The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-25
A BUSINESS VIEW OF TIE CONDITION.
OF LOUISIANA.

How the Will Of the Majority Wal
Overrfdden by q Dlssoluto Judge-A
Richsa nd<Fowerfuls Commonwealth
at thes1Ysrcy. Of q Pack Of Plunder-
srs-Tnes Observation-Disclosures VI
The New York Tribune publishes the follow
ing letter from a business mana citizen OF
New Orleans. he portrays the serious injury
inflicted upon the enterprise and thrift of the
part Of the republic In which he lives, by the
political disorder that prevails there. Conf
dence, enterprise and industry have no sym.
patty with anarchy, and make no Roadway
| where barbarian and r~ascallty hold sway.
Peace, order, the rule of honesty and intelll-
gence, are the auspices under which men are
| stimulated to exertlon, and business pros
pers. When our rulers respect by their mea.
sures these maxlms, the nation will 60 on
rapidly to the highest condition OF prosperity,
force and dignity; but not until them The
| writer of the letter ia vouched for az q man OF
the highest personal standing-not q politi-
| clan and not an extremist:
NEW ORLEANS, December IL, 1872.
I am moved, in consideration oil the pecu-
| liar and alarming condition OF affairs here, to
| put you au courant of what lie going on. A slip
from a daily, headed 1.-THE Situation, will give
| you an Idea of what we are going 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 on under q State and city govern
ment in which the property-holders and tax.
payers had absolutely no representation, but
which was composed mainly OF Ignorant plan
tation negroes n corrupt and vicious whites.
State debt of over $40, 600. 900, and q city debt
of over $50, 000, 200, with an exhausted freasu'
nv. a FRUSTRATED trade, and q credit al, the low.
cal ebb, for the truth of which I refer you to
the quotations of Louisiana securities. The
people saw and felt all this, and were
only buoyed up In the present by thelr
hopes for the future. Last Az OF NO
their bondage, and the period when, by q
grand uprising, they could unite the Conser-
VatIve blacks with the Conservative whites,
and overthrow the rule Of corruption and In
augurate q government OF reform. THIS was
done most completely and thoroughly. BY q
popular vote nearly $4,000 larger imam ~ tne
prevIens election fully two-thirds Of all the
Conservative candidates were elected, and We
began 10 breathe more freely. But at this
stage of affairs an event occurred which has
no precedent iu the history OF this land. A
United States Judge, Of an immoral and DISCO
lutte character, whom I myself have seen reel
ing through my store and abusing us IN nls
drunken anger, was lonna 10 panoet 70 tas
lust for office and plumber to the defeated
party, and prostitute bis high office to their
base purposes. Without g shadow Of right,
and With scarcely the forms OF law, he pro-
nounces the decision of the people OF no
effect, aud declares, In spite OF the sworn re.
turns Of the commissioners OF elecllop, mat
the negro party is elected. He sends United
States troops to the Statehouse 70 pro.
tect the usurpers In their seats; he en-
Joins the members Of the true legislature
from taking their seats, aud thus destroys, ut
one blow, the liberties Of our State. North.
ern people do not realize, and will not be-
lleve what this means. But their turn must
come. The death of the State OF louisiana
shows New York that che Is mortal, and all
the congpirators want 10 an excuse. l need
hardly. add that1 all business isr completely
midst of summer. Every! man looks ct his
neIghbor and Gays, "What next" Every
man with any money In his pocket holds fast
to It, for he does not know when he will see
sny more. Our railroad enterprises toward
Texas, which were III active prosecution, are
Capitalists will not advance a dol
lar on Louisiana securities, or Invest their
money In q country whose government Is In
the hands of negro End white adventurers.
and where every grant needed Tor the pro-
gress of their roads would have 10 be pur-
chased through the legislature al 30 much a
head. Why will not Northern men, In the
great financial centres see that this state OF
affairs must react on them, and demonstrate
In q voice which the Federal Government
would be obliged to respect! Something must
be done or the next four years will see here q
ruined community where. once was prosperity