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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09
THE TRUE SITUATION,

In renting the tariff question to the
people, the National Republican Conyen-
ton has solved question of great per-
plexity in very sensible and honest way.
The people are the direct and only arbi-
tiers in the matter, and it now becomes their
duty to say for themselves just what they
want One district in Louisiana desires a
tariff that will protect sugar and rice,
while another district desires that the duty
on these articles shall be fixed at revenue
instead Of a protective rate. These two
districts are united in sentiment on all
other issues, but are divided on this. Let
each elect the candidate that represents
its views, and whichever can succeed in
carrying its point by fair and honorable
argument in Congress, let that prevail. 1t
was never honest in any national conven-
ton to declare a given platform, and then
consent to accept candidates of different
way Of thinking, as was always the case
with both the parties in the past.
In the political contests before the war,
the national conventions Of the two parties
found their greatest difficulty in making
platforms that might be construed one way
at the North and another way at the South.
The Democrats and Wings both committed
this equivocation, that they declared set
of principles which could be interpreted
to mean one thing in Pennsylvania
and another in South Carolina. The men
at Cincinnati have reformed this practice
They have departed from this cheating
system and committed the issues of the
controversy to the people themselves. The
communities that favor protection can
now elect men Of their faith; the commu-
mites that favor a revenue tariff can elect
men OF their way of thinking, and the
communities that believe in free trade can
elect free traders. Mr.. Greeley is a pro-
tectionist, but he is pledged to abide bv
the verdict of the country upon this sub
ject as it shall be delivered at the hands of
Congress. The people are now truly to be
their own lawmakers in this matter, for as
they choose representatives, so will the
law be made. We shall not see one candi-
date running with one platform in Rhode
Island as a prOtectionist doctrine, while
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

necessitating OUTLAWS Of money which, in
common justice, can not be expected to
come from their pockets. Meanwhile the
unfortunate holders of city securities, the
school teachers who educate our children,
the policemen who protect our homes, the
day laborers who keep our streets and
bridges in repair, ETC., driven by the dire
necessities Of life to convert their paper
into ready money, will be forced to resort
to the second class, profting by the
non-tax-paying movement ring, the
Shylocks. These will know we'll how.to
make use of the occasion; how to enhance
the value of the ruinous services by which
the wolf is temporarily kept from the poor
mans door, only to return again more
rabid than before. Shylock may have the
ready money, or may not have ''quite
the sum convenient" but what of that
Tubal, rich merchant of his tribe,
capitalist who trades in city and State
securities, is always ready to advance
money upon good security; and better
security than the State and city is not to
be found. Accordingly, the small holders,
the poor, will be obliged to part with
their poor earnings, which the rich Tubals
will lock up in their strong boxes until the
time comes when they can get their money
back with usury. In this trade, wherein
the time and sweat of the poor man is
coined into gold for the rich mans profit,
who so active as the Shylocl1s? Who but
the shyster lawyers who have led the poor
into the trap?
To the benefit of these three classes,
then, the non-tax- paying movement will
rebound, namely, shysters, Shylocks and
Tubals All the rest of the community
will suffer by it.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09
EXEMPT FROM EXECUTION.

The amendment to article GA of the
Code Of Practice exempts personal pro-
perty to the amount of 5000 from execu-
ton. 1t is designed to protect poor peo-
pie who from misfortune or otherwise have
fallen into the hands of relentless credit
ors. Too frequently families have been
reduced to wretchedness and want, be-
cause of the insufficient protection which
the law has afforded them. This law can
not be regarded as favoring the dishonest.
Debt should not be encouraged in any
community. 1t is no kindness to a man to
extend him credit which may involve his
ruin, or to take credit. The cash basis in
dealing is always found the safest. No incu-
bus which human nature was ever called
upon to endure is equal in distress and
anguish to hopeless debt. Take away
the means Of torturing and distress
ing the poor, and you cure the
evil For this reason, as well as for
its commercial ACCESSIBILITY, the amend
ment will meet with the favorable con-
sideration Of the community. In many
of the Western States the homestead and
a thousand dollars Of the personal prop
erty are exempt from execution. The
system is found to work admirably. The
morally worthless" get no credit, while
the obligations Of personal honor, in the
absence Of legal remedies, stimulate those
to pay who can. Besides, the credit
system is not prevalent there. The petty
courts are not crowded with poverty
stricken wretches, trying to save from the
constable's grasp the little furniture and
household goods indispensable to the com
fort and maintenance of their families.
The same result will be found here. Credit
is a curse to The poor and an inconveni-
ence to the rich. The practice is the fruit
full source Of misery and discomfort
wherever it prevails.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09
LAW FOR THE LAWYERS.

