New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-17
4 BUSINESS MANS VTEW.


4. BUSINESS MANS VIEW
a great many excellent people voted Tor
Gen. Grant for the purpose of securing a safe
GoyernmentLone which would restore a nor
NAL course of trade and business throughout
the country. We believe that they placed too
much reliance upon the ability OF the Presi-
dent to effect this desirable end. 1t Is not
within the power of any one man to open the
springs of national prosperity. But IL
we are not justified in asking the Presl-
dent 20 make trade flourish, we az
least have the right to demand that he shall
DO nothing to check or destroy it. Yet we
see the Administration interfering daily III the
affairs of three great States, in way to
excite the most profound agitation ana 10
delay indefinitely the return to Tranquil times
The dispatch of Attorney General WllliamS
to the Louisiana delegation, II 1t Is not
gross and laundering carelessness, indicates
indifference TO the wrongs ard Outrages under
which the people Of that sorely-tried State are
suffering. We subjoin letter from proml-
nent merchant in New-Orleans to DIR. Z. Z.
Adams. the Manager of the well-known Cor
ham Manufacturing Company in this city. Mr..
Adams vOuchcs to us tor his correspondent aS
a man of the highest personal standing, wen
known to the whole trade OF sllyersmlths III
the United States, not politician, ana
not in any sense an extremist lie
knows 10 man North or South whose candid
statement he would sooner take. The letter
is one written in the ordinary course OF busi-
ness. but the subject, of which every Southern
mans heart is full, comes irresistibly to the sur
face 1t is simple but eloquent presentation
of the sentiments of those merchants OF the
South who feel the hands of the thievish local
politicians strengthened and sustained by the
crushing power of the Government
NEw-ORLEASs. Dee. H. 1871.
am moved. in consideration Of the peculiar ana
alarming condition OF affairs here to put you an coHa"F
OF what IS gong on. slip from daily, headed "Iho
situation" will give you idea ofwhat we are gong
through with now, which IS such an experience as L
pray God you in your section may never be called upon
TO endure. For the four past years our community
State and city, have struggled under State and CITY
Government, which the prOpeeiyholders ana TAX
payers had absolutely representation, but when was
composed mainly OF ignorant plantation negroes and
corrupt aud vicious whites. The monument OF their
msrule Is seen ia o State debt OF over SiOOOO.o0o
and city debt OF over s3oOc0Oo) with an
exhausted treasury Frustrated ttade, and creit at
the lowest ebb for the truth OF which rcer you 70 the
quota Louisiana securities Inc people 81" anu
felt all this and only buoyed mp in the present by
their hopes for the future. Last 9Th Of November was
looked forward the limit of their bondage and tie
period when, by a grand uprising, they could
unite the Conservative blacks with the Conserya-
tive whfcs, and overthrow the rule OF cortup-
ton ana iuaugurate government OF reform.
This was done most completely and thoroughly. by
popular nearly 22oOO lager than in the previous
election fully twords OF all the Conservative candi-
dates were elected, and We began 10 breathe more
freely. this stage Of aEarS an event occurred
which has precedent in the history OF this lind A
United states Judge OF immoral and disSOlute char
acIer, whom ] myself have seen Keeling through my
and abusing in bis drunken anger was found to
pandcr the lust for Office and undor OF the defeated
party and prostitute his high Office 20 their base pur
poses Without shadow Of right. and with scarcely
the forms Of law, he pronounccs the decision OF the
people of no eff ct and declares in spite Of the sworn
returns Of the Commissioners of Election that the negro
party Is elected HE sends Unted states troops to the
state House to protect usupers in their seats he
enions tue members Legislature from taking
their seats and t destroys at blow the liberties OF
State. Northern people do not realize and wI not
believe. what this But their turn must come.
The death OF the state OF Louisiana shows New-YOrk
that she mortal and all the conspiratOrs want is an
excuse. need hardly add that oil business is COM
pletely PROSTATE. We could not Dc idle in the
midst Of summer Every looks at his neighbor aud
says What nextp Every man with any money in his
pocket holds fast to 1t, for lac does not know when he
viii zee any more. our railroad enterprises toward
Texas which in active prosecution are arrested
Capitalists viii not advance dollar Louisiana Sc
curtict or invest their money in country whose Gov
ernment Is in the hands OF negro and white Adventures,
aud where every grant needed for the progress of their
roads would have be purchased through the Lcgish
ro al much head. Why VIII not Northern men In
the great financial centers that this state OF affairs
must react on them, aud demonstrate voice which
the Federal Government would be obliged to respect
something be done, the next four years will see
here ruined community where once was prosperity
and wealth