New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-01
THE PICAYUNE VEERIEG, .

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aboard, and it is also plain, without usin
the eyeglass, that the pilot has taken tn
wheel himself, and is steering the vesse
back into the track from which she wa
driven by the devil-may-care compan,
which lately abandoned her as unsea
worthy and unmanageable.
We know there is a new man at tn,
wheel from the skillful manner in which
the Picdyuae is hauling her wind ant
dropping into the old conservative track
Look at the chart. In one column The
members Of the dispersed assemblage o.
last year
Shall not be deferred from the perform
ance OF their duty by any apprehension OF
renewed interference on the part of the
federal authority or of its subordinates.
ihey are the legal State government
All the responsibility of the contest rests
| on them.
Now If this means anything it is this:
Assemble, gentlemen, and organize a
State government. The eyes of the coun-
try are upon you" If this shall be done
forthwith these gentlemen will be dis
persed as heretofore. 1t will involve ex-
pense and trouble to them, but will cost
the Picayaene nothing save some effusion
Of ink.
1t may not be amiss to remind such
outside and irresponsible advisers that
precisely the same sort of advice has
crowded the New York State prison with
many convicted of Ku-Kluxism, who
would never have seen those gloomy re-
cesses but for just such back-water adj
visers as the Picoyune.
But, while in one article these forlorn
legislators are told
He will not be held guiltless who shall
fail to discharge his duty at moment when
his conduct may shape the destinies of the
State. Still less will he be held euiltless,
but, on the contrary, he will be looked on
as stricken with all dishonor, who shall
shamefully enter into a compact with the
usurpers las in the case of Warmo.h), and
lend his presence to the lawless mob which.
falsely assuming to be legislature, repre-
sents nothing but an illegal interlocutory
order. bushel of fraudulent affidavits by
Judiciary alchemy transmitted into ballots,
and bundle of fictitious and imaginary
election returns.
Whew Allow us to draw breath after
this lung tester, which certainly was left
on the copy hook by the fre-eaters.
But this article denounces any claimant
OF a seat in the Legislature under ga com
pact with the usurper;;" don't it? Now,
III another column, the Picayane does not
regard it a
Duty to ignore the acts and withdraw all
attention from the usurDing and de facto
body, which will assemble in few DAYS in !
Mechanics Institute.
1t appeals to its fellow-citizens ..to keep
watch and ward over this body and take
to defeat and arrest any ex-
penses, etc" 1t tells us the acts of this
body are practically effective and opera
tive, unconstitutional and illegal as it
may have been in its origin and compost
lion. It's laws are in force now." How
S this to be done? Who shall bell this
Eat! ''Ihe plan of tax resistance has
proved abortiye. The courts have afforded
10 relief
Can we believe our eyes ? The Pi3a,une
ays this Legislature can alone relieve
Is
And this Legislature, how is it to be
pproached? The members claiming to
ave been elected are threatened in the
olumn quoted from that they will be held
uilty of dishonor if they ask seats in this
legislature. But committee of citizens
hould be raised "to attend the sittings of
be Legislature, to watch their proceed
1gs, to urge the passage of repeating and
Chewing acts, and the adoption of laws
ISIS oppressive than those which now dis
race our statute books"
So we are to have committee of citi-
ems sit in this lobby "among this Gordon
rings, lobbyists and Office holders"
ut how about &C lending the sanction of
leir presence to the lawless mob"
'ould it not be as well to let the mem
ers who claim to have been elected 90
ito that Legislature whose claws are in ,
rec now ?" Could they not do more in
le House than the committee in the /;
bby?
The Picaysne will see that if it's first r
ticle be correct, its second must be alb :
rd, or worse, it must advise the recogni- E
On of lawless mob
We like the idea of committee of in =
ection, but if they had somebody inside r
at they could talk to, and especially of 7
melody that had a vote against some of L
ose enormities apprehended, it would Il
EN- more practical and far more honest. Fl