New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-05
COPPERHEAD TALK.

Ing very livery again In parts OF the
country where the people have shown
signs of forgiveness to the Democratic
party. The big Copperheads never fail
to improve what they suppose an oppor-
tunity to visit on the Republican party
and officials their fercest imprecations,
accompanied by assertions that are as
barren OF the truth as the copperhead hiss
is OF music, and the little Copperheads
show an aptness for repeating these Kisses
that is more remarkable than the pre-
cocious antics of the more conservative
of the American youth trained in the
Democratic fold. As the proof of what
is here said is directly at hand, the Re-
PUBLICAN will produce some of it as
means of convincing the conservative ele-
ment of the Democratic party that it can
have no hope of success until it has
formally joined the ranks of the Repub-
Titan party. Thus allied, they can assist
in gaining victory under the Republican
banner that will benefit all good men by
making virtue and intelligence pre-
dominate over vice and ignorance in
the selection of public officials. But,
to the proof Of what is said above. A
day or two ago that sprightly little Cop
perhead sheet, the Bulletin, which always
highly seasons its news with fiction,
jumped at the chance of copying into its
columns an article from the Brooklyn
Eagle, the chief component parts of which
are venom and fiction, slightly tinctured
with truth. The article is certainly
among the best specimens of Copperhead
talk that has been given since the vista
ton, by the will Of Pro violence, of Louis
iana's latest misfortune. And for that
reason an indulgent public, we feel as
sured, will be inclined to forgive the lit
tie Copperhead for thus indulging its
natural propensity, though it may enter
black mark against it for its attempt to
foist upon the people the views of the
Eagle in regard to Louisiana as those of
the Northern folk.
The venom of the Eaqle's article is as
prominent as its fiction, and is breach |
Of good breeding as well as good feeling,
nasmuch as it seizes an opportunity, in
time of disaster and distress, to revile our
Governor and vilely misrepresent our
people, to interlard call made by Gov |
ernor Kellogg upon the humane of other !
sections of the American Union in behalf |
If those Of our own State who have been
cast down with bitter attacks |
Upon the executive that have no founda-
ion except that found in the inventive
brain of an inscriptions partisan writer.
The Eagle proclaims Louisiana pau
,erized State asking for relief.
If Louisiana is a pauperized State
which we are not prepared to admit,
hough her condition, the result of war,
s rather bad-she has been made so by
he action of Southern secessionists and
Northern Copperheads, the men who
orced war upon the country and brought
lpon the South the most of the misery
nd poverty that have overtaken and
destroyed her people. Nor have their eff
orts to bring harm upon the Southern
'eople ceased with the end of war; The
FORK of reconstruction has been rendered
y their action both difficult and danger
us to the Southern people-preventing
hem from settling into the pursuits of
eace, and becoming again producers in
tead Of consumers of wealth. The plant
ng products of eight years have thus
cen materially interfered with in Louis
ina, and the people of all sections of our
tate had just begun to see the bright
romise of better day coming when a
ortion were suddenly cast down again by
le overflow of their lands and destruc-
on of crops. 1t has been estimated that
least fifty thousand people have thus
cen made sufferers to the extent
several millions of dollars worth of
roperty; and that, too, with but little
respect of being able to do anything this
ason in the way of planting. These are
le people in whose behalf Governor Kel-
gg has spoken. They are not paupers .
that sense that would warrant the Eagle
any other paper branding them as such. t
hey are some of Louisiana's best citi- o
who are not ashamed to earn =
eir bread by the sweat of their brow
ID, as . proof Of this, we have only to