The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-05
The New Orleans Riot Served Up In n
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The shocking riot at New Orleans has been
gloated over by the radicals, ever since its oc-
culrence, as a particular god5end to their party
They caught at it with delighted avidity, and
have been constantly chuckling and rejoicing as
they would at the unexpected discovery of a
valuable treasure. They boast that it has ena-
bled them to carry the Maine election by an in.
creased majority. On the strength of it they
expect to succeed in most of the elections in the
other States. In thus exulting over what sll
good citizens, North and South, ought to de-
plore, they exhibit the heartless character OF
their party, which reoices IN all bloodshed that
helps 1t attain It's partisan ends, and which even
regards the late civil war with intense satisfac-
ton, because it has enabled the abolitionists to
accomplish their darling object.
The invaluable New Orleans riot is every
week or two dished up by them in some new
form to enable them to keep it constantly
before the public. Ever aud anon il b Is to be
''ny yes1gated" anew, with view, as they say,
10 fix The responsibility; ana they have now
brought out report, oy pretended military
board, whiah, according to the tribune, astens
the whole blame of the riot upon Mayor Monroe.
We do not deem it necessary, now and here
TO contest the correctness of ths conclusion.
1t seems more important to show, that even
admitting The fact to be as the radicals would
have II, they are not warranted in making it a
cdSuS Je5 against the whole white pupulation
of the South. Why should six or eight millions
| of people be held responsible for one mans MIS-
! deeds? Even If Mayor Monroe is regarded as
the representative OF those who elected him, his
! conduct would inculpate only the city of New
! Orleans, and there is still the injustice OF
making the whole South answeiable for occurr-
| ences in SING lie municipality, over which they
! have no sort of control.
The New Orleans riot affords good occ asion
for retortng upon the Republicans some OF their
own rea oning. They hold that large cities
ahOundDU criminal 1anpprOuc n
are unht to be trusted with their own govern
meut. According to the Republican view, if
New York were not held in restraint By the egis-
lative commissions imposed upon it by the
rural districts. this city would be q turbulent
pandemOnum in which no decent citizen could
| live. Now let us suppose that all these leeis-
latiye commissions were wlthdra Wn, and that
New York was as completely selt-eoverned
as New Orleans is. Suppose that Fernando
Wood-we. mention Mr.. Wood because he
used to be regarded by the Republicans
Mayor, with the complete control of the police
which he once had. If, under such Cir
cumstances, riot should occur in the city,
by which a political meeting was broken
up, some blood spilled, and some lives lost,
! we ask the Republicans if there would be any
! justice in charging the guilt upon not merely
the whole people of the State, bat the whole
people OF the North ? Would there be any
! justice even in charging it upon the whole peo-
! pie OF the city? 1t is the constant song OF the
Republicans that the respectable Inhabitants OF
|
trlcts against the domination of the DANGEROUS
classes Let them apply their own reasoning
to New Orleans, which is the New York OF the
| South. In that view, the late riot is merely an
| argument against municipal government IN
| New Orleans. II logic does not change its nature
with latitude, all that any Republican has a
right 10 nler from the New Orleans riot is,
that that city ought to be put under the govern
ment of dozen commissioners appointed by
the Louisiana Legislatures; that its Mayor
SHOULD be divested OF the control Of the police,
| as Mayor Wood was several years ago of the
/ New York police; and that its direction should
! be given to a virtuous police commission ema-
mating from the heaithful moral atmosphere OF
the rural districts.
But whether municipal selEgovernment is
the proper thing TOR New Orleans or not, it is
| clear enough that the whole South ought not
to be punished and disiranchisea ior local
disturbance in that city, which not one in a
hundred OF its own citizens partic pated in or
approved OF. The South is preeminently all
agricultural section. Its urban population and
the magnitude OF lts cities, Is far smaller pro
portionally than those OF the agricultural West.
The few cities the South has, contain the
sweepings OF the restless classes of vast sec
ton wDIch has been desolated by war, and the
dsbanding OF whose armies has turned loose
many rough and insubordmate characters
ready to plunge recklessly into any excitement.
To make great population OF planters, hyine
quietly on their estates and trying TO mend
their broken fortunes, responsible for the vic
| lence OF the thugs of single city, is the height
| of absurdity as well as of injustice.
| Reasonable readers will admit, that even il
! the whole responsibility of the New Orleans
riot rests upon Mayor Monroe, and none OF il
upon the convention OF consplrators who had
met for the declared purpose of overth rowing
the State government, that regrettable occRr
radicals. To say that the people of Georgia
and nine other htates shall not be represented
In Congress because there has been a riot il
New Orleans, shocks every sentiment OF equity