New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-17
INTOLERANCE OF THE DARK AGES.

The Courier of ST. Landry announces
that it is the organ of the White League.
end gives notice that as the Opelousas
Journal has accepted the publication Of
judicial notices from the Governor Of
| Lo uisiana, and as its editor is member
of Republican club, the White League
declines all manner Of discussion with
him. This is all printed in the French
Ian guage, and with what appears to be
patent inside. That is, journal whose
selec tons and composition have been put
up in some other Office. We suggest that
this work may have been done in Repub-
lican printing offices of Northern pro-
priet ors.
Be this dependence on others for the
means and medium of bringing this very
little local prescription before the public,
as it may, it remains that because jour-
nal prints judicial notice, and its editor
belongs to the Republican party, the
journal and its editor shall be excom-
municated politically by the White
League Of st. Landry. We recently
shove that in this intolerant community
there were more whites than blacks,
though both together would not make
much Of township in point Of numbers,
yet at this day and in this country they
in virtue of little local majority, pros
cribe the right of opinion. Now we
should expect the White Leaguers who
decline to recognize member Of the
Repu blican party, to refuse all rations
issued by order Of Republican Congress,
and decline to touch q dollar given to the
impoverished people of Louisiana by the
Repu blican city Of Boston.
The newly appointed organ of the
Chambord Bourbons naturally sacrifices,
at the first step, the interests of the people
to its political antipathies With truly
Gallo prec ipitation and inconsequence, it
makes the publication of a judicial notice
ordered by the Governor cause of pro-
scribing the journal in which it is pub
ished. From this it weu!d follow that
these judicial notices can not be published
at all in the prints Of that parish without
the social prescription of those who SO
publish them. For, if the Opelousas
Journal shall shrive itself of the terrible
consequences Of not being allowed
to discuss American questions in
a foreign tongue, by disseminating
the judicial notices and withdrawing
from the Republican club, how would that
mend the matter? If the publication Ct
these notices should be ordered by the
Governor into the organ of the White
League, that organ-tae (ourier-would
forthwith lose its right to be recognized il
discussions by the White Leaguers, and
and its patent Cincinnati inside would be
was ted on the desert air.
Yet these judicial notices must be Of
cons equence to the people Of St. Landry.
They may involve the personal and prop
erty rights Of her citizens. They may be
useful in spreading abroad in Cincinnati,
st. Louis or Chicago the news that valu-
able lands in st. Landry are for sale, and
may thus aid IN attracting concourse Of
bidders at the land sales, elsewhere than |
in st. Landry deemed of great conse-
quence.
This extraordinary intolerance of polit-
cal opinion does not amount to much.
r. ,1o manifestation &c %raIi$io~.1
ment hostile to American-perhaps to
Eepu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1t belongs to |
the ages when to differ with local power
in opinion was sufficient to occasion the |
forfeiture of life, liberty and goods 1t
is curious little specimen of race hos
tility, and of the jealousy with which the
colonial ideas planted in antecedent gen.
erations are applied in the full ligh. Of
American liberty, and in contempt for the
puny potentates of opinion who raise the
rod of prescription with one hand, while
they thrust out the aims dish ofsympathetic
contribution with the other. If those who
are as much more powerful than the intol-
Grant proscriptionists of the White League
in Louisiana, were inspired by the same
disposition to Cypress the weak and suf-
locate free opinion, there would be la
state of affairs among US.
Thanks to God, this republic is inhabited
md governed by a majority of people,
who, while they acknowledge the equal
rights Of all to entertain or express an
opinion, are incapable of exiting or op-
their fellow-citizens for the crime
IF belonging to an opposite party or
printing judicial notice by order of the
only legal authority which can order it.
DIE u.