New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-23


pany from Panola county was reported
present at Corshatta. directed by men from
about Coushatta.
The Business Result.
Such is the heading under which the St.
Louis Globe treats the instruction of Mon.
day. The REpUBLIcAS has tried to show
our merchants she terrible consequences
which, might have befailen our commerce.
The closure OF our port, the forfeiture of
property. the commercial interdiction and
blockade OF our trade. these were all
among the positive consequences of stand.
Ing in ;nsurrectio1 against the United
States. We have heard the Assistant Sec.
retary of ,he Treasury was on his way to
this city. possibly because in the event Of
continued resistance to the State govern.
ment it would have become necessary for
this officer to give the necessary orders to
give effec, to the proclamation of the Presi-
would have given him the force necessary
for blockade or othe. measures. These are
consequences which the st. Louis Globe had
not contemplated. but which are super.
added to those Instructions to commerce
By river and rail which it states so impress.
lively:
Seyera! Of our home orators have lifted
their hands and their voices to heaven. and
even as Ajax detied the lightning. they have.
from the safe distance Of their Obscurity,
detied the authority Of the government OF
81 TYntto.3 ,ofo IN <hSa childish
ceeding they have had the countenance of
halt q dozen business men whose sympa.
thies ran away with their Judgment: they
nave had the approval Of the Democratic
papers Of this city, without exception, and
they have a right TO claim the assent of
those vino were foolish enough to listen to
their nonsense without protest.
The meeting claimed to represent the in.
terest not less than the sympathy Of those
who were engaged in commercial relations
with the South, and yet two days have not
passed before the business men, the mer.
chants. factors and bankers of this city,
who were supposed to be enlisted in the
support of the insurrection, have found out
that its result to them will be certain disas.
ter and possible ruin. For years they have
been bravely and patiently working to
weave anew the network of business cut
by the sharp sword of the war; they have
taken risk and suffered loss: have planned
and struggled and waited, and at last the
success 40 oft deferred bade fair to crown
their efforts. But just at this time, at the
time when that prosperity which depends
wholly and solely on peace and order. on
the supremacy of law over brute force,
comes into sight, their hopes are dashed by
the apparitiOn Of armed men III the streets
of New Orleans, and by the temporary sue.
cess Of the principle that the governOrship
OF Louisiana is to be settled by the ordeal
of bayonet and barcicade in the streets Of
single city.
What consequences can any reasonable
man expect from such an outbreak of mad.
ness! 1t is very easy to call Kellogg names.
and to assert that he is the source of all
evil, but there can be no evil of his rule SO
blighting and deadly as the evils which
must follow the means taken to get rid OF
him. Even if he deserved the death which
threatened him If he resisted, and if his
defenders. who were the sworn cOnservators
OF the reace and the regularly authorized
officers OF the law. deserved the death
which they met in opposing an armed at.
tack by private citizens upon public author.
ity. the curse Of the thing is that such
movement is one which is more likely to
be used by the tools of tyranny and of Ger.
ruption than by law.respecting citizens.
and it is moreover an assertion that law and
order have no further sway. 1t is even
denial of the right Of law and order to rule:
it is recurrence to barbarism. an invita-.
tiOn to anarahy.
And in the face of those evils, actual and
possible. respectable business men of St.
Louis. dependent for their welfare and tor
the support of their families on the uninter.
rupted continuance Of order. have allowed
themselves to be manipulated to minister to
the itching ambition of rampant blather.
sixties. who have nothing to lose in any con.
tingency. and whose only stock in trade in
their search TO: notOriety is just such mex.
pensive agitations as this. We are loath to
speak of them lest we should seem to
their Importance at something
more than Its true worth, but capacity as an
lncendlary ag1tator is generally in inverse
ratio to capacity for anything more useful
For the purpose of throwing match into
powder magazine one fool is as good as
another. and those who have come at the (
bidding OF folly in St. Louis could not have
done their work better.
They have come forward as the promoters !
Of strife and bitterness; they have done |
what lies in their power to excite enmity |
between those who are disposed to live
peaceably together, and have infamed |
spark of hostility yet turks in |
unworthy hearts; they have pledged an aid |
they could not give; detied power they |
would not dare to- oppose, staggered and |
'trutted with thousand miles between |
themselves and danger; and meanwhile
= hat has been going on in business circles |
Five hundred armed citizens gathered !
around the Clay statue seem an invincible |
army to the heated Imagination of any un-
Easy disturber, and $4,000 White Leaguers |
constitute force before which the world |
must bow with awe. But every man who |
8 not wiling to write himself down an ass |
Tor the sake of hearing his own voice on the |
courthouse steps knows that any resistance |
% the constitutional authority of the !
Cnited States government land disposing |
~ force OF arms de facto Governor of one
If the States is such resistauce), must be
put down, though every loyal citizen in the
and must be called on and every Lacquer
or extermiuated. That is the
ssue which the reckless demagogues of the