New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-18
FOES TO DIR COMMERCE.

torials manufactured for effect 1t is true
that the principal conductors Of the Lou
isiana contest have withdrawn from Wash
ington, leaving General McMillen to evac-
uate the position; but that the various
vindictive articles appearing in such New
York newspapers as the Tribune and World
have been put up in the Fusion interest
is rendered probable by the facts alleged,
and reasoning employed by such papers.
Here is one specimen from the Wortd:
A Republican committee of the United
States Senate has declared, after fulI lnVes'
tigation. that the Kellogg government was
never legally elected. 1t is a necessary
consequence that all is acts are void
Now where was such an argument ad-
vanced outside of New Orleans? 1t is I'M
reasonable to claim that State has q
right to nullify any law passed by Con-
gress and adiudicated by the courts. 1t
is still more absurd to contend that citi-
zens, party to compact, is under no obi
cations to abide by that compact; but to
assume that because a committee reports
to Legislative body an opinion upon a
measure referred to it for inquiry. this
opinion, rejected by the Legislature. is
paramount to law, far exceeds either Of
the other fallacies stated. 1t may now be
expected that any one indisposed to pay
taxes will only find it necessary to file
newspaper article expressing the OPINION
that such taxis unlawful to secures AN injunc-
ton or a dismissal of the proceeding. But
not only do these New York editorials set up
a committee report as paramount to tie
authority of the very body which directed
the committee to inquire; they go further:
They recommend to the people Of New
Orleans to starve out the government OF
the State 1t has been explained here that
this process would starve out widows
and children than carpet-baggers. 1t has
been explained how the city would be left
in darkness, dirt piles accumulate and OBJ
struct the streets, and robbers revel upon
the closed courts and disbanded watch
men. This is perfectly understood here,
and the publication Of such an article
would be condemned by the city authori-
ties and their employees. So these teach
ings have been discountenanced here. To
the New York editor. however. they
bring no responsibility.
Every telegram that tells of riot in
New Orleans tends to concentrate III New
York the trade that New Orleans might
otherwise have controlled. The press of
rival cities never hesitate to publish all
danger or disease that may exist in other
streets than their own. New Orleans Is
slandered for yellow fever one half the
year and riots the other. For when some
irresponsible exile from Office sends an
editorial or a telegram to magnify our
troubles, or counsel that they may be kept
up indefinitely he furnishes an argument
why the merchant Of Nicksburg or
Nashville should not come here to
buy goods. and why the capitalist
should prefer lending hi. money in Chicago
at five per cent to placing it in New Or
leans at ten. There were. as we are in
formed. mercantile agents returning last
week from Texas to New York. who were
il great anxiety for their lives in passing
through New Orleans. They insisted on
making direct communication between
the boat and the Mobile road. perhaps
affecting to dread the danger Of being sho:
If they remained nigh: in our city.
What report will such men make Of the
New Orleans market: Their interests
and their fears viii combine to pub
lish it as place to be avoided.
Tho foreign publications. to which we
have referred as identical in tone with
those which are published in the same
interest here. tend to destroy our business.
Will no. our merchants who look to the
spring trade. and our planters who rely
upon the contribution OF foreign capital.
lool. to this systematic foreign SANDER? If
we are to differ. let it be among ourselves.
but do not make our commercial enemies
a party to our feuds. They will combine
with political vagabonds to destroy our
trade and credit, and they VIII reap the
only advantage from our ruin.
ADELAY IN ASSESSING THE SCHOOL TAX.