New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-24
WHAT'S THE USE?

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The Picayune accompanies its usual
blood and nickel abuse of every person
| and thing Republican with anonymous
communications recommending mission
of ministers to the North, with view to
disabuse the public mind of what it COZ
siders gress srsoss- at opinion in regard r.
the state OF. affairs. id Louisiana. At the
same time We are told-thst tue Democratic
Central Committee is preparing an ad-
dress will the same object.
We can not anticipate tie slightest
change in the opinion Of the President
or of the American people. These opin-
ions are fixed. and neither the circulation
Of newspapers or clergyman can change
item.
The White Leaguers shot in cold blood
and unde, written safeguard six Northern
and Western men. They have driven
some hundreds Of others to the North and
West for no other crime than that Of their
nativity and opinions. These events have
been chronicled by the Republican press.
and knowledge of them has been diff.
fused by the surviving victims. The state
men.s Of these exiles are believed at the
North and West. The contradiction Of
those charged with the acts Of death and
prescription will not be believed. Do
they suppose that the representations OF
members of Congress and State officers
will have no weight at Washington. or
that an appeal from the Attorney General
of Louisiana would be set aside for a
French paragraph in the Bee:
It is useless TO expect it. If all the
clergy of New Orleans. headed by Rev.
Dr.. Markham. should go in procession,
throughout. the West and North the belief
would be that Of the Washington Es!p11-
lican:
We NAV expect tia: when the truth shall
bs known, q tale of horrible butchery. OF
massacre without distinction, and OF cruelty
without mercy. will strike the country Win
stupor, dishonOr the name of American cit1'
zen aud recall the bitter memories OF past
which should have long since been buried.
Suppose this is not strictly true: Do
not the proven facts render it possible:
Will no: party press there. as here. en-
ploy the sensational to promote its princi'
pies? 1t would he precisely the same
game Of abuse and exaggeration employed
here. perhaps with something of the same
effect. The White League journals here
have no popular circulation at the North
or West. The same articles written to
public hatred Of the Republic.
ans are quoted by Republican papers to
show the state of violence existing
here. I: was a very popular para.
graph pu blished in the Picwane that
the troops Of the United States
should be respected according only |
to their force. When published elsewhere
It was held 70 mean. we only submit to
the federal government because wecan
not SUGGEST ully resist it. II the White !
League pulpit and press should Combine
10 disowu ev cry act Of blood or injustice |
Of the past two years. it would be useless.
Tie North and West would not believe it.
With regard TO the Democratic address.
there would be- even less possibility of
its statements on the Northern
and Western public. The Yankee State
rights Democrats dread anything pes
aiming to secession or resistance to the
avs of the Union far worse than any
;calded dog ever dreaded cold wa.
er. They have made haste to re
,udiase White Leaguery. They do not
intend ever to commit themselves even as !
YIN: athizers with any movement which |
,rings the South in antagonism with the
ederal government. They were among !
he first to condemn the White League
because it dislocated Demo.
ratio unity. 1t will desert them now as
lsual. but in 1876 it will be around to
lrive them up to vote for the national
Democratic party. 1t is Of no use for the
'rgans which have done SO much to create
his state Of Northern opinion to try to
hsrge it. They have formed that opir.
On, and it is immutable.