New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-10
DUB BOURBONS ABROAD.

court, and brought over French fleets t.
reinstate them in their rights, so
party will seek at the hands Of other
abroad help to overthrow their opponent
at home. The Picayune, maintaining tn
rights of the States, goes abroad to rein
state those rights as it understands them
1t appeals to the press and 60 parties
elsewhere to establish those claims which
it would be supposed true Democratic
States rights patriot would scorn to re'
ceive from any except the hands Of
English crown have conferred upon
James who fed from his indignant con-
stituents, if placed upon his head by a
foreign hand? Just the same honor that
power bestowed upon party reinstated
in the offices of State by the prepon-
derant power exerted in its behalf else
where. Our malcontent neighbor has
even gone the length of arguing the right
Of heaven to intervene in behalf Of Mr..
McEnery. 1t complains that the Amxi-
can Register reports it thus:
This gentleman the editor os the Plea
| yune) proposes to send a delegation to Paris
10 ask Marshal MacMahon to assume the
| government of Louisiana in tue name OF
France, by authority of clause in the
| original treaty of cession, which guaran-
teed to the then residents Of Louisiana
| equal rights with other American citizens.
We exonerate the Picayune from having
recommended this specific act of interven-
d.ion. 1t argues that if the State of Lou
isiana be dependency under the control
Of the United States, then foreign ma
tons had a right to test their rights. .
The rumor that delegation to Paris had
been proposed may have grown out of the
fact that French paper of this city
adopted the unexplained Suggestion Of
the Picdyune, and as one of its editors
went off to France aboue that time, II
may have been supposed thae he weat
accredited to inquire into che prospects OF
foreign aid to recover Che lose SighSs OS
the party dynasty represenee8. Certainly
an audience with President Mac Mahon
would have been highly impressive.
Nothing would have been more dra-
matte than for the emissary at Chiselhurst
to have Frustrated himself before the
little school boy Napoleon and to have
delivered an address somewhat like this
"Sire, vouchsafe from the plentitude
of your royal power to lift from the dust
of Republican oppression the forlorn
children of France. Let them be plucked
from destruction and clasped anew to the
maternal bosom of her who 80 impru-
IDENTIFY put them at dry nurse With her
enemy and theirs.
Such an address svould asve Sea8 &elS
IN any language.
We explained to Che Soicay,r,e 0ad Bee
at the time that-not knowing much
about American progress above Canal
street-they did not understand precisely
the nature of their own Qeques0 Iouisi-
ana, which France once qare 20 Spain,
Louisiana, which Napoleoa sold 90 Che
United States expressly because he GculG
not protect it-Louisiana now constitutes
thirteen States in the Americaa Union
with territorial scope and selvedga enough
to make several more. Move ON che
doctrine Of State RICHES eacB oae of
these American States avoulS Dave
an equal say, with any other, and inase
much as from Kansas and st. Louis west,
a very large portion of the inhabitants are
Germans It is not likely they would WILL
ing come under flag which has SD re-
ceIAly been lowered TO German prowess
1t would DE a splendid indemnity Cor
Alsace and Lorraine, to receive Arkansas
Kansas, Missouri, Dakota Montana,
Wyoming, fowa Nebraska, and part of
Wisconsin. For this is just whas the
Bourbons propose to Cratic away. But
We deny, out-and-out, the principle, that
even dependency, far less State, would |
forfeit the right of it's inhabitants to elect |
their own allegiance. The Bourbons for
get that the transfer of people with the
soil is no longer tolerated en- this side Of |
the Atlantic. The population Of Terri
tory is even consulted on their wish to be
admitted as State The idea, then, that
because minority of one province is dis
,ontented with republican government,
IN immense territory, with ten or twelve
millions of other people, should be
to another form of govern
1ent, shows want of logic in the NAL
content minority. If '.we"-in however
arge a sense this imperial pronoun may
De used absolutely deny that the resi-
Tents Of Louisiana do enjoy equal rights
With other American citizens" may not
,thers within the territory of Louisiana
IS ceded by France, entertain a different
md opposite opinion? Submit the
question of retrocession tomorrow,
nd majority of tie white peo-
DE of Louisiana would oppose it.
Propose to take the colored citizens
rom the protection of the United States
nd commit them TO France, who once set
he slaves Of St Domingo free, and after
Yard sent feet and army to bring them
'ack into bondage and that majority
rould be increased perhaps a thousand
Did. Submit the question to the States
r the people formed on the territory Of
.ouisiana, and it would not get one
tfirulative vote III one mlllioHo
1t would be an immense baySafaa e
rance, which received a net sum ofa6oRSs