New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-11
Une Yraiaeworthy COrrespondent,

~ blle tn6 New 1Ork sWOrld, Chicago
Tribune. New York Tribune, St. Louis
Globe aud many other overgrown. AFRO.
CANT. ignorant. and yet reasonably respect
able Northern and Western papers are
soreiy afflicted by their New Orleans COR
respondents.<an afliction more ;ntolerabie
than Yhs lice Of Egypt-the Philadelphia
Ne,e Age has secured q man OF culture,
truth and ability. He is not slave to the
sensational falsehood school. since his
phiiosopn;cak deductions are more interest.
ing 20 the intelligent reader. being founded
OF truth, than the most stupendous lies. put
ur in exelamations by the low Bohemians.
We ex:rac. freely from his letter Of the
ti,itt:et,l ui:imos
4 Birds Eye View of the Political Situa.
zion in Louisiana-The So-Calied Peoples
Convenrion-Its Mistakes and E!unde:s-
The Colared Vote Potent and Increasing
TO be Conciliated and Not Driven latO
the Opposition Ranks-Repuiiat:or a
Word Not TO be Uttered-The White
League Greatly to be Deplored-The
Conservative Loss a Republican Gain
Exciting Times Expected at the Election
IN Svrenter-HOw the Commercial and
A
Is These Intestine Uissensions-Words
ot T:U.h and Soberness from a Son Of
Louisiana and an ex-C0nfe2erate Soldier,
lSp.ca, Correspondence New Age
New ORLEANS. August 80. 1874.
Well. :.e much-taiked-of Conservative
Con. nticu met at Baton Rouge :ew DAYS
age. and have waited until this hour to
get the sobe: second thought Of the people
as to she work done. and ! may now say,
and say 1t with regret. that how it has ad.
vantagaG the State, promoted the cause OF
conservatism or broug nt credit 70 its mem.
bers. is conundrum that is not easy O:
sol:1ioU by .he most ingenious OF its Origin
ato;s ", .ne most ardent Of Its godfatLers
From rhe multiplicity of its mistakes. it is a
difficult matter to select any particular one
to pronounce It the most conspicuous IL It's
damaging influence agains: the very objects
and purposes that il orosessed itself called
to provide Tor.
Its work is a mass Of contradictions from
beginning ~ end. :eplete with positions
tina; are wrong in principle, and blunde:s
in policy. Under supposed popular name
the leader OF the peoples ~ Party in.
tended to secure the aid and enlist the
sympathy .: all. while in reality they have
satisfied none and iisgusted many by the
offensiveness OF their Language and :he
injustice of their action. With Ia
tality for blundering that. is wonderful,
in one breath they call their organization
tho Peoples party, and il the next distran.
ch.se by resolution one class of the people
that outnumber them IN votes by some
$4,000 majority. " one breath they ring
the changes on the words ''honesty" and
Integrity" and "a the next they pledge
themselves to repudiate 60 much of the pub.
lie debt AZ in Hci.' judgment shall be con.
sidered As oil illegal existence or of fraudu.
len: origin. and so on throughout the
remarkable instrument.
They iarcically and queerly enough pro.
pose to vepudiate some part OF debt whose
other part they do not even intimate a
proposed method of providing for.
Not satisfied with this they take the posi-.
ton that they will support no colOred man
for office. And this in the face OF the fact
that they are SO fond Of complaining to you
about, that the State is becoming the home
of the colored people. and q political para.
disc for their pllferings. with constant
increase of their numbers until the colored
majority Of 10000 in 1870 has swollen $4,000
at present.
The policy Of this :eopie IS TO court the
confidence and to secure the assistance of
this colo-ed element. powerful once. al.
Inlttedly ali potent now, and ''out of the
nettle dagger pluck the flower safety" But
instead OF SO acting that class is warned
that they ar TO be deprived Of .heig priv.
iieges and denied their rights. Is it any
wonder that the freedman takes alarm at
what lie apprehends IS the first note Of
party that .s forming TO send him back into
slavery! Is It any wonder that he scents
dan ger. and that his timid spirit instinc.
lively flies from Conservative party
nucleus that he was gradually being won
aver TO, and that he re-arrays himself under
the banner of party that. though it may
rob many Of some Of their property. does
not specially threaten their liberty, or their
iealously, his right to vote and hold office!
The league known as the White League, a
combination formed mainly for the purpose
of suppressing the employment Of colored
persons, is an organization whose existence
is deeply deplored by numbers of the very
best Of the citizens who contend that such
arbitrary embargoes upon their domestic
and business affairs is as detrimental as a
matter of policy, as it is irksOme and incon.
senient to them as individuals, maintaining
as they do that it is an ebullitiOn, an irrita-
ton G: temporary life that must soon sub.
side, only to leave an awkward scar behind.
Those OF the Southern men who do. not
come into the arrangement are frowned
upon rs hostile to the Southern cause. It |
!. .adiy strange this people have not yet
learned lesson from frequent failures and |
bitter disasters in similar past experiments. !
The natural conseo uence Of this political |
b.o;l fs that more than exciting times are |
feared at the coming election. In this con-
iit!or of affairs is it any wonder that the |
business outlook is so gloomy, and that a
nervous trembling pervades the socia- at
Mosphere, Is it matter of surprise chen |
that commercial houses and residences are |
placarded all over the city with the omin- |
Dus ''For Sale or "FOr Rent cards, or that |
and individual failures are of
such frequent occurrence, and that such |
stock as that of the great Bank of America is |
luoted at SOS per share, when only year |
ago it found ready sale at $l6j; that |
State warrants are of difficult negotiation
At si1ty-five per cent discount, and city
seven per cent bonds can hardly be dis
posed of at forty-fve cents on the dollar7
And this in the face of the fact that the cot
.on receipts alone at this port, this season.
thus far, exceeds 1856, 900 bales, worth
over $l00, 900!
This unhappy State torn and distracted
by civil OlssentiOns more than she was ever
during the war, needs regeneration
and relief, but-ehe will never receive either |
70 long as "pist0ls and shotguns" are
called for to enforce injustice or oppression. |
For q. newspaper here urges all those who |
have not those weapons to procure them
1t once, and the Peoples party denies to
,ne class of the people what the people |
promised to all, and decided by the bsy0net |
n battle and the ballot in peace that all |
hall have