New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-03
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BOMbastes Furioso.

| From the New York Evening Pos..I
| 1t is written that "though YOU bray foo
in a mortar, vet will his foofishness NOT de
part from him." It is the nature of imprae
ticable creatures of this sort never to Know
their best trends They never learn and
can never forget, and once possessed of an
idea, no experience, however hard, car
teach them that it was wrong and no wis
dom, even though it was inspired, induce
! them to accept another in its place. We
should be sorry TO believe that this ia the
character of the Southern people generally.
but it requires good deal Of patlenee and
good deal of faith to reject the evidence
that it is the most cherished and most com
mon type. Mr.. Jefferson Davis. for exam
pie, never loses an opportunity to persuade
the world that he will gladly suffer martyr-
dom rather than surrender an exploded
opinion, and that, having stopped thinking
thirteen years ago, there is no power in
events, human or divine, to induce him to
resume that painful process. -s sf vi
Unhappily he is not without his follow.
ers. We had occasion, not long since. with
reference to the impending election tor Gov
error in Massachusetts,, to say something
of the character in peace and in war of
Genera! Butler. We were thinking Of that
person rather than of the Southern rebels
though we referred to the late rebellion and
hAo oSA 'ASNo ~ 40 SUPP CoSiOn Nv W0y OI
illustration. 1t is our i'll fortune that such
reference does not meet with the approba.
ton Of the New Orleans Picay,.,,e. which,
because We recognized the fitness of General
Butler to conduct a negotiation with such
q savage as Captain Jack, as well as to deal
with rebels of any sort in arms, resents the
supposed imputation that all SOutherners
are barbarians and Modocs. Ii one were
not amused one might be impatient at such
~ nf thn ,(.s1vn ~c-
but wrongheadedness sometimes resolves
itself into such absolute imbecilitv as to be
laughable as we'll as pitiable. Thus the
Pcayune "wreaks itself upon expression"
in such an example as this of sentimental
pathos and prodigiously fine writing s-.i
What you call rebel, we call patriot;
what you call rebellion, we take from tie
tombstone of the regicide of Charles l..
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to GOdv
What you call duty, in the foul and corrupt
government you have put over us, we call
tyranny. What you call free government,
in the usurpation and consolidation of
powers IN the government of the United
States, we call a hldeous, remorseless des-.
potism. Command that we shall be aliens
in language as in government. We obey"
The man who can write or the people
who can listen to such stuff as this, uttered
on such small prOvocation as discussion
of General Buffers fitness to be Governor
of Massachusetts, is beyond Argument and
past praying for. Ii the Picay,tne repre-
sents any considerable portion Of the peo-
pie of Louisiana. there is little hope for that
State till they are removed to another and
better world. Missionaries can not save
nor ''carpet-baggers" do them much harm
in this. If they can only see in the people
of the North-busy in little else than
money-making, and caring little else about
Louisiana than that she should have the
good sense to settle her troubles, and go to
work in raising more cotton and making
more sugar--it they can only see in them "a
and remorseless despotism," which has
no parallel except in that of Charles l.,
then one might as well appeal to the
sober judgment of the inmates Of q
madhOuse, or the good sense of
cage of chattering chimpanzees. The little
boys of that State, we trust, are not such
implacable donkeys, and when their fathers
are removed from world that can not un-
derstand and is not good enough for them
when they a's) shall sleep with the
regicides, and have inscribed upon
tsrasts is obedience 10 God.' and that
thai was the way in which they
passed their beautiful and useful lives, when
they could spare the time from "iarrupping
their niggers'-then a new Louisiana, per-
haps, will mend the !evees, plant more cot
ton and grind more sugar-cane, accept the
world as II is. go to the primary meetings
and consent to count the negro vote. Let
us hope that We shall not be disappoin ted
in these little boys when they come of age,
and that they are already wiser than their
fathers. r..a
But seriously. is it not time that the South
had outgrown and should cease this sort of
fustian talk OF the JEFF Davis school 1t 1s
neither manly, nor wise, nor heroic. No
matter what she meant to do thirteen years
ago-she did not do it. The States are
united States again, and there is not, and
is not going 10 be a Southern COnfederacy.
independent of and separate from thirty odd
millions of Northern people who have the
will and the power to make this portion of
the American continent one people. united
and indivisibie. It is time that the more
sensible and better class of the South should
make it understood that they do not choose
to be misrepresented by this fatulent bonn.
bast, and made ridiculous bv these frantic
screams and idiotic rawlings. which. if they
ever had any influence are a. unmeanipg
aud absurd in tle new conditions OF this
people and country as would be a new cru
sade under another Peter the Hermit.
Even the Picayt,te. we should think, would
Ilush to see it. nonsense held up to it in
he columns of Northern journal, and
ors wear for the future any expression of
opinion that could have the remotest rela-
ion TO swords, pistols or blunder busses or
ha. might betray it into any allusiens to
martyrs. sepulchres or tombstones.