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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY AUGUST H. 1872

mitted high trusts stand merely in the
light Of agents. If the former view Of
our federal system was maintained it
would be easy for Congress, at the direc-
ton Of the President, to alter our form of
government at will 1t would be proper
for the President, as he gave liberty to the
negro, to withhold ito remit, indeed,
the African to condition of slavery.
Such is President Grants doctrine. It
was this principle he adhered to in the
San Domingo scheme. He wished to give
that people personal government and sent
vessels of war to maintain it, disregard
ing their constitution and ignoring Re-
publican principles.
Mr.. Greeley, on the contrary, has always
maintained the inviolability of free gov
eminent The rights Of the citizen are the
best guarantees for the preservation of the
republic. Between the two candidates,
have the colored people a choice? Let
them take MIR. Boutwell's admissions and
Mr.. Summers direct charges, and choose
between them. As it is in the national
government, so it is in the State govern
ment. The policy is the same in both. If
the colored people can not support Grant
for President can they support his Gus
tomhouse ticket? The State ticket is but
reflex of the national policy.
Is it not clear, if Mr.. Summers assump-
tons are correct, that the Liberal party
develops the principles most in harmony
with the rights and interests of the colored
people? The Radicals favor the extinction
of personal rights and representative gov
eminent The Liberals maintain them.
These are the issues; which will you
choose?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
THE RAILWAY tax.

The importance of taking definite ac-
ton in respect to some plan for raising
the two million loan necessary to COM
plete a railroad to Shreveport forces itself
upon the public attention, despite the
political excitement that surrounds us.
1t matters little how the money is raised,
so that it is readyin time. But to treat
the subject with indifference, or neglect
it, argues O. ruinous future for our COM
merce. The road to Shreveport will not
merely be an advantage to New Orleans
it will not merely increase her facilities for
transp oTtation and give stimulating in
fuence to trade by augmenting its re-
sources-but it is vital to our. prosperity.
Without this road the city can no longer
cope with the enterprising rivals of the
West, who. are stopping at nothing in the
way Of money to secure the great trade
Of the Southwest:
The necessity Of building the road, how
ever, it is well understood, is fully recog-
nized by our merchants. TIE drawback
is the two millions Of dollars Of subscrip-
ton necessary to effect it. How is this
money to be raised? 1t certainly ought to
be taken by the mercantile community.
If spirit Of enterprise was alive among
them it could be done. But the more re-
liable opinion prevails that the attempt to
raise the money in this way would not sue
coed. It failed in regard to the old Ope-
lousas road. In that case only q million
was required to save the road and the fur
Their sum Of million and half already
embarked in the enterprise, but it could
not be done. The prospect of the imine-
diate completion of the road to the Sabine
river could not secure it. The road,
therefore, passed into Mr.. Morgan's hands,
and the public lost the million and half
already paid in.
This circumstance, together with the
evident disinclination Of our merchants
to-subscribe to the Shreveport road, leaves
no room for doubt that the two million
can only be raised by taxation 1t is not
a pleasant alternative certainly; but it is
the only reliable way. It is true our peo-
pie will feel the additional burden, but do
not the advantages the enterprise promise
afford sufficient compensation?
The law authorizing the levy can be so |
worded as to relieve the collection of the !
tax Of the expenses with which other
taxes are burdened. It should be free,
being great public benefit. If this is
done the public will scarcely object to the
increased levy. It is an enterprise with
which the good fortune Of New Orleans is
inevitably linked. fit falls to the ground,
wrong and injury to our commerce, to
trade, to enterprise, will be the ineYi-
table result.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
THE EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

