The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-01-05
The President and the People.

The President ana the fooPo.
There appears to be now some hope Snat
President Grant may be forced to yieid
little of that infexibility with which Az
torney Williams told us his mind was
made up. The skilful and persistens e.
forts of our committee are letting in httie
more light upon the Northern mlnd ON
the subject of carpet baggery generally
than is pleasant to the wire workers OF our
present discontinue. It appears that den'
Grant, with all his bull-doggedness and IT.
stinct for fighting on the same line, Knows
how to stink down promptly enough when
the master whistles him in. The master,
as yet, is the Northern people, and they
whistle both through the Press aud through
the mouth piece of Congress.
1t is, probably, through our commercial
relations principally that the commlttee
will find themselves to have the entree 70
Northern feeling. Their intimate business
| relations with SO many of the frst-ciass
banking and commercial houses OF North
ern cities cannot but be a favorable cendi-
ton to good understanding otherwise. 1t
is we'll known that q commercial people,
more thoroughly than any other, loses It's
bireted views of affairs and its narrow pre-
iudices against men. There is nothing like
intercourse for dissipating all such errors
aud the intercourse of commerce Is the
most active, the most constant ana the
most wide spread Of all human agencies OF
this kind.
f 1t is very probable, then, that New \ ork
, Philadelphia and Boston will listen very
kindly to representations made by SO gooe
customer as New Orleans, when SEN
| through SO authentic and respectable
t channel as the one at present employed
&, In that case the day of misunderstanding
! between the Two sections of the countr.
/. and of dire misfortune to the South iron
4 that cause is passed. If the commercia
9 intelligence of the North can be brought t
# appreciate our real condition, the know
f ledge of it will soon spread to every othe
= class of people, and public sentiment WI
@ change overwhelmingly in our favor.
II We argue but little hope from any fea
Q to be aroused among Northerners lest thel
|. own States Rights should be compromise
) by events in Louisiana. In Northern opln
r ion the Southern States are. in the Unio
theoretically only, and for the sake OF az
v pearances. AS to their enjoying any actu'
it constitutional rights by reason OF that pee
r of courtesy, it is quite another thing.
to 1t is really only through commercial an
G. business relations that we can expect
ID influence and propitiate Northern feeling
ID and it is to be lamented that the South hi
,e resorted to that plan SO tardiiy.. The tel
at dency on our part to play the lofty
r. keep up business intercourse in such a tol
lis as to forbid any idea of personal int
er course-has been an unwise policy, and
ought to hasten to adopt the very opposi
in one.
It We heard a gentleman remark recent
ak that he took occasion, in writing on ou'
nd ness to commercial house at the Mort
wv to explain the condition of things here al
the deleterious effects produced thereby
it. the very business about which he "
e. writing. Every letter going North Dug
ur to be missionary of this kind. 1t Dug
ly. to carry a CLEAN of light and truth to
go least one mind, and it would not be 10
a before the effect on public opinion wor
IN be practical and most happy.