New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-14
CARPET BAGGHRS AND CORRUPTION NOT
NEW

CARPBT-BAGGERS AND CORRUPTION NOT
| NEW.
We subjoin, from late number OF the
removal Of the State capital from Baton
Rouge:
just then John Slidell CHANGED to be a
| candidate for the United States Senate and
| 1t was found eXpedieut TO put an end to the
removal agitation. He quietly sent to Vie
| tur-htc Victor of that day, so well remem-
bered for his gastronoinic triumphs-tO
send UP an accomplished chef d cstisi'te and
! two or three assistants. a requisili0n was
at the same time made on the renowned
sewell Taylor (who had just then largely
| added to his fame by the discovery ana in
PRODUCTION of the Sazarac cognacl, for a full
supply Of his rarest brands and vintages;
and these were all quietly turned over to
the proprietor of the Harvey House. The
! late Charles Clifton, then Senator from
Pointe COupee, one of the most celebrated
epcures Of his day, and the veteran Colonel
Bob James, then Representative from this
city, vino had kept in superb style famous
summer resort at Biloxi, took the Harvey
House man in charge, and soon made him
an accomplished maitre d'hotei. A series of
dinners and sofyees, all CONNIE IL fat, came
ott, and the seat OF government remained at
Baton Rouge.
Here is Mr.. John Slidell, q New Yorker,
who manipulates the affairs of Louisiana.
The people manifest wish that the seat
of government be removed from a river
bank village to the metropolis OF the State
and valley of the Mississippi, where men
can legislate with the lights of knowledge
SO indispensable to justice. Mr.. Slidell,
an attorney at law, counteracts this wish.
How2 BY an able demonstration that
legislators are more virtuous when Sc
cluded from the vices of large city, Or
more studious when distracted from It's
daily excitements? Not atau. By pam
dering to the very vices Of the iegis-
lators. An innkeeper and caterer
are imported into the river bank
village. Wines, viands, and other luxu-
ries are presented to the thirsting palates
Of these exiled debauchees. What other
accessories Attorney Slidell engaged to
reconcile these lawmakers, victims on COM
pulsion, the correspondent does not state
They are left to suggestive inference
For if Attorney Shdell wished to make the
stay Of vicious member of the Legisla-
ture as agreeable at Baton Rouge as in
New Orleans, then that legislator must be
provided with every incidental vice which
a depraved nature could demand. At
torney Slidell having adopted such &C
knowledged means to influence legisla-
tive action, need not have stopped in his
plan if he had been required to remove
every gaming house on St. Charles and
all Burgundy street to Baton Rouge, since
an unworthy appeal to one appetite IS no
more immoral than to others.
But our readers will see what the Re-
PUBLICAN has so often asserted to be true.
That the carpet-baggers by no means
came in with the conquest. They flour
ished at the head of their parties long
before the war. They came from France,
Kentucky, Ohio, or New England. They
bought Office and contracts, and obtained
for railroads, shellroads,
and street pavements, and they gobbled
up TIE requests Of McDonogh and Girod,
just AZ they have done since. Thugs and
know Nothings preceded the White Ca
meiia and the riots. The time has been
that an Irish immigrant in New Orleans
was very little safer in his person than a
colored laborer IS now. 1t may be sup
posed that the Fusion press is particularly
violent against the Republican press, and
abusive of Republicans in
Office. Their opposition is not to our
principles. It is to our occupation of
offices which they want for them
selves. Turn to the newspapers of
q former time. Where can such
rancor and biliingsgate be found
as overspread the columns of the True
Delta and the ''Lying Delta as it was IN
Justly stigmatized by its opponents. Re
member the Know Nothing and Demo-
cratic wars OF the Courier and it's confreres,
all now in the dust of the forgotten.
Street fights and duels marked this an
tagonism. Politics and journalism in
New Orleans was marked with as much |
fraud in the one and with more abusive |
bitterness in the other than exists here to-
day. The attempt to produce different |
abroad is preposterous. We |
admit the abuses of corrupt system, 60
ing back it may be to the day when ''the |
aristocratic scions of noble houses came |
to better their fortunes in Louisiana" or |
when at a later day some of the principal |
colonial offices were, according to a native |
put up for sale to the highest |
bidder.
We desire to see these abuses reformed |
altogether, out and out. The seed that |
soreign carpet-baggers-soc oudos-plant |
ID, and which the New York carpet
Dagger, John Sidell, nurtured with such |
are, had grown to a upas Of fearful
The followers of Slidell, |
to regain exclusive control of
he whole corruption fund, adopted the
system, on condition of half the
esults. They effected a. coalition with
he author of a debt and taxation which
heir organs denounced as oppressive.
falling in their effort to saddle that au-
hor and that debt upon the country, they
end Herald Ogden to. give notice that if