New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-30
HOW LITTLE POLITICIANS CARE FOR
COMMERCE.

need not demonstrate. Your vile anu
daughters plead in vain. The sacrlhce Oh
value. comfort ard interest IS nothing 70
the professional soldier or the sa~bones.
Perhaps, in some sudden change OF
strategy, your premises may not be OF I'M
portance: so, With dilapidation and de-
struction in their train, the men OF war
move on, never bestowing one thought on
the individual misfortune or misery they
NAV have Occasioned.
It is the same thing with your ingraincd
nortiean The ventures Of the merchant
or the deposits of the banker, the wages OF
the mechanic or of the day laborer. ere OF
no moment in executing the behests OF
partv. The loss or gain OF commerce Is
of but little consequence IN comparison
with the success of party movement 10
defeat party opponent the partisan Will
readily sacrifice the interests ofhis friends
The political partisan is often as much the
foe of commercial prosperity as the SOL
der Of fortune is of social happiness. This
homily has been occasioned by the fact that
one Of our contemporaries which claims to
represent the people of Louisiana, has
taken unqualified ground: /. Against the
recognition of 1.-the insurgents IN Cuba as
belligerents. 9 Against the acquisition OF
Cuba. These positions are supported by
an argument !. To show that in q
naval conflict with Spain the United
States would have her hands full.
2. That if the island of Cuba
should by any means ''be Incorporated
into the United States" the island must
either become Hayti, or. if developed
by Northern enterprise and capital, will
iniuriously affect the negroes in Louisiana
by cheapening the price" Of sugar. 1t is
unnecessary to repeat the argument to
show that the recognition of beliigerency
in the patriots striving for their own hb-
erty and that Of others, is not a recognition
of any particular authority over Cnba.
Nor does the purchase of property or po-
litical rights in San Domingo by citizens
of the United States furnish any Just i'm
putation that the government of the United
States intends to violate the rights Of a
neighbor nation. 1t is perhaps not very
consistent to charge the President with a
completely with these designs, and to ex-
pect the Republican party to look with
affection upon the petition of fusionists
for recognition. Their petition is receiv-
ing fair consideration at the hapdS Ofthe
very President and party thus denouncedas
fllibusters. guilty of the insincerity OF
dreading a war with Spain, but willing
ito make her property SO vaiueless IS to
induce her to sell H." 1t is. perhaps, one
of the saddest specimens Of partisan into:-
erance that a journal published in the
South should resist the success OF q meas
1lre TO which Che old South was 50 often
and SO earnestly pledged should publish
the acquisition of territory as ''vam y
O: extension -stigmatize men fighting
Tor freedom with halter around their
necks as insurgents. ana those who.
like Crttenden and Quitman and Walker
have sympathized with these struggling
patriots as ''adventUrers" going to the aid
Of an instruction. Al this may vindi-
cate the United States during the late
civil war. II may justify Germany and
France for their rigid refusal to recognize
the belligerency Of the Confederate States.
But what rebuke to England, who came
generously forward and, by recognizing
the belligerency of Jackson AMI Lee, in
CURED such exemplary damage! Yet the
partisan press rarely reasons beyond TIE
motive of the moment.
We can not reply to an argument SO
hypothetical as that which assumes that
Cuba may prove Hayti or California.
If the first proposition be true, then the
to prejudice the colored man
here against the liberation Of his fellow
creatures in bondage must be fallacious.
If the liberated Cuban negro evil not Ia
bor," then his competition will not be
formidable. If he does labor, the joint
product Of Cuba and Louisiana will no
more supply the world nor affect prices
han it does now. while the people OF
he United States would pay in reciprocal
of produce most Of the seventy
Millions Of imports. five.sevenths o: which
hey now pay in specie. This, then, is a
question for the colored people OF Louisi.
ma and sugar consumers Of the United
States. Our colored citizens have an
louncei tina. they vii! take the risl.
# emancipation reducing their wages.
Nc: ;m9ossibiy they may be led to
.ppcehenG tina. the extraordinary.
md il our view. unreasonable op.
position Of Southern iourna! 20 al.
lo.at!on and abolition may spring from
he desire 20 maintain the institution o!
,lavery il the neighboyhoci. SO tina:
u the even. the separation of the
n!:eG States should be effected by
" sg! alton. the institution OF bondage
nay De conveniently at hand IS nucleus
or re.organiz;ng compulsory labor. The
.o!ored citizen is naturally cautious. He
desires 10 throw around the
tile 20 hi, OWL freedom al. possible guar.
ees of its perpetuity. 1t i. not strange
hat he should like 20 eA.iryate the form o:
bondage from which he Ia, bee. relieved
Z. po;n: of .'opin9uity 80 suggestive. /.
70 the majority of the people of Louisiana
Untitled 30 vote this '!o!en: opposition to !
:na.ciDat.o. vii, appea. sv.,.ic;o,,s.