New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-23
AGITATION EXHAUSTED.

| AGITATION EXHAUSTED.
The compulsory return OF the fscdy1"e
into hand that will effectually neutralize
any active participation in political war
fare, and the sudden going under OF the
"Herald at all hours" is guarantee that
this people can not stand such nonsense
any longer. There is another indication.
The same people have determined not to
sustain any publication in which 1.-THE
Warmoth clique" is in any manner con-
cerned. We infer that it was one OF the
terms of what the Times calls the new
alliance of ''the lion and the lamb" The
"wisdom of age with the warm blood OF
YOUTH" that this ''wretched fiction
about Warmothism should be put at rest.
Hence, apparently, the very awkward
card published as paragraph IN the
Sunday edition of the Picayu'e. We
call it awkward because it bases the
remuneration of Warmoth and all his
works upon sentence from the Mobile
REGISTER which hoped that "the white
men of Louisiana are making the proper
efforts to prevent the abandonment OF the
entire English press to the enemy.
Where any alIusion is made in this pare
agfaph to Warmoth and his clique we
can pot see. II is perhaps the refined
acuteness of a supersensitive conscience
that sees an accuser sin every bush" The
card avails itself of this opportunity to
put in the claim that the purchasers and
conductors of the Picayane exceed even
the distinguished edltor-'of the Regis-
term their length of service in the cause
of the white men of the South.
We are authorized then to believe chat
these gentlemen have settled down IN
favor of political conflict of races, tor
such a position is inevitable if they es-
pouse exclusively ''the cause of the white
men of the South" 1t is not very polite
to say that they have quit Warmoth and
Joined the white folks, but we reckon that
is about the English Of the paragraph.
Whether this notice implies an absolute
divorce alb vincMo matrimonio, or mere
temporary separation, from the mutual
Official Indulgence and inability OF the
parties to support the connection, we can
not, of course, tell. But We must congratu-
late the parties and the public if it be per-
manent. 1t has been very troublesome
partnership, and every one will be rejoiced
to learn that it is ended by at least one of
the parties retiring.
We would imagine from paragraph in
the card that this new and holy alliance
must have got some gentleman from Hi
hernia mixed among it's eminent few:
As a stranger, living some distance from
our city but in daily railroad connection
Herewith, we will descend to the assurance
of the Register, which We would not DO for
any of our own immediate neighbOrs, OF the
utter falsity and supreme Stiffness OF his
idea as to the purposes or sentiments OF the
Picowtne, or Of the influences under which
it will be conducted.
It would have seemed that a private let
ter to a misinformed stranger" living on
ga daily railroad" would have furnished
the proper mode of demonstrating
against an individual opinion. But the
Picayune "descends" to publish a para
graphic card perused principally by its
own fellow citizens in which it says that it
would not do SO for any Of our immediate
neighbors no, not to save their lives.
"Did any of you ever hear me say, said
wag to a group of friends, that l found
Joe Jones drunk, and pulled him out of
mud hole?" "No, no! we never did, ~as
the reply. every well; he gave me bot
tie of whisky never to tell about it; and
never will" So our neighbor would not
disavow Warmothism to its immediate
neighbors" on any consideration, yet pub
fishes its determination not to inform its
immediate neighbors, yet gives the infor'
nation and the refusal to make it known
through the medium which is daily
accessible to all its Immediate neigh
bors?' This card, otherwise uncalled
for, seems to us an awkward compliance
with a condition that, unless that political
mesalIiance should be broken off, no
combination could be formed between
wisdom" and youth" How far this
may secure the confidence Of the public
will depend, Of course, upon the fidelity
of the parties to the pledge. With ade-
quate respect for their assurances of
reformation, we have right to infer from
the promises that 'this people will not
stand this agitation for the sake of any
one man, or number of men, any longer.
The wreck of the Picayuae proved it.
The extreme alacrity with which the crew
of the "Herdld at all hours" abandoned
that privateer for the crippled craft they
had boarded, and their ready submission
to the order of the seasoned old salt in
command, satisfies us that agitation is
exhausted.