New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-27

Republican in the State would have been
hunted down as "hireling," and the very
air itself would have been impregnated
with terror and violence. And yet there
are men, who pretend to be Republicans
who fell into this Democratic device out
of pure enmity to Governor Warmoth
Verify, the language of reform has been
abused to cheat our senses with. Verify,
strategy had we'll nigh won victory where
it has been beaten so often in an open
fight Let us be thankful for the result
THE BEE AND THE NORTHERN PRESS.
The Bee, having just been engaged IN an
unsuccessful attempt to break up the Re
publican party of this State, and turn over
the government to the tender mercies of
the Democracy, now flies fiercely to the
defense of Republican principles, and de-
clares that their great enemy is the Cover
nor. Our contemporary is evidently dis
satisfied with the tone of its Northern eX-
changes. The New York Tribune, San
and Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the
Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and
Chicago papers, either do not read the Bee,
or they refuse to accept its statements as
evidence in the serious matter of State at
fairs. In such little local trifes as the French
opera-the good and bad qualities ola cargo
Of French wine, or fruits in juice, or "a
Sunday base ball match, or target excur-
sion, the Bee is still entitled to be consid-
cred respectable authority, but in the
discussion of great principles that effect
the well being of the State and nation,
neither its facts or conclusions are ac-
cepted by the best informed Northern
press.
The enlightened Northern editors can
see at glance that the Bee is seldom or
never in proper condition of mind to
state case fairly, in which it is interested,
either from prejudice or a less commenda-
BILE incentive. 1t is not strange, therefore
that it is usually ignored, passed over in
silence, and the views of fairer-minded
journals accepted instead.
This course of the Northern press has
driven the Bee into a sort of rehash Of all
the exploded and baseless charges that
have crowded the opposition papers of this
State, ever since it became apparent that
the real people were determined to take
their affairs into their own hands, and no
longer suffer the insolence and expressions
of their late taskmasters.
We may safely admit that our recent
troubles have not sprung out of latent
spirit of enmity to the United States. But
it has sprung out of an active desire on
the part of those who lost their political
influence and official positions, in conse-
quence of their former hostility to the
Union, to reinstate themselves in the high
places and chariots of State, in which
they may again ride at ease roughshod
over the people. Although this class is in
the minority, numerically speaking yet
those who compose it know well the art of
making up in strategy what they lack in
votes. The history Of this State, as re-
corded in the daily journals, is full of in
stances Of minority ruling by force. We
have read in the daily papers of this city,
years before the war, that the people were
controlled by minority, and that the
officials owed their places to dark
''lantern, ''wigwam" strategy. We know
that without the active assistance OF
friendly white men, the black people Of
Louisiana would stand no chance for the
legal rights guaranteed them by the con-
stitution, even though they outnumbered
the superior race" three to one. 1t be-
came, therefore, necessary to strengthen
the Republican party here by placing in
the hands of its leader, and the steadfast
friend of the colored people, Governor
Warmoth, the power to protect them. This
protection was and is needed in every
walk of life. In the courts, in the
markets, on the hustings, at the ballot
box-everywhere the oppressor met them.
The laws passed for the protection Of these
supplemented people stand in degree of ex-
ecration, in the minds of 'the people" rep
resented by the Bee and the Times, second
only to the Ku-Klux laws of Congress. Both
are cited in the same breath as evidences
of despotism, desire on the part of the
government of the nation and State to
crush whole people with tyranical laws.
The right to beat Niger is regarded by
some Of our modern reformers as sacred
and inalienable, any interference with
which by the government is despotic and
intolerable.
And for defending the rights Of the col
ored race, and calling to his assigtance the
services Of white Republicans, Governor
Warmo.h has been assailed as a usurper
and consorter with disreputable charac-
ters. The Bee, however, reluctantly adj
mits that he secured the countenance and
assistance of many influential citizens
This is true. Many Democrats who have
acquiesced in the great political changes
wrought by the war, are acting in good
faith, and refuse to keep up a wicked per-
secution. For this they are also assailed
and their motives impugned. The courts
interpret the laws as they find them, and
hence are called corrupt. In short, every
body and everything that refuses to bow
down to the spirit Of intolerance is made
the subject of villfcation and abuse.
And this is done in the name of Repub-