New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-06
WHAT lie sIaNs INDICATE.


are in active sympathy with the people Of
all North Louisiana, just as New Orleans
is in active sympathy with the people Of
South Louisiana. An identity of interest
has produced an identity of thought, and
the result is seen in the movement which
organizes the entire conservative strength
of the commonwealth to effect nomina-
ton in favor of the State, similar to that
which the same identity Of interest and
thought organized at Cincinnati in behalf
of the nation at large. The demand for
reform, which is the demand Of every po-
liiical party, now comes from the people
themselves, not only in favor Of change
| of administration, but in favor Of change
| of parties. The State has suffered until
she can bear it no longer, and despairing
of relief from the agencies which she has
hitherto looked to, the people assert their
disposition to make this year such COM
bination as will help them. They have
been promised immunity from plumber
by every man and by every party, and
yet they have been cheated year after
year until they can tolerate cheating
no further The Republicans so-called,
who now support General Grant and
Senator Kellogg, solemnly pledged them
selves to economy and enmity to monopo-
lies, and yet they wasted the public moneys
and created close corporations for every
interest in the State The Democrats
promised to defeat these schemes, and
failed for want Of strength With corrup-
ton eating them up and inability vainly
striving to beat it back, the people either
had to be consumed or they had to look
for assistance 10 some other quarter than
in the Democratic camp. Governor War
moth offered them the aid they sought He
volunteered to strengthen the cause Of
right and justice, provided the people
would do right and be just themselves.
They made their own misfortune by
their prejudices against race Of people
with whom it was their necessity to live,
and toward whom it was their duty to be
liberal This was the cause of their de-
feat and depression. They were so
deeply involved in this wrong, both
in Louisiana and in all the other
States, that they had to devise a new
leverage wherewith to lift themselves out of
the pit into which they had fallen. Their
errors had so strengthened the party in
power that it no longer needed to be hon |
est to be successful, and it gradually fell |
into corrupt practices and despotic ac-
tons. A spontaneous protest of the peo-
pie was the result. The country clamored |
for change 1t sought to get rid Of the
party, but it refused to trust |
the work of salvation to the Democracy, |
b ecause it doubted the result. The people |
had tried that remedy four times, and had |
failed to effect the cure they wanted, and
like sick man who has satisfied himself |
that one medicine will not cure him, de-
nands another, they asked for a new
helper. The Cincinnati convention offered
10 do the work which the Democracy had
allied to perform, and in their sore dis
ress the people have consented to accept
he help that thus unexpectedly came to
heir relief Men who have hated Mr..
4reeley for forty yearss are now his most
rdent supporters, because from being
heir opponent he has strangely come to
'e their friend.
As it was in the nation so it is in the
tate. The people Of Louisiana felt dis
outraged at their condition. The way
-as dark before them. The party that
-as admitted to be in the majority was
incompetent to administer the
overnment honestly, or else it was disin-
lined to do so. Instead of improving it
rev worse. In the midst Of this uncer-
.inty and darkness Governor Warmoth
ED out helping hand to those who
God COMPOUNDED at the dreary prospect
lat the future presented He only asked
return for his assistance that what good
! had done should be guaranteed from
,struction by those whom he had OPP
,sed when their success was accom-
n5hed. He told the people that he pro-
sorg to deliver them from their oppres-
anoaoan he could only do so upon the
onnressors that they would not become l
demanded aheir hour Of triumph. He !
pestv The marty in return for am l
be forgotten in the of the past were to
Whoever worked in ty of the present.
ton should be rewarded2bor Of saliva
services. riding to his s
The news from Shreveport is G
to this offer, as the news from B35,nsWer S
will be the answer to the offer from ore 4
,innati. The people of Louisiana intel T
10 accept Governor Warmoth as the people r
Of the United States intend to accept
Mr. Greeley. We can assume this much |
from the lights before US at present. The
swell of public sentiment is already felt in
twenty different parishes and it will rise as
he day Of the August convention draws
nigh. And why should it not? Why do
tioneople consent to this strange revolu-
Warmotb 9use they know that Governor
most extent of 'ih6I III 'hem TO the ut
tween the pnb,io lower. He stood be-
enemies with a courage thai u Us greedy
his existence as an officer H len periled
oohe all that he would have done ba not