New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-04
SYMPATHY FOR THE ASSASSIN.

There is q tape dealer in New Orleans who
has made many dollar by the trade OF
Union men, and, no doubt something hand
some ous of those who are not of that stripe
of politics. For many years he was content
to jog along in the old,fashioned way, sell
ing here and there spool of thread or Il
yard of ribbon or cloth, without INDUCING
in any manifestations ofpolitical preference.
He kept his shop open during the war, and
picked up quite sum in postal currency by
trading with the Yankees. All the people
in the city were Yankees when Butler ruled
here, for the chivalry had all gone, to a
man, to shiver lance IN defense of their
masters, the slave drivers. So he sold
calico to the Yankees without the
aid of a motto. But in 1865 the ragged fol
lowers of the unsuccessful and baftled Lee
began to come back. They soon returned
to their old business of increasing the tax
alton of the people by making assaults on
the treasury that were more successful than
those they made on Sheridan at the battle
of the Five Forks. They soon found them.
selves in funds, and began to make inquiries
in the dry goods market. 1t is worth while
to attract the attention and cultivate the
acquaintance of men who have their
pockets full of money. So our enter
prising vender of New York auction
goods bethought him of something bril-
| liant. What could be so well calculated
| 70 catch the eye and enlist the sym.
pathies of the gentlemen whom he wished
to conciliate as the notable words of the chief
private assassin of the rebellion, Booth
Sic Senlper tydnnis' were the talismanic
words that were TO obliterate the recollec
ton of his trade with the Yankees, and
purify his shop for the returned followers
of Lee. He adopted the hackneyed phrase
made infamous by use by the crackbrained,
stage-struck cutthroat, had it painted over
his door, and has done good stroke of bust
ness ever since.
There are hundreds of Union people in
this city who will not enter the
doors of this mans shop. They would
consider that their presence there
would in measure sanction the
COW ardly murder of the greatest and best
man of modern times; an act that deprived
us of Lincoln and gave us johnson, and that
every dollar they paid to the unprincipled
dry goods man was contribution to mon
ument TO the memory of man who died
surrounded by an infamy not second to that
Of Judas Iscariot.
There are hundred thousand Union
people in this city who wish for loyal men
TO sell merchandise. In every branch of
business, the grocer the dry goods man,
the druggist, the hardware man, the com
mission merchant, the control is in the
hands of sympathizers with the rebel
lion, and the Union man is liable to be H.
suited by sight of "sic semper tyJ'dnnis, -
a photograph OF Lee, or some other sign OF
the Great Crime, wherever he goes. We
hope this state of things will not long
continue. In the nature of things it can.
not Within the next three months large
part of the real estate of the city will be
offered for sale by the United States marshal
by order of the court of bankruptcy. The
''happy homes and affairs freen of men too
shiftless to work will pass into the posses
sion of new coners.n There will then be
chance for Union merchant TO 20 into
business. The money of the city will be
controlled by loyal men; Union papers
will be heartily sustained by the business
men; and such miserable devices as that
which every day insults our eyes will be
changed to Union and liberty, now and
forever, one and insepara ble."