New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-07
SHEER ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY.

SHEER ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY.
1t is an usual consequence Of domestic
discord that these alien, and even mimi
cal to the welfare of the household, i'm
prove the opportunity to enhance the dis
traction, and even pervert to alien profit
an unhappy difference which all good
men would strive to compromise.
This ordinary consequence of social dis
turbance finds an exact analogy in the re-
cent history of Louisiana The Picayune
was delivered over even during during the
last year to the advocacy Of a renewed strife
between the North and South, and to the
armed extermin alton of Republican voters
and officers. So much alarmed were our
business men and property holders at this
attempted revival Of sectional strife that
they withdrew their backing, and the Or
gan fell into insolvency, and was commit
ted to other and, as it was thought, more
conservative hands During this period
the alien organ, the Bee, and the very nu-
merous aliens who find fault with every
thing republican, applauded the Picayume
When, however, that journal assumed
position of neutrality among the various
political factions it was at once assailed
by the alien element, and their organ.
First the British bagmen who, come
out to buy cotton on Liverpool credit,
seem utterly outraged by the compromis-
ing spirit of the Picayalne. How they
have manifested this disapproval we do
not know, but it has provoked first rate
notice ION some imported snobs," which
reminds one of "Jeems Yellowplush" and
his papers on the British sno5-ility. Here
are some extracts:
But we all know these varieties. We
have suffered at their hands, and expe-
rience has made us wise.
Who SO fiercely democratic, who so bitter
in denunciation of the bloated aristGcracy
and the fostering corruptiOns of the throne,
as the raffish COckney who at home would
truckle and fawn and writhe about gen.
tlemens feet! Who SO patriotic here as
the tawdry "sharp" who never did his
native land an honest or a kindly turn ex
cept in leaving it,
These people come out here in various
commercial callings which at home would |
entitle them to social notice after the |
nobility, the gentry, the learned profes. |
sions, the arts, sciences and the higher |
order of mercantile pursuits-somewhere
between the.seventh and the tenth grades. |
Brought into contact with gentlemen whose |
peers of the best in any land, and receiv- |
ing at their hands kindly, gracious, un- |
hospitality, they revenge them |
selves by pretending to sneer at every |
thing about them. and by betraying a |
courtesy which did them too much honor.
But for these British plebeians, who |
resent our generosity and abuse our hos |
pitality; who are so stupendously stupid as
to think, or SO hideously impudent as to |
pretend that it is a good-natured condos |
cension for them to breathe this atmos-
phere; for these, we have no patience or |
The journal mus. have been provoked
beyond bearing by the tone or treatment
Of the alien bagmen. 1t has even COM
PEELED the Picayune to remember that it !
has a country, which, with all its faults,
is still worth defending. There is
patriotic fire that smolders in these words
about the British snob:
We have studied the animal at our leis
lre. We have found him imperviOus to
every form of argument and every method
If persuasion. He must be worked up in
hammer and tongs style, just as we had
70 work up his forefathers some sixty years
ago, hard by Chalmette.
Mr.. jefferson Davis, after having made
experience Of the sympathetic courts and
commission mere hants of England, has
.ome to the same conclusion, that home
lfter all is by no means the worst part of
he world.
But that organ of alien politics, the
Bee, seems enraged at the unwillingness
# the Pic to see Louisiana involved in
hronic artagonism with the federal Gov
1t would, perhaps, like to see
his State cut off like coupon, and retro
eded to France on the ground Of broken
The Bee is furious. 1t calls
he Picayune an "amphibious p" creature.
says that the number of those who wish
0 believe it upon its word is fortunately
cry few. Passing to the anniversary of