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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07
DRAWING TO A CLOSE.

The testimony in the trial Of the Grant
parish prisoners was closed on Friday,
and Mr.. Beckwith made his opening ar
gument for the prosecution. He has been
followed by some of the attorneys and
two or three newspapers for the defense,
in arguments of various degrees of elab-
Grafton and frivolity, but as the partisan
appeals of the newspapers do not reach
the jury they may be regarded as harm
less.
The defense at this trial appear to US to
have virtually conceded that the acts
named in the Indictment were committed,
but they set up plea of justification on
the ground that the negroes were about to
commit unlawful acts. The old Southern
bugbear Of negro risings, burning houses
and frightened women has been paraded
before the public in this case to justify
acts equally atrocious, which were &C.
tually committed by the white people of
Rapides and surrounding parishes upon
the helpless negroes of Colfax. For
fifty years this pretended fear of a
negro instruction has been used as
pretext for the preparation Of
frightful barbarities upon the patient and
much enduring slave. And yet the his
tory of the South is singularly free from
any realization of this inane fear. Even
during the rebellion, when the country
was nearly drained of its able-bodied
white men, who were sent forth to fight
for o more absolute dominion over the
slave, the colored men remained peace
ably on the plantation and fed and pro-
tected the same women and children
whose idle fears have since been pleaded
as an excuse for a frightful assassination.
This defense is an aggravation of the
original offense, since it ISLANDERS the dead
But the trial draws to a close, and will
probably be given to the jury by Tuesday
or Wednesday. We do not feel inclined
to indulge in any predictions as to the
result, preferring to patiently await the
bringing in of the verdict.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07
NOTICE
TO HOLDERS OF BONDS OF THE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
ie3 Tu TIL Su t je30 Up

All persons holding Louisiana State bonds of any
issue are hereby notified that in conformity with
an act of the General Assembly approved January
"a 1877 4, and more generally known the funding
bill, the Board Of Liquidation as designated
therein. las been duly organized and has caused
to be prepared consolidated bonds of a uniform
series, equal in amount to sixty per cent of all
outstanding bonds Of the State, having forty years
to 1un and bearing interest at the rate of seven
per cent per annum, and will be prepared on and
afte the first day Of July, 1874 to exchange eaid
bon DIS for all valid outstanding bonds and warrants
in the manner and form provided in said act.
Bondholders can present their bonds for exchange
at any lime after said date. The exchange will be-
effe cted in New Orleans at the office of the Fund
ing Commissioners, and in New York at the office
Of the duly authorized agent of the State.
Auth entic copies of the funding bill will be fur.
mis- he'd to interested parties application to Hon.
P. g. Deslonde secretary Board of Liquidation.
New Orleans. Louisiana
WILLIAM p. KELLOGG,
Governor of Louisiana and President Board Of
Liquidation.
true copy:
PIG. DESLONDE,
Secretary of State and Secretary Board of Liquida
ton. lny22tjyI
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

ter thousand millions It is naturally and
VIGOROUSLY held in the Northern ana
Eastern States. The national currency OF
four hundred million dollars, more or
less, is controlled by the same interests
This has been shown by their vote upon
the expansion propositions recently dis
cussed and defeated by executive veto.
Nothing more than reference to the value
of agricultural resources of the Mississippi
is necessary to convince those interests
that nothing will tend more than the pro-
lection levees to place our national securi-
ties at the head of all others, and to make
the American eagle imprinted on a green
back the equivalent of the same noble
symbol impressed on the most precious
metal
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The quickest time ever made to New
York is now made by the great jackson
route in sixty-seven hours and twenty six
minutes-in round numbers, two days and
a half. This is wonderful after all the I'M
controlled drawbacks and Affections that
beset the country some weeks ago. The
management Of this route are now able to
present to the travelling public superior ad-
vantages in many details that can not be
found elsewhere. speed, safety and comfort
being their motto. This change of time
table includes the shortening up of time
between this city and st. Louis, Chicago
and all points Of interest North, East and
West, including the healthful Virginia
springs. Pullman palace cars on all trains.
Superior accommodations can be found on
this line of travel for families or large par
ties of tourists who need extra accommo-
datioas while travelling for pleasure or
profit,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