Our estimable oracle, Judge Cotton,
who secured very valuable fees by mis-
leading the butchers into resisting the
slaughterhouse law, and his associate of
counsel, the equally estimable ex-Alder-
man Fellowes, who divided the fees with
him, are engaged in profound piece of
strategy against the taxpayers. They talk
of unconstitutional laws with the volu-
bility of mock auctioneers; they suggest
appeals from judgments with the facility
Of well oiled machinery, and promise any
amount of legal contention that the tax
payers may require, without once propos-
ing to contest their own cases. 1t is no
unfrequent matter to hear this thing dis
cussed in the street cars One man says
that Judge Cotton has promised to ''get
out supersedeas, and take the question
to Washington" Another says that Mr..
Cotton thinks a sarcheorary would
make the carpet-baggers git up and git "
Another proposes to escape through the
lattice work of an injunction, that Mr..
Cotton can construct and obtain in the
courts. Another has got the remedy
looked up ina ''writ of error to the United
States courts" The victims suppose if
they can once engage ina contest of indef-
mite duration and extraordinary costliness
they are safe. The same sort of promises
were made to the butchers about three
years ago, and the same sort Of talk was
heard at that time buzzed from one end
of the city to the other. Now, since Mr..
Fellowes has been intimidated with tax
bill Of three hundred dollars, why is not
that sufficient? Let him and Mr. Cotton
go to work on that and plaster it all over
with injunctions, certiorais, superce-
deases, writs Of error, appeals and other
legal .mJlniments and technicalities. IF
blacksmith breaks his hammer he mends
it himself shoemaker mends his own
boots; tailor repairs his pants; Mr..
Booth, We presume, wears his own hats.
Now, on the same principle, let Messrs.
OOOVOA anu = CA4OMC9 w CA4C4A O"A llN4h5'
They swear the taxes are unconstitu-
tional; let them prove it by contesting the
matter in their own names and at their
own expense, as they are lawyers and
should not only know how to do, but they
should be interested in doing it. Their
attempt to provoke lot of people to pay
them for doing what they ought to be
patriotic enough to do themselves is but
a strategy to obtain notoriety or profit.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09
sHYsrRRs AND sHYLooKs,

1t has already been made plain even to
the dullest comprehension that the ma
jority of the non-tax-paying revolution
lists, so far from profting pecuniarily by
the scheme in which they have engaged,
will lose by it; but it has not yet been
made sufficiently evident that what they
lose will go to enrich three classes whose
interests need not such fostering, namely:
Third-rate lawyers, .frst-rate brokers and
grasping capitalists The shysters will
give their cheap services in the first place
at their exact nothing; but will
soon feel called upon to convince their
clients that the proceedings have gone
farther than was originally contemplated,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Two years ago the Democrats of New
Orleans were told that Frank Blair was
the greatest and astutest man in the com-
try, and it was decided that his election to
the United States Senate from Missouri
was the greatest blessing that had hap
pened since the war. Now the same par
ties are told that it is dangerous to sup
port Greeley for the Presidency because
Frank Blair considered that he was the
best man to beat Grant with. Now, what
we wish to know is this Did the men who
said that Blair was great man believe
what they said, or did they merely indorse
him in order to practice fraud upon the
Democracy?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

