New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-10
MORE STATES RIGHTS, AND THE LAST
OF THEM,

MORE STATES RIGHTb, AND The LAST
OF THEM.
The latest telegraphic CANNON is, that
the foreign bondholders have employed
Messrs. Warmoth and Campbell to aid
their own diplomatic and consular rep
resentatives to protect their outraged
interests. The alacrity with which these
agents whip around to take fees from
opposite sides. is sufficient to teach the
public what faith is to be placed in
the opinions Of political attorneys.
Mr.. Warmoth will. in his professional
capacity. seek to impose upon people.
lately his official constituents. burden
which they denounce him for having
placed upon them. Under the indebted
ne~s thus created. hundreds of planta-
tons have been sold fox non-payment Of
taxes.
! It was within the past year that an or.
! ganized resistance to the collection of
taxes was made. The charge was made
that the enormous debt Of more than
$50, 900, 900 had been made by the Re-
! publican party. because much Of it had
1 been enacted under al administration
elected by the Republicans. 1t was
shown that the Democratic representatives
and citizens had participated in these
abuses. But TO convince the world that
the Republican party would dc justice to
the people. it proceeded to unload itself of
the men and measures that had provoked
SO much condemnation. /. has done so.
The leader Of this ruinous policy is now
q political fugitive. The Republican Leg
islature has ordered a review of all out
standing obligations after the manner of
Carolina and Georgia. 1t has proclaimed
the inability Of the State to make good
these obligations upon their face value.
It is especially hard upon the people to
find that he whom they allege to have
been the chief cause of this debt is now aid.
ing strangers to hunt and hound these
poor people to exile or beggary.
The eminent counsel who is reported
to have been also retained by the public |
creditors was among the legal advisers Of |
those who resisted payment of the taxes
1t was in resisting these taxes that Mr.. !
Booth. late Senator. was compelled to
suspend the sale of eastors and panamas.
It was to resist these taxes legally that
large committee was appointed. And now
we find the same eminent counselor re.
tanned, not merely to enforce the collec-
ton of these take. by the State authority,
but actually invoking the federal govern
ment to enforce their collection! If all
this debt was justly due. and if the people
are able to pay it, as some Of the bond
holders allege. why were We almost in.
volved in civil War at the attempt to COL
lect them?
The devotion to States rights which ap.
plauds the Intervention of the federal
government TO compel State to pay it's 4,
axes is perfectly consistent with that !
which asks division Of federal troops to
occupy the State. and General Phil Sheri- :
lan-perhaps conduct its elections. Z,
As for the intervention of the federal
government in behalf Of the bondholders
# State. it is impracticable and absurd. ,
IF course. m attorney might be found
lpon the payment of retainer. who ,
would advise arresting the Mississippi by
Injunction. But how could Congress
a State Legislature TO lay
axes: How could it be expected that the
ederal government would send an army
t tax gath e-ers to ''eat ont the substance
the people, A slight study Of the
Mississippi and Arkansas .
asses will settle that absurdity.
Congress must see from the financial .
nactments of Louisiana either that the -
eople are able to pay but are hiding
heir means iron. their creditors. or that =.
ley are too poor to pay the face of the -
ebt imposed upon them. In the one 8,
ase Counselor Wsrmoth laid upon them 3,
eavier burdens than they were able to N
ear. while Counselor Campbell was in "
lie wrong to advise resistance to taxes.
! the second ease Counselor Warmoth -.
as in the wrong to create an excessive ir
ebt, and Counselor Campbell WAS in the 10
sht to advise them not to pay it. IL
Both these worthless. however. have W
Freed, as it would appear. to take the y,
de Of the stranger against the citizens. It
ID to point the field batteries Of the fed. ~
al government against the last reserved &C
5ht OF S!ate-not to pay debt if it Fl,
rs not got the money to pay il with. Ia
Cd save the State-from the attorneys. .e
at
MR. WRiRTON'S BILL.
1t was very imprudent in the Picdy,ne -,