The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-10
Another Plan Needed.
Roundabout in New Orleans Times.

Roundabout in New Orleans Times.l
A good many little country papers, in
apparent Ignorance of what has trans
pired within the last month, are full Of
cheap ~elOquence about t~ax-resisting as
sociations. They appear not to have
heard that certain prominent business
houses In this city, having been brought
squarely to the issue, paid up rather
tamely and with a total absence of the
dramatic flourish confidently expected
by an anxious public. They seem to be
ignorant that Mr.. Booth, the only man
who consistently backed up his honest
convictions, was compelled by iniunc-
tons, imprisonment and in stress Of
complete desertiOn by his once fero-
c1ous allies, to settle his bill to the KEEL
lOgg government.
They show a tendency to ignore the
fact that five or six score of MetrODOli-
tan Police have made incursions into
one o. two disorderly parishes, and
been received with a perfect gush of
welcome and obedience.
They overlook all these suggestive
facts. They turn a blind eye to the
circumstance that all this fustian and
braggadocio has crumbled at a touch of
force, and they persist in harping on
the old exploded theories with a stupid
lGy IldG is truly inspired .
Without ever counseling the pay
ment of taxes to the State, Roundabout
has studlously refrained from endorsing
any OF the hare Drained schemes of re-
sistance which have been advanced
with such remarkable assurance.
He felt pretty sure that the very
apostles of those schemes would snb-
side at the faintest approach of pecu-
MARY loss, and he believed honestly
that nothing but disappointment would
result in any event. Tt turns out he
was right. Explain it as you may, this
legal resistance business has collapsed.
All the eloquence, all the caucus-play,
all the resolution reading, and indigna-
ton meeting, all the DoW-WoWs, the
war-talk, and political kettle-drums
have dissolved into meek acauiescence,
Of course it may be urged that this is
under protest and because we CAN'T help
ourselves, but what of that? It is done,
and the occasional moral essays from
Northern papers dished up by a res
peeted contemporary, don't change the
situation one particle.
Perhaps some n wants to revive that
feeble superstition as to the next SEES
sion OF Congress z Hardly. Those
thirty-nine dollars in postage must be
looked on as utterly squandered, and
the forging of those sEthunderbolts'
thrown up by the original contractors
The hummery is lifting like a fog, and
men are beginning to say that relief
must come by our own efforts toward
q rational end; by the abandoning OF
8 decayed traditions and incompetent
leaders, and by a frank, unreserved re.
Inauishment of the untenable and sui.
cidal policy we have been pursuing to.
ward a race whose distrust of us is to.
day the only cause of our misfortunes.
AyOung white woman, by the name
of Kate Parker was married on Monday
= evening to q coal black negro, the eere
nony was performed by a negro preach,
er. The parties had been living to-
= getheF for some time. Such cases O
depravltys we regret exceedingly IL
, state, are by no means rare, the police
reporting quite anumheTof white Womel
! thus living openly and unblushingl1
! With negro men, and, in most instances
Q men OF the lowest and dirtiest type
: Mobile Register,
E A cross-eyed man in Newburg, N. Y.
| has gathered around him seven cross
eyed servants, and when he goes int
the kitchen and gives an order Withou
J mentioning u name, it is fun to see thu
enttEE seven 60 claWing around thu
room to obey him, He intends putin,
{ up a notice, saying: tin carving on
b my views of house keeping. the EN-