The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-07
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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY Z, 1874 1874
Poor I,onisiana-She Wants 8 Bone
frarn the " Great House"


n Ia q COZ, fact .bat the State Of Louisiana,
distracted and impoverished by tho measures
Of tae Federal Cover meat. goes to the
national capital TO ask for subsistence for hef
starving people! :;
The fac, should be amozirg TO anyooo!
save those people in the South who know,
a.as 800 well, the d :eadful consequences OF
the reconstruction and other Fedcfal ne"'
sures towards the South generally.
Louisiana was one of the richest spots OF
earth on the American continent. AT tue
month OF the Mississippi, which has heaped
ND fstness OF unmeasured depth over nearly
The whole State, her abundant crops had en-
Iiched her people, who seemed to be ever
wading through her seas Of rich production.
Had anybody before the war prophesied thai
the cry for bread would ever 90 from her
borders he would have been regarded as
mailman. But now, although no madman
was found mad enough to make such pro-
phecy, this cry has gone forth. A learned
and pious bishop appears before the fresl-
dent of the United States and tells him that
the peop,e of Louisiana arc starving, ana the
President, reasonably enough, takes the ap'
zeal under consideration
And vet Louisiana has upon her an allie
ton worse than famine-a bad government
and corrupt Lawmakers and law-adnlinis-
traitors, who are robbing and depressing
her-eyils that cngendcr and nouriSh all
offers that can distress people. Before
the war, bad crops failed in any part OF
Louisiana, her Government and her people
were 100 wealthy, too proud, to allow the
cry for help to go out Of the State. Wants
would have been promptly relieved. Bu'
now the people are poor and their Govern
,Dcn:. instead of being their friend ana pro-
tcc;cr, is their enemy and prosecutor.
But q most interesting aud instructive
feature Of this bit Of reconstruction history
is that the cry for bread goes directly TO
Washington, and penetratcs the saloons OF
the Presidential mansion. That is altoSc-
Their logical. Thus bloody instructions
I" return TO plague the inventors" Inc
evils that led 10 starvation proceeded from
the PagGora's box at Washington, and to
that Place naturally goes the cry for meat
and bread.
Yes. the Government at Washington has
upset the social system Of the South and
bclstercd up the corrupt and incompetent
governments that have filled the land with
untold Affections. 1t is natural that all the
ia.;ions of southern radicai$m should 80 TO
tie Federal Executive with their clamors
ard wransles. They hold their power, they
reasonably infer, at the hands or the Federal
Government, and to that they so with their
claims, and to that also they 60 with their
SANDERS of white southern people, which
may give them rewards.
If Tie corrupt see in Washington their stay
aud support, no less is it the right of the sarv-
ing 20 apply at the same source for food. The
State authority through Federal usurpatIons
is superseded. So that in this appeal from
Louisiana VIC read two woful facts concern
ing this great nation: States impoverished
lv vicious legislation at WashinGso