New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-16

justify the people in rising in rebellion
against the public authorities. Second,
the World reprinted very lengthy letter
written from this city to the Springfield
| (Massachusetts) Republican, which pre-
tended to represent that the debt which
has been heaped upon the State of Louisi-
ana and the city of New Orleans by the
Democrats was a blame to be saddled
upon the Republicans. Third, there was
a labored effort to prove that the Ku-klux
disorder, which manifests itself by killing
negroes Unfortunately, Is a radical or
ganization for political purposes.
Let us pick few holes in this array of
evils. We accept the assertion of the
mass meeting that the ubiquitous rule of
the Tammsny democracy is a sufficient
justification for the people of New York
to rise in rebellion for its overthrow The
World should, therefore, be cautious how
it attacks others while its own skirts are
so unclean that the people about it
threaten to upset and drag it in the gutter.
Next, the World should inquire, before it
assails the debt of Louisiana and New
Orleans, whether those disreputable insti-
tutions are not the work of its own friends
As the greater part of our legal liabilities
were inflicted on this people by the I'M
aided efforts of the Democrats, they must
stand all the blows that are ai1rsd at its
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not our debt. We had nothing to do
with creating it, and it is a great
regret that we have anything to do with
its liquidation. Next, the Republicans
are perfectly willing to live if the Ku-
Klux Democrats will let them. AS to our
putting on masks and killing ourselves,
just for the purpose of laying the blame
at the door of the Democrats, that might
be accepted as probable if this was Japan.
But Americans are not addicted to the
hari kari profession. They are too SEN
sible, as Republicans, to crafty the de-
sires of their enemies by exterminating
themselves. Or, to state it in another
Republican, he is too sensible to kill him
self to gratify his enemy. Besides, the
Democrats or the Ku-Klux portion of the
democracy, are too willing to engage in
the work of thinning out Republicans by
assassination and otherwise to offer these
unfortunate people the opportunity of
becoming miserable suicides. That is
one blessing which we enjoy at least,
that when tired OF life, all that is neces-
sary to be done, is to go into certain To-
calities and proclaim the truth. The end
will come swiftly and without fail, with
out regard to color or previous condition"
Perhaps the weary spirit might have to
go out of Louisiana to die, but it could
find rest in kentucky, North Carolina,
Tennessee, or South Carolina, without
difficulty. Every days report is living
testimony to this effect.
How, then, can the World justify its
want of aptness in making these damag-
ing publications Why will it attack the
Democratic debt in this State2 Why
will it attack the Democratic Ku-Klux?
Why will it report the voice of its own
household demanding its own downfall?
In other words, why will it be Demo-
cratic when it has so many reasons at
hand to prove that it ought to be Repub-
lican? Let it answer.