During the week just closed, we have
had two political State conventions in ses-
sion here. Both were composed Of able,
respectable, and to some extent, repre-
sentative men. In their separate capacity,
however, neither represented sufficient
strength to carry this State without the
aid Of the other, with possibly apercentage
of recruits from one or the other of the
opposing parties With a knowledge of
this fact, an alliance Of some sort was
courted by the Liberals, not only with the
Republican convention, but with the Dem
ocratic-Reform committees also. How
ever, no terms could be agreed to, and the
Liberals finally concluded to nominate a
complete State ticket
This convention has selected gentlemen
for the various offices who are personally,
no doubt, well deserving men, qualified to
discharge their duties in an acceptable
manner Some of them we know to be
men of the very best order of ability.
But it is perhaps too soon to make an esti-
mate of their probable strength on the
fifth of November. The Liberals at pres
ent represent a large proportion Of the
element in this State opposed to the Gus
tomhouse ticket, but unless they can OBJ
tain great accessions from the ranks Of
the two other opposing parties before the
election, they will suffer defeat.
Now we have long maintained that I'm
less there can be a union of the forces OPP
posed to the Kellogg ticket, there will be
no chance of success. and we are not
able to see just yet that such union has
been effected. The Republican conven-
ton is, however, still in session, and will
be till Tuesday. A resolution of the
Liberal convention authorizes limited
rectifcation of the ticket, and something
may yet be done to put a more encourag-
ing aspect to affairs. In the meantime we
can only wait.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
A HORN TO TAKE TO,

| A passing notice in the commercial col
umn day or two since conveyed a point
of information that the public should look
into as worthy of serious reflection. The
first bale of cotton from the State of Mis-
sissippi, received in this city was made by
Mr.. jackson Horn, of Pike county, NIissis-
sippi, and classed as midding. Mr.
Horn is colored man, in other words, a
niger, but it seems that his eslor met
with no disfavor from the elements, since
his crop turned out the earliest of any of
his neighbors, and much better than that
of most Of them. The bales of middkng
cotton that come from Mississippi are few
and far between. Mr.. Horn sends us the
evidence of his manhood, that as farmer
he is worthy to rank with those who refuse
to acknowledge him as worthy to be free.
He sets q noble example to his race, that
honest industry is the lever by which
every man can make his own fortune and
be reported of as even better than those
who frown upon him. The superior class
can not go back on, this bale of cotton.
The inferior class, whether it is white or
black, can take no credit for what Mr..
Horn has done 1t is a sign post that con-
fuses the whites and encourages the blacks,
for it teaches the first that nature responds
as readily to negro as she does to a white
man; and it teaches the latter that
he can prove his worthiness of
his works whenever he has mind to-
The man who does the best work takes
the precedence, without regard to race,
color or previous condition. Mr.. Horn is
better citizen than any Democrat who
flches his living from some other persons
sweat. Such Horns as these are good to
take. They deliver us from poverty, and
they break down the barriers of caste.
And yet the party that pretends to have
been born with the divine right to rule
New Orleans sets up the ruinous plea that
such men as Horn are not fit to have a
voice in their own government; and it de-
mands that he and his neighbors shall
submit themselves to the domination of a
set Of idlers and takers who pretend that
they were born Democrats. Give us Horn,
Of Pike. county, all the time, in preference
to the Waggamans and Geauthreaughs Of
the city.
To the sensible people the effort of this
Mississippi negro should teach another
lesson, that as nature deals as fairly with
a black man as she does with white
man, it is their business to do the same
So long as they reject this plain and just
rule, SO long will they suffer under the
punishments and penalties that inexorable
equity dispenses to those who violate its
laws.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
A CARD.

NEW ORLEANS, August 10, 1872.
To the Editors of the New Orleans Picayune:
GBNTLRNEN-In your issue of the fourth instant,
speaking of the gentlemen who participated in the
procession of the Liberal party of this city en- Satur
day night the third instant your reporter saw At to
mention: THAT the First Division led by the Chief
Engineer of the Fire Department" etc, ignoring
me in my capacity as a citizen, free to act in poll
tics in accordance with my judgment-an inherent
right belonging to every American citizen-and
apparently insingating an attempt on my part to
give political significance of the preferment of
the gentlemen constituting the personnel of the
Fire Department. Thus you would place me in
false position, and in the future, when your re-
porter deems it necessary to speak of my politics.
he will remember that l avail myself of the privi
lege enjoyed alike by all men 10 think and act as
citizen-nOt as fremen. Your statement in the
Picayune of the tenth instant I would also call
your attention to, In refutatioH of the assertion
made, that interfered in the proceedings of the
organization of the Seymour Southrons' of 1863
or made myself conspicuous at said meeting. am
now forced to contradict, without reserve, and
with every emphasis. the slanderous statment
made in your columns.
Respectfully,
THOMAS 'O'CONNOR.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
OLD POLITICAL, PRETuDTrEs

