New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-04
WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY so BEFORE 2"

which terminates IN the above chorus
One stanza depicts the misfortune
Of party, who, returning home late a
night, is beset by ruftian who knock
him down, and is greatly enraged at find
ing but ten cents on his person To tn
complaints of the party assaulted the of
fender. retorts the inquiry: ''Why didn.
you say SO before?"
This choral inquiry woul4 come in yer,
| appropriately, when the New Orleans
Times, which has been playing shady al
summer, determines to take any part in {
conflict in which the welfare CT Louisiana
was at stake, went below to study the charts
in her cabin and left the political tiller te
! Roustabout. Now that the conflict i.
.aG!ed and tho most formidable eombatant
! The Picay,tste. haS announced that il mus
strike soT want OF sfnmUEitior. she New
Orleans Times appears in the ofing
Changing the metaphor 60 o land combat.
! The 2.,naes strides in with the valos Of
/: Fals.af. (: avoids boosting G: its ode.
se,:ioH." and proceeds:
J BOUNDS! ! am afrsid % sias suapowde-
I Percy. though Ie be dead: therefore, Iii
! make him sure, yea, and I'll swear / killed
I him. Why may he not rise as we'll as T.
Therefore. sirrah tstabbing him in this case
I with penn with q new wound in YOUR
thigh, come you along vita Me-, .akes Hot
spur OF his back.
We can no: pursue sh;s very tempting
paral!eI without quoting che whole scene,
but, as the book-revieveys axe fond OF
saying, can not resist this.
FA5taff-There is Percy t.:rcwir. che
body DOWN. II your father 10 Prince Hall
will 30 me any honor. so; Il not let hin!
kill the nexe Percy him self. look 90 be
either earl or duke, assure you.
Here the EE9UBLscAa cones IN Is
Prince Hal
Why, Percy, I killed sim N!sslf. aad saw
thee dead.
1Tmes-Didsr thous Lord. Lord. how
shis world is given to lying. grant you,
was down, and SO was he; but we rose,
both in an instant, and ought long hour
by the Shrewsbury clock. If may be be-
lieved, 30. II not, let them that should re-
ward valoE bear the Sin upon sheiS own
heads.
We have nos varied with the P;cayme
tos che advertisements. but because we
deemed its counsels disastrous 90 the very
cause 1t espousea We believed il was
directed to yenew the doctrine OF nullif.
cation, and sectional confederation in
New OTleans after they had been
crushed out and starved out in che
communities OF eheir birth, and we
knew that che maintenance u the
Democratic organization, as understood
by that school which lately directed the
P'caylne, had been the main cause of all
the debt and all the abuses complained Of
or perpetrateN in the Southern States.
These calamities have been onl: avoided
where and when Southern people had ex-
pressly refused as in Virginia. Tennes.
Sc. and Georgia to recognize and renew
that extinct and exploded contest. The
course OF the Picay,ne was calculated,
in ouy opinion. to revive that con-
tis here and reopen tina, chasm |
which is re SLarIei house Of SO
much that no patriot would ever like 80 |
see exposed again. we no mo.e wished
to see that controversy fought OF: il Lou. !
asiana than any peaceful people would
approve the selection Of theis own prenl.
lses as the scene of Q deadly duel or
brutal prize fight. We knew that these
aaWlties Of the sections were injurious to
The commercial and political welfare of
Louisiana. 1t was plain that to teach an
mplacabls hostility coward the eolored
people, to whom the industrial and social
ystem js SO much indebted was insanity.
10 one could expect the federal govern
nens TO award the appropriations required
~ Louisiana to those wLS published
laily and bitter diasribe against the
'cwer which could alone Sestov the aid
demanded. 1t is scarcely in human. it is
ertainly not On party nature. 10 adopt 1
he e'Quaker policy toward their oppo- I
ents in politics. If the principal que.-
ions discussed in the Picayu'e had been
pom pending principles We might have
vep admired the desperate gallantry
hich persisted III firing on the REPUB1I-
AN flag of truce, when furthey resistance
as unavailing dn our opinion. these 9
1estlons have been decided never to be , s
and we have looked upon the {
icaynse as we should have regarded c
confederate General falling back 60 con [
hue the fight west Of the Mississippi" a
hen the whole country had been sub S
eted to conquest. twas, in our opinion, a
insane and hopeless fight 1t was b
sht which inflicted infinitely more harm O
BON the friends of the Picaylms than E
ION its enemies. 1t even bound the n
.nds of the people of Louisiana, SO that I
ey could not, i'll all cases, conduct d
cir elections or fill their Offices with the ii
en- they would have preferred, but were ft
mpelled to make this fight with the best II
ate rial at hand, and that as shown in lc
e Fusion conflict, by no means the best la
have been desired That we contro- d.
rted these doctrines, now shown to be fo
satisfactory to the business interests al
d commercial sentiment Of New Orleans er
d as inapplicabie to the era and the N
sis, is source Of pride with Us 1t is of
this sense our privilege even 70 make er
$ testimony to the toemeu W have q
t. We might paraphrase the apos- Sc
phe to Percy, but as our late connection | O.
lot dead we can safely wish him all the hi
cess in Life compatible with the total pr
lnction of his political doctrines, which ex
has advocated for our adoption. wi