furious Democrats and Infa-
tionists are progressing. In Maine a
| large portion of the Democracy voted
the ayowed expansion ticket, and the
Democratic press exults over the result
Massachusetts outdoes herself, and Cen
eral Butler advances as Caesar, with the
Democracy at his heels Neither in Con-
gress nor in the country will, or can, our
opponents stem the rising tide of initiation.
The Democratic party has many patriotic
men Of good sense, and even to them we
may earnestly and safely put the question,
whether, as matters stand, they are ready
to see the Republican party disbanded or
mustered out just now?
When the sea is calm all boats alike show
mastership in floating.
Let us see whether the Republican ship
can outride the fury of storm not more
angry than it may be brief Lamartine
said; II place my bark on the highest
promontory of the beach and wait for the
rising of the tide to make it float. Let
the Republican party ibe now and always
the champion OF right and courage-never
the victim of error and fear.
Democratic Schemes to drain the Treasury
Credit currency, and business, are not
the only elements in the elections this
year. Schemes to take money from the
treasury in staggering totals for claims
and grievances and projects which no man
can number are being Matched and nursed
and perfected against the time when they
can compel attention. When will that
time be2 When full sway in Congress is
given to the party, aud the sentiment
which now rules ''solid South South
made solid not by honest majorities and
free honest voting, but by minorities
dominating through erimes against God
and man. That solid South again, as of
old, sends up a majority of all the Dem
ocratic votes in Congress; it rules the Dem
ocratic caucus, and must decide the party
action whenever it insists In the House
of Representatives there are forty COM
mittees and already the chairmen of
twenty-three of them are ex-Confederates
from the South. After next March the
South will control the committees of the
Senate also You need not be reminded
that committees are all powerful in legisla-
tion-more than ever now, because of the
| overwhelming pressure of business which
makes full and open discussion, especially
in the House, impossible You need not
be reminded either, that about one-third
of all national revenue and expenditures
comes from the State of New York. ask
whether they who are to pay 81 Of every
So taken from the treasury have not need,
before We drift much further, to inquire,
Watchman, what of the night2" am
| for Cancellation and reconciliation, and
concord and peace all around, but my be-
lief is that the men and communities who
stood by the flag and prayed for it and
fought for it, if they behave themselves,
are Just as good as those who drenched
the land with blood, and covered it with
mourning debt and taxes. / believe, too,
that those who strove to save the country
are as safe as legislators and chairmen of
committees as those who strove to destroy
it. Magnsnimity, generosity and forgive
ness, unparalleled in human annals, have
been the policy of the nation toward those
who sought its overthrow. This is grand,
! majestic. Christian; but il NAV ba carried
too lar. 1t is Not Wlse lor Lie NoIth, ncr
for the South itself, TO hand the govern
ment over bodily to those who were lately
in arms against it, and who in many in
stances now hold seats in Congress gained
by sitting elections by terrorism and
bloodshed. 1t is not wise or Just to tempt
human nature. 1t is not sale for the habi-
tations of the North or Of the South.
When pestilence smites Southern homes,
let the North, pour out, as she now does,
money and sympathy, never holding back
farthing because it is Southern and not
Northern woe This is right. But when
taking political action, let us be Just to
all, not only to ourselves, but to those,
whether black or white, to whose protee-
ton we are bound by ties which would not
be forgotten by an iAlgerine pirate or a