In an editorial paragraph the Citizens
Guard says that the meeting Of tax re-
sisters was terrible to behold, and certain
of securing what it demands. In another
prominent notice it says that the meeting
was prompted and controlled by parties
who have selfish objects to effect On one
page it insists that the leaders of the
movement are honest; and in another it
informs us that these very leaders who
propose to resist the payment of the taxes
are secretly making bids to their dupes to
pay their taxes at seventy-fve cents on the
dollar. The reporter of the Guard is evil
IDENTIFY not well posted.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

another candidate In Illinois is running
with the same platform as free trade pro-
fession Of principles. We are all to decide
for ourselves what we want, with the ex-
press understanding that the viii Of the
majority is to decide the matter at issue
This is repubicanism, for it is truly the
rule of the people.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

j. Q. A. Fellowes is a model reformer
and conservator Of public morals He
publicly proposes to defeat obnoxious laws
by bribing attorney generals and courts"
to decide as he and his associates would
have them. His cunning hint that the
purchase money might be repudiated after
service had been obtained displays, with
the first suggestion, traits of mind and
character that would wonderfully fit him
for some important public trust. VIII
not the people plant this blooming shrub
of reform in some high station?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

And now comes Pierre Durham, of No. 395
Bumaine street, between Miro and Galvez
streets. who confesses that he paid 81 %
for ticket in the Louisiana State Lottery,
at the Office of L. Vessier, No. II Ursulines
street, witch drew one-fourth of the capital
prize of $4,000. What he bought was a one
fourth combination ticket, Nos. 10, IL, 80,
class lO8. The lucky winner declares that
the amount was promptly paid to him on
presentation Of the ticket at the Office Of the
company.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The stockholders Of the Mechanics and
Agricultural Fair Association, of Louisiana,
have elected the following board of direc.
tors for the ensuing year. l. n. Marks, c. H.
Slocomb, n. E. Bailey, James jackson,
William B. Schmidt, Lafayette FOlger, Am.
Fortier, A. w Merriam, E. NJ. Russia, E.
A. Tyler, C. A. Miltenberger, G. w. Dun
bar. G. A. Breaux, John Geddes, George
w. Garner, Williamson Smith, w. A. Shrop.
shire, Joseph L. Harris, j. L. Gubernator,
f. Wing, ]. A. Blaffer
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09
A CARD.

NEW ORLEANS, May 7, 1872.
The undersigned certifes that he was the holder
of One-quarter combination ticket Nos 10, II, 49,
Glass l08, in the Louisiana State Lottery
which drew the capital prize of $4,000, on Monday
May g. 1872, said ticket having cost the sum
of one dollar and twenty-five cents, at the office
of L. Vesser, No II UrsuHnes street, and that the
amount was promptly paid on presentation of the
ticket at the office of the company.
PIERRE DURHAM,
No. 1895 Dumaine street, between Miro and Galvez.
my9 Ii
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The Citizens Guard, owned and manip-
ulated by federal tax collector and Gus
tomhouse employees of various ranks and
degrees, declares with sublime impudence
that there absolutely is no rottenness
save in State, city and county administra-
tons" We only are pure, cry the imma-
culate tenants of the great Canal street
granite quarry, and with ingenious after
thought add : There is no corruption to
point ont :"
But the climax of absurdity in the as
founding article in yesterdays Guard
from which we quote, is found in the clos
ing declaration that "for honesty and
purity, Grants administration has been
unparalleled IN oar recent history" Or, in
other words, Grants appointees take great
credit upon themselves for not stealing so
much as did Andy Johnson's whisky, to-
bacco and sugar rings, or defraud the pub
lie SO outrageously and yillainously as did
the shoddy and other contractors during
the first five years of the war
We submit if drawing blood from tur-
nip is not a simple and highly philosophic
experiment in contrast to the extraction
of comfort from so odorous comparison.
Yet the Customhouse organ does the thing
with blandness that would shut Ah-Sin's
almond eyes with envy and disgust.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

