New Orleans Republican

Echoes of Democracy:
The gentle Comet of Shreveport has grown milder in sentiment. It actually speaks of winning victories by ballots instead of shotguns. It says:
But, whether or not we be permitted to enjoy the victory after winning it, the victory must be won, and to some good angel leave the rest. The future of the State for all time is upon the issue; we are engaged in a struggle for very existence, and must fight it out. No time now to falter or take counsel of our fears; no time to sum up the odds and count the chances against us; our all is at stake and we must win or lose it forever. Nail our flag to the mast, and when we sink, if sink we must, let us go down with the last cheer of an expiring crew, faithful unto death.

The Mansfield Reporter has a forward line of policy marked out, which is all fight and no compromise. It says, on the third instant:
In the light of these facts it behooves us to be as true to ourselves, as the brave men who scattered the janissaries of Kellogg were true to us. It will not do for us now to halt or falter in the programme we have marked out. With a stern, unflinching resolution, we must march straight on to our goal. We must fight it out on the principles of the White Man's party. We utterly repudiate and reject any line of policy that smells of compromise, such as that pursued by Terrebonne parish. We of De Soto are unwilling, and we do not intend to lapse back into that old liberty killing policy that has so long proved ruinous to our cause, and derogatory to our own dignity and self respect.

In Bastrop a new hand appears at the bellows and in a new paper, called the Morehouse Clarion, are found terrible words looking to the overthrow of the governments of all States. The shrill Clarion says:
No, no; the great movement has not yet ended—the events of the fourteenth of September can not be rolled back on the march of time. It constitutes the first step in the progress of mighty revolution, which will end, as we verily believe, in the restoration of Louisiana to her proper place in the Union as a free, independent and sovereign State, or if not in that way then in the overthrow of republican governments in all the States and lead to their consolidation under one great imperial despotism.

The Shreveport Times, standing like Robert Toombs, with indignation fatigued discussing Republican questions, has turned its attention to the White League Democracy, and attacks the head and front of the party. The Times is the strongest opposition paper in the State, and must be heeded by the party. Of course, explanation will be made that compromises and peace addresses were only for effect, and never seriously intended; but will explanations from the leaders pacify the bloody minded Times? It says:
We last night received by telegraph a long and rambling address, issued by R. H. Marr, president, Albert Voorhies, vice president, and E. G. Dill and W. J. Buddenorff, secretaries of the State central committee, which we do not consider of sufficient interest to publish. There is no position taken with which the people of Louisiana are not as familiar as Mr. Marr himself. It is simply a tissue of special pleading, in which the necessity of the compromise is endeavored to be shown.
The address is dated Headquarters Democratic-Conservative State Central Committee of the State of Louisiana.
Now, we would like to know by what authority Mr. Marr, or anybody else, assumed to style this the Democratic-Conservative State Central Committee? The committee was the creation of the white people of the State, which emphatically ignored all parties as holding existence separate and apart from that convention. The present State committee is either the committee of the white people of Louisiana, embracing all parties, or it is no committee at all, and its acts are without authority and a nullity.