New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-27
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influence on the Bulletin which sue
bibulous festivals generally have on tn
souls of the Democracy, making tn
faithful soft, forgiving and somewha
human in their relations to the opposi
ton. On the contrary, its visage wa
wrinkled and its tongue was filed wit
old scandal Somehow it scolded as
the apple-jack had been handed in wit
some lack of courtesy that rufled tn
feathers on its antique back. Our dispo
sition to cloak the failings of others sue
gests this reason, rather than allow tn
public to run Off after that other idea
that perhaps the Bulletin took too mucl
and felt too maudlin over the wickednes
which continually broods about it
conscience, and which will come on
when the wine is in. There liz nothing
that promotes wickedness so much as
too lavish use Of the fluids that prevail
at Christmas.
Discounting the disposition Of Cover
nor Warmoth to use his influence for goot
at the ensuing session of the Legislature
the Bulletin predicates its skepticisn upor
the action Of the Governor in certain
matters thatare now almost beyond dis.
cussicn. The fact of signing the slaugh.
terhouse bill, the printing bill, the police
bill, and the Ship Island Canal bill,
and the act creating the Eighth District
Court are all paraded as evidences that
there is nothing to be expected from the
executive, in the way Of restraining any
measure of corruption which might OBJ
tain favor in the Legislature. In the
first place, and US general answer, the
Bulletin is Wing paper. and as such, its
platform is opposed to the use Of the veto
as against the explicit act of the Legisla-
ture. In the second place, all the meas
ures that are here enumerated are sepa-
rated from the formula of corruption
by being in some degree acts Of neces-
sity. And it is rule of law that where
an honest reason can be found to justify
an act, it is not allowable in such cases to
charge fraud.
In the Slaughterhouse bill, consider it
as we may from our different standpoints
of interest and prejudice, there are hun
dreds of honest people who qdorse that
measure as an act of relief against what
was considered monopoly in the shape
of the Benevolent Butchers Association.
We do not say that this is our opinion,
but we do say that there are hundreds of
people who consider that the Slaughter
house bill relieved New Orleans from q
nuisance and q monopoly. The Metfo.
politan Police bill was forced upon the
Legislature by the partisan character and
the unjust conduct Of the old Monroe po-
lice. There was no way to rid the COM
munity Of that villainous compound
Of prejudice and incompetence than
by changing the entire system. And that
the Metropolitan Police is now too ex-
pensive and less efficient than it might be
cannot be urged as reason why the city
should still be subjected to the evil that
it was constructed to cure. Having rid
ourselves Of the old force, it is now the
duty Of the Legislature to reform the sys-
TEN which has served its purpose, and
which has also developed its own defects.
The Ship Island Canal scheme had
friends by the hundred, and was in truth
a valuable measure, if it could have been
carried out according to the intention Of
the law. Its failure is, in measure, due
to the weakness of human nature, and to
the intense legal opposition which it met
with from those who resisted the law at
the expense of the treasure committed to
their charge. There would have been no
robbery of the drainage fund under the
law, if the managers Of the same had
been competent and faithful, but as the
money has never passed into hands but
those Of the faithless administration of
former regime, by what right does the
Bulletin undertake to charge Governor
Warmoth or the Legislature with Interior
motives in matter where the law has
failed. and where the treasure involved
has been wasted by well-tried Democrats?
Judge Dibble's court needs no defense.
It has demonstrated its usefulness and
to the wants of the communi-
ty and when we say that its Judge has |
won the friendship and confidence of an
inimical bar, we have answered the refec-
lion that it was cheated in any interest.
The Eighth District Court has served to
give free flow to the litigation which had
in the courts by concentra-
ing in one forum the various orders that
lid SO much to interrupt all the other
courts in their regular business. It is
low fixed fact, and its existence is O
natter of wisdom and its presiding Of
icer, after enduring the scrutiny of a
that was prejudiced to his dis
avor, is now accepted as q ready arbitra-
or and just judge.
From the nature of the case, the Bulletin |
efers to the election, the constabulary |
md the school bills, but since the people |
AVE Endorsed these measures, they can
70 allowed to pass without provoking any
license on our part. They were simply
conceived in the interest Of peace and or
Ter, and their mission has been faithfully |
UTILIZED. The only objectivespoint that |
he Bulletin can make is that negroes are |