New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-12


disregard for such unadvised intervention.
LOUISIANA DEMOCRACY FROM A WEST
ERN STANDPOINT.
The st. Louis Times, one of the most
tolerant and acute of our Democratic ex-
changes, publishes as editorial the follow
ing remarks on Louisiana politics:
The news from Louisiana is by 10 means
encouraging. The political dissensions OF
the white people still continue with but
little prospect Of adjustment. How people
with SO much at stake and such golden
opportunity before them can hazard it all
by squabbles and disputes that half-grOwn
children should be ashamed of surpasses
human understanding. Unless msgovern-
ment has really driven them crazy, they
scarcely deserve the sympathy they have
succeeded in exciting. At time when they
should act as unit they are divided into
factions, varously designated as Liberals.
Fusionists, Democrats. White Leaguers and
Independents. ali alike Irreconcllable, eX-
acting and repellant.
There is an old saying, that "whom the
gods mean to destroy they first make mad"
and Louisiana has evidently reached that
stage. No other people under the sun has
such motives for harmony and concert of
action, and instead Of uniting to produce it,
they seemingly strive to create dissension,
distrust and suspicion.
The fact is, that nearly every man in the
State is al otfice-seeker. The war, which
swept away their property, left them a per-
verted intelligence, mainly directed to the
pursuit of official position. The easy accu-
mutation Of vast wealth by the Radicals and
carpet-baggers has left upon the ma ority of
the community morbid desire TO flesh
their luck" in the same line of political en-
terprlse; aud hence the impulse, but lily
repressed, of the average LOuisianian to cry
out, ''Give me Office or give me DEATH
If half OF these hot-headed, obstinate and
unappeasable fanatics had their due they
would get the political death they are seem
ingly SO ambitious of securing.
This is common sense view of pa
per at all times outspoken against the
Republican party. From Democratic
standpoint the sentiments expressed are
honest and well spoken and show intelli.
gent comprehension of the situation; but
it is lot probable that the remarks will
be needed by the new Democracy of Lou
isiana. The leaders Of the partisans
who claim the name of Democrats in this
State are so narrowed with prejudice and
have become so wholly insane on a class
and color warfare, scheme SO suicidal in
policy and disastrous to the agricultural
and commercial welfare Of the State, that
all words of advice, from whatever
source, fall unheeded to the ground. The
desire for Office has begot the thirst for
blood. The same spirit which conceived
the idea of rebellion, which conceived
and carried out the massacre of 1866,
which participated in the Ku-Klux and
Knights of the White Camelia outrages of
1868, and organized open and armed re-
bellion in 1872, whereof was left the
record written in human blood, is still
rampant and will not down even upon
remembrance of the sad experiences of
the past. If anything can shame the
Democratic parry the organization of the
White League of Louisiana has done that
thing. The proof is its universal con-
demnation by the press and public at
large, now speaking dispassionately and
sadly. That there could exist for day,
in sovereign State, and in fair Louisiana,
an organization outspoken as to inten-
tons, having for a purpose war against
colored men because they are colored, and
the ostracism of white men who do not
vote the Democratic ticket, the starving
out of both classes, and the murder of all
men who do not entertain political opin-
ions indentical with those of the members
OF the League, is thought too monstrous
to be entertained by rational beings, and
does make even Democrats blush to call
themselves Americans. What can be
thought of a diver who will cut his
life line, or Of a captain who will
scuttle or, fire the ship in which
he is sailing? This State, considered as
to its agricultural producing capacity, is
garden spot in our world. The wealth
she has yielded can be doubled under
wise and improved cultivation. The capt.
tai is waiting to come here. The expe-
rienced laborers are here. The one is de-
pendent upon the other. With all the
possibilities of glorious future in view,
thinking men who see US from distance
see also our internal strifes, and look up
on the strange spectacle of an organiza-
ton effected by loud-mouthed politicians,
smiled upon by soreheads, and applaud
ed by public journals, with an avowed
purpose Of driving our laborers from the
fields, and establishing ruin where pros
perity should be. That men Of particu-
lar faith may become police jurors, parish
judges and tax gatherers, we have those
calling themselves Democrats and White
Leaguers who would make this garden of
plenty bowling wilderness; who would
set up a reign of terror and anarchy where
good government now is.
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