New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-07-29

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yrne grows concerned for his welfare.
Undoubtedly the chosen representatives
of the laboring people of Louisiana, which
the Picayune rather stupidity characterizes
as the Bayonet Legislature, have been at
times a little extravagant. But they have
experienced many inducements thereto.
The very white people who set up claim
to all the honor and honesty, all the
responsibility and intelligence. daily
thronged the Hobbies of the State House,
and beguiled by means of plastic speeches
and greenbacks paid down and promised,
enough Of the weaker of the Republican
members to join the Democratic minority,
and thereby secured the passage Of some
bills of more than doubtful character.
The responsibility for most of the extrava-
gance is fairly divisible. and can not be
shifted from the shoulders of those most
guilty to the partners who merely fol-
lowed
For two winters in succession the Pica-
y4ne, Times and Bee have done all in their
power to break up the Legislature and
set up bogus concern il opposition.
But, though they were too weak and in
consequential to succeed. they assisted in
putting the State to very heavy addi-
tional expense. retarding public business
and bringing the people as nea. to the
commission Of acts Of violence as some:
what wholesome fear Of Consequences
would permit. The attempt to set up the
Odd Fellows Hall Legislature last fall
cost the laborers of Louisiana. either
directly or indirectly. several millions Of
dollars. The extra session Of the Legis-
lature, called by Governor Warmoth to
elect him to the United States Senate. be-
cause he could not trust to the promises
Of his new and treacherous allies, cost the
State directly half million. Warmoth
was working to seat McEnery in the ex-
ecutive chair and the other aspiring FU-
sion candidates in subordinate positions.
He thought, about the last of November,
that he saw good prospec. of success.
and called the calculated" Legislature
together to secure his pay before delivery.
His failure to perform his contract was
not through any fault Of his. The just
less of the Republican cause made it pre-
vail in spite Of plotting, and thus all the
expense was incurred for nothing.
A portion Of the burden has already
been assessed upon the people in the tax
levy. Another portion has been laid upon
US in the way of general rise all round
in the rates Of insurance. Our little
$4,000 concerns were taxed pretty
heavily for contributions, and as their off,
GER; have not lowered their salaries, the
deficiency has to be made up off the bust
ness Of the city. Our banks and other
public institutions which were buiIied
into subscribing to support the Fusion
Legislature have been struggling for even
ever since, and few have seen a day since
last winter when they were entirely free
from alarm.
But the Picayme ignores or overlooks
all this, and piously informs the laborers::
those sons of louisiana who. by their sweat,
have llade all the wealth, that they have
been abused by the radical Legislature. The
members Of the Legislature were the direct
of these same laborers,
and know more about the transactions of
last winter and who were to blame for all
that was outrageous than the Picnptue
will ever tell them. What prompts This
appeal to the laborers at this late day:
For years before the war. when t vas
considered legal to rob negro of his en-
tire earnings by those he had no voice in
selecting for his robbers. and hence no
power to punish. We never heard an in
dignant remonstrance from any source.
The laborers of Louisiana to-day are OF
the same class-the descendants Of those
before the war. They have been shame
fully cheated out Of the reward due for
their sweat and toll for generations, and
vet We hear men who never did
days work in thei: lives complain
ing IL the market places that
the defendants Of these deeply wronged
slaves are ''robbing the laborers'
when they take back enough of their own
to make their freedom secure. Those
who are rolling in ill-gotten wealth, rob-
bed from the slave in the days of his help
should be thankful that they are
permitted to retain it. now that fortune
has placed the whip in other hands. But
their hold upon it is short. ldleness.
ferocity and drunkenness are the agents
already set to work by Satan to wrest
from the defendant Of the old shareholders
the possessions that they acquired by
force. Those who reform their ways in
season may yet be spared the humiliation
Of beggary. But they must speedily en-
brace temperance, industry and peaceful
ness to save their inheritances. In tie
meantime the Picnyune is not acting an
Ingenious part when it seeks to throw ali
he blame for our unnecessarily heavy ex-
oenses upon the Republicans.
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.
The Hon. William S. Groesbeei, OF
Ohio, has recently favored the public with