New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-06
MIGRANTS, ATTENTIONS.

poned, for want OF . bidder, loud shot
came up from the clique in Temporal
charge Of that mcribund journal
Such celebration of the distractions 9
! the journal could only have come fror
those who preferred to use the paper as
I conduit Of political mafevolence 20 seeing
/ il realize some returns 70 the iberality O
Che citizens who had bought it. Th
J respite from the moose of the Law is h
! produce no reformation. The non-pro
! fessioAal directors have resumed thel
| efforts at political agitation and tn
Pic,yuos has relapsed into its formel
ways. Il endeavored 20 awaken . be
! lies that Counsellor Ogden will prevail
| single-handed, ana against the large ma
| jority that seated the Republican members
establish the Fusion nominees for Con
gfess. As . guide 20 che infantile in
experience Of the new Committee Oh
Elections. che nc fepublishes copious
! extracts from the report Of the pre-
cedine committee. This is sad waste
! OF ink and composition. Is IL assumed
! that the Picayune even cifculates as far
I as Washington City, OF that il ever
falls into the hands of legislator. or that
the legislator would ever bore down
through the superintendent shaIe Of its
leader tor the remote chance Of finding
any pay deposit beneath?
Ouq empty houses, oue deserted streets,
our departed trade, our silent manufActst
tories and unemployed workmen, all unite
IN urging us on in the path of duty. The
influence OF excessive taxation has ex-
tended itself in all directions, destroyed
business, driven away capital, expelled
population, rendered taxable property
worthless, and has brought the whole PEG.
pie to poverty and despair, except chosen
few and their hired advocates, who thrive
and tsttes % the proceeds of public eos-
ruptiOn.
Why, chen, excite vsin hopes OF o reso-
luton? Why argue that there is no judicial
remedy Cor tho 'erushingly excessive
taxes" This infames the discomfort which
it has been the mission of the Picayune 10
create AT the same time it acknowledges
an incapacity to lay the ghost it has con-
jured up, and whines out:
Hence it behooves that some steps should
be taken having in view the rights of the
citizen, whose rights and interests have
been hitherto entirely ignored, he being re-
garded as pigeon to be plucked and hav-
ing no rights that a public functionary is
bound to respect.
Where, then, is the remedy for these
evils: 1t lies not i'll fiot, nor injunction in
the courts or in tax resistance. The same |
mputation is put upon "the only court |
having jurisdiction in regard 10 tax suits" J
Even the imputation upon the court
which subjected the Picay,tne to impend-
ng damages for libel is repeated. This
court is called "the illegal offspring of
corrupt craftsmanship, created in utter dis
egard of all constitutional obligations,
hiehy for the purpose Of giving the sem
dance Of legality to public extortons'
There is then no show or shadow Of JUS
ice to a person owing taxes however OPP
ressive or unjust. Capitalists will note
his danger to investments under judi
ial tribunals at once illegal and corrupt
low for the attractions to immigrants 20
ring their enterprise and skill into this
larket.
II might as Tea have added that shis
csushingly oppressive taxation had
rought aa old and once successful Jour-
al unde. the hammer without . bid
he one consequence would have been Just
) Legitimate = result of the cause at
ibuted as the others. It has been found
lat the stagnation of trade in New Or )
ans is due to the superior facilities of i;
'ntlicting interests elsewhere. 10 has .
zen demonstrated in the market reports
the Picaytae itself that the current of
AIDE has abandoned the river and is con-
lcted by artificial ways. What pray,
IS the corn trade to fear from taxation? !.
by does one hundred millions Of dollars
cotton values seek this tax ridden and .
rrupt city? Why is it that, as shown a =
W days since in the REPUBLICAN, the
fillmore railroad carries nearly as much ;
'ur to Baltimore as the Mississippi brings .
New Orleans? And how can any prin-
pie of reason attribute nearly as large a Il
image on that road as that moved by the a
lole lower Mississippi to unjust judicial h
bunals? These commodities pay no u
lnsit tax here. The imports Of foreign q
DDS, which have not increased here a
ice the war, pay the same federal tax
re that they do in New York. Why do ii
If hundred million dollars of imports Il
X chat Tweed ridden city il local taxes A
political dishonesty control commerce? S.
ahe Picoypne has long since seized on &C
g commercial embarrassmepts OF New 81
leans for political effect. 1t has at it.
hlteS them to causes entirely made ca
ate. 70 prosperous man any eax rs ST
hit; to poor and unemploye4 Nan hs
le grasshopper is burden" Jc
We do aot know what motive can pos Il,
S these enemies of the people who nj
We captured this journal, now in the last sr
Dnies of che law. This elaborate ore
Use OF universal insolvency may perhaps eli
~ of bidders ut Che ensuing sales Oh 10
; Picayne. The power to crafty party lii
llevolencs at she expense of our bust w
IS welfare may Sc again celebrated with ! ze
Id vLoops. and the peoples papeS, Sc
Wig suine6 the people and itself, may y;
worked down to the last cent run on n
: rocks of bankruptcy and abandoned lie
the underwriters. Perhaps capitalists pa
1 business men Men, recognizing the an
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