George A. Sheridan, State tax collector of
the First District of New Orleans, notifies
parties interested that on and after the
tenth instant the law will be enforced with
the utmost rigor against all tax bills and
licenses remaining unpaid.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Looking back ten years, as the Guard
requests us to do we find Greeley just
where he is at present, working with
might and main to get rid of bad officer
for a good one. That is about the size of
the retrospect, we believe.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Our double-barreled, but weakly charged
contemporary, yclepted the Bee in Eng
ish and PAbeiUe in French, says the nomi-
nation Of Horace Greeley is a real farce.
So much in its favor, it will have a success
full run.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

On Saturday next, at one o'clock, the
members of the Republican State Central
Committee are requested to assemble at
their rooms No. 16 Dryades street. A full
attendance is specially desired. See Presi-
dent Pinchback's call.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Administrator Delassize, who has re-
Gently returned from Cincinnati, states
Mr.. Greeley everywhere appeared to excite
the greatest enthusiasm. He gives a
glowing account of the reception Of the
delegates.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Lena c. Golden, of Auburn, New York.
since Christmas day, 1869, has made up
button string twenty feet long, composed of
1850 buttons. The sad event has cast
gloom over the community, which has gen
orally adopted hooks and eyes.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Pending the discussion of the postofice
appropriation bill in the United States Sen
ate Friday, Senators were engaged in read
ing dispatches from Cincinnati. A motion
was made to adjourn. The witty Senator
from Louisiana, Mr.. Kellogg, said, accord
ing to the Globe report: 81 have just heard
of the death of an eminent journalist
[laughterl and suppose the motion to adj
iOurn was on that account"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The sheriff of the parish of Orleans sells
at auction this day, at noon, at the Mer-
chants and Auctioneers' Exchange, Royal
street, Judgment for one thousand dollars,
with interest and costs. See advertise
ment,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Porte Crayon relates that when pupil
of Professor Morse, and by accident not
enabled to pay his tuition at the proper
time, it came out that Morse was so near
starvation that he acknowledged not to
have eaten for twenty-four hours. Our
"Chawles Augustuses" do not go hungry
because they haven't the means to pay.
They will take board with some poor widow
fret
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The prime minister of the Feejee Islands
has gone to Australia for the purpose of ne
gotiating a loan. The securities offered
are $500 fat prisoners, in prime condition
for eating
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The Citizens Guard has just discovered
what the REPUBLICAN published about six
weeks ago, that the attempt Of certain par
ties to induce the people to resist the col
lection of taxes was based upon dishon-
esty. A ring of spectators who proposed
to buy warrants and certificates of indebt-
edness adopted this method of depreciat-
ing that class of securities. If they had
succeeded the price of warrants would
have been reduced to fly cents, at which
price they would have bought them up.
Then the cuurts would have enforced the
collection of the taxes, and the price of
warrants would have gone up to ninety
cents on the dollar, leaving clear profit
to the brokers of forty cents on the dollar
And the people did not have sense enough
to see through the game, even after we
pointed it out to them; and the Guard was
so slow of comprehension that it has but
now fathomed the plot which the REPUB-
LIcAN sounded six weeks ago. This is a
weak world.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09
Mr., PELTOWEs CAN RE- HBARD.


