New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-10

over any competitor. The press of st
Louis or Chicago keep the immoralities o
their cities in the back ground, and bring
forward some virtues among the people al
evidence that they are not altogether re
| probate. New Orleans-a cosmopolitan
city-New Orleans long the refuge for thu
| graduate villains of other communities
collects all the trophies of fire. fraud and
murder, and piously claims through bel
herald and mouthpiece the title of s'tht
wickedest city" in America. Still more
strange. if a journal at home or abroad
says one word in defense of the city o.
State, the Picayune resents it.
Is not then the object of this assault or
the good name of the city obvious? In a
hopeless minority here, the only chance
of the Fusion party for public Office OF
the public printing consists in deludine
the people of the United States into the
belief that Louisiana is in a state of bank.
ruptcy and anarchy. This would perhaps
create such sympathy abroad as to
compel political or military Intervention.
Then the federal patronage might pass
into the hands of Fusion. The Custom
house and Postofice would tend to as
suage the salary famine which gnaws at
the vitals of the hordes which can not
work, and which have begged and Dor
rcwed until society can stand them 10
longer. This is the game of Fusion. To
compass this point it will sacrifice the
credit and good name of the State, and
will actively denounce any who speak a
good word for it.
The latest placard to all emigrants not
to visit our city, the most immediate
warning to all capitalists not to invest a
dollar in this doomed city, is from yester-
days edition of the Picayune:
The local history of New Orleans during
the past six weeks has presented, we ven
ture to say, more instances Of daring, un-
scrupulOus and unchecked crime than that
of any other city in any age or country.
Blood Is shed upon the most frequented
thOrOughfares; the residences of merchants
and taxpayers are entered and despoiled;
houses filled with sleeping people are set on
fire by burglars, whose cupidity has been
disappointed; gentlemen-and ladies, too
are seized on the street and violently robbed
of money. jewelry, etc.
We could not undertake to recapitulate
the record. 1t is too immense. But to say
q " hrtn
triumph OF revolving and UNPUBLISHED out
RACES is the barest and most moderate ex-
preston of the truth.
But what does the distant reader sup
pose is the object of the Picayune in thus
defaming the city, and in insulting those
who would defend it? Read the patent
heading which prefaces that worse than
Venetian decentralization. 1t is Grimes
Carnival Robbery, Burglary, Arson, and
Murder II" Here are three out Of four of
the pleas of the crown blazoned and
placarded abroad for all the world to
read. What does the reader suppose this
is done for? To give the lie to our friend
of the Pittsburg Dispatch, and to justify
the systematic Misrepresentation against
Louisiana. 1t is charged by the Picayu,e
that all these terrible crimes constitute
the ''fruition of Radicalism." And how
is 'Radicalism' made responsible for this
awful crop of crime?
It is the fault-this crime-of the police
1t is occasioned - this
the fact that the city sspaying
enormous annual tribute for police pur-
poses, has no voice in the disposition of
that money, nor in the regulation of the
sorce for the support of which the money
is supposed to be designed. The distant
public will thus see that this crime is
committed by "Radicalism," whatever
hat may be, and that it is permitted to
pass UNPUBLISHED by a Radical police.
With singular disregard Of logic, how
,ver, this indictment thus dismisses the
,harge:
Against the personnel of the Metropoli- |
ans, from General Badger down, we have
title or nothing to say.
We can not find it just or fair now to |
Issert that the subordinates of the police |
Orce are in any wise responsible for this |
lOrrible and barbarous condition of affairs. |
1t incidentally charges the police with
laving prevented the armed men of the |
fusion party from cleaning out in twenty |
our hours" the unarmed and unskilled |
majority of voters. It was not, however,
hat police force, but the troops of the
United States that prevented this avowed
urpose to massacre their political oppo-
ents into minority.
Still it remains that the police force is
ot Gin any wise responsible for this hor-
ible and barbarous condition of affairs"
his is just and honorable acquittal and
xoneration of the police force. But the
uestion occurs, who is responsible for
be state of crime thus alleged to exist
mong US? The charge is that it is ssthe
ruition of Radicalism." We can not for
ear to remark that it always amuses US
. see the sham-Democracy talk against
'Radicalism." For Radicalism and |
democracy are synonymous in the
ocabulary of kings and their min
,ns. But all this crime is "the frui-
ion of Radicalism." The Republican
olice acquitted, how is the Repub-
can party responsible? The Republican
arty is in a popular minority in this
ighly criminal city. The government of
he ''wickedest of all the cities" is in the !
ands of Fusion officers. If there be then
he degree of crime charged, the Fusion