New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-31
plain Talk from the Country.

The attention of New Orleans merchants
is especially called to the subjoined article
from the Coushatta Citizen, one of the best
Of our country exchanges:
Although, as the world knows and can
see, the Iistless commercial stupOr and
suDineness Of the city Of New Orleans has
driven from her wharves a wealth Of trade
which has been garnered up by the superior
enterprise and activity Of st. Louis, Louis
Vile Cincinnati and other more Northern
cmporiums, military, civil, social and com
mercial revolutions have, it seems, taught
New Orleans nothing. Welded to the
political and commercial souvenirs OF nj
teen. thirty and forty years ago, she dreams
to-day over the faded glories and departed
splendOrs Of those halcyOn times, and de-
ludes herself with the idea that her ancient
bvpOtheticary interest over Northern Lou
isiaua is stilFa pleasing and certain reality.
II former times our great metropolis, OF
which every Louisianian Is justly proud,
with che third of the population Of the
State issued her political and commercial
edic5s, which generally, per force Of the
power Of capital derivatiye from the then
existing social and financial status Of the
country. were successfully enforced and
Obeyed
For twenty years a revolution as great as
ever Overthrew kings and destroyed primer
palities ard powers has prevailed III and
over this great land, whose government
during that period has been in transition
state from extreme prosperity and well
guarded liberty to threatened bankruptcy
and to political something OF whose culml-
nation 10 man can pretend to prophecy
New Orleans, apparently dead to the pro
grees Of surrounding events, and with ears
closed to the thundeTs CT the revolution
which has already demolished the social
and financial fabric of the South, but whose
end i not vet still dreams and dreams OF
her faded aud fading political glory. She
can not see that she ought to grasp the
new departure" and rush onward with re
iuvenated yigor, and inspired with ne"
! ideas 70 the achievement Of lofty ana ST.
perb future Imbued with traditiOnary
| Bourbon obstinacy, New Orleans, IN the
midst Of dire revolutionary woes and tribu-
| lations has forgotten nothing nor learned
| anything.
| These structures are directed purely,
! solely to the blind and ruinOu5 crOChets OF
! the political merchants of our great metro.
| pOlitan city, whose obstinate course IN en-
| deavOring to fOist upon the State the ticket
! OF Colonel MCEnery for the iurtheranGe OF
! the political aspirations and COYetOu7 hopes
| Of her intriguing demagOgues, viii suTeiy
not only turn the State over to Grant, hel
logo and negro ascendanCy, but Will, likely
peryert the source of grand tributary
| wealth which flows into her lap from the
| atfiuent region of the Red river to a more
Northern and congenial mart. We will not
saw that the merchants, or the respectable
part of the merchants Of the city, are II
triguing with the CustOmhOuse Grant lac
ton Of the Republican party as rumOr Eati
If. but we do say most emphatiCaIlv, that
very large and respectable mass OF CONNER
cIal men and planters in this section ar
seriously displeased with the perseYerlni
ObstiuaCT Of the political merchant
of New Orleans which, they believe
has in the main, CirCumvented an
effort of compromise between the Demo
Gratis and Liberal parties Of the State. 1t !
beyond dispute that the merchants OF tn
CITY, and their capital, are still a power !
the State for good or evil; but they ca
not today lead or drive the CO-c4ual pOwe
and capital of Northern Louisiana betor
them as in times past. To-day, II me
choose to do aO the merchants Of New VI
leans can bring the Democratic, RetOrI
and Liberal parties together and save Ia
State by a persistency IN their pEeSen
course they can and will effect the rum {
themselves and the whole commonwealth
and hand US over to future worse door
than ha- hitherto hung as a pail over on
door. fallen, crushed Louisiana. W Ill Ia
merchants Of New Orleans reach, grasp u
outStretched hand of amity and compr
mise. which, in the name OF our people, W
extend to them across the unfortunate p
litical chasm between US!
We speak tor 1900 or 400 voters of Re
River parish, among whom there Is not
l solitary EcEucTy man, to the best OF on
/ knowledge Cur contemporaries OF ii
great and popular parishes Of Rapides, IA
/ chitochas. De Soto, CaddC. BOssieT, We
ster. C!a Crne and others, can best spea
) for them-rt.-s -. but we believe they stan