New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-05

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the city, but there is a disagreement or
dissatisfaction existing among citizens OF
the same city One neighbor has appa-
| rently been preferred to fill public posi-
| ton which another covets, and the whole
| town is to be thrown into confusion in con-
| sequence. There was time perhaps when
wicked men were able to lord it over their
fellow citizens by threats to appeal to I'M
lawful force. But it will be found, if the
| trial is ever made, that it is so no longer.
| Too many interests are concerned in the
preservation of law and order to permit
| the dominance of mob rule Yet it is
gravely contemplated to make the attempt
to organize tumult in the hope of fright
ening the lawful government of this State,
! backed and supported as it is by its mill
tia and police forces, to say nothing of
volunteers who are ready to come forward,
| and by the United States troops, into sur
rendering its authority into the hands of
men whose only title consists in their
itching desire for Office.
But one result can follow this expected
movement, and that is failure. The poll
| ticians will fail to install themselves into
| the coveted offices. The timid man of
| business who hopes for increased profits
from his coerced acquiescence in the riot
Gus proceeding will only meet with further
loss by depression of trade. For the very
object and intent of the malccntents is to
defeat great movement in which nearly
all the people of the North and two-thirds
of those of the South are thoroughly en-
listed. These bad men have appealed to
all the legal modes Of settlement. They
first tried the ballot box, with fraud as a
powerful auxiliary, and failed. They then
rushed into the State courts, where failure
again met theW They then removed one
| Of the State judges, and this brought them
face to face with a federal Judge whom
they could not remove, where they were
defeated again. From thence they ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court at Washing
| ton, where their usual luck attended them.
Finding defeat staring them in the face
on every hand committee was appointed
to go to Washington, but for what pur-
pose never clearly appeared. At all events
they took nothing by their motion.
The same party that has sustained the
war through all these stages now appeals
to a people one-half of whom are opposed
to them on principle, and more than half
of the remainder have no interests in SYM
pathy with them, to leave their business
and come to Lafayette square for the pur-
pose of effecting by force what they have
failed to achieve by strategy, The chest
citizens" are coolly asked to neglect their
other business to stand between the Office
seekers and the ministers of the law. If
a policeman attempts to arrest rowdy,
an old citizen, perhaps a bank or insur-
ance president, is expected to be on hand
to interpose his person to th%art the
Radical hireEng." If a federal bayone5
shall be pointed menacingly at one of the
Exposition Hall statesmen, a respectable
grocer is expected to make target of his
body to avert the calamity. Not only is per-
sonal service thas required, but the greedy
fellows actually require their defenders to
appear on the scene of conflict with con-
tributions in their hands enough, at all
events, to buy benzine for their proteg es.
This is the dance the people OF this city
are invited to take hand in. But not a
man of all the aspiring crowd can point
to single advantage to be gained, even if
an impossible success were to crown their
efforts.
Upon the whole we think there will be
very general disposition manifested on
the part Of the invited guests to mind
their own business. There will be wisdom
and safety in such a course, for we can as
sure all concerned that the most ample
preparation has been made to take care
of those who will be unable to take proper
care of themselves. The Republicans are
quite as much in earnest as their enemies
are, and will neither surrender their rights
nor permit reign of terror without tax
ing d hand in the froTic.