New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-21
WHICH Is TIE SAMARITAN 4?

WHICH Is THE SAMARITAN?
I Ofall the answers which have been made
to our article on sfSocial Tyranny the
Price Current prints the most reasonable
and suggestive. And yet it is the more
pernicious for its plausible defense OF that
which we reprehended. The Price Current
assumes the entire ground against us by
denying the correctness of our PROPOSE
TONS First, it does not know of any
good man who has complained of the So
cial tyranny which we uncovered, and,
therefore, it says that there are none such.
This begs the question, as we do know of
such men, and very many of them, too.
Secondly, it does know of good Union
men who are doing business probably in
Louisiana, and assumes that this answers
our indictment in another particular.
Here is more lodging, because while our
statement alone partially overthrows this
second proposition, the intent of our
original article is entirely ignored, which
was that good man, honestly and avow-
edly a Republican, outspoken at all times
and in all places as Democrats are, was
avoided in business. 1t is admitted that
Union men, and even Northerners, are toll
Grated in business in New Orleans. but are
required to be very discreet in their polit-
ical opinions and associations. This was
our meaning, and the Price Current ought
to have known, and probably did know it
and yet it proceeds to discuss question
of general interest i'll spirit at variance
with the broad aud patriotic level which
we had placed it upon. Thirdly, the as
sumption that if a majority of the white
people were envenomed as We described
them to be, they would show it in some
concentrated form. is innocent, because it
proceeds upon the utter reputation of the
point in controversy. What We complain
Of is the concentrated form in which this
opposition manifests itself. refusing, as it
does, to tolerate any merchant, trader,
thinker or editor who differs with the pre-
udices of the white people Of the State.
How could venom take more concen- |
rated form! To be a Republican is to be
IN outcast, and the Price Current knows
his as we'll as We do. A clerk who dares
o be well defined Republican, promi-
lent at meetings, free of speech. liberal
n his associations, can not hold situa-
ion in New Orleans; and this fact is as
yell known as is that other fact, that
olored man can not obtain rooms at the
It. Charles Hotel Fourthly, the asser-
ion that there is no class of secessionists
) more a matter of opinion than of ascer-
ainment. We say that there is a
lass Of secessionists in Louisiana,
nd We insist that the Price Current
roves it when it proceeds to argue that
he South is suffering rule Of tyranny
nder its present government. The
merican citizen who declares himself to
e the victim of a despotism at once CLASH
es himself as revolutionist. This is
lie most charitable presumption. And
lat there are thousands. aye, hundreds
thousands of people in the South who
'sume that they are hopelessly surren-
cred to the tyranny Of the North is fact
lat can be proved in score of ways.
irst, they say SO. Secondly, they act as
they were by voluntarily abstaining
ON any participation in the government.
hey reject the laws. They refuse to see ,
~ good in the federal authority. They 9
rofess to be indifferent to the welfare of .
lie Union. They despise federal officers. :
be nation. to them, is buried glory ,
filthy, We did not propose to probe this 7
ii with bayonet, or to doctor it with
~ Tortugas. We merely suggested that i.
the evil Of which we complained existed, ,
we then contended and still contend that -.
does, that it would be we'll to reason
out it; to sec if it was not amenable to =
me cure that would put the community X
harmony in all its parts. 1t is not a
estion with us of association, since our y
Of acquaintance is greater now than T.
ought to be. But it is matter of COM >,
,rcial and social consideration. The :,
tie must waste her strength while she r
orn by two classes pulling in opposite .,
ections, when they ought to be pulling =,
} same way. 1t was not SO in the ~,
rs of Whiggery and Democracy, for ~,
n men met in business who differed in :,
itics. We did not ask honest Demo- =,
is to associate with rascally Repub- of
ms, nor did we counsel honest Repub- :,
ms to become the familiars of dishonest b
nocrats. Let class go with class, all in
ag free to think freely. Our design E,
to poultice to sores Of society, and III
to bruise them. The Price Current ~
merely irritated wound which we ~
fought it good to soothe. Which is b,,
time alone will discover. ~.
SCANDAL THAT is WICKED. ca
| abiding to the charges which have 'n'
l made against Governor Warmoth, po
Tines very correctly remarks
e think that all such charges ought to no