New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-20
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The Starving Ou: Proposition.


EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
In the Buletn Of the nineteenth instant
Blanc sends up most lugubrious wall,
which he calls "a voice from the people"
l am somewhat at loss to determine
what people Blanc refers to. 1t can
not be ''the people, whom the Picayun'e
claimed to represent, for the constituency
of that erratic sheet was proclaimed to be
'.the oldest and best" and Blanc's constitu.
ency are, according 70 his OW j statement,
to be found among the politically and
socially degraded. Blanc. can not be Re
publican, and it is equally impossible that
the Picayune's people should be the de-
graded class of whom he speaks.
But Blanc has found a panacea for the
pangs of disappointed political aspirations.
He proposes to starve out the negroes, for.
getting that while the negroes starve the
whites must starve with them. Here was
dilemma, ard in endeavoriDg to solve the
difficulty Blanc Cnwittingly stumbles on
she sure and only cure tor the unfortunate
class which he represents; but the difficulty
will lie chiefly in persuading his constitu-
ents 20 apply the remedy which he pro-
poses.
Blanc's proposition reminds me of an
incident that transpired in little village
in central Mississippi before the war.
Jones was postmaster, and Jones, like a
great many other unfortunates, had a
no,her-in.law. This mother-in-law had fits,
not the kind that all mOthers-in-law are
subject to, however. Well, the family ply
sic;an was consulted, and he, thinking the
old lsdys ailment arose from disorded
digestion, compounded something powerful
TO move the bile. 1t doesn't take much to
stir a mother-in- laws bile at best, but the
doctor gave a strong dose. Jones went for
the medicine, and asked the doctor what
he called If, who laughingly replied ''fti
fuge," and Jones went nome in triumph.
But when he came to administer the pills
of which there were quite number, the
Old lady took fancy that Jones wanted to
poison her, and refused TO take them unless
Jones would take two to her one. Jones, in
the innocence of his heart and to prevent
the pills being wasted did so, and retired
TO his virtucus couch to sleep the sleep OF
the inst, in hl;ssful ignorance of the stirring
time to come. Suffice it to say, Jones slept
badly, and at sunrise the doctor was called II
his bedside. why. Jones, what is the mat
teri cried he. Bent almost double with pain
Jones means out, "Oh, doctor, that titifuge
will be the death of me- The mother-in
law escaped with slight injury, but persisted
TO her death in believing, and asserting
whenever it came handy, that Jones at
tempted to poison her on that occasion, and
that only by her presence of mind was she
saved. One good effect of the dose, how
ever. was 10 cure Jones Of liver complaint
with which ne was suffering.
Now, in order to starve out the negro,
Blanc and his friends must go to work
| themselves. Like the "titifuge,' it will al
most be the death of them, but then it will
certainly cure them of their hankering fol
office. if it don't starve the negro. By al
| means, let Blanc try it. ! don't believe he
| ever has, and it will be new sensation
| If he gets to work on farm there will be
! one idle mouth the less to feed, and if hi;
| constituents do the same the barrOoms will
ne deserted. Come, DR.. Blanc, try youl
''itifuge.' EMERALD.