New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-07
"a. 49, ApnHEse.

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panies should acceptas blessing, since i
will consume a large portion Of their stool
to relieve the public from the fever into
which this inhamable document viii cas-
the people. Let us CURLY examine this
address.
First, Mr.. Lasere inferentially declares
that the popular Endorsement Of Greeley
and Brown, which we published last Sun
day. contained the names Of eight hun.
bred policemen and one thousand en-
ployes in the Improvements Department.
This is a very unfortunate assertion, since
it is not true, as Mr.. Lasere would know
if he was better acquainted with the people
of the city. 1t is still further unfortunate
in this that if it were true, it is no offense,
since the laborers and the policemen are
citizens and voters, which gives them as
much right to indorse candidates as Mr..
Lasere has.
Second, Mr.. Lasere declares that mill
tary law has supplanted the civil author
ity; the army and the navy have been
employed to coerce political conventions;
citizens have been arrested and confined
in dreary prison houses; the writ Of habeas
corpus is suspended, and State govern
ments are subordinated to the control of
the federal authorities. These are griey-
GUS charges to allege, but admitting them
to be true, who is opposing these very
evils with greater energy tlTan Greeley and
Brown and Governor Warmoth? The
Liberal party is at war with each and sin
gular of these extraordinary subversions
of republican institutions. And when
Governor Warmoth was defending the
Republican convention from the bayonets
of the CustomLouse last Angus, and
when he was upholding the State against
the combined attack of the navy and
army last winter, when the Democracy
was cooperating to destroy the last
vestige of State sovereignty in Louisiana,
where, then, was Mr.. Lasere? We leave
him to answer this question.
are seventy thousand brave Democrats in
the State who are prepared to win VIC
tory against the Republican party, which
is divided and demoralized This sounds
well, but is it true? Can Mr.. Lasere rally
seventy thousand men, with his record to
be looked into? Is not the Democratic
party divided. as well as the Republican?
Mr.. Lasere might poll forty thousand
votes, but he would be in danger ten
times Of falling below that number where
he would stand one chance of going over
it, because a large section of his former
partisans have declared their intention not
to vote the Democratic ticket under any
circumstances. The Reform party, which
is a radical and perfect detection from the
Democracy, is as serious a loss to Mr..
Lasere as the boiling Customhouse faction
is to the Republican party in this State.
So that in this argument the new leader of
the Bourbons is as much at fault in bis
estimates as he is in his reasoning.
If useless offices are created, if gigantic
monopoies corrode and corrupt the State,
if Legislators sell their votes, if tax col
lectors are paid enormous salaries, will
Mr.. Lasere point to a single individual in
the commonwealth who has done more
than Governor Warmoth to oppose these
evils? The record is before the public.
The incorporators in all the jobs are
known, and we ask Mr. Iasere to name
and classify them. What was the salary
of Mr.. Askew as tax collector under Demo
cratic rule ? He boosted that his Office
paid him seventy thousand dollars, while
the City Assistant Attorney at the same
time made at least quarter of million
a year. How is this for high? Who fixed
the fee bills by which the sherifs and
clerks are paid from thirty to eighty thou
sand dollars per annum? The law books
inform us that the Democracy committed
his great wrong against justice, because
.hese enormous fees amount to a virtual
lenial of law and justice to the people
Governor Warmoth asked the Legislature
20 reduce the number of officers, and to
diminish the fees. The officers besieged
he Legislature to reject the advice, and
we're successful Did the Democracy rally
o the support of the Governor, as it
hould have done? No. 1t stood back,
,efusing to help a good measure for fear
hat it might help political oHSonent,
ust as it refused to defend the State
against the use of the army and navy
which the Customhouse faction abused in
attempting to overthrow the State govern
nent
The truth is, Mr.. Lasere is the Rip Van
Wrinkle of the political occasion, He has
been asleep for the last six years, and now
he does not know the city has grown up
while he was hid away in his dreams. But
The people remember him, and while they
they have not forgiven the mis-
akes he committed in his day and gene
ration. He may proclamate, as several |
other old Bourbons have done, but his |
will not set back the wheels
Of the present into the ruts of the past |
The State has departed from the home of
he Bourbon Democracy, and she will not
90 back to its inertia to be emasculated by |
its prejudices. The seventy thousand men
VINO once rallied under the banner of the
seeing that their energies were
oelnB wasted and their means consumed