New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-19

bic memories Of tines Of peace season
Of prestration, hardship, and distress, IN
town and country, at all comparable with
The present winter.
That business in this city in nearly every
branch Of trade is dull to stsgnancy, that
sales even at great sacrifice, are few, and
collections urprecedentedly di0icult that
many business houses, including not a few
of the greatest repute, are palpably top
ping to . fall, II not already in ruins, That
more paper has gone to protest within the
past two months than ever before within
anything like the same period, that thou
sands are cut of employment, that beggars
are multiplying and tales Of misery begin
ming to load the air-all this is matter Of
daily observation and universal remark.
Never before with SO many Of our citizens
heretofore considered in easy circumstances
has the aaily question of finance been re-
dueed to the problem Of how to compass to
morrow's marketing, not to mention any
thing like new clothing or rent whetherneF
or old. In many and many counting
room to-day The main or only business on
hand is the preparation of bankruptcy
schedules for the parties whose names are
over the doorway; while the fact is nOtori-
! Gus that hundreds in the city and through
out the state are deferred from fling their
petitions fer the benefit of the bankruptcy
Get simply by the lack Of the necessary
deposit to secure the fees of the officers of
court. fF 20 - es rnR 4
II all this is true of the city, it is doubly
SO of the country parishes, where if the
cohcurring reports are true, the penury is
still more pinching and the poverty more
abject, and where thousands Of jewellers
on, the most fertile soil on the globe are
shiyering on the brink of actual starya-
ton.
The great plantations whose produce
used to crowd our winter levee, those once
baronial estates in extent and wealth
baronial too in the long array Of sable seffs
that titled the broad fields to the cheerful
crack Of the drivers whip--now hepslessly
embarrassed, weedy, and dilapidated, are,
with comparatively few exceptions, though
the crop year has more than begun, either al
together idle or with only beggarly frsc-
ton of the old number of acres under the
pillow.
1t is possible that this hastily sketehed
picture is darker and more deeply shad-
owed than it ought to be; still facts and
statistics to subssantiate II can be gathered
by any one in few hours walk and talk
with merchants about town, especially
those who have dealings with the country,
sufficient to show, at any rate, that the for
tunes Of the state are sadly and deplorably
at the ebb. Now to discuss the train Of
causes behind all this, to show where blame
attaches and to whom, is foreign to our pres
entpurpose, enough for which is to recognize
the fact that Louisipna, in everything but
her magnificent resources, is butthe ghost
" ehel quanlun nuttatus of the Louisiana
Of he days when the subscription Lists first
began to circulate on CarOndelet street in
aid Of the great rebellion. The question
that ought now to agitate every citizen
worth the name into thoughs and action is
how to Sestore The state to health and pros
perity.
Patrick Henry, IN his most memorable
speech before the Virginia house Of bur
gesses, remarked that he knew Of no way
Of judging Of The future but BY Tie past
and 80 Judging, it is our arm belief that the
state viii never fully emerge from this pres
emf Slough q Despona. bat will rather find
70 this " present deep lover deep, until
she is indeed reconstructed, not merely in
the technical ssnasas appliedtO the present
plaB Of congress, but really rsgenerated, in
The political sentiments Of the PEOPLE. and
in their mahnsIs ana customs Us Herewith
conneeted TO expect otherwise, to
eAPssFi lof cAasili,1es' $50 liiiAi iiils
dc ala system Of labor 10 be gafiyed, and
With Il he aid pEhindiees Md she old
uesss ana bounds to thought ana speech,
/ a so assume shas revolutions hnbssuaily 60
backward; Chat tine history Of civilization
ia Europe ina AhasfioA has nothing in Il
% enlaa ID, shat fhs niaetsenth century
ia IL enofSneus strides il every science,
In ernry department Of hanan knowledge,
e. ons IL felrogrcAsion instead Of progress.
10. The sponeE re heartily acknowledge
thsi De old order Of things hes passed
away, tho happIss viii it be ier ua u 8
people
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slkys Dc Mississippi Is here, and close b
ore AnA lakes and he gulf; but ths enpitnl,
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are going V wastd, b gone rom a., end It
never VIII reluln n any inllnaas Of meas
nle 81 long ~ Qleganee 81 liberal Ideas
end aopias sion Of al symPaghy
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