It is not, as the New York Herald seems
to think, 'old political preiudices' that
occasion party divisions in this State.
We think nowhere else in the South is this
feeling less dominant. True there are en-
mites, and old citizens, in many instances,
indulge them. But. these occasions are
confined to a small class of politicians.
They are the habitual ofice-seekers among
the Democrats and that hostility which
bad Republicans can inspire on, the score
of race among the colored people.
The intelligent Southerner and the genu-
inc Republican can meet and act in politi-
cal harmony. This is shown by the cordial.
unanimity that has characterized the rise
Of the Liberal party among us. There is
no question Of antecedents in it. The Re
publican who is an adventurer viii not
join 1.-THE Democrat, whose personal
consequence depends on his rebel record,
and the antipathies he engenders by it,
does not join it. These people are sepa-
rated upon distinctive class issues But
the great body of the people Of Louisiana,
Republican and Democrat, whether old or
new residents, are in hearty accord and
sympathy in their devotion to the best in
terests Of society, and to the commercial
and political advancement of the State.
It is true the conservative elements of
the State may not sufficiently harmonic
to carry the State against the Radical
ticket, but this is not occasioned by old
prejudices. On the contrary it springs
from new and unexpected political com
plications which Incorporate zeal nav
have brought about. Year by year old
feelings Of hostility engendered by the war
are passing away. If our people are not
utterly homogeneous, they are as nearly
so as any Southern community, and it
will scarcely be another decade before
these feelings are remembered as a strange
condition of society which is unappre-
cable
1t is more personal ambition than pre-
JUDGE which divides rs now. If those
who have been long. accustomed to lead
public sentiment could for a moment yield
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
ITEMS ABOUT HTHE TIMES,v
THE TIMES COOKING STOVE
QUARANTINE.
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.

STATE OF LOUISIANA }.
Executive Department, )
New Orleans, June 10, 1917.
WHEREAS, An act of the Legislature approved
March TO- 1855, entitled IAN act to establish quaran
tine tor the protection Of the State provides that
the Governor Of the State shall issue his proclaua.
ton, upon the advice of the Board Of Health. de-
claring any place where there shall be reason n
believe pestent Contagious OF infectious disease
exists, to be an infected place, and stating the
number Of days of quarantine to be performed by
the vessels, their passengers, officers and crews
coming from such place or places
NOW, therefore, in pursuance Of the provisions
OF the act aforesaid, issue this my proclamation.
and declare the places hereafter named to be in.
tected places, and that all vessels together with
oheers, crews passengers and cargoes, arriving
from such places, or having touched or stopped at
any OF them, shall be subject to q quarantine of
not less than ten days, or for longer period, as
may be considered necessary by the Board Of
Health to take effect from and after the FTRsT
DAY OF JULY, 1872 Any violation Of the quaran.
tine laws as here proclaimed will be severely pun.
ished.
The places which are hereby declared infected
as aforesaid are the following to wit Havana
Matanzas, Trinidad Cardenas, st. Jago, all on the
Island of Cuba; Port Royal and Mntego Bav. on
the Island Of jamaica Jacmel and Port-au.Prince,
on the Island Of San Domingo; the islands of St.
Thomas, Martinique and Guadalupe; Campeaehy,
IN fucatan; Belize, in Honduras; Vera Cruz, Al.
varado, Tampico, Matamoras and Tuxpah, in Mex.
leo; San Juan, in Nicaragua; Chagres, Aspinwau
and Porto BellO, in Central America; Maracaibo in
venezuela; Laguayra, Island Of Trinidad Rio
Janeiro Para, Cayenne, Buenos Ayres, Pernam
bueo, in South America, and Nassau, New Provi-
dence.
Given under my hand and the seal Of the State
this eighteenth day Of June, A. D. 1872, and of The
Of the United States the ninety-s4tb
By the Governor
H. C. WARMOTH.
F. J. HERRoS Secretary Of state.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
PERSONAL GOVERNMENT.

