New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-16
From East Felfciana.
JACKSON, La, November Is, 1873

| JACKSON, La, November Is, 1873.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
The crops, both of corn and cotton in the
Felicianas are pretty well gathered and re.
| suit in beggarly account to the producer
! The laborer finds himself indebted to the
land holder, he to the country merchant
and the latter hopelessly involved with his
New Orleans correspondent. Is not the
| result of credit system, peculiar to the
cotton States, system rotten within itself
and suicidal to all concerned! 1t is an
axiom that it is hard to learn an old dog
new tricks, and the South has been slow to
adapt itself to her new situation and
though surrounded by pressing necessities
we have clung to our old business habits
with an insane tenacity and still retain those
obsolete ideas and opinions which were in
vogue in ante bellum days.
Our credit system is nothing less than a
system of genteel robbery, in which the
planter, the laborer, the country merchant
ana the commission merchant are necessa-
rliy forced to take a hand. For instance,
the cash price of barrel of pork may be
fourteen dollars. The country merchant
sells 1t on time to the laborer, who is charged,
and agrees to pay at the end of the year,
thlrty-hve dollars; then, when his obliga-
ton becomes due, Ae feels he is swindled.
and steals bis own sotton to make us ana
SO n is all round.
Nothing but two or ehree years cs abs@
lutte want will uproot the existing system,
which has been so adverse to every material
interest of the State. In the meantime
people are looking with anxiety TOR the
future. From what quarter will we receive
heip TO Keep up and cultivate our plantee
tons aHotheS years Who will feed the Ia,
oorevs and Rho will furnish the necessary
supplies soH CHE successful cultivation a9
next Years crops In 1865, known esshe
Seaf"S she starvation, the general goveVp
Ne!N magnanmously game to our aid. ans9
1heie sahle IN stretching forth his powerfS
arm DOT our relief, in feeding our voulen
and Ghildrens did more coward eonnuerine
; our correspondent than all the 'Yanl6sogo
tne United States army. Uncle Sam was %
gooo commission merchant and we ars Lac
sincere friends.
we hope and trust tina Governor keYIoo9
may alse his powerful influence witbqho
general government, that it may ag@nooao
s"sus aid. This p cur only hope; and wjthoea.
et"h assistance famine w5l4 seign in O Sa9so
portion OF our State
but Che &ghtness of Che Zines snt9 99o
general gloom pervading most minde Gao
Fespecs e0 our future seem to have 4ittso
efeer &p@n our famous Committee cS Ss.o
ehs9s dhHy seem to be pegg.ng awaea
narping upon the same string, piaying sjso
same suse and singing the same old sone
hne pfohunciamentoes of the seventeal@
frequently copied by the country press, ans
lhey create faint cackle among the aI.g
political Miss Nancys
Indignation NEE tings denouncirc esk.9
'ogg' the usurper" and meetings fox eha
purpose on electing delegates to confer with
me seventy, are being published as HEELS.
v iiich nave mad no existence save in tho
ertiie brain of some political clique. One
'loe % these the masses care little for tho
whole matter
from the tone OF the Picayune ans
ier"a one would infer that Governor Eo.
ogg was the veriest pirate that ever ont
Aroat; but they do not truly represent the
of the Democratic party in its on
position to Governor Kellogg,
ne masses OF the Democratic party GER.
AMY prefer McEnery for Governor. but the
iefce hatred entertained by the entire marty
'gainst Governor Kellogg, "a renrasan.oa
y these newspapers, is decided mj,renre.
eh1atlon. His past services tn our st.+s
ave not'and never can be, forgotten bv rho.
intelligent classes, and his firm resolva :.
'ossioie' to ameliorate the condition of ro,
5lana' Is beyond question. percbanca,
10 Committee of Seventy would cease tbe,s
onsehsical twaddle Governor KELLOGG
'onid sooner be enabled to ;ntrodnoo 81
oA'foi certain measures for our benefit
EX-REBEL.