The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-10-24
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

, LETTER from NEW YORK.
How the Political Situation in Louisian,
IL Misrepresented at the North---Th
Terrebonne Compromise Considered
, A Shot at the. White Leagues.
PoRT CHESTER, N. u, Oct. It'll 1874.
DEAR CHIEF:
Though have not contributed t.
your columns since leaving New Yorl
city, | have, nevertheless, watched
with undated interest, the progress
or | might say retroeression of affairs
in Louisiana. The weekly visits Of
the witty ,sspicy CHIEF, aided by tn.
sterling Republican, have enabled me
to keep pace with the rather mixed
condition Of things political, aud ma
terially assisted me in refuting the
ISLANDERS of Southern correspondents
of the rural press here, i is really
amusing to read the illusions Of these
White League scribblers, who, by
perversions Of truth and the exercise
OF over-fertile imaginations, endeavor
to make the loyal Yankees see things
that do not exist, and persuade them
that every Republican Northern set
tier in the South is scopDdrel and
every colored man his confederate.
The greatest wall of these Bohen
ians in defense of the recent uprising
in the city of New Orleans is, that
after appealing to the State courts
and being repeatedly refused hear
ing we were ut last compelled to re-
sort to the only alternative left us
arms With you, who are IN the
midst of these scenes of riot and
bloodshed, the wilfnl misrepresenta-
tons of the penny "a liners are evil
dent, and the evil intended falls short
of it's mark. But with the press and
people Of the North it is different.
They are guided mainly by tho tele-
graphic dispatches of the associated
press agency, the ally and friend of
Tampany and the secession element
Of the South, and ninety mine times
in a hundred the truth is distorted
and the blame of disorders attached
to the "carpet- baggers and negroes.
1t is peculiar result OF the " Radical
riots" and "negro uprisings" por-
trayed by the subsidized Geographic |
manipulators that the killed and |
wounded are almost invariably col
ored men and white Republicans. It
is n consolation to know, however,
that the pernicions effect of these
misrepresentation is not permanent, !
and that the reaction that must fol-
their exposure will overwhelm the
authors and tho party which indorses
their action.
The address Of your Governor has
received universal consideration here,
and has done much to open the eyes
Of the Northern people to the hypoc-
risy and SANDERS of the Southern
White Leaguers. The assertion that
he State debt and taxes have been
Increased by venal Republican adj
ninistrations, and that under Gov.
kellogg's rule both have been largely
receives quietus by the
exposition of facts and figYres demon ,
trating that major portion of the
PRESENT debt is q legacy from Demo-
ratio government, aud that the pub .
ic obligations have been reduced and :
he rate of taxation decreased nearly j
since the inauguration of '
'ov. Kellogg two years ago. Truth s
J mighty and will prevail, and as the
ruth of the Louisiana question be. 1.
ONES generally known, the petition n
f Gov. Kellogg for ga more just s
nlgment and more generous sympa- b
ny than have yet been given THERE "
ublican State government of Louisi- :.
na " will not remain unanswered. +;
The Terrebonne compromise" is
sgarded as the only basis upon p
hlch the contending parties in Lou >
lana can come together, b4t it is a.
nest onable whether the plan will I;
ork in parishes where Democratic h,
ajorities exist. The parish where al
'e compromise has been effected is m
rongly Republican, and in q party :. -
'ntest the Democrats would surely
, defeated-hence, perhaps, their
illingpess to compromise. If their u
|rty in Orleans, Claiborne, Sabine, ~
al other Democratic M risheS will a.,