New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-20
VIEWS OF A TEXAS EDITOR.


Crescent City-The City Hotel, Etc.
EditOria! Correspondence Of the Waco Register
Mr.. w. K. Chase, editor of the waco
Register, whose presence in this CRY mas
been heretofore announced in tne hEfo0
LGCAN, tayors his paper OF the hfth ih''"n'
with the following letter from New Ofiean''
in which we find enough of interest W QUIZ
readers TO lay the whole before them:
NEW ORLEANS. March 30. 1873.
Tra-ei nv the Morgan limo OF steamers
has greatly diminished OF late. TACT W u1
attributed to the completion OF urI
runtpd rail communication between LeAde
and 81, Louis and all the North anu Last
There were only about d dozen passengers
nm hoard the Whitney as ! came over.
never saw so few before on any OF these
steamers. 1t IS manifest that Ne" orleans
wiII suffer by this diversion of traVel-fof
business and travel 90 tOgetheT-until the
Toxaa and New Orleans road Is
connIeted. When this road vii! be
completed is among the uncertainties.
| have called at the office VI the coH'
many but can learn nothing more ufnnlto
than that the road VIII oecIm plGtto "lon.n
a year or two. that the work is being done
"a fast a. circumstances will permit, ana
that the road ia in the Lands OF strong
company, able and determined to put II
New Orleans lacks the buoyancy and
"push" Of rising city, with great destiny
ahead sure to be- reached. Rents nag, Oust
ness is dull. employment difficult TO be OBJ
tanned. money scarce 50 say the papers,
40 look. the city. Instead OF a strong.
voluntary, inward flow -. population, cap
tai and business. il would seem as though
these were silently Siding away as II upon
an ebb tide. 80, -,
And much OF the .fsct and dilapidation
into which Ne y Orleans i. falling must un:
doubtedly be attributed 30 the continual
political terInent in which the city mas man
az, d to keep itself since the var. say IN
which it has managed TO keep itself, Tor
believe ite troubles have been OF Its own
creating
Politics, Che new, s-so- 6ereeoncilod or sat
istied elment of the Democracy, based on
ante belIum and cOnferate ideas, have been
AZ the bottom OF al! the troubles OF New Or
leans and Louisiana since the war. NO gov
eminent not their own will ever satisfy
this element, however good wise or benign
it may be. And the cry of oppression" Is
WORTHY OF little consideration when proceed
ing from party whose creed it is to con-
slider itself oppressed unless !tselt aon1lhis'
tering the government.
The Democratic Fusion Warmoth Nc
Eueiy party have had a full hearing tor
their cause, first before the United States
court OF this State, then before the Supreme
Court of this State. then before the PresI'
dent, then they applied to the United States
Supreme Court, and then to Congress. and
though failing to receive favorable YER
dict or single essential point in the con-
trOversy from either of these great trlbu'
mails. they cody ask the stranger visiting
New Orleans and the country at large to
believe, without hesitation, that they have
the law, the evidence the right all Oh their
side.
But actions speak louder than words, and
one thing the McEnery party have made
self-eviCent, whatever they mag say, and
that is that they are not iaw-abiding; and
TO obey the law and the constituted author
tiles is the very first and most important
! condition OF good citizenship in any civil
| lized country. The McEnery party took
I'D arms TO resist the authorities OF this
| State, as you have heard. on the fifth in
| slant, aud street engagement between
the opposing forces, principally with mus,
kerry, took place, in which severa! were
killed and wounded.
| The question in controversy has been,
| who shall mold the offices and administer
the government of the State! The Me-
| Emery (Fusion DemOcraticl party say they
| were elected, and the Kellogg (Republican)
party say they were elected. Now, |
submit that it does not become me or any
other person, or this paper or that paper to
assert positively as of our own knowledge,
| who was elected. Unless We are to have
anarchy or war, all such questions. in every
| instance must be left to the decision of the
tribunals upon which the law has
conferred the jurisdiction. Such tribu-
mails have tried this question and in
| every instance have decided against the
| claims of the McEneryites. and | submit to
| the citizaus of New Orleans that ii they
would have their city prosper and have the
| confidence of the commerccl and business
men of the country at large. they should
| strive TO have il understood thai in New
Olleans this decision and al! other decisions
| and mandates Of the court are ~ he 0beyed
| and respected until set aside 10y due pro
| cess OF law. For the decision of court
whatever the wishes or opinions of indivld-
uals or communities. ia law, and resistance
| 20 the decision of d court il resistance to
law.
From the best can gather the McEnery
strength is fast subsidlng. The Pjcuyttne
still keeps up bold front and with as
resolute air as the conscious weakness and
uncertainties OF its position will permit, adj
yises resistance TO the taxes. The Times
began to hedge as sOOu as the bill ordering
q new election was voted down in Congress-:
i. says the game is up was BADLY
played" or words to- that effect.
Yes. MY opinion is that. on the
part of the McEnery partisans. this
Louisiana controversy has been game and
nothing else. played TO win and not to find
the right; and what astonishes me most is
that SO many leading papers of the North
have been confused and misled by She
shallow Clam0r OF the strikers and rOpers
in the game.
1t occurs to me that tax resistance il not
going 20 amount 10 much.
am told that while the Nc Emery strikers
are keeping up noise the mass OF the
people are quietly pawn. :heir taxes. Th"
city government is Democratic OR was
elected as such. and no fuss was made
about IL: bur the P!c0ytntc advises resist
ance 10 city IA vel. a. state :aXts.
1--WE want to be free from the rule of
carpet.baggars and adventUrers," cry the
McEnery party. This 10 what they said
when Warmotb and his associates. such as
Sheridan and McMilleno were in power
Yet we now find Warmoth the leader ..
this same party, AMI McMillen elected TO
'he United States Senate by the McEnerv
irgl-tt'itr.' I've Yea;s ago they abused
Warmoth .ni N"N!llr' a. badly a. they
npw -. N.lj".. ..i P.nchha'k: yet 81"
IT,: "gpsr'u.,|. -: .I'"' they In>'at.
W...,"'h ,ort " ''';'"H M" their highest
place. II r'h' 'I.Li'!S e.! rtsper; i"i
uOIrSiNs Siu'FIi'N ~ a'a4SfSl'iA'.0 A. E'itl. IS
party entitled: = glorious opportunity La,;
this party to places the seal Of their con
iemnat.On upon carpet baggerS. When
Warmoth and McMilen stepped forward
and asked fer preternente had this party
been honest it would have said. ''back. We
have had enough of ::"oug SOFT" Instead OF
that they were em3:,red and promoted t"
the highest places,
Thc P.cuyi,,e. while advising TAX resist
81. Sl.s pl.-n
c"ntemplates reducing the police force an
account of the difficulty u! raising Ghr