New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-15
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There are two kinds of things which no
wise man ever worries about-those which
he can help and those which he can not
If he can help them. he does so: if he
can not, he turns his attention to some
thing else. In no case does he whine or
kick. Kicking is undignifed at all times;
kicking against the pricks is foolish. And
yet this is just what the disappointed fac
ton of Fusionists are now doing. They
knew from the first that their cause was
desperate, or they would not have put 1t
into the hands of Governor Narmoth;
they would not have felt compelled to re-
sort to the means they expected him to
use. Those means failing. they had re-
course to the President to help them out
of the mire into which their own blunders
had plunged them-to the President,
against whom they had exhausted
the vocabulary Of invective. and from
whom they certainly had no right to ex-
pect fayors, nor indeed anything but stern
justice. Getting this at his hands, they
turned to Congress. which. as the repre-
sentative of the whole nation, could hard
" act otherwise than impartially. 1t, too.
decided against them. Driven back upon
themselves they resolved to try force.
The eXpedient of calling upon the citizens
to arm themselves as sort Of partisan
rangers. under the name of State militia.
was resorted to as last chance. This
also failed, for the citizens in general were
too wise to put on such fools uniform. or
engage in so rash an adventure for
so poor cause. And now, having
failed in every attempt to foist their gov
eminent upon the unwilling people of the
State, these mad factionists, through their
chief agent. issue circular letter to the
Governors of the other States. hoping
through them to influence the various
Legislatures throughout the country to
instruct their Senators and request their
Representatives in the Congress Of the
United States to-make fuss. In other
words, they would like to see the whole
United States in just such muddle as
Louisiana has been in for so long: and
the worst of i: is that they actually
think-or some of them do--that they
have right on their side. This blunder
arises from the impossibility that some
minds encrusted By prejudice experience
in realizing the fact that black men are
people in the political sense Of that word.
They talk of the wrong done to "this
people" in imposing npon them "the
Kellogg government" when in reality the
majority OF the people negroes being
reckoned as forming a part thereof! are
perfectly satisfied, and would be as much
wronged il point Of fact by the substitu-
ton of the MeEnery government. as the
comp!aine.s pretend to be. or think they
are.
But surprising they are aggrieved
Though we of course know better. what is
the use Of keeping up the general disturb
ance any longer. when no practical re.
suit can come from it except injury to the
present and future interests OF the State
and the city? It is as well established
q fact as that two and two make four.
that political disturbances. especially
when breaking out in occasional riots, are
fatal to material progress. 1t is equally
certain that the majority of our citizens.
whether originally Of the Fusion party or
not, are sick at heart and thoroughly dis
gusted with the whole thing, from its con-
ceptou between old Democratic hacks
and renegade Republicans, down 20 its
last conyuisive effort in midnight riot. and
that peace and quiet and the resumption
of business would be considered cheaply
purchased at the expense or reducing
the whole Sc: OF factious leaders. in
Guiding wouid-be. Governor McEnery.
TO the ranks Of private citizenship. even
with the certainty that they would never
emerge therefrom. For the sake, then. of
the common welfare It is to be hoped that
our citizens will religiously abstain from.
giving any further encouragement to the
selfish agitators who would like to repre-
sent their private disappointment as a
public grievance: and that as commu-
nifty We shall. go soberly forward in the
path of duty and interest. and cease kick
inc AGAINST the bricks.
TIT PAL TYPANT 0F SOCIETY.