New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-01
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this city and State. Some OF our moral
lists agree with Milton and ascribe all
human suffering to the FIRST disobedlenee
and the fruit of that forbidden tree Dy
which transaction man became very
imperfect being, weak in the night ana
prone to do wrong. Hence he fell an
easy prey to the tempter, and has not
improved much if any in the tve OF sl1
thousand years since. We dismiss this
theory with the remark that as Adam
surrendered to the first demand, he show
ed himself very weak vessel at the out
set of his career. We are not therefore
inclined to shield our faults behind our
putative common ancestor, nor to say
that because Eve could not curb her
curiosity, we have sort of patent to go
laundering and SHINING through all time
and lay the blame on the First pair
But there are philosophers OF much
shorter range and smaller caliber who
hold this doctrine:
liz Is QOU guc6llUuCO tA0u 0AA oNA
miseries are due to this solid support OF a
band of the most unprincIpled and unscru-
pulOus maraudere.
The solid support complained Of is sim
DIV the habit the Republicans have OF
casting their votes for their personal and
political frie nds. And to this exercise OF
the rights of American citizenship the
Picayune ascribes ''all our present mis-
cries" 1t may be interesting to know
the antecedents of this pronoun ''our.
Excluding the Republican party we are
free to look around US among the opposi-
ton for the unhappy mourners. For 1t
is not only unit rue but illogical to sup
pose the Republicans feel miserable be-
cause of the success of their candidates.
If they did they would change their hab-
its and vote for the opposition. We re-
fuse to entertain the idea that this pro-
noun is used in the imperial sense, since
we have the admission scarcely week
old that "we" was made very unhappy
last Wednesday night by imbibing Second
District whisky and wading through the
swamps of Milneburg in pursuit of
youdou sensation. As the success Of the
Republican ticket has no connection with
bad whisky nor voudou sells, which
caused the Picayune SO much personal un-
happiness, we exclude it from the pronoun
in the case in point Clearly, then, the
Democratic ofice-seekers are the miser-
able beings who are made wretched year
after year by the obstinate refusal OF
the colored people to vote them
into places. And it can only be
them because no other class is directly
affected by the action to their detriment.
The property owners were pretty effectual-
ly used up by the extravagances Of ten or
twelve years ago. 1t should be borne in
mind that the bankrupt law came into
this city with its timely aid before the ne
groes were clio thed with the right of suf-
frage. That the abandoned cotton plan
tations and decayed sugar houses are not
the creations of the Republican party.
They are older by some years than the
Radicals of Louisiana, and are the fewer
for them. The white people of the South,
who are nor 80 anxious to be exclusively
trusted aeotzf forget they have eaten their
cake, and VI is useless to cry for it, or
attribu6 3lpss to those who had no
polit1 4xlSence when it was destroyed.
e to doubt hard thing to bear this
th{13& being set aside by ones neigh
y b account Of loss Of confidence.
II is the penalty which detected
kchery ever has to pay. And the no
torious conduct of the leaders of seces-
sion q few years ago is clearly remem-
bered by the victims both at home and
abroad till the present Gay. In the
meantime, so far from showing any con-
triton for their ia tai mistake, which more
than all other causes combined brought
poverty and misery upon once smiling
land, they lose no opportunity to boast Of
their wicked exploits. The evils they
have done will live long after them.
They have already outlived the good.
As party, they are repudiated by all
the colored people and as many Of the
whites as possess sufficient independence
to express their true sentiments. As in
dividuals, many Of them are most worthy
and honorable men, who, as pronounced
Republicans, could render excellent SER
vice by their example, influence and ad-
vice. The Republican ranks are open to
all who are sincerely attached to its prin-
ciples, and it's history shows that intelli-
gent merit is quite as fully appreciated
therein as it is by the opposition. Our
progress in the Of recuperation from
the devastating effects of the war has no
doubt been greatly retarded by the
fell spirit Of prescription, which has
been kept alive and used as a con-
tinual barrier between the Republicans
and the more enlightened white people
who have heretofore been identified with
the Democracy. Not being permitted by
what has been given out as public senti-
ment to come out publicly and join our
party, they have been restricted to the
limited field afforded by the opposition
with which they find it next to impossible
to cordially affiliate. We see evidences of
this dissatisfaction in the semi-annual
suggestions to change the name of the old
concern. That of Democracy has been