New Orleans Republican

AS WE HAD FEARED,

We assumed yesterday that the position assigned by the Picayune to the Committee of Seventy would undergo a "modification," and so, we put in an argument to show that the committee had laid down a doctrine by which the people's party would be driven by stress of principle to support Republican nominees as the most competent. The danger of such a result has, however, so stimulated the anti-Republicans that they have procured another version of the acts of the committee than that which the Picayune published.

There comes, therefore as we had feared, some correction of the swift testimony of the Pic. The Committee of Seventy were not so unreasonable as to require the Democratic Central Committee to dismiss their congregation and report to the Seventy for orders. It seems now to have proposed that the Democratic Central shall modify its platform and hold its meetings at Baton Rouge. We do not suppose the Central will avail itself of the indulgence, but will issue a counter-command requiring the "Seventy" to dissolve that organization, and turn over their military chest to the Democracy.

But we would like to know what sort of a courtmartial is to be ordered on our precipitate friends of the Pic? As we understand its "modification" of "immovable neutrality," it now insists that all dissenters from Republican principles shall combine for the purpose of hunting that party out of office and out of the country. It is not unlike what we believe is called in French a battue. That is, all the hunters in the country come together, surround the wood or fields in which there is supposed to be game, kill, cripple and capture in common, and then divide the spoils.

The Picayune finds, however, a difficulty in organizing the "wild hunt after office." The dignified Democracy swells and exhibits symptoms of apoplexy at the presumption of the Pic. The White Leaguers are fearful that some Republicans may escape through mistaken lenity. The people's men have no idea of putting on the Democratic collar which has galled them so long. The attempt to combine sulphur, nitre and charcoal in such proportions that they will not explode, has failed. That chief of political chemists, the Picayune, had better abandon the experiment before it shall be blown into "demnition little bits."

We think our suggestions correct, that the Republican ticket will be the only place for those in search of model candidates. Although the hopes of the Pic are defeated, as we feared they would be, it is to be hoped that while the Republican lamp holds out its hospitable ray, that ample time will be afforded to those who are seriously in search of political rest to anchor in its conservative haven.