New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-03
uN1usT AND INJURIOUS.

space upon tQe tcuy"''o eu1AA eAo Ava w Va
its views seems to demand. This undue
attention has been given because the
course of that paper has tended to en-
bitter one section against another, and to
create g hostility toward our city. 1t has
certainly furnished rival merchants else
where material for Misrepresentation
highly injurious to our commerce. 1t has
besides isolated our people and interests
from American sympathies, and disposed
Congress to disregard the claims of Lou
isiana for consideration and relief. In the
course Of the Picayuae, though assuming
to represent our merchants, there is APP
parently no thought Of New Orleans. 1t
raises here the flag Of an elsewhere ex-
tinct sentiment Of hostility to the Union.
1t attempts to redraw the lines between
sections that were soldered together by
the blasts of war. Sections which neither
wish nor will be permitted to separate.
Sections which have been SO overlaid
and subordina.ed in the great growth OF
the country, that they are no longer re-
garded as political divisions. 1t has been
shown that the Confederate States do not
sanction this endeavor to prejudice all the
world against them. The border States
of the South have accepted the obligations
of a renewed Union. They invite every
dollar and every man from abroad, with
out regard to his antecedent opinions.
Practical Georgia is again reinstated. She
has scaled her debt to responsible STAN
dard, and has paid her interest coupons
Poor Carolina is powerless to impress her
opinions upon any one. She is under
the control of Union majority, and those
who once represented her very peculiar
opinions, social and political, have dis
persed. Some of them have sought
the fat of the Northern land, others re-
main to resow the seeds of chronic dis
content which Injuries no one save those
from which they are dissent
mated. The last attempt to revive the
strife of fossilized sections is in distinc-
ton taken by the Picayne between North
ern and Southern "honour'- the word
was spelled under the administration of
Walpole. This has provoked a reply
from the Washington Chronicle. The
position of the P:coyune. as understood
by the Chronicle, seemed a very broad
one. 1t included the frailty of man and
woman. 1t broadly affirmed that the
moral standard of Northern people was
lower than that of the Southern people.
The Chronicle therefore retorts:
Those of US who have observed the man.
ners and bearing Of their representative
men at Washington have noticed that as
many of them were hard drinkers, gamb.
lers, profane, greedy, lewd and officially
corrupt az could be found among an equal
number of the representative men from
the North. And no greater proportion Of
them were distinguished for industry.
culture, patriotism and wisdom. An
examination of the official records will
prove that quite as many Of their officials
were defauiters as from any other section.
In this we understand the Chronicle to
refer to the ante-war record. to include
not merely the exceptional Southern Con-
gresham who formerly practiced the
vices alluded to. but the list Of defaulters
under past administrations, including even
the famous company Of defaulting regis
tiers and receivers which caused the ex-
pulsion of the Democratic party from
power. We apprehend the allegation
will be found true. The Picayune would
evade the force of reply by assuming the
Chronicle to refer to the representatives of
the South "since the war" It Indignantly
says:
Representative men a: Washington
Who have been the Representatire men Of
the Southern States at Washington since
the late warl Why-carpet-bagg and
scalawags- the fetid scum
the fOul-poisonOus putrescene of both
sections of the Intoxicating on the pc.
litical tide, and followed. as ravens follow
dead carcasses.
Here is a deliberate assertion that all
the Southern men who have accepted seats
in Congress or places under the executive
belong to that category described by the
Chronicle. The logic is inevitable The
Chronicle claims that. as many of the
Southern representative men at Washing
ton are disreputable. so Of Northern rep
men. The Picay,u,e classes
all the Southern men who have been the
of the South at Washing
ton since the war as constituting 1.-THE
fetid scum. the foul. poisonous putres-
cence." with the rather cloudy metaphor
that it is Floating on the political tide.
and followed as the ravens follow dead
carcasses.' This wholesale ;mputation
upon Southern ''honor" is worse than the
qualified claim of the Chronicle, that they
are no better. in proportion to numbers.
than other people. But does the P;cayune
seriously say that al! the representatives
and those who have filed foreign missions
from the South are of the class which it
stigmatises as infamous? Such is the
logical inference. Yet it has not MAIN
tanned its whole proposition. for some Of
these bad men are Southern men. and its
was that such men do not exist
at the South. Yet were not some Of these
men reared. honored and promoted at the
South: Did not Mr.. Alcorn, Of Mississippi
pi, and the late Mr.. Orr. minister to Rus
STA. enjoy the highest regulations. and
one Of them high representative honors
at Washington: The recoil Of this ex-
ample upsets the argument. The Pica-
l.. Il: