New Orleans Republican., 1873-05-02
WICKED CoUNsELs AND FALSE REPORTS

WICKED COUNsELS AND FALSE REPORTS.
We hope the Louisville CCurier-JOlTHd!
will comprehend US when We state that
We consider the instigators Of riot re-
sponsible for it, and rot those who truth
fully relate the details after the fight.
We have never charged upon the Fusion
organs in general, and the Guter-Jo,rRG!
in particular, that they have attempted 70
ruin the commerce Of New Orleans by
Publishing reports OF the violence and
anarchy that actually prevail here. 1t
to suppress the truth, however unpleas
ant, or to require our contemporaries TO
DO so. But when the Fusion journals Of
our own city and their political allies IN
little country towns, like Louisville, Nash
vile, Memphis, etc, devote column after
column to infaming one class Of Our
State against another, and thereby pro-
woke the very outrages which they after
ward distort, they do strike fatal blow
at our commerce. II IS the province of a
newspaper to relate events as they hap
pen. When this is faithfully done, we
have no word of complaint. But it is
also vicious hf bit Of political papers to
keep alive agitating questions; TO stir up
strife among the people; to shield their
party friends and magnify the errors Of
their opponents; to array men against
each other who would naturally be
friends, and then to make great parade
in the news columns 10y spreading reports
of the disturbances they themselves have
wrought, before their readers in startling
headlines and sensational sentences.
The REPUBLICAN claims to be both a
faithful chronicler and safe adviser. We
do not teach the white people Of Kentucky
that it is necessary to their manhood to
wage an eternal war upon their black
neighbors. We do not employ 'highly in
telligeIt correspondents 20 go to Louis
vile TO consort with the worst enemies Of
tie State, and write back 20 US all the
talsehoods they invent and lay them before
tie people of New Orleans as truth. If
we were to assume to overlook tie private
affairs Of the people Of Kentucky. as the
Courier does those of the South, Louis
| lana included, we should counsel them to
be just to all classes within the juristlic-
| ton Of that State, and instruct them that
| the law is supreme over all citizens-the
rich and poor alike.
We do not, therefore, asclibe any in
proper motive to any paper for publishing
accounts of disorder Ill Louisiana when
such disorder exists. But when We fEd
the Cou'ier-JournNj and its allies endeavor-
ing by every means in their power to pro-
woke civil disturbance, and then screening
those who are the really guilty parties, by
charging the blame upon their innocent
victims, whose voices, hushed in death,
can no longer be raised in their own de-
tense, we DO and ever shall hold them to the
proper responsibility for Their share
il the wicked business. Our local papers
are instigated by the clamors CT political
partisans here who hope to foist them
selves into public Offices when they shall
Lave destroyed the Republican party.
The journals Of distant places are urged
on by our commercial rivals who hope to
profit by the ruin Of our city and its trade.
Thus the enemies Of New Orleans are
striving to undermine its prosperity for
selfish objects, though they differ in their
scope. The assassins Of Grant parish find
ready apologists in our local Fusion papers,
because it is a part Of the policy Of their
party to disrupt the Republican party,
ard they find Jealous defender in the
CoQrier-JournGi, because it sees in them
most active and efficient auxiliaries IN dee
stroying the business Of 20 commercial
rival The Courfer-Jol0nali is IN favor OF that
self-government, which one race would jne
pose upon people, while the REpUI2gcA,o
comedies to every lagal voter his proper
voice and influence in public affairs IN
this respect we are entirely conscious 0f
being on the right side, while our Lopea
are not sanguine that the Fusion organs
will ever rise to $ 9lll comprehension og
| the Justice OF the case.
PHILANTHROPY AT LONG RANGE
Captain Williams is in dange5 0s q,