New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-14
NRw ORLEANS REPUBL1CAN WEDNESDAY OCTOBER a. 1874.

abroad, speaking in most charitable style
OF every one and especially making known
the sweetness and justice Of their Own do
I nestle administration.
We have all this in Louisiana. The
best word in the Democratic vocabulary
I toward the Republicans is abuse. Their
kindest act is . threat of violence. They
| demand professions OF gratitude for not
having assassinated or burned cut the Re.
publicans. This being over here. their
next effort is TO persuade the distant pub.
lie that the armed drill is only to exercise
young men after the confinement Of the
desk and counter; that the colored people
| admire and adore their Democratic friends.
and that no wrong or violence has been
done to any except ''usurpers. who keep
them out OF offices which arc their birth.
right.
The certificate Of our military visitors
is deemed especially desirable in impress.
ing distant people with the lamb-like
| aniability OF the White Leaguers. Re.
publican General Pennypacker is model
OF all excellence. and Republican Admiral
Mullaney. who keeps ''his fires banked
and his guns shotted' against the city. a
courteous and Christian gentleman whom
all delight to honor.
Yet still the people Of the North believe
in the butchery of Colfax and the violated
safe conduct Of the Republican citizens
murdered at Coushatta. Still they have
faith in the murders and exile of men IN
Alabama for the crime Of opinion. They
still are of the conviction that question
pending before Congress. Us to the com.
parative legality Of two candidates for the
government Of Louisiana was violently
turned into an instruction.
That such is the fixed belief of the
Northern people is shown in the platform
of the Republicans Of Massachusetts and
of all other Republican States which have
expressed themselves since the events of
the fourteenth Of September. This popu-
lar indignation is so indisc,iminate and
so universal that the State rights Demo-
Gratis Of the North hasten to denounce the
new rebellion" They hold up their
hands with indignant horror at the bare
suggestion Of secession. and that super.
eminent Democrat Governor. Allen, of
Ohio. is said to have rendered $4,000 vol
anteers to suppress the indomitable indie
pendence Of his Louisiana brethren. Act
ing on the assumption that a Republican is
unworthy Of credence when con.
sradicted by White Lacquer. the Louisiana !
Democrats express their surprise ut such
a state of injustice. The Picay.ne makes |
some pretension to be heard because it is !
printed in the vernacular, but it is funny !
to see the New Orleans Bee. printed in a !
foreign tongue. demonstrating to an I
American audience that their own fellow.
citizens should not be believed, but that
3 Frenchman is the best authority upon
any American fact OF question. If the
Louisiana Democrats really wish to know
what is the cause Of this universal con.
demnation the explanation is this. All
those Republicans who have been com.
PEELED to flee their homes in the South
through fear Of assassination have gone
to Washington and to the North. TIER
statements H0ue been Je'ieued.
It has no: been supposed reasonable
that SO many men from separate States
should have simultaneously .ied from
their farms. their families and their
offices for the mere purpose Of checting
\ politica! object. Louisiana hes repu-
tation abroad Of being in instruction
against the State government. II is not
believed that an American citizen can
live or labor in that State without sur.
his opinions to the White
Leaguers, and it is thought that nothing
except the presence Of an irresistible mill.
tary federal force prevents still greater
violence. Such is Louisiana abroad, and
Z will take something more substantial
han newspaper denial to change public
opinion on this subject.