New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-16
4 RIVAL TO 2OUsTABOUT.

Our friend Roustabout of the Tines has
a rival. who has been apparently put il
control of the sub-editorial Of the Plea
y,.ne. He runs ram pant and riot through
the political events Of the hour, utterins
the most violent predictions of civil war,
and denouncipg the Republican govern.
ment for all that it has done OF left I'M
done. Discarding the practice of inter.
viewing as imposing the restraints Of
testimony upon tbs yagaries Of editorial
imagination. this rival Of Eoustabout
boldly bases himself upon the irrespon.
sible results OF eavesdropping. He re-
tails these items through circulation of a
journal claiming access to = sound public
opinion.
Here are examples:
PinehDack is certaiul. now ''out.- IN
case of split between the Republicans
both sides might seek an utilization with the
conservative white people, etc.
Might net Pinch clam place on the Flu
sion ticket.
Ii Norton and the white Republicans
should give their influence and money to the
FusiOnists, might they not claim some re-
turn Not that either of these events is
likely to occur, but then they might.
A prominent planter" says the negroes
are losing all interest in the elections, and
it is suggested that in case there is a new
election and the colored people don't vote,
''the F usionists would simply walk over the
ground" This would not be half as sim
pie" as the supposition upon which it is
based.
Upon such wyetched .waddIe is also
based an article which raises the strike
disturbance to the dignity Of war. 1t
is also upon such authority that the Gov
ernor is charged with declining to send
troops to enforce the laws when an as
s1med disturbance exists among the
black people. though be is charged with
an undue alacrity in having sent force
'vhen white people were i'll arms to pro-
tect their rights. "For community of
planters and taxpayers, says Eavesdrop-
Per, whose property is being destroyed
and whose lives are threatened by an in-
furiated. reckless mob, there IL nothing
but the most diplomatic deliheration
and pleas OF financial necessity"
Now. as We understand this Teryebonne
disturbance, it IS quarrel among the
laborers themselves. one portion having
come. as the armed invaders Of Grant par
ish did, to compel another portion of the
laboTers to stand for the strike. There
has been no collision. rs We understand,
with the planters at All. The conduct of
wrong, and should be arrested and pun
ished here as in New York Poor ..Roust-
aboutl' In this contest he is nowhere. He
publishes letters and gives written au-
thority for most of the evils he would
redress. and for the charges which he
presents. ''Eayesdropper' acknowledges
no such restraints.
We presume that this sudden and yio-
lent gufaw Of abuse in the Picdyinc is
intended to favor . new election. 1t will
tend to render such animprobability even
more absurd than at present. s'
Every member Of Congress in looking
at this disregard Of law, danger of life and
denial of justice, as alleged in the Plea
ys',s paragraphs, will feel that to subject
these people to the excitement of parti-
san struggle may make even the exagser-
ated condition of things much worse.
Weare not therefore, surprised TO SEE in
anothe. COLUMN of the same paper that