, 1874-05-30

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~ y. .ne oeneEal uoVesnment IN olsiranchtsing Ill
! tho 6est men Of tho country, and forcing tho
| State under the control Of tho baaoat upccimens
of humanity. wo wont,1 ,o,o aoo have raoa,od
An out totmof Mea1'n' ana "ou'a to-aa5 oe az
prosperous and happy aa any people on earth,
1hstoad o1 the most wretoheu.
BEFORE THE War.
and felt tho honor Of seat in either House Of
mo Gonorel Assembly sufficient compensation
Tor their most devoted services for tho public
Kooq; mieho,at any yiew to 5 personal gain: Then
Of gale, ,s53, ,3G3, - BY tho Auditors report Of
1861. Thon. tho annual oxpousos OF legislation
wero, on m aycrge, 100000. Then, tho entirc
expenses Of tho etata Government did not
nlnonnt to 1880 uoo per annnm. Thou, our char
liable Institutions and institutions OF learning,
Woro foBtorcd BY our State Government. Then,
there WAS no State in tho Union that enioyod /
higher credit at homo md abroad than Louisiana.
IT is Notwithstanding to contrast our present
abiect condition with that which ! havo thus
briefly ekotched; our degradation. under tho
aud tic African barbarian, eontraased with IL, liz
prosperity I31o and hiEh prestige we enjoyed when
NOW, tne Intelligent Taxpayers Of tho State
haVo practically
~, NO VOICE m runMo AFFAIRS.
Ihoy nave been strlokon dumb by tho Federal
dolivered into tho hands Of atrnngors and eman..
eipateq slaves by tho malignant provisions Of
aho " Keoonstructton acts OF Congross and
when, in tho last State election, thoy attempted
70 break thelr cha1nHt and TO mako ono last
brave oiforbt to recover the State from total
rum, and utter their enorta had been crowned
with success In the faireBt election We have
had since tho War, the Federal powor
stoppcd IN, and, by aota Of Violonco and un-
PARALLEL ontrage OF every principal of oouHtitu-
ttonal liberty. Wrenched from them the fruits
Of their victory, and installed as their Governor
heathon parasite OF Gen. Granite "a stranger,
VINO hhu no other interest," ~ the State than to
prey upon our people; by the aamo act OF Fod-
etal v violence legislature was organized with:
CUT erection, composed Ct TUG most Ignorant and
ueRlAoeo 9lenanta Q! 1alion humanity. II Con-
erebs negtects' as ls douptlose will, to restore
our otate toyefnment TO tho hands q those
ualrpation may not be perpetuatedto
THE CRACK or DOOM
our people meantlme remaining dumb spectators
VI tnelF OWN run.
but 10 Ieslue TO En0 contrasts The
whole ta1ablo property of tho state,
a6 per tue AUDITORS report Of 1874,
10 @ estimated mate at Sl2l, ,ago. 220 against
Stlo| |oo5,aoo netole Inc Hef, as beforo stated
less than ono-tAlrd or tue former valuation and
u Is known that properly o. every kind; especially
real re- M estate; has greatly uepreolatod throughout
the state since l672. And yet, tho expenses of
onr o6a state na doyernment are now annually over
9a,goo,V9u, althonRh IL III Impossible to say pre-
cisely what they are, owing to the wonderful
sklil Or our ,Garpeerosg officials IN covering up
tneff TRANSACTIONS, ana tnus Reeping tho world in
lsnoranco OF TUG alspostion 1hoy MAKO q tho
enormous te1es Mfung from Tue people. But 1t
may DO sately at1irmoa that the actual oxpanaos
they were ooioro she Waf. Iho rate OF taxes is'
teal-to!a s.oIses snah & a. 1nas peI;oa Meantime
our state debt mas bcen more than quadrupled,
ard our State credit has sunk to tho sorry figure
anu yet, not ono Work OF pubic improvement
nas peen made IN tha ntate slhoe tne carpet.oag-
Eofs have borne rule; our charitable Institutions
hayo noon Almost tota!1y neg!sctod; our state
~ ~ nat1n at lssn nas heeh
~ a tno meansime & onf massors, "no came 1nto
nince o. % poot ~ chnrcn-tnlce, arc naunting tner
lll-gGtton "ea'th III 'ne 1ace OF m Impoverished
penns; A..
~ ao uss ~ Ga!nSY ta wc are new wo snofns from
tho nooas OF Inc allsalsslppl KlYer
Is PIE plhEo1N
TO these irresponsible mon who enrich themselves
o. s7 faW 01pa on Of ,rau
banded themselves tosether for the the palpose i u
acquiring from taa olacH-and-tan Legislature
the monopoly OF running our 1oyee-syssem;-lt
peins the estaolisaea pfaotlce under our carpet
nag,negao regime 81 10 tar a ons 20 moaop9es' !or
forest from "hica large fortunes may bo readily
made. Ihoso entorprIsing gent1emon, undor the
uon9ral CoEpor9tlon law, formed what IL called
sho l.oulsiana Lovao COMPANY ana tho LoRla'
ty-1ve years, the monopoly OF eonatrncsing and
keeping in repair oil the leyoea OF the Mississippi
Nlyer and IT. tributaries IL the state. on tho
most o3tfaofdinary Terms, anu at tho most OK
tIaSagaht compensatl9n. I, Iho aet 10 monHtrous
piece Of legislation, which would rot betolersted
River.
Ihe company 1urnlshed us security Tor tho