There is certainly very wide differ
ence Of opinion between the great men
Of the nation concerning the present can
vass. Mr.. Boutwell,, for instance. con
tends that the Southern vote for Grant
viii alone prove the loyalty of the people.
Mr.. Sumner, on the other hand. alleges
that the election of Grant is an indorse-
ment Of personal government. It is in
deed a practical surrender of the privi-
lege Of choosing their own rulers. For
the administration, during its four years
Of trial, has indicated but one purpose in
government and that is the strengthening
the hands Of the ruler by centraGzing the
sources of power. According to the doc
trines Of the administration this is a gov
eminent for the people, not Of them. 1t
IS the federal power that confers priv
lleges, not the people who grant rights.
Inc constitution is nothing; it has passed
away The Liberal movement, on the
contrary, embodies elementary principles.
II recognizes the people as the source Of
all power and those to whom are com
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

The stupid Ku-Klux threats. which are
the stock in trade Of the Last Ditchers,
were begun again yesterday-this time in a
foreign language, in order to add the ter
rors which the "Inno cents" inspired in
1868 Small handbills were freely circu-
lated, bearing on their face grinnihg skull
and cross bones, with the legend ''Carbo-
nari-Sabato Mezza-Notte." The circulars
were evidently designed as a bugbear ac-
compartment to the Last Ditch "grand"
torchlight demonstration. This little game
is played oEt, neither Republicans nor Lib
erals caring for Ku-Kux, Carbonate or any
other cutthroat band which can be gotten
up. This game can not again be played
single handed,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
THE PICAYUNB AND eOLoNBL PENN.

In the evening edition of the Picayune
appears an article in reference to Colonel
Penn, grossly derogatory to his honor as a
gentleman, and his worthiness as a citizen.
We never imagined thatpartisan antipathy
would go SO far, and the writer must have
chosen between his fealty to the common
est proprieties of journalism, and the
qualification Of q spirit which gentlemen
feel it difficult to entertain. It is well IN
derstood; however, that character can not
be destroyed by obloquy, no more than it
can be enhanced by injudicious. praise,
and to the universal esteem of
his fellow-citizens his friends can
confidently leave the reputation of
Colonel Penn. We have no doubt
the Picayme already regrets such pub
icatlon. Giving its management credit
for the possession Of that sentiment of
decency which should distinguish the
journalist, we anticipate the immediate
and frank disavowal of what must be con-
sidered in the light of calumny. No
citizen of this country should ever forget
that any man may aspire to the honors of
government, and it i'll becomes those who
cherish the privilege for themselves or
their friends to deny it to others who may
be of adverse political sentiments.
We are sorry to see our contemporary
so conspicuously parading its chagrin at a
political nomination, and in the name of
common decency we beg that it will not
make a journal of responsibility the
medium of sentiment which disgraces the
newspaper profession.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
DIED,

WASHBURN-At Ludlow, Kentucky, August s.
1872, CHARLES W. WAEHBURN, aged thirty seven
years.
The funeral will take place from his late resi-
dence, corner of Miro and Laharpe streets, Third
District, on Sunday, the eleventh instant, at p:
M. The friends of the family, and those Of George
Purves are respectfully invited to attend without
further notice.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
SIMPSON KEMP,
Livingston Parish, louisiana
aull 1t Delegate Liberal Convention.)
PROSPECT OF THE GROWING CROP
THE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF
THIS PORT.