to by the writer; and there is but one
negro lawyer practicing at the New Or
leans bar, and in justice to him we will
say that he is no discredit to the profess
sion he follows, which is something more
than can be said of the correspondent who
willfully perverts facts.
The REPUBLICAN is not blind to the
faults of the colored race, nor, in fact, to
the faults Of the white race. God knows
both races have sins enough to answer
for, and it is likely He will have some
thing to say of these things hereafter.
But it should be the purpose Of an honest
press to carefully sift out the truth and
place the responsibility of wrong where it
properly belongs. The duty Of the Re-
publican party has been to reconstruct
the South upon basis of loyalty to the
nation and the true principles Of self
government. For these purposes it has
availed itself Of the best material avail
able, and it stands pledged to labor with
the best men of the country for such re-
forms as are needed to produce good gov
eminent. The Times and Nation would
do well to recollect these things, particu-
larry the Nation, which paper seems to
forget the honest, hard-working, Union
loving people Of the South in its efforts to
bolster up class that claim to be born to
rule, and think it sin and shame to
labor-a class that possessed the most of
the lands of the State when the war closed,
and Notwithstanding this great advantage,
if they had been disposed to work, have
been growing poorer ever since. Does
the Nation seriously think it would be
wise in the national government to allow
this class to again revolutionize the South?
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

1870 as illiterate, or in the greater num-
Der Of colofed voters.
But De Tocqueville, like every other
Colossus, straddles the sea, and SO die
tates to two continents. In one column
he tells France what is proper to be done
by that self-constituted body, the right,
left and centre, with the Communists, I'm
periaists, Bonapartists and Bourbonists.
In another he displays his political second
sight and dictates to a people, whose
Ian guage he does not print, what they
sho uld do with the colored people.
If there be race whose published his
tory fits them less than others to be the
cou nselors of people governed by laws,
it must be the inhabitants Of France.
Their kings were the most corrupt and
o ffensive, their lower orders the most ig-
norant and dependent. Their first re-
public was stained with inexplicable hor-
rors and excuses, and their revolutions
have closed with executions and exile.
We care not to repeat the popular char
acteristics imputed to them by their own
countrymen. It intimates brutal frivol-
ity wholly incompatible with the national
attributes of the natives of Northern
Europe. But we have no pur-
pose to defame the French. Their
misfortunes should have at least
taught those of them who are ''doing of
the grand, in a foreign land" that the
national history of France is no model to
copy. Whether the original De Tocque-
vile be dead or hung we know not, but if
some Of the political prophets of that
school could have devised means for keep
ing the Teutons on their side of the
Rhine, it might have been better job
than assuming to teach Americans what
to do in the management of matters which
a Frenchman can not be expected to I'M
derstand. In one respect, however, De
Tocqueville should read again the history
Of France. In the latter part of the last
century France, as an English poet has
written
"Got drunk on blood to vomit crime"
She enacted such civil and social equal
ity as was not then known. She stripped
mankind of their religion and of their
clothing and reduced them to the abso-
ute parity of nakedness and infdelity.
There was another signal illustration
of this universal equality. The black
81 ayes of Hayti were set free and entitled
to the same rights with others without
re gard to color or past condition. They
W ere, if We mistake not, represented in
the French Legislature. Subsequently
an effort was made to repeal in effect this
act of emancipation by an armed expedi-
ton. The expedition was repulsed and
defeated.
1t occurs to US, then, that French exam
pie Of setting colored people free, and
then attempting to subjugate and return
them to a practical bondage is not ex-
actly what Americans require. We can
solve the problem otherwise, and the
C ounse]s Of De Tocqueville, which would
do very well for his own country, may be
for that superior people.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07
THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS CHANGES.

THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS CHANGES.
All human contrivances are subject to
mutations, and it must be admitted that
the constitution of the United States is no
exception to this rule. Very soon after
the adoption of that instrument, which
was brought forth in peril and Graded in
dissension, it was found necessary by the
practical men Of even "the virtuous days
of the republic" to insist upon modifca-
tions known as amendments, in which will
be found some of the most important prin-
ciples Of the system of American laws.
Even SO early as 1871, which was in reality
about two years after the adoption of that
instrument, ten articles, embracing as
many distinct propositions were added to
the constitution. Here first began the
contest between those who looked upon
the constitution with sort of sentimental
reverence and the more practical men who
insisted that it was made for the people,
and not the people foT it. In 1898 another
important article was added to limit the
judicial power; and again, in 1904 an
elaborate provision was added, to pre-
scribe the manner Of electing President
and Vice President. From this time until
1865, no further amendments were made,
but vely many years were spent in ex-
cited controversies over disputed points,
and in unsuccessful attempts to settle
what was really the meaning of the
trainers of the instrument. Without
pausing to discuss the question whether
it would not have been a saving of time,
during the interval referred to, simply to
take the sense Of the people upon what
was really wanted by them, instead of
contending for proper Interpretation of
the ordinances of the preceding genera
ton, we may remark, that the people
have at all times possessed the absolute
right to change and modify the organic
law, in any one of the modes prescribed,
since the adoption of the constitution.
While that instrument remains in force
every provision is entitled to the highest |
respect and exact obedience While We |
yield to none in this respect, yet we are !
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

