New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-06
HUNNING A COMPARISON,

According 20 the moral philosophy Of
the Piccpu.e, the Credi. Mobilier scandal
establishes the utter ,lepravity OF the
North. According 60 the practical phi
losophy Q! the REPvBLlcAH. the Credit
Mobiliez scanGa! Offers sufficient evidence
Of the honesty Of The people VIII" have
forced It's Development. The tone OF q
community is TO be tested not by the
crimes that it winks AZ, but by its fidelity
to the duty OF furnishing the criminals
A. there are four citizens in MGssachu-
sets TO one in South Carolina there
should be four offenders in the first state
20 one in the last. Il the people OF Mas"
sachusetts arrest and punish eigh: oNt Q.
ten Of her criminals and South Carolln'.
arrests and Furnishes four on: OF fen, and
these the weakest aid poorest ones. cei-
tainly Massachusetts, should be set OF as
the best regulated community. and the
leas. demoyalized by vicious poitica!
ideas. II the one State shows "
population of three millions. out OF WHOM.
two million and hal: can read, and the
| other trots on. people o: whom only one
in eight can tell his letters. what are "e
to Judge as between the two communities:
Let US contrast what the North Is
doing and what Louisiana has done. 70
arrive at a conclusion as to the right o.
the latter to pass Judgment on her
neiohbors The Credit Mobilier frauds
were perpetrated in the midst OF the re.
construction trouble, when the mind OF
the North was sorely perplexed as towhat
it should do in regard to the South. The
focus of public thought was directed in
given direction, and the people had bat
little time or capacity to deal with purely
financial matters that could be !nvestl.
| gated at more convenient season.
The dominant necessity being disposed
of in the establishment Of policy
toward the South that was found to be
satisfactory, the people Of the North
turned their attention to the duty OF H.
curing into the actions of their agents.
They found and are finding that certain
Of their representative men have not kept
their skirts as clean as they should. and
thew are proceeding to punish them by
delivering them over to contempt and
then to obscurityo And she will do III"
work as directly as she did the work o.:
carving on the war. The North does no:
rush into matters and then turn away
after the excitement has worn away. She
| plans Ler iabors and pushes them as she
did the siege of Charleston. Ask General
| Beauregard how she persisted in that en-.
! cagement, not because it was absolutely
necessary. but because size had begun it.
The Credit Nobilier :rauis are in The
hands Of these people. and they vii!
be sifted until all tina. WAS ever
done is as well known 70 the
world as it was TO the actors therein.
The investigation was commenced at the
right time. Just when there was nothing
else to occupy public attention. and the
fullest publicity is given TO every fact.
On the contrary. there are dozen mos:
glaring frauds that have been committed
in the State Of Louisiana agairs. the peo-
pie thereof, not one Of which has ever
been investigated or been made the sub.
iect of days work. The people are igno-
rant out of all proportion with those Of
Massachusetts. and are therefore less COM
petent to understand crime or how to pre-.
vent it. Offenses asains: political ho.-
estv, instead Of being pushed to the wall.
as they are in the North, are hushed up,
because the foremost men in the State are
generally concerned jn them. New Or