New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-28
A sHRAPNEL IN THEIR MAGAZINE.

The Pic, whose star fort is blazing
away at the numerous assailants advanc.
ing from many quarters to its capture,
ha S just leveled its telescope, and
Looking very closely, we discover that
| most of them are gentlemen who, when
they were offered an opportunity Of Staying
| the oppressOr on their own account, dis
| missed the privilege with Christian abnega-
! ton.
This time the Pic cut it's fuse exactly.
That shrapnel has made its parabolic
curve and descended precisely in the
magazine of its Democratic assailants. 1t
has exploded, and we can in imagination
see the cooked hat Of General Booth and
orn members Of his staff flying upward
through the smoke and dust of this well
directed projectile. It has now become
pr overbial that the soldiers who fought
each other agree, and are willing, with
General Forrest, to carry the banner of a
reunited republic against the oppressors
of people willing to be free. But those
who dismissed the privilege Of Staying
the oppressor on their own account can
not be appeased, for, as we learn from
the same article
There seems to be in New Orleans set of
people who can not be satisfied or propitiat-
ed by anything short of daily TRADE, the
fouler the better, against all their political
opponents who happen to be IN Of1ce.
We have great respect for the prudence
of those who feared the gunboats would
come ashore, and who with a COM
mendable appreciation Of the damage
which heavy ordnance will infict
upon property ran down to surrender
New Orleans to few companies OF ma
rines. 1t was prudent. 1t was well not to
exp ose valuable buildings to damage and
incid entally women and children to be
killed or crippled. 1t would have been,
per haps, better if the property holders OF
Charleston and the doomed Atlanta had
emulated the same prudence, but they
took the consequences Of their temerity,
and we do not know that the valor OF
tn cir defense has impaired the respect OF
the Americans who confronted them.
But when we imagine the anxiety
Of several prominent members OF the
San hedrim of Seventy, to secure the
Gle mency of the Butlerian rule,
the alacrity with which other
Fusi on leaders, embarked in the COM
mer ce of the period, we can not, even
from our standpoint, approve the undying
ami mostly of these non-combatant patriots.
We even have in our mind several Of the
'set of people referred to by the PIC,
who ran under the Tag Of France and OF
other foreign powers, and thence kept up
their barking against the United States.
In some cases these desperadoes sue
cum bed to the rule Of General Butler,
and so saved themselves. Now, we re-
peat, we by no means condemn the free.
dom of these self-denying warriors, who
took such provident care of their own
ski MS, but we do not see that they would
have any right to condemn others for do
ing precisely what they did themselves
sur rendering to a superior force.
Into the magazines of these malcon-
tent non-combatants Of the late war, the
Picayuoe has sent an explosive which will
effectu ally silence their guns. The Pica-
yune may add to the obligations OF the
public by giving the names of some OF
these Christian gentlemen who magnani-
mously abrogated the privilege of Staying
the oppressor on their own account. We
could even contribute small list of IRE
concila bles who figured in the surrender
to the marines, and were among our most
docile citizens during the federal occupa-
ton, but who have been among the most
determin ed ditchers and uncompromising
cleaners out in the city.
m. mr. CIT Aupc no MAINTAIN SLAVERY