as ready to consider proposition to alter
or amend the constitution as any other
law. There is nothing 30 sacred in the
instrument as to make it sin in one to
express desire to improve it. It has
never been . perfect work. In all the
years Of its existence it has been the OBJ
ject of attack and the subject of severe
discussion, often threatening unpleasant
consequences. We have no desire to
criticise the motives of the great men who
framed it, though they might undoubtedly
have made better job of it. But perhaps
they did the best they could at the time,
leaving it to future generation to
declare that it did not fit the people,
did not meet the requirements of the
nation, as it emerged from an aggregation
Of small colonies, nun bering altogether
three or four millions, into powerful re-
public of forty millions As man out
grows his coat, which fitted him we'll
enough when he was boy, SO the people
outgrew the constitution which their
grandfathers found satisfactory. The men
Of generation ago, even though they
had been unanimous, which they were
not, had no right to impose an objection
able regulation upon us; and the people
of the United States of the present day
are as well qualified to do their own
thinking and manage their own concerns
as any that ever lived in the tide of time.
And as it is fact that the most senti-
mental adorers of the constitution have
meter been able to obey all of its provi-
sions and carry out all Of its principles at
one and the same time, it is but justice
to them and to their consciences
that the incongruities should be recon-
ciled. A sensible, practical man finds
less difficulty. He readily accepts that
which pleases him and lets the part which
does not alone. He accords to the freed
man the right to vote and has no tears for
that most sacred section of the violated in
strument which requires the rendition of
fugitive slaves. Your sentime ntal whim-
perer reluctantly obeys the fifteenth
amendment, while his heart is sad at the
snufing out of paragraph three of section
two of article four. But it appears there
is now a faint call made for funeral.
The sentimentalists wish to bury their
dead out Of their sight. We certainly
have no objection, though it will be as
we'll to have an eye upon them. They
may, if not watched closely, meet under
The pretense Of burying Caesar and then
attempt to make capital out of the corpse.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07
DE T0CQUEVILLE ON SUFFRAGE IN
AMERICA,

.'They manage these things differently
in France" said Sterne in the prologue
to his Sentimental Journey" Our De
Tocqueville is delighted with 'sthe reac-
ton against the negro indicated by the
embarrassed progress Of the civil rights
bill, and, as De Tocqueville says, Con-
gress has already passed a bill which re-
quires that jurors in the courts of the
United States shall know how to read and
write English, which excludes ninety-nine
hundredths of the freedmen, and it is to
be attributed to political passion and the
spirit of party which have inspired all
the measures of the majority since the
war, for that this condition of knowing
how to read and write has not been i'm
posed on the new citizens, not alone
as qualification of jury service, but also
for the exercise of the political rights
which have been conferred upon him. 1t
is suggested that this condition be ex-
acted of all the electors in the States of
the South, as it is in Massachusetts,. It
is very well that the States or white popu-
lation has regained this. ascendency, as
Virginia, Georgia and Texas.
De Tocqueville does not seem aware that
Congress has no power to impose any spe-
cial conditions on the people inhabiting any
State or section, but that any regulation
of suffrage or jury service must be equal
and universal. It is great pity De
can not have such rule in
troduced in France, if he thinks it pro-
tective Of public virtue, as the tables of
illiteracy there are fearful Even if in
Louisiana the suffragans should be re-
CURED to prove their capacity to write
English, or to read or write at all, it would
reduce our registry greatly both in regard
10 the nearly 10000 whites reported in
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The Springfield Republican says: abbey
are specializing in London whether Presi-
dent Eliot of Harvard College has not en-
gagged Huxley to succeed Agassiz at Cam
bridge. His friends think he would come
if the invitation was strong enough. The
temptation to labor in the wider and more
impossible field of America, and the ad-
vantages of our dryer climate for his health,
are among the supposed motives that would
influence his favorable decision"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Via the Mobile line you can take Pull
man palace cars at Canal street and 60
through to New York, Virginia Springs and
points North with but one change. Through
express leaves daily at P. NJ, making the
fastest time and surest connections ever
made from this city. Two less changes via
this line to all points than via any other.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Want ed-New teeth for the Rake AS at
present manipulated this small-sized jour
nal appears to gather more stubble and
chat than real clover and grain. Fruit
growers, whose organ it claims to be, nat
urally desire more agricultural and less po-
litical advice.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The sheriff of the parish of Orleans will
sell at auction, tomorrow, at 1890 A. NJ,
at his warehouse, Nos. % and % Orleans
street, between Royal and Bourbon streets,
Second District of this city, goods, mer-
chandise, furniture and movable effects.
See advertisements.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

