New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-03
STEADY MISREPRESENTATION.

| inyectiye. But those who have INDUCED
in this uncompromising misrepresentation
Of Louisiana should reflect that If II were
as they represent, the official incumben'
will not suffer so much from the
withdrawal or withholding capital as
| those who either do not hold office OF
subsist upon the industries OF the country
| If Louisiana be in state OF anarchy,
as represented by one paper, II human
| life is not safe from the blow OF the assas-
SIN, nor property protected from the
| rapine of the tax gatherer, we ask who
would suffer most from such state OF at
fairs? Undoubtedly those who have land
to sell or to work, or money to borrow, OF
supplies to buy. Yet the rabid hunters
after Office and contracts, apparently, are
willing to sacrifice their fellow-citizens
who labor to secure the forlorn chance OF
| Office or contracts for themselves. Is this
| reasonable? 1t is not just or patriotic to
seize on a diversion of trade or a short
crop and urge them as evidences of po-
| litical misrule.
We have been seriously impressed with
the mischief inflicted by the New Orleans
press. ''The people" seem to have for
| hidden any further misrepresentation by
an organ assuming to publish the views OF
the people in the name of the people.
There is no paper published in the Ian
guage of the United States which con-
tinues this l0actice. 1.-The i'll birds which
foul their own nest" have been pretty well
cast out. There is, however, one journal
printed in the tongue and sentiment of a
foreign land which still keeps up the
stream of abuse Of America and Amerl-
cans. 1t is print that evidently pre-
fers everything foreign, and thoroughly
despises eve rything American. The
Bee, in an article headed 1873" re-
views the events of the past year.
1t first takes creditor it is journal
profound in its wisdom beyond any
thing reared in this degenerate country
that it predicted the tendency to a
centralized despotism" to result from
the election of Grant. The country is
congratulated that the Radical - ma
jority in Congress has gone to pieces from
its own arrogance and corruption. The
combination Of the Legislature and execu-
tive of the Union have, it seems, tried ia
vain to stife the scandal arising from the
terrible revelations about its members.
Whatever of honesty" is found in the
large majority Of the American people
seems arrayed against the administration.
The inference from all this transatlantic
Interpretation Of American history is that
the Republican party and its administra-
ton have gone to destruction. We pre-
sumo the French gentleman who writes
thus does not understand enough OF the
country or it's institutions to know that the
chief monopolies of which the grangers
complain, such as the Erie, Central and
Pennsylvania Central and other roads,
were not incorporated Or constituted by
congressional aid at all. The stock OF
the chief roads complained of has been
made and watered by city schemers, and
principally by some European schemers'
All this will do, like the fables Of De
Tocqueville, for the foreign market. But
a most significant sentence reveals the
motive with which this systematic repre-
sentation has been SO long continued:
To the prolonged Indifference with which
our com plants and demands have been
received during so many years. has sue
ceeded a sincere interest and serious dis
position to listen to our grievances, and do
us justice.
Then follows a statement that ''our
finances, tie agriculture, and commerce
have been reduced to miserable condi-
ton in five years of Radical rule" De
Tocqueville then predicts that in Novem-
Der, 1874, the reign of these Radicals will
terminate, and adds that nothing is now
necessary except 'sto provide the means
to sustain our agriculture for one or two
years, ulltIl lOuiSlstlu Sttil ASlASFS AASAoSAA
of the last" vultures who are tearing ont
her vitals. It is little amazing to hear
foreigners, who do not speak the American
language at all, tell what ''our fathers"
did, as if the Americans themselves, who
have raised Louisiana to her present rank,
had nothing at all to do with it.
The descendants of the French colonists,
however respectable, are in very small
minority in the immense Louisiana which
was so improvidently coded by France to
the United States. Thirteen American
States and seven millions Of people,
large part of whom are Germans, occupy
the wilderness and more than two hundred
thousand citizens inhabit the little village
of 1908. We by no means admit that the
population or wealth of Louisiana are due
to its first colonists, though We have no
disposition to deny their proper share. 1t,
how ever, does not belong to any but
Americans.
There is, it is true, extant poetical
eulogiIm on the defenders Of New Orleans
in which the name of Andrew jackson
does not appear at all, but We are not
disposed to be critical.
But it is when the Bee, having fully dis
paraged the [ nited States and Louisiana,
turns to its native land that its heart
warns and expands. The great event of
1878 in France seems to have been getting
rid of the Germans. There has been