New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-10
IMPUDENT ASSUMPTIONS.

Nearly every little community in th
: country can boast of its proverbial story
teller, its champion romancer, of whom
can be said: 'He has told that story S
often that he now believes it to be true
r Such is the case with our Fusion, Demo
cratic, Reform, secession, Southern rights
etc., friends. They have number of lit
tie pet falsehoods which they are in tn
habit of relating IN the most innocen
manner-sometimes with the ardor of in
spired rage, at others with the calm, self
possessed air of martyrs determined tt
maintain principle even at the stake
Some of their hallucinations are very in
furious to themselves and all others who
place reliance in them. Among the most
destructive Of these political fallacies,
invented for the purpose of carrying
an occasional ward election is the no.
ton that all the wealth, virtue, honesty,
intelligence and usefulness are in the ex.
clusively white or Democratic party. That
the war did not change the definition of
the word people, " but that it retains all of
its ante-bellum significance. The fact that
the emancipation proclamation, and sub
sequent legislation in consonance there
with. added in this State alone more than
three hundred and sixty thousand to the
political family, who are, IN all the future
numberings of ''the people, to be counted
IN, to be rated as a consequential element.
not only in the fields but on the hastings,
is completely ignored.
No Republican statesman, no Repub
llcan journal has been guilty of the bad
taste and worse judgment of ignoring the
rights, as citizens, of their opponents.
They are always taken into the account.
carefully numbered in the political tables
and counted upon as positive force to
be overcome. In cases where they show
up at the polls in sufficient force to
carry the election, the fruits of
the victory are accorded. Not SO
with our opponents. Throughout the
length and breadth of this State the
Democratic whippers-in-political small
fry, who really can not command tenth
OF the votes in their respective election
precincts-proclaim themselves as the
chosen representatives of ''the people"
Booth vexes the ears Of the courts with
his clamors in the name of people who
know him not, and Ogden echoes
the refrain through the corridors
Of the Capitol at Washington. Sen
ator Sumner, who has championed
the colored race in their great struggle
from serfdom to perfect political man
hood is amused with the shallow pretense
that Mr.. Ogden's handful of constituents
are the people of Louisiana. Senator Car
penter, who has been here, and knows as
much OF the white people and more of the |
coiored than Mr.. Ogden, is expected to
believe all the allegations in his remark |
able letter. Senator Morton is also ad- |
dressed III the same strain. The Dem
ocratic organs, from the New Orleans
Herald to the Baton Rouge Comet, daily
and weekly suggest to their readers that
no one not white man, and Democrat
1t that, can by any possibility be ''iden-
.ited with the interests of this people,"
hat taxes paid to sustain any government
1ot run by our hereditary rulers are in
quitous and wrung from an unwilling
Now all this is as false as it is mischiev-
JUS. The Republican party contains more
eal producers more true sons of the soil
han the party of great pretension but
cant honesty can number For nearly
ne hundred years the white people of
louisiana have mainly subsisted on the
ruits of tile toll of the colored people of
he present generation and their ancestors.
hey come very near to doing che same at
he present moment. The REPUBLIsAS
as been literally sustained for four or
We years by these stalwart, honest, CRATE
Il sons of toll. They produce the fruits I
the earth in abundance, and only de-
land in return that a portion of the pro- I
uct of their labor shall be given up by c
lie rapacious middle men to the support c
their most faithful and powerful c
ivocate. Thanks to the general shift
ssness of the factors, the support which \
e deserve comes shorn of its proportions a
Id is grudgingly given. But it is the t
'operty of our friends, the bounty of Ii
ose who are at once the salvation of the Il
ate and the masters of the situation r,
ION which we rely. The Republican ia
personalities in the Legislature need cl
We no hesitancy in disposing of the pub al
revenues in the manner they may deem We
st suited to the interests of the State, re
they have been sent here by men who ri
Ide it all, and baye done SO for genera Al