New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-05-16
4 Southern Mans Views.

| w olhtAptIiu lS hEOeNO
the entire people <f Louisiana as :ru,
son Of the S"l'h, fearless in the right. hon
orabie in Ls political warfare. and jus: il
the las: degree. even 20 Fee. We mean
OF course. partisan enemy, for We believe
he has no personal ioes. An article ap
pears in his Homer Iaao of the tenth in
slant which undoubtedly comes irom hi
| pen. as We know il contains the sentimen
If his warm, manly heart. and the sugges
tons of a calm. Use head. We reproduce
it below, and commend i; to The careful
| consideration of our Northern Republican
| friends. There are thousands OF good NJ Ell
in the South who hold these sentiments.
| Though mary OF them may not have tie
means or the ability 20 express :hem so
well:
''wIlL NOT FIGHT THE fEDFEA. TROOPS
o nc. But why! What has changed
your tune so strikingiy in this respect
How long has i. been since you could whip
you are right, and are still brave. why stop
and parley about the resuits What boots
it il you are whipped. if you honestly think
you are right! Is not manly extf
of pluck more cOnsOling to an hUnorab bic
mind than a mere triumph of brute force!
Or DO you really think to deceive any one
in this matter! And is not deception in Il
self mean, whether successful or unsuccess-
iul, an beneath any manly Lear:! An hon
est world would say SO.
No! This plea Of the so,caied bet.
ter class IN Louisiana, that they VIII
not fight the federal troops in the
local contest pending here. is beneath
the true Southern character. and is debas.
ing to our true native chiyalry. And it ia
false. because it is deliberately intended 20
waive and hide the true issue. The issue
is. for tina: class or element among us v hicii
fought and lost in the late war, to now OBJ
tain the reins Of the State government and
control the Offices in the interest of fast
waning aiistocracy. and shape tie legisla-
ton in the same interest-that few NAV
be. enriched at the expense Of the many,
ard the reason that this element declines
fighting the federal troops is simply and
solely because it knows it can not whip
those troops, and not because Of any love of
those troops OF true loyalty to The grea.
government they represent.
This is the issue in nutshell. and CT an ge
i. and shift. it as you will, to this complexion
must it come at last. Bu: it is unjust to in
clude all. or anything like all. the late Con.
federate war class in this resistance to the
Kellogg government in Louisiana. When
reduced down to its true and proper pro-
portions it is only fragment of The Con-
federate war class or element in Louisiana
which opposes the State goverumen. and
which SO magnaf1imously declines to fight
the federal troops in the contest. And this
fragment was not much on the fgh: when
the zeal light was going on. Most OF the
headers we're at home in easy and safe
places. acting as judges Or overseeing
twenty negroes" and Specializing ON dead
mems bones!"
The verv bes. fighting elemen. ,ic So
called late Confederacy had are low on the
side of law and order, and manfuliy sus.
tanning the ''powers that be- They were
brave enough to fight when fighting was
the order oI the day, and they are now too
brave and too manly 10 tiutter around and
enthusiastically decline 20 fgh: power
which they know to be their master, ami
which i. ready to spank them like babes if
they do no: .'hands of" Those who talk
publicly about declining 20 fight this great
power are not disposed to tight anything or
anybody only at a safe distance. hI: are
terrible in raising strife and fattcDirg on
the confusion while others do the lighting.
Wha: we write fer. is that :Le North
may properly understand these croakers
and strife e-breeders. We understand them
well enough at home. but we are satisfied
the people Of The North do not understand
them, or they would 70: lind there a
ecintiilation Of cOuntenance. The people
Of the North are almost TO man loyal.
and opposed 70 misrule, tyranny. and all
manner of barbarity: and could she entire
people Of the North know, as we 90 here
and could they feel as we have fe!:-that
these people down here who are attempt.
ing to override our State government, and
who SO blatantly give it ou: tina. they win
not fight the federal troops 20 carry their
points, are still in the main traitors at
hear: 20 the national government. and are
aiming in she nain a plunder and tyranny.
and all manner Of oppression and pcIsecu.
tion and murder. We feel perfectly Ger.
tain than no: one in ten Thousand at :he
North would in any way or to any degree
countenance or give aid and succuv to any
such vile influence or purposa.