New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-29
dB1ICAN. SUNDAY NOVEMBER %, 1874.


again, really they could hardly have come
nearer the mark. They have actually sacri.
feed their money to the convenience and
xmolument of vast multitude of small and
large squattere. And if the latter do pay |
we'll for accommodation, no accommodation
at all would have been worse for them, or
shut the territory against them, and limited
our civilization. And this might easily |
have, been but for the stimulus or even IN
toxicatiOn of abundant currency and great
fortunes suddenly made. Let the Changers.
then, be thankful TO God. If not to man;
Then. . SUM of money which you can bold
in one hand, or pass to another without the
tenseness of q muscle, when its equivalent
in metal would take wheelbarrow, or sew
eral of tbem-such sum thus nimbly port
| able can 1t any point in its career avail 20
| swing an epginery OF manufacturing. Oulld.
| ing or transporting which demands ana
! obtains, out of the inventive brain OF man,
| out Of the gigantic creative powers or tne
! 1nachinists' works, implements, bridges,
| dredges, divisions and concentrations OF
mower that draw a double mark across the
map, growing like pumpkin VINE, OF
| throw ACROSS river structures hrst hung
| in the air, then founded in the depths, with
| a CELEBRITY and clearly calculated tracery
| like the work Of the Frost King IN beauty.
! but taking the tonnage Of an empire on Its
| back. That ingenuity Of power, by the
| way, has not yet made q tunnel to help the
Faoher of Waters hit the sea without spill
| ing or clogging at the mouth, and we 90
not believe it will. But it might bring the
mountain to Mahomet, the gulf to the Mis-
ejssippi, up a channel which shall be. per
hans. the tabled last ditch" over which
| Northern and Southern Congressman shall
| fight.
Now. these wonderful manipulations of
machinery and force, and of the machinery
of business, made possible by mighty sans
in few or single hands, have blazed path
| for enterprise, where it will hereafter run
with more perfect familiarity . course,
which would have been novel and deemed
| yenturesOme: had it not been struck out in
the heat Of grand spasm Of mingled sue
cess and struggle and elatiOn. AS q fire.
man in the excitement of cOnt1agration.
and Of efforts to rescue property or lives,
will do teats Of daring impossible IN cold
blood.
So. although the fever of over-stimulation
to forms of production not staple, nor soon
rernunerative, occasiOBed by the excitement
and results of success in the main issue of
the nations travail-though that fever has
subsidized, and has been SO unhealthy that
we feel little old and stiff and poor at
last: still we may be thankful for the flash.
ing out of methods, for the circumnaviga.
ton of territory and of possibilities which
more languid energy can fill up and utilize
at its leisure, and with final exactness
| and faithful tinish-a success which may
remind us of the tortoise winning the race
from the hare, though the hare did run well.
Again, in this overgrowth of confidence
and of fortunes, some OF them, Dy playing
upon it, while the people we're asleep, there
was opportunity afforded for stealing on SO
large a scale-for Credit Mobiler contracts
and general craftiness. for official swlnd-
ling and carpet bag audacity, buying legis
lators, buying elections, buying commit
teemen. brazen caucussing and grabbing
for self and pelf, Butlerism, Tweedism,
Fisk and Gouldism, Warmothism, due part.
ly to the immoral influence OF all war and
partly to the fact that greenbacks were so
plenty, and go easily tucked in the vest
pocket, or transferred, unobserved, to the
itching palm. In all this was there not
dispensation of Providence! that the
rogues and dull consciences should be
given rope fast enough to hang themselves
manhood emulating their false ways.
Their investigations into such sublime ras-
calities were not at all mean or petty, or to
be blutfed out of court. The swift inquisi.
ton of events investigated them. The men
BETRAYED themselves and their pals. Thanks
to the simplicity Of delightfully."- SET con-
tident Republican Congress, anu to its tradi.
tions at least of inbred virtue, and thanks to
. the self protecting Indignation of robbed
people. lnvestig alton followed investigation
a: New York. Washington and elsewhere.
1t has beer the era OF investigations. until
there is hardly new way of stealing to be
invented more cunning and secretive or
!. more shameess!y open than those which
have been found. enough to make text
!. book on the art, as full! and scientific as our
knowledge OF political economy. and a good
deal more so. For our skillcd and system.
. attic knowledge in that department is
nothing to boast of. considering the
| size OF our transactions. This carnival
Of fraud. set over against the manifold
promises with which we work. Of adroit.
ness in deception contrasred with our
burgling at financial legislation, OF car.
pet ygary getting rich Oft Of poor
and proud absenteesm, balanced by blum.
ders in reconstructiOn--all this. and its
, merciless exposition by our improved means
f of lightning-like unity OF Intelligence. has
3 been systematic and relentless coast sur.
| vey, ordered by the Almighty. Of rocks and
dangers. shoals and soundings in our Ma.
| ture and in our nation; survey printed at
8 | fearful but we'll timed cost, and thrust be.
5 fore our eyes, chart by which to mark out
3 our own conduct. and our public servants
3 conduct, exactly and inexorably hereafter.
on pain Of shipwreck, drunken and renedi
! less. Let us thank God devoutly, and with
) shametacedness. that he has held up the
T | mirror to our savage toilet of trickery; so
; ! that we are frightened at ourselves.
Then the long after pains Of the war, and
the ouack doctoring called reconstruction.
J You might as we'll talk of reconstructing a
l barren liz tree. The word was misnomer
! at the very start. 1t means. if it means
ANYTHING. that you can give man wooden
leg, which shall in every respect be
. equal to a live one. 1t meant. a great
. deal of it. mechanical trusting
up of an exotic policy Of suspicion.
| which, say what you will. was an invitation
to the forces of rebellion to run under the
grass and show their blOod-red teeth in the
/ night. when we thought the storm had
quenched it. You may differ from me, but
felt then as l now speak. and as some feel
to-day, that after the stand.up encounter,
while we were returning to our peaceful
ayOcatiOns at the North, there should have
been no hindrance 20 the Southerner's man.
aging all his affairs with his ewn unwea.
poned hands. That general amnesty, while
vet the awe Of power was on them, and be.
fore we had given beaten foes the moral
advantage of enforced silence under sus.
picious and carping legislation--amnesty.
, putting them on their interest. their spent
. physical force insurlng negative good beha.
v;or at least, while it would have been un.
impassioned fairness on our side, would
haze prevented their long decade of des.
pair, lit up br heats. lightning CLEANS
Of violence. But the man to dare to give
amnesty, Lincoln. was dead. All: that
; was the worst carnage of tho war
, the most nearly fatal injury to our
, subsequent life. And johnson was in
his political grave. for his lslipshod
edsing around the southern are Of the
. circle to those spirits that understood him.
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