New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-07

such silly peculiarization. Here is how
the isolation is demonstrated:

such silly peculiarization. Here is how
the isolation is demonstrated:
"Stand together" people Of the South!
Government, society, God-all call upon you
to :Stand togetherw You are separated,
peculiar people-from your woes-your per
secutiOns-your sufferings and tolls, IN bat
tie and death. There is not a graveyard In
the South which does not tell you that you
are a peculiar people. Your heroic dead at
Gettysburg are brought home to be IN
tered in their native land. There is not a
government in the SOuth-with hlde0us con-
trivances in the name of liberty, for cor
ruption, fraud. dishonesty and tyranny,
carrying out the despotic will OF your radl-
cal rulers, which does not tell you that you
are a peculiar people.
Now this must have been written by
one wholly ignorant of any sociology in
the South later than that of the tariff
compromise. which was. we believe,
about forty years ago. The REPUBLICAN
has shown that the border States of the
South are in entire accord with the con-
stitutioa as it stands. 1t has been demon
strated that Louisiana and New Orleans
are no longer allied to the Southern At
lantic States. New Orleans is Western
city. looking to the West for support in
her conflict with the Southern Atlantic
cities. Each of these is bearing away
part Of the commerce to which New Or
leans is by her natural aqueducts entitled
The confederacy for the defense of
common title having been dissolved by
the coniscation of that title. New Or
leans is fighting Norfolk. Charleston
and Savannah. who are carrying
away her cotton. She is fighting Georgia
and the Carolinas. and attracting their
labor to those cotton fields of Louisiana
and Texas which must market their pro-
ducts here instead of in those rival cities.
The commercial confederacy Of the South
is as completely dissolved as the military
and political Contederacy. New Orleans
is not then Of that mythical South as for
merly, dictated to by those whom a COM
mon dread of abolition bound together.
We may mention what has not apparently
occurred to the writer of the Picayune.
New Orleans is a commercial city. and not
a political city at all. A political Or po-
lemical city. such as Washington City or
Rome. may very well establish bounds
and throw out pickets to prevent
any from entering unless their pass
ports are all en- reg'e. A commercial city,
however. welcomes every man who can
contribute in any manner to the welfare
of the city. No inquiry is made as to the
parish register or political or ecclesiastical
baptism. and the more cosmopolitan and
the customers Of trade city
the more prosperous the city is esteemed
to be. The cities of Liverpool and New
York comprehend all varieties of politi-
clans. from monarchist by Divine right
to the looniest so.t of a radical. The
most devoted believer in the papal su-
premacy and infallibility is allowed to reg
lister at the polls alongside of the most
puritanical latter day saint. nor is
the slightest inquiry made about
either of them until either may have
been in arrears for his weekly 'invaria-
bly, in advance" Now. to set up New
Orleans for a peculiar city is equivalent
TO saying that no one is wanted here un-
less he is prepared to submit his name to
ballot for admission into that close corpo- !
ration called the society of the South.
This exclusive doctrine would be iata! to |
Ill commercial progress or pretensions.
It having been shown that the city of |
New Orleans is no longer a member OF the |
;ormer siayeholdins section. it remains to |
De shown that the people Of New Orleans
IAN not be comprised il any such descrip-
i've category as tina: OF "a peculiar peo-
,le." The population of this city is com
posed as follows:
White natives OF uisan3................... Is
;OlOred natiyeS OF Louisiana. IS. .i.J
Nhite natives of the NOrth........... ) Or.
White natives of the West. ). ""
White natives of the South. 8 81
'Oored natives of States other than
LOUISIANA lo-NO"- % ZJI
o1eisA oOIn 1893
These estimates have been tax eu from
he census Of 1870, and are approximately
nrrect From them wa 6ed,,ca rarta;n |