New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-13
WHEREBY ST. LOUIS BEATS Us.

DC UVertlng II 1T were not Almost NOR
tally hurtfuL In order to explain thi
suggestion intelligibly, "Southern ideas
. so called" must be understood as tina
J stuck up, SO to speak, phase of the South
ern mind which singles out the whit
secession element and gives it the nam,
of the ''Southern people," Meet genu
inc rebel anywhere, and he refuses Il
acknowledge that there are any people il
the South but the rebels. Stop minute
There is an exception to this rule, anG
that is, whenever one of these gentlemen
wants to be sent to Congress-, he will
readily admit that there are nine hun
dred thousand people in the State o.
Louisiana, and he will abstain with re.
igious fasting from the use of the word
negroes. On every other occasion he will
zealously insist that the people of Louisi-
ana consist of about three hundred thou
sand men, women and children, whose
only dissatisfaction is that they were
the authors and are now the remnants of
the biggest and wickedest mistake that
was ever made.
Your genuine, highly embossed, self
elected Southerner, whose father was a
cavalier, is man whose eyes are diseased
| with rifle sights, which disable him from
seeing anything closer than the North.
He can not tell how to escape paying an
extortionate bill of costs, but he knows to
a dot how to stop Yankee aggressions on
the rights of the South. He can dilate
for hours on the wrongs Of '.his people,"
but he is too ignorant to know how to
save his wearing apparel from the claws
of thieving constable. He is too feeble
of mind to earn decent living, but his
lungs breathe war and pestilence about
the quantity and quality Of that political
contest which rival communities, like
rival steamboats,, keep up in the interest
OF their independent prosperity. This
is your Southerncr who always speaks of
the rebels as being the people of the South,
except when he wants to go to Congress
on the strength Of the census returns.
This stilted and inexcusable nonsense
would be laughable, We say, if it were
not hurtful It affiicts the community in
a business way. The State is absolutely |
run on the principle that there are but
three hundred thousand people within
he- borders, when, in fact there are
nine hundred thousand souls allegiant to
the pelican. New Orleans does not seek
the trade of the negroes. She ignores the
business of the only class of her supposed
constituents that can properly be called
producers. The steamboats, make no
provision for colored folks. The merchants
10 not advertise where the negroes will
oe more likely to read their notices.
Nothing is done, in fact, to consolidate
he business of the majority of the people
It this point, but rather evrything is done
o drive it away. If a man trades with the
legroes he is discredited. If he associates
nth them he is tabooed. And yet they
make up more than half of the population
f the State, and they produce more
ctual wealth than any other class Of ,
eople. Strike out the product of in ,
ependent negro labor, and the city of
lew Orleans would be a comparative
esert, even to what her folly has al
eady made her. Of the printing law had :
o other defense, the power which it .
ives us of saying this much is worth all !;
le mony which the State expends in =
Iat behalf Without the constrained =
lpport which now upholds Republican 4
ewspapers there would not be journal r.
the State that would dare to tell the >,
nth about this extraordinary and ruinous b
'ejudice.) .,
The Times Of yesterday went wandering tt
after some explanation why St. Louis Al
i'd Cincinnati are winning away our la
AIDE. 1t hit all the nails but the right N
lie, and this one it dared not strike. St. O,
'uis and Cincinnati make no dis D,
action III their attention to customers, al
ley trade with equal fairness and polite 70
IS with all classes and colors; and thus III
= negro trader, or the white man who n
cps store in a negro settlement is in $,
ced to go to these place in preference b,
visiting New Orleans, where he is treated
h contempt unless he treats himself
tn contempt by lying about his status.
There is but one institution in New Or tn
MS conducted on correct business prin- re-
les, and that is the street railroads. a
cry individual is treated on a dead tw
ell in the cars, and they pay the hand fir
nest dividends Of any enterprise in the
:. The peculiar people "cut up" con-
srably when the colored element took EN-
seat in the cars, but the revolution re- cal
ed to 60 backward, and that which was IT,
sted as intolerable at first is now &C co,
ted without remark. 1t has produced roc
social equality that we can discover. an
lite women do not marry negro men act
more freely than they did, nor is the E Ku
Tor OF either class invaded by the vel
er, as If it We're a free garden. Why cor
not this same generosity prevail in all Sta
sr directions Why does the mer- cas-
ut twirl his moustaches rather than nv Nv
IL WIN negroes Why does the by
mboatman neglect the larger portion bui
ne people, as if it had no business to We,