New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-27
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Of the account in the case referred to by
us some time ago-1872 VS.. 1862, in ac-
count-we are required to bring forward
the credit side.
The ten years that have passed away
have taken with them certain abuses,
which we would not have return, though
they came laden with the $50, 100000
which ON" 50 persistently and falsely
asserts to be the State debt. We are much
happier and freer as a people without
them, notwithstanding the enemies Of the
State have made US pay dearly for their
expulsion.
We have banished forever, as we hope,
the power to reinaugurate the reign Of ter
ror known as the Know Nothing riots. Our
streets have not been drenched with. blood
of unoffendipg Irishmen and Germans on
the eve of any election since Governor
Warmoth has been ruling the destinies of
the State. The Mayor of the city, or the
commissioner Of elections has not been
knocked down at the polls with brass
knuckles and the offender let 60 without
even arrest. The disgraceful scenes of
1858, when Beauregard and Shth were
running for Mayor have not been re-
peated during the four years that War
moth has been Governor. The holding
of a. constitutional convention at Mechan-
les Institute by gentlemen claiming to
have the authority to do so has not been
seized upon as a pretezt to murder two
or three hundred negroes il cold blood by
the police. Business men have not been
locked up in the parish prison ''as vag-
rants" for being suspected of abolitionism,
nor have they been ordered out of town,
nor rode on rails, nor threatened with such
indignities because they happened to en-
terrain independent political notions
The threats to hang men 'to the near
est lamp-post" have lost their dreadful
significance and now only raise laugh
at the expense of the idiot that talks such
reasonable nonsense.
The negroes have the right given them
by law to vote for their rulers. And they
enjoy freely the coro.lary right to discuss
the merits Of men and measures. There
fore, talking politics with negroes" is no
lon .er deemed "incendiary'' conduct The
term 'tampering with negroes" has lost
It's fatal significance. The administration
of criminal law by colored jurors makes
it risky pastime to ''kill a niger" just for
the fun of the thing.
These changes have been effected by
the 'infernal pack" as Mr.. Ellis chival-
rously and elegantly terms the Repub-
leans. When he burjeS them all in that
great ditch" which Of course he will dig
when Brott finishes the Ship island canal,
we shall have a return to the good old
times, the halcyon days, with a complete
restoration of all the privileges so unhap-
PLY abolished by Governor Warmoth and
the internal pack"
Now this is just what we are deter
mined shall not be done We do not
want to see two-thirds Of the people of
this State ground beneath the heel Of
their lordly oppressofs. We do not care
if it costs us debt large enough to swamp
every soda shop, confscate every house
and lot and every plantation in the State
Louisiana shall be free, in the fullest and
proudest sense Of the phrase Human
liberty is of much more Importance in the
scale than the interests Of a few rich men
who dare not give a true account Of the
manner in which they made their money.
Now, while the Liberal Republicans
dislike the Radicals, or the Customhouse-
Grant party, they hate the Bourbons and
dare not let them come again into power.
The Radicals would probably be over eX-
trayagant, but they would protect all in
the enjoyment Of personal liberty. The
Last Ditchor5 would be equally as ex raw
agant, or more SO, while their bigotry
would drive peaceable citizens from the
State. II will be absolutely unsafe for
any well known Republican to live in New
Orleans if the united State ticket is elected.
Therefore, the platform Of the Liberal
convention must provide for reform upon
a Republican basis, or we viii have none
of it. That convention must select well
known and tried Republicans to admin
lister the laws, or we viii have none Of
them. While we go as far as the most
ultra in demanding retrenchmeut in ex-
peuses and reform in all abuses, we do
not surrender one iota Of our Republican
ism nor consent TO the selection of life
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