On the FIRST OF SEPTEMBER we shall issue
our annual statement of the commerce Of New
Orleans, with remarks on the growing crops. etc,
for transmission to all parts of our own and for.
eigu countries.
We shall be prepared to furnish merchants and
others with any number Of our newspaper or let.
ter sheet editions they may require for their cor
respOndence, with or without their cards or pri.
vate ch cuars attached, and in order to avoid IN
necessary delay, we would suggest that our
friends send in their orders at their earliest con-
venience. For those who do not deem a private
circular necessary, we have form that will az
swer every purpose.
LOUIS j. BRIGHT g. CO.,
Price Current Office, Nos 1873 and l3I Gravier
street. anil 1t IN
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

Colonel o. d. BragdOn, secretary Of the
Governor, left last evening for the-North for
few weeks vacation, after the performance
of arduOus duties in the Office Of the State
executive. We are glad to announce that
Governor Warmoth has appointed Mr..
Bragdon aid-de-camp on his staff, with the
rank Of colonel.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

A rural gent Of eighteen summers invest
ed in banana on the cars recently. He
carefully removed the peel and put it on the
seat by his side then he broke the fruit up
in small pieces, cycling it anxiously as he
did so. When this was done he picked up
the peel, shook it in his lap; and finally
threw the pieces out Of the window, re-
marking as he did so, That's the fust Of
them prize packages ever bought, an it's
the last, you bet"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

An interesting letter from our New York
cOrresp Ondent may be found on the sixth
page of this mornings REPUBLICAN. 1t
contains the usual theatrical gossip, and an
outline of the plot of the new play, "One
Wife"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

James p. Barr, editor Of the Pittsburg
Post, writes to the Liberal National com
mittee that he can speak for Western Penn
sylvania from personal knowledge, and can
ass ure the committee that the changes in
that section are unprecedented, and adds,
q We expect to elect our State ticket by at
least twenty thousand"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

On the sixth page Of the REPUBLICAN this
morning is a very. readable extract of a
letter from Sulphur Springs, sketching New
Orleans ladies in the ballroom, and men
tioning the names Of several New Orleans
pnntlemen
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

The Congressional Directory, Forty-sec-
Ond Congress, second session, compiled for
the use of Congress by Ben Perley PoOre,
clerk of printing records, has been sent to
the REPUBLICAN under the frank of Hon.
James ii. Platt with the respects of ]. NJ.
Edmunds, secretary Of the Union Repub-
tic an Congressional Committee. This d.
rectory is valuable and useful.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

"My name is Zacharie p viii be the
war-cry of the Last Ditchers below Canal
street for the remainder Of the campaign,
and will prove about as potent in securing
victory as it did one memorable January
night, when some outrage OF other was to
have been perpetrated upon Iaw-abiding
down on Elysian Fields street.
We congratulate Mr., Zacharie, however,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

their wishes and aspirations, our political
divisions would speedily disappear. We
have made exertions that way, and con-
dition so desirable will eventually come to
pass. All men in time will yield to the
memorable logic ofpubIc opinion. 1t will
prove as effective here as in more favored
communities
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

Appointment citizen an experienced and
shrewd political observer, writes from New
York, in private letter TO a State official:
''There is no doubt whatever now Of his
(Greeley's) election, and the daily changes
throughout the North are wonderful, even
in politics. l do hope matters will be so
arranged as to insure his success in our
State"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

The sheriff of the parish Of Orleans
will sell at auction tomorrow at P. NJ, on
the premises on Old Cansl, near Galvez
street, Second District, marine ways for rails
ing vessels.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

upon his successful overthrow of the long
time candidates for Congress in the First
District who had come to think they pos
sessed an exclusive right to Democratic
support for that place.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

The New Orleans Price Cltrrcm an.
nounces in another colum that its regular
annual statement Of the commerce Of this
city, and its report Of the prospect of the
growing crops, will be published on the
first Of September. Merchants are re-
quested to send their orders for the cir
Culars they may require for correspondence
to the Office of the Price Current, Nos. I29
and l3l Gravier street
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

The bark Neversink has landed a load
Of railroad iron at Carrollton, and taken
in cargo of walnut logs. This is the
first case of a ship discharging and load
ing at that place. The Register greatly
rejoices, and says Captain Gibson and his
officers are no end of capital fellows. The
Register is a patriotic concern, and both
its editors have perfectly level heads.