New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-29

| Louisiana has an abnormal class of pa.
I triOts. The President having indicated the
| twenty sixth instant as q day of national
Thanksgiving, they resented the suggestion
as an arbitrary interference with local GU
linary c0ncerns, and through a turgid
COMMITTEE of Seventy" proclaimed the
nineteenth instant as the orthodox period
| when the loyal Democracy of that State
! should chew its independent turkey. Gov
ernor Kellogg, however, persuaded that
the symbolic fowl would keep week later,
aud that his fellow Republicans would
prefer to wrestle with it simultaneously
with American freemen generally. issued
! his proclamation for the twenty sixth. Such
q token OF despotism must have CALLED the
proud DEM cracy. and we marvel they did
not reasonable at Clay statue and dispatch
an armed detail to the State House to de.
mand that he should either revoke his
proclamation or vacate his chair. We must
confess their forbearance in this regard,
however. They sat down to their turkey
calmly, and were too amiable afterward to
do more than arm themselves with heroic
toOlhpicks and exult that they nad fore
stalled both President and Governor.
We question whether this untowardness
will mar freeman's Thanksgiving dinner
elsewhere or excite more than smile that
Louisiana Democrats exhibit so successful
a persistence at being idiotic in their miser.
able spleen.
AS long as they are thus perverse at their
own expense simply, nobody cares; but
when they pOach for ''niggers' rather than
for turkeys. put pistols i'll their belts rather
! than good capon under them. thirst for
blood rather than claret. rend local gov.
eminent rather than fowl. they will con.
| tinue to find the same national interposi.
ton, chagrin at which explains their
| Thanksgiving of the nineteenth. Grants
| proclamation is for next Thursday, the
| twenty-sixth. and with that we have
| nothing to do sayeth the New Orleans
| Bulletin. Inasmuch as the Presidents Off.
| ciat suggestion OF observance was adj.
dressed. we believe, to "all good citizens"
the Bulletin tells pungent truth, perhaps
For men to ''g We thanks to the Almighty
Ruler for His mercy, with folded hands
that have just brutally denied mercy to
| cOlored citizens, is to atfront Heaven, and,
Oh the whole, we are glad those for whom
| the Bulletin speaks did select dav of their
! own. 1t reminds one of Louis XI., who,
while directing the death of certain foes,
crossed himself at the sound Of church
| bell, mumbled prayer and then concluded
his wicked Instructions. The same day that
the Bulletin declared as above stated, the
Shreveport Times gave the Returning
Board frank notice THAT unless they re-
turn the elections Democratic, they and
those they seek to count in will pay
the forfeit with their lives!" This is
a meek and devout temper, surely. The
next day the stately old Picoym'.e, of New
Orleans, remarks, as to the nineteenth and
| the elections: ION such an occasion We can
pardon the widest enthusiasm Of the pa
triot. Let the voice of New Orleans unite
| with that of Shreveport" This is not the
religion of even thirdrate pagan; it might
serve, however, for katir or Modoc.
Yet, completely parenthesizes the Picoynne.
Tin the midst of disasters we tits fOllowing)
have learned mOderatiOn"-an assurance
| that many colOred families who will lament
vacant chairs on thanksgiving day at Col
! fax, Coushatta and New Orleans will be
base enough to forget. Moderation that
finds expression from gunbarrels is incOn-
| venient and liable to misinterpretatiOD,
oven though it be good.
The Southern Democratic press need not
attempt to dupe the Northern mind. Muir
der is not justice, laws are not jests mobs
are rutfians, not good citizens; hatred, envy
and all uncharitableness are not Christian
virtues Washington National Republican