New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-06

| 00'' 'of -oou''tW 0ellDerately proceeds &c
convince its readers that the South is an
other Poland, and that the United States
has wrought upon us the same injuries
that Russia has inflicted upon the Poles.
The only difference it can point to is that
our punishment has endured but seven
years, while that Of Poland has continued
for well nigh century. And it concludes
with the reflection that federal usurpa-
ton and prescription are doing for the
South what the knout and the dungeon
accomplished for Poland. The seeds OF
inextinguishable hate are being sedulously
sown, the fruits of which will be reaped in
years to come in harvest which all can
imagine better than We can describe"
Is it not wicked to propagate such SLAM
derous Misrepresentation as the above
broadcast throughout the country under
the name of Democracy? Is it not repre-
hensible in the conductors of an able
newspaper to take advantage of its popu-
lar!ty and capacity as such to spread the
most fearful mental poison among its
| readers? There is not point Of resent
blance that can be legitimately established
and that Of Russia. Not a single one.
Our government banished nobody; it
killed nobody; it whipped nobody. Not
town was ravaged Or injured after the
rebellion was suppressed. Not dollars
worth Of property was coniscated after
the fighting was ended. No communities
were required to remove, no public meet
ings were disturbed, no religious assem-
blages were broken up, no language was
interdicted, no color was prescribed, no
hmentation was hushed Women and chill
dren, instead Of being whipped, bayoneted
Or banished, were fed by the government.
Disafected men, who fed the country,
were brought back by national vessels.
The United States even paid the expenses
Of the States while she held them up until
they could organize their own govern
ments. Property that the United States
had right to claim was rendered up to
its former owners, and debts that might
have been exacted We're not collected for
years. Schools were supported in various
places, and federal soldiers aided in pre-
serving the peace where the people were
overawed and trodden under foot by the
bummers Of the disbanded rebellion. In fact,
the contrast between our own and the
Russian government is as that of light to
darkness itself If any man can gainsay
this let him state his case, and our word is
engaged to demonstrate that his injury is
the exceptional one that proves the rule of
universal beneicence.
To falsely teach the people, then, that
they are the subjects of a despotism as
vile as that of Russia is crime against
truth and patriotism. If the lesson could |
be demonstrated no earthly reason would |
justify the South in submitting for day |
to such monstrous abuses. If it could be |
the North itself would re-
volt from the preparation of such OFT
wrongs; in fact the North would |
have to be fettered with irons before she |
would stand and see her neighbors thus
imposed upon. To spread these wicked |
abroad, then, is to iy in the |
face Of the plainest knowledge that is ap-
parent 10 the observant people The de-
sign of such editorials can only be to i'm
bue the weak and feeble with violent La- |
tired Of the nation. The intent is to pro- |
dUce that fearful cross OF evils which fu- !
ture ages are to reep in blood and desola-
ton.
If the CoUieT-Jowmal believed in what |
it says it would not dare to publish such |
a c;atr.Je, for the editor who should thus |
revile the government of Russia would |
fly into the caverns Of the earth to escape |
the wrath which lie would provoke. If LIE !
does not believe it, there is no censure too |
severe to be lavished upon the vickedness
which he prostitutes his intellect to ac-
complish.