Every sense Of justice and decency
demands that the foul accusations
which are daily made against the Cover
nor by his political opponents, be brought
to the test of truth. Vague and general
newspaper accusations may generally es-
cape such an ordeal, but we now have one
made by a seemingly responsible party,
that the public welfare imperatively de-
mands shall not be permitted to pass un-
tried or uninvestigated The Bee makes
the assertion that J. @. A. Fellowes de-
clared to the ''tax-resisters that "Gover-
nor Warmoth had received 5000, 900, be-
sides large amount of stock, for signing
the Ievee bill, and that he could adduce
proof of his charge This is what we, as a
supporter of his excellency, and in behalf
of the entire people as public Journalist,
demand Of him to do. Providing he is
faithfully reported, Mr.. Fellowes has
criminally withheld information of the
highest public Importance, and by his re-
t4CCuCO ueto ttCto u tiStftCo w I'LL
immense fraud upon his fellow-citizens, or
he has falsely and maliciously DETAINED
high public functionary in way calcu-
lated to;result in serious loss and discredit
to the State through her finances.
Mr. Fellowes has no right to withhold
the information he claims to possess, and
we call upon the grand jury to bring him
to proof If one claiming to be public
instructor and champion of the people has
willfully and mendaciously slandered a
prominent official, it should be made
known, that all may be properly guarded
against him in future; if he tells but what
is true, let him prove equally eager to
enforce the law against a wrong-doer as
he is to defend those he counsels to be-
come law resisters.
We assert that his published aceusa-
tons against Governor Warmoth are false
hoods, and challenge him to the produc-
ton of the least substantiatory evidence,
throwing our columns open to him for its
PRONUNCIATION, if any he has.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Hon. Anthony Fernandez, one of the
earliest and most consistent Republicans
a veteran of the battle of Chalmette-did
us the homer of a call at the editorial rooms
of the REPUBLICAN yesterday. He supports
the nomination Of his old friend, Horace
Greelev
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

King Victor Emanuel has subscribed a
large sum for the erection of a monument
TO Savonarola, and several communes have
followed his msjestys example.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

State Auditor Graham writes this note to
the Times In your edition of this morn
ing, /, with others, ain described as being
embarrassed by the recent nomination of
Horace Greeley. So far as am concerned,
this is an error. From the moment that l
heard of Mr.. Greeley's nomination, deter
mined to support it."
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Figaro, Paris publication, has been sued
by Trocbu for styling him ''Tartufe with
Maugin's helmet on"-the French way of
calling man a Muggins.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

At the Chase parlOr concert last night, at
Odd Fellows Hall, Mr.. ]. H. Taylor, of the
United States sub-treasury, held No. 768
and drew the Chickering piano. Lucky
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The Administrator of Finance invites
posals for the sale to the city of eight wharf
Improvement bonds, until Monday, the
twentieth instant, at IL A. NJ.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The New York Mail, speaking of life in
surance, calls to mind woman who drew
$4,000 on the death of her first husband,
and $4,000 on the death of her second
snoura
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The mint at Carson during the past three
months assayed over two millions OF gold
and silver.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The Picayue declares the Democratic
Shreveport Times a Warmoth organ be-
cause, if forced to choice, it says it pre-
fers a Warmoth alliance to one with
Grant. May we not with equal logic,
then, set down the Pic as a Grant organ
Ku-klux md enforcement bills considered
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Brokers who urge the people in public
to resist the tax collector, and then pri-
vately propose to pay the taxes oftheir dupes
at discount of twenty-five cents on the
dollar, are somewhat discounted that
they do not find the price Of warrants 60
down nor the taxpayers prompt to accept
their offers. This little game is almost
played out.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

Mount Vesuvius is wanted fer the Boston
Jubilee. The Bostonians would give any
thing for a drop of the crater.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The "Green Monster" this evening, at the
st. Charles Theatre, for the last time' and
sRobert Macaire" for the first time.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

President Finney, Of Oberlin College, has
started out on lecturing tour against
Freemasonry, and asserts that he will not
cease speaking until every Masonic lodge in
the country has disbanded. If ne holds to
hisEwOrd he will only be a middle-aged man
three or four centuries hence.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-09

The genial spring weather is bringing
the centenarians out from their winter
hibernations as lively as crickets. Poodle
Thomas, of Delaware county, Pennsyl-
vania, is one of the first in the field this
season. She is 1O4 years of age, and can
chop and split her two cords Of knitting
work day with regularity and precision.