New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-20

| number Of males in New Orleans above
the age of twenty-one to be 1887.
Of these the ''citizens" are 80, $50.
There, then, must be an amount Of for-
eign carpet-baggery worthy the attention
| Of those who denounce the migration OF
American citizens from one State to an
other! Nearly ten thousand carpet-bag-
gers! Who will compute the amount or
influence Of alienism in these numbers ?
We do not object tina: Jnon-naturalized
Frenchmen should write about or against
republican government. It must be a
poor political system that can not bear the
pricking of such pins. Yet, We regard it
! as little indicate to stir up civil war
in which the alien writers have not
been in the habit always Of taking a
part; or to circulate detamations OF a
government to which the censor acknowl-
| edges no obedience. Those ten thousand
naturally carry away their rental and divi-
| dends fox investment elsewhere. Will the
Bee tell us that it makes any difference
| to New Orleans whether these remi:tances
| are made to Paris or to Pekin?
We remarked that the Bee should not
send General Butler candidacy to Europe
as an argument agains: republican form
Of government, for the reason that it would
| appear ungrateful. Then the Bee, indulg-
ing its license to attribute every thing evil
to & journal which supports republican
principles, with vehement epithets charges
the REPUBLICAN with being RESPONSE
bic, not only for the misdeeds attrib-
uted to Butler: but for the passage
Of an Lct increasing the ray Of
Congressman and the executive. Now We
said nothing at tina. time about the char
acter Of General Butler nor Of the moral
propriety Of the increase Of executive and
congressional pay. We said i. was un-
grateful in the Bee to cite General Buffers
candidacy. and his alleged act at New
Orleans, as a proof Of republican failure
in America. These are our words, and
those Of the Bee. We will stand by ours
were it fifty times as cunning ofeditorial
fence as it supposes itself It can not
shake US off-nor itself. The Bee has
malgned the republican form Of govern
ment in the United States. 1t must
answer to republicans in Europe and
America. The Bee sssails the REPUBL1-
CAN because it has not lived so long, and
therefore has not as much to answer for as
itself. We are compelled to acknowledge
that the REPUBLICAN, is no fossil, and feel
like little Copperfeld, in his interview
with the tavern waiter. disposed Ito apol-
ogise for being SO young But when it is
remembered how the Bee has attained the
venerable age Of forty-seven years. its su-
perior longevity will be understood, if it
be not admired. We learn from tradition
that long time ago the Bee was high
tariff Wing and Union paper. 1t has
since become blazing star Of Southern
Democracy. The last year. however. it
advocated the original Abolitionist, the
founder Of protection. the advocate Of all
public expenditures. and most virulent
invader Of the South. Its venerable days
We're prolonged beyond the average of
journalistic mortality. by . wonderful
specific administered in !s62-63. 1t was
called 'Butlers tonic" We will repeat
this wonderful recovery. We will
do so, although we understand the
Bee to call it jrat.a'e 10 do SO. There being
nothing, of course, ;ndecorous in the terms
applied by the Be. to the REPUBLICAN,
paper and party! It may not be pleasant
to hear its ingratitude toward the cele-
brated inventor Of this tonic. Though
the Bee was discharged cured after the
use of single bottle" The original GER
tifcate may be, We learn, still seen in
print The distinguished author Of the
tonic naturally vaunts this among his
most astonishing cures. We repeat the
story as recently published in this city.
When General Butler was in military
command in this city he took offense at
various publications in the journals Of
that date, and demanded recantation or
suspension of the journals. The Bee,
with the Picoytne, eonformed their con-
duct to the programme Of General Butler,
and so lived, while the other journals, not
so flexible, were seized, confscated, and
their material employed to found other
journals, one Of which. after having I'M
dergone almost as wonderful muta-
tons as the Bee itself. still lives, although
in state of confirmed and imbecile neu-
trality. Under such allegations the RE-
PUBLICAN demonstrated that the Bee should
not send into foreign lands such TRADE
against its patron and preserver. Ger
tainly, as a spared monument Of But
ler's clemency and its own wise submis-
sion to the powers that were, the Bee is
in common generosity bound to speak
we'll of Butler OF not a: all.
There is another charge against the Re-
PUBLICAN. l. is loaded with the RESPONSE
bility of "Warmo.h and his gang" This
is little hard. Twelve months ago the
Bee men would not have trusted Warmoth
to pass car ticket. During the past
summer they took him can, onere. as the
lawyers say. with "all his imperfections
on his head 1t would not do, we sup