The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-03-22
The Combat in New Orleans

Those who see in the recent
conflict in the streets of this city
only few men killed and wound
ed. little blood shed, and the
hurried flight of unOrganized
militia before the musketry and
the grape shot of trained battal-
ions, see only the surface of the
events, and are incapable alike of
either understanding or appre
ciating the gravity of the sudden
and unfortunate lesson.
1t has been eight long years
since the surrender of the armies
of the South. The party whipped
the fight have had absolute and
unqueStioned control of the gov
eminent. The army, the navy
and the treasury belonged to it..
Its Congress without conscience
found a facile and INSCRIPTIONS
President, aud its DEGREES were as
rigidly executed as there was
pitiful feebleness on one side and
gigantic power on the other.
Hence everything in the nature
of reconstruction partook of an
[ infallible existence, and there
g were not waiting prophets who
declared that the millennium had
: come. &C..
!, And to Louisiana so it has
that kind of millennium which re.
sembleS the peace of the Romans
, in the language of the great histo,
rian: "They made desert and
they called it peace" A few fig.
( ures in this connection might serve
the purposes of illustration well
State debt, forty eight millions
q debt OF the city of New Orleans
twenty-five millions; two arrival
e State government; two United
States Senators claiming the same
seat; the militia in arms; blood
D shed in the streets of the metro
: polls; Federal soldiers in posses
sion of the capitol; court rooms
the judiciary: great paralySi.
4 everywhere; an exodus of tn,
population that is worse than all
e and the shadow of absolute bank
r ruptcy over the Threshold O
every merchants door as a curse
o And these are the sole results o
eight wears of Radical rule AM
J reconstruction.
u Perhaps the South deserve
It nothing-and it is precious littI
she has got, God knows-bu
o looking at the thing in a practical
d business light solely, is there no
somewhere II great ignorance or
IS great rascality? Is it either com
@ mon sense, political shrewdneSs
or tenthrate craftsmanship +
offer to the world such spectacl
of republican mismanagemen
Ii and imbecility? The nation car
IT not always thrive on hateful pa:
/ sions and long abused war-crie
II of loyalty and plumber. For til
re sake of the West-that West VIII
IF as surely saved the Union an
preserved the hereditary right {
Sc New England to still further TO
is and Cypress it-as there were to
] much New York at Bull Run an
- not enough Illinois, it does seel
lg as if it were ABOUT time to tax
il away the soldiers from the mark,
=, places at least and let the cha
., nels Of trade flow on as before I'll
ID barriers the bayOnets and I'll
or Gatlin guns built. Bankrupt
Louisiana means Strengthened S
'r Louis and Chicago. Military su
W tanned Durell means the san
; thing among the corn as the CO
IL ton fields, and if it is profitable
I'd enquire into the subject at all,
FL can at leas5 do no harm to su
gest that the party which has IA
SIS ed for eight years to either prote
ne or give peace to its conquered tie
, ritory is totally unfit to administ
u upon the affairs of The Mort
:, needing now, above all things,
lie prosperous and contented Sout
X: This recent emeute in New c
tn leans was puerile and comtemT
ible affairs. 1t was made for
no purpose. 1t was intended to
C. termine the fact whether FEEDER
ck soldiers would or would not int
fere between the factions, Just
us if Grant had not long ago leagu,
&C. with the custom-house aud Il
"A plunderers-with the horde of {
lean and the hungry, who BIZ
20 empty bellies and pockets to f
lot and who, without Emery and ID
rell, would have been ground in
powder. They found out specs
ly the drift of the tide, and tn
ah have become ridiculous. But il
OIL not this ill-advised and miserat