New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-19
The WouId-Be Aiarrnists.
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vate letter" from New Orleans, evidently
intended for public use. LIS was written,
we are told. by ga merchant of high char
acter, taking no interest IN politics.. we
have noticed that the fellow who takes no
interest in politics" is always one OF the
most unfair partsans and unreasonable
caruers that infest free community. Ii
he took little interest in politics he would
know moro and talk more reasonably. AS
it is he is little more than q brute com
palmer. He encounters something dlsa-
greeable and commences grunting, about as
intelligently as one of the porcine family
would under imiar circumstances. We,
therefore, do not consider his opinions of
any consequence. When he begins by tell
ing us that he takes little or no interest IN
politics, we consider it equivalent to con-
fession that he knows little or nothing of
what he is talking about.
The fellow who writes for the Tribune IS
evidently a fraud. He really takes d deep
interest in politics, and his sympathies are
all enlisted on the Bourbon side. He opens
his letter by saying: "On my return from
Washington, as a member OF the New Or
leans delegation, l found yours of the
eighteenth awaiting me-" So he took in
terest enough in politics, in this instance at
least, to become one of the immortal hun
bred led by Judge Campbell. lie repudi
ates Warmoth, save as a worker in the
Liberal Republican party" with no hope of
reward, Except to take his chance without
any pledgesl for the United States Senator
ship" The no-pledge part of his story may do
to tell to the marines, but it is too thin to be
believed by people who take an interest in
politics. He is very anxious to have it I'M
derstoOd that "the original cause of the
trouble" is not "a quarrel between War
moth and his party and kellogg and his
party" This idea which prevails, he de-
clares is a mistake fatal to our success in
enlisting the sympathies and awakening
the fears of the Northern people," So it
seems this fellow, who "takes no interest
in politics." has an eye to awakening
Northern sympathies and exciting North
ern fears; in other words, to making pOiti-
cal capital for the coalition party, and the
Tribune is ready to aid him. 1t makes his
rambling and Indifferent letter an excuse
for sucn comments as this:
The public mind has had a surfeit of
contention, and takes only languid inter
est in anything resembling political strife.
1t il therefore difficult to mako people see
that this gross illegality and usurpatiOn of
federal officers in Louisiana is pure anarchy
and nothing less. At this hour, there is no
law, properly speaking. in that important
State. Judge Durell and the officers of the
Customhouse are the only standards of
legality or justice left to that plundered
No State can afford TO look
calmly on while such things are possible in
another. We have not yet ceased to hope
that the President may see his error and
undo his wrong in this matter
The Tribune does not show that there is
anything TO sustain its wholesale charge of
"gross illegally and usurpation." The
facts are against it. All the legality is on
the side of the Pinchback government and
the administration, and no attempt is made
to appeal the case to the Supreme Court b.
the willy and wordy coalitionists There
would be just as much sense in accusing
the Kellogg party of committing ''hat bur
glary" on the Tribune Office as in making
these ranting buncOmbe accusations.
Charges made without a shadow of proof
do not readily gain credence. If there were
anything Illegal, OF course it would be the
easiest thing in the world for the coalition.
lists to make the fact appear before the Su-
preme Court, and no sane man caI doubt
that they would avail themselves OF the
first opportunity to do SO. !
The proposition OF the Trtbune's private
to "bring to bear upon their
in Congress such pressure
as will force from them measures of relief
for u.s." is off from the same piece as the
French arms scandal and the fourteen other
false charges brought before Congress at
its last session, and is prompted by the
same spirit. But it will prove no more
should it induce Congress to |
make an investigation of Louisiana affairs.
than the fifteen, bearing the same stamp,
already consigned to polical infamy.
The effort to brighten the Northern people |
oy telling them that mo State can afford |
to- look calmly on while such things are |
possible in another" Is childish and |
ridiculous. In the first place, there is no |
more cause for alarm in the overthrow of |
Warmoth and his coalition clique than there |
was in the overthrow of the rebellion. In |
the second place, if there was cause Tor |
alarm. the less the Tribune had to say about |
/, the less doubt and suspicion there would |
% in the public mind. 1t once enjoyed |
public confidence and had some influence.
Che reverse is the fact now. Its recent
course has been contemptibie, and what |
title there was left 10 commend it to public
aspect died with Horace Greeley, the vic
i'm of one of the loulest political cOnspir-
.Cies that darken the pages of history Had
[ not been for this, there is good reason tc
believe that the old man would be living
low. ID useful and hOnored citizen. The
IIibu,le'S efforts as an alarmist have no
ther value than that OF indicatiD. its
Bourbon tastes and sympathies. ana its
esolutiOn to continue to Cooperate with
he enemies of the country and Of good
government
There is beautiful! .agueness as well rs
dmirable cheek" III the Iirbune's wing:
w. have not vet ceased to hope that the
President may see his error. and undo hi.
wrong in this matter What is the wrong
o be undOHe, Is 1T The sustaining OF the !
ecTscs of the United States courts, against |
Which even Alexander II. stephens can find
10 cause for alarm or complaints Would
hav" the United States courts over
brown, and the frauds. c0rruptiOns and
OF WarmOth made triumphant 7
not this, it is impossible to guess what
he Tribune and its Bourbon sympathizeg.
would have done. They seem TO want the |
resident TO violate the federal constitution
ma ms oath OF office to sustain the acts of
man whom they are ashamed OF. snd
lways begin their plea by repudiating.
he trrth -, however, they asc the old |
ebeis, and their cause la the rebellion in IL
lightly modified form. yheip trouble now
that 1t has been again overthrow, and !
aw, ordeg and LnIoA have again been se-
ori0us
Notwithstanding tha agitation kept up
~ political effect, affairs in Louisiana ap-
ear /" be rapidly assuming healthy tone.
hto private advIces received in Washing |
IN are to the effect that leading property |
olCers. bankers. merchants and business |
len give Mr. Kellogg assurance of their
onhdence and support in the work of re- I
eving the financial condition of Louisiana.
nd that syndicate, composed of the lead
lg bankers. is being formed for the purpose
I taking the new city consolidation loan,
7hich will place New Orleans at once on a
ash basis. Later advices also show that
he Kellogg returning board of election had
all returns from every cleo ion district
nj did not act on partial data, As has been | J
reported b! the coalition oppo
ton. 1t has done everything "decenilv
nd in order" and in accordance with law :
nd the forms of law. There is not a loop l
ole left for the Warmothite usurpers who !
u out to steal the State. They may cry S