New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-19
1T THROWS MID.

the Pic, has at last pronounced. 1hi
time definitely for the White League
Whether this prolonged indecision has
arisen from chronic Indifference to al
principle and proclivity for politica
| pap We know not. It would seem that &
journal so long in maxim up its mini
might receive "sealed proposals., - and
when the bids were opened and the secu.
rity found adequate, award the contract Of
its support. If the track of the Pic had
been traced from its log even of the last
year, it would be found to have headed
toward every point of the political COM
pass, from the revival of the sectional
strife by the pursuit of Office with SHOT
guns and the repeal of the reconstruction
acts to the calmest conservatism. It be-
gan at a position of 'immovable neutral
ity;' it soon dragged it's anchors and
drifted sometimes toward one faction and
then toward another; at last it unequivo-
cally takes the sacrament of service to the
White League party, and, until further
advices, its address will be the headquar-
tiers where the Chambord flag of the
Bourbons gives its ferocious and tiatulent
folds to the breeze.
The Pic signalizes this new departure
by many phrases Of abuse against the
New Orleans REPUBLICAN. The Picaytue
fancies that Professionalism and Repub-
licanism are unpopular with the Bour-
bons. So it gives the Pope assurances of
its sympathies, abuses ''Radicalism" and
throws its bucket of slush at the REpUB-
LIcAN. 1t even endeav ors to convict US of
a geographical absurdity by suppressing
the word respectfully in the phrase ecu
ropean, and especially French politics"
This is garbling on small scale.
We remember that the Pic lately made
what it called all argument against the
right of maj ority to govern in repub-
lie. 1t now pays the m ost devoted respect
to the local majority of patronage. In
deed, the Pic, as we learn from history,
has never been found against the local
power and patronage. 1t has never, as we
infer from history, been found against
local power. That trenchant little Jour-
nal the Herald, whose premature demise
has never been explained to the satisfac-
ton of the coroner, published this state
ment, uncontradicted so far as We know:
That during the military occupation of
New Orleans, there appeared in the edi-
torial columns Of the Picayune an article
which offended the General in command.
That the ostensible conductors of the
paper disavowed the article, on the ground
Of sickness or absence. That the unlucky
scribe who put in the article was ''discov-
ered.' and sent to some island in the sea,
md that the Picayuns conformed to the
will of General Benjamin F. Butler never
uttered another word disapproyed of by
aim, and "lived happy ever after" Its
ess flexible neighbors were not appa-
emily gifted with the same alacrity of
opinions and went to destruction.
This prudent conformity to power pro-
onged the days of the Pic to be very long
D the land, so that now, having no fixed
principle, simple change Of writers en-
'bles the management to evacuate any
quivocal and seize upon any popular
position with very little trouble. We in
er that if by any result the Republican
'arty shall be established as the most |
popular sentiment, the Picayune will |
lace itself in position to represent that |
interest. What more remarkable in such |
change than in its palinode to Butler
r in its flinging it's heels in the face of
be dying Democracy upon whose bounties
has SO long subsisted, and whose trum-
et it has blown SO long and so Justify?
This present abuse Of the REPUBLICAN
, merely for the sake of distracting the |
ttention of the White Leaguers from this
udden and suspicious movement from
neutrality" to an armed
ssault upon the colored race and the
ederal constitution.
1t is intended, also, to profit by sup
osed, though much mistaken state of
ublic opinion. The New Orleans Re-
UBL1cAN meets the approval of the bust
ess and property interests, because it is
lmost the only city journal that possesses
le least influence with the public author
les of the federal or State governm ents.
hat respect which would otherwise be
ne to the circulation and editorial abil-
y of the press is lost in the vituperation
18th which they assail everything Repub-
can. Do these journals think that
hen they outrage Republican feeling
ere, they do not excite the con-
'mpt and censure Of Republicans
sewhere? If the New Orleans REpuB-
IcAN or some equivalent organ of the Re-
ublican party did not exist, New Or
ans would be unheard at Washington.
he Picayuae is mistaken. The public is
Itisfied that the New Orleans REpUB-
tcAN has used every influence to reduce
.xation, reform legislation, improve
and restore harmony between
lie labor and capital of the country. It
known that its influence with Congress
IS been employed to procure for Louisi-
Ia and New Orleans the reparation of the
wees, the opening of the rivers mouth
Id the rations with which the present
OPP is being made. The Picaynse well
nows that the influence of the New
rleans REPUBLICAN has been employed
n these Ohiaotc with ono huo1re6fcld tba |