The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-25
CARPET-BAG REPUTATION AND
LOUISIANA.

| LUUlS1ANA.
| We rnblish in another column an editorial
from the New York Herald Of the 18th, en-
titled: Louisiana, the Southern States and
the National Obligations" which merits a
passing notice at our hands: The article to
our mind displays noticeable want OF that
logical aptness for which the columns of
that powerful journal are SO justly cele-
brated. Taking for granted that imitation
means reputation, and that the Southern
by the votes Of their representatives Ill
Congress on the Currency bill, it argues
from these premises that the North and
East should be slow to reinstate the South
ern States in possession of their full rights
of self-gOvernmcnt and representation lest
they use these powers to disown the obi
CATION of the national debt, and that this
idea should control the United States
Senators and Representatives in dealing
with the Louisiana question, and deprivng
our State of the right of selfgovcrnment
and proper representation i'll the councils
OF the nation.
While we are not disposed to dispute the
proposition that the augmentation Of an
rredeemable paper currency is one step
towards the reputation Of the debt, we
most emphatically dissent from the opinion
that the people of Louisiana in airy manner
ia yor such a course, and We contend that
the vote in Congress does not show that
true people of the State are in favor of in
hation. In the Senate Senator West, and
in the House Sheldon and Darrall voted for
the four hundred million bill while Sypher,
Smith and MOrey seemed to have lodged the
question by not voting at all. In other words,
that these six pet-baggers who represent
no part of the people Of this State, assisted
the passage of the act by either voting for
or abstaining from voting against it, and
therein misrepresented the people of this
State. Louisiana, by her adoption of the
amendment to the Constitution as one CT
the legitimate consequences of the war, has
pledged her assistance in paying the nation
al debt, and holding as she does within her
borders the great commercial metropolis Of
the South, the thoughtful of her citizens can
only see in the ruin of American credit
abroad, the disappearance of the last hope
of relief by which she hopes yet to develop
her natural resources and recover her lost
trade.
Foreign credit has done all it could do in
the building Of the great railways, canals.
and other improvements in the Northern
and Eastern States, and Louisiana, with the
rest of the South has, in the absence of cash
capital, to rely for her future development
on her good name as well as that Of Ameri |
can securities generally, in the great cOm
mercial marts of Europe. The demands of
faith and policy alike compel her then to
assist in the payment of the debt, and the
fact that she has been misrepresented by the
six carpet-bag rotten borough congressman,
should be the strongest reason with the
people of the East and North why the gov
ernment should be restored to the hands OF
the true people Of the State, that they might
restore it's prosperity, and enable it better
thereby to fulfill its part in the payment of
the debt, and by a correct representation Of
The tax payers help to protect and enforce a
sound financial policy.
1t is this want of faith, this intention Of
which the Conservatives Of
his State charge upon the usurping govern
nent, in the passage of the Funding bill,
lfter its chief had declared in his letter to
Attorney General Williams, published in
louise Elk. Rep Doc. No. 81, 43 Cong, 3
,ess., that under no consideration should a
ent of the State debt be repudiated. The
<elloggan manner in which he has kept
his pledge, the sequel has shown.