We acknowledge the receipt of num-
Der Of the Union Era, published by the
Church Union Association, No. q City Hall
square, New York. 1t is an elegant epeci-
men of Typography, in the style of the art
Journal and Aldi,,e, devoted to literature
and religion, and containing music and
meritorious engrayings.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Among the candidates for admission to
West Point is one named Sauermilch, from
Pennsylvania. Should he graduate he may
do for frontier service, but he can never
renresent the cream of the army.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Those agreeable young gentlemen consti-
tuting the Merry Makers gave a picnic
yesterday at the Oakland Park, where the
members of the club and many of their tair
friends assembled and made the most Of
the pleasant occasion.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The King of Siam is reported to have en-
gagged an American gentleman, Mr.. Alabas-
ter, to translate the Indian civil procedure
code into Siamese, previous to its being in
troduced as the law of Siam.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The Pastime Social Club will to-day give
ita second annual private picnic at the Oak
land Course. We are indebted to Leon
Barthet, secretary Of the club, for an invi-
tation to be present.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07


STATE OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department, :
New Orleans, May 10. 1874. }
Whereas, information has reached me that on
the night of Saturday, the second Of May, 1874,
DAVID BARLAND, merchant Of Ascension parish
assassinated in the store of Mr.. John Burnside
in that parish and Whereas all efforts to discover
and arrest his murderer murderers have failed;
Now, therefore, l. William Pitt Kellogg, Governor
Of the State of Louisiana, do issue this my procla
nation offering reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOL.
LARS for such information as shall lead to the
arrest and conviction Of the murderer or murder
ers Of the said David Barland as aforesaid.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State
hereunto attached, this nineteenth day of May, in
the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
seventy four, and Of the independence of the
United States the ninety. eighth.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG.
By the Governor:
P. G. DESLONDE.
oF
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
Auditors Office,
New Orleans, June /, 1874.

STATE OF LOUISIANA
Auditors Office ,
New Orleans, June ], 1874. }
Your attention is called to the fact that the
legislative provision contained in act No. 3 Of
1874 (known as the funding bin, which authorizes
the receipt of warrants in payment of portion of
delinquent taxes and for penalties expires by lts
own Ii imitation TUESDAY the thirtieth of June.
From and after the first Of July delinquent
taxes and penalties can can be paid in currency
only, and you will advise the district attorney
or heriff in whose hands you have placed tax
bills.
CHARLES CLINTON. Auditor.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Miss Adelaide Miller, of the Sandwich
Islands, has soprano voice pronounced by
English critics to be equal to that of Patti
or Miss Kellogg. She may become min
strel prima donna.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The Variety Dramatic Club will give It's
second complimentary entertainment at the
Varieties Theatre, on Thursday evening
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The Boston Post says Theirs has JUST
turned seventy seven and Victor Hugo has
achieved "Ninety- Three"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The Stonewall Social Club will picnic at
CAROLS park, Bayou st. John, on sunday
the 70 urteenth instant.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Save Sc by buying ha If dozen custom
made, linen bosom shirts, at Gorren's' cor
ner of Canal and Chartres streets.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

A little boy was asked about the story OF
Joseph, and if he knew what wrong his
brethren done in disposing of him, when he
replied, ~ suppose they sold him too
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Saying grace before meal is an appro
pirate and beautiful custom. But 1t should
never be followed with grumbles about the
dinner prepared.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The local officers of the Southern Express
Company continue to put US under obliga-
tions for favors which are highly appre-
ciated.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Save 50 by buying half-dozen pure linen
ehirts at Gorren's, corner OF Canal ana
Chartres streets.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

The records of the three lower classes OF
Harvard College, relating to their attend
ance at college prayers, have mysteriously
disappeared.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Josh Billings says: 'If you can't get GOOD
clothes and education both, get the gooo
Clothes"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

A full beard is recommended as Q protec-
ton to the throat. It may be useful in
some instances, but in case of murder it
would scarcely keep off the hemp fever.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

Don't miss the bargains in shirts, at
Gorren's, corner of Canal and Charities
streefs
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

A doctor declined to dance the lancers,
but said he was willing to lance the dancers
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

After all it is the bellies of the church
that make congregations attractive.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

DIED:
NEWMAN-At Stuttgart, Germany on the TWEEN.
ty-fourth ultimO, HARTWIG NEWMAN aged
twenty-seven years and four months, a resident
of this city.
COUSANS-On Saturday, June 6, 1874, at IT'S p.
NJ, SUSAN Cousins, aged nine months youngt ST
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07

A question may be queer, but the one
who asks it is the querist.