New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-08
The Louisiana Question.

The Louisiana Question.
Some Louisiana Democrat is industriou
here at the capital in furnishing the metro
politan press of the country with announce
| ment that the cOnsciences of Congress anC
the President are pricked with the necesslt,
| OF a new election in that unhappy State
| We suspect that the instigator of sucl
gratuitous reports is the same man WHIT
was hoisted on his own pe:ard last winter
| there, and is now without party asylum
We know that the Democracy Of Louisiana
consented to employ him as a tool in
the 10 election, but not to elect him az
| It's exponent to the United States Senate
| but it would now seem that his services are
as unwelcome to that element as his tele
| graphic insinuatiOns are false. There is
| but one journal OF English print at New
| Orleans that has been inimical to the Kel.
| logg government-the Picayune. Its two
editors are old Louisiana journalists and
| contributed their best vigors to the Nc
Emery project. yet the issue of the twenty
first instant of that sheet thus discounte-
nances a new election and Mr. Warmoth's
missives: 1--WE don't intend resurrection,
not by any means. We fear the new cleo
ton is corpse; very respectable, first class,
but corpse after all. The fact is, our at
tention has been called to fresh rumors
from Neutrality-suspicious. kilograms, and
all that sort of thing; and we are conscious
that another little stir is attempted apropos
of a new election, but that a new deal is to
spring from this does not strike the average
mind as necessary or even probable
Since then the leading Democratic organ
Of the State and some four hundred of her
leading citizens, composing the New Or
leans Chamber OF Commerce, view a new
election with dsfavOr; since the fragment
called the McEnery Legislature has dis
banded as such aud fused individually into
the Kellogg body; since every department
OF the administration. from its executive
down to its last constable, is in wholesome
accord; since the whole public opinion of
the State demonstrates against federal dis.
turbance OF an accomplished fact, it might
be well for Mr.. Warmoth to indicate for
whom he speaks. The Democracy have re-
fused him credentials in any capacity; the
Republican party revoked theirs IN luis case
nearly three years ago. AS there are no
other parties in the State. we confess our
inability to solve the conundrum. 1t is be-
lleved that an executive message will be
submitted to- day to Congress ii relation to
Louisiana, and we suspect that nobody will
be disappointed Herewith except half a
dozen Bedouins, in whom Louisiana feels
no interest except that they may never
cross her frontier again.
Not only are the people of Louisiana sata
of her Republican administra-
ton, but they are persuaded that a new
election would not and could MOI assure to
her Democratic rulers. 1t would require a
ong succession of Colfax massacres and all
The arlthmetical temerity of a Warmoth, at
election returns, to neutralize the large Re-
publican majority that will never surrender
he State, 1t is to be hoped, to the Democ.
,acy. The registration by her late Governor,
iespite its alloy in the Democratic interest,
'ouid not impair this fact, while in the cleo
ION Ii is notorious that even tomb stones
we're on the poll lists as Democratic suffra-
.ans. and that thousands to whom not only
leath but even birth had not been vouch-
afed found anticipatory baptism on that
ist ana dlllgent proxies at the polls. That
lIzenship should antecede nativity and
urvlve even the grave mold, was never
inundated before November, 1872, in
louisiana, but when it shall command gen.
RAJ popular sanction, we can readily core
eve treemen will hold it less in disc steem
han now, and insist upon leaving the womb
lst before and the world only just after an
lection. 1t Is not every Governor that can
cast the inventive talent to devise aliases
libitum, and inspire numbers of his fee
Nv patriots to vote each dozen of them.
ne average executive is not SO alert to dis
harge duty alike to the dead and to a.
robable posterity. That the Louisiana
democracy is convinced that too liberal a
'lnpensatlon was thus misle for the leaks
III increment IN the census of that State.
ay' tnat the whole election project of tho
len State authorities is now denounced bv
lousands of that very party as swipdls.
notable. And they are more violent in
ielr eplthets for the reason that they are
Dashed at the scandal of their association
II the nonce with an executive against
nom, Tor three years before, the whole
emocracy mad honesty and persistently
'ciaiuled: when sdngune men lose an
ecuion' the seh-respect staked for 1t, and
ia1y' npon disclosure of the frauds piled
lrlng the alliance, their credit az repn
ple cltlzens and partisans, need we marves
at they thould nuiUerousiy disayog the
alheini purpose Of the bargain sealed by
cir OLD Leaders with the late administrs
N?
That they should now address Themselves
nearby 10 the maintenance Of the pres.
i state administration. as if 70 acouic
emselvss before the country of all s;isn;e
N OF having shared in such purpose. and
qua follow toward catholic ends the lead.
. OF mlschicvOu5 cabals longer but OF
vi respectable body as the Ney Orleans
ID hper Oh commerce, is certainly worthy
special notice. Congress may well await
ne Responsible relnOnstrance from Louis
Id against the Kellogg administration be-
. shaC body turns its ear to the whispers
d lew Dah1ed men, whom that State does
cialn, and neither party can hazard it's
'tenslons to respect by owning. Even
Committee of One Hundred, a third Of
len visited the capital last winter in the
nocratic interest. forbears to utter word
that the frauds in that behalf stand
re inlly revealed. Indeed, most of that
nnittee are members of the Chamber of
already mentioned, and have
III actlve OF late, and successful too II,
Suadlng the McEnery legislators to re.
n 10 the Kellogg Legislature and aid 10
'motlng the passage Of a funding hill nv
zen relief may he assured to the people
u, W INC "ahton extravagauce of the yery
uosernor VINO assumed to represent the
te no mas wrecked. When such Dena
'1s. are rank 10 stIgmarize many Of her
'iitles' by him contracted. to he az
uuuient as were HIS election returns We
yet more TO discover just where his rep
IN I'VE character comes in. The peopis
louisiana desire to be let alone: this thew
as cit!zens, not az partisans. That the
nocra.ic element In Congress will not
ction federal interference. and thus both
elI traditional principle and win cele
. u Ti I'D Louisiana we tully believes
i congress and the President will LET
Lslana conserve herself under her pres
auspices we also believe WashinqtoA
l'ona! Republican
The Louisiana Case.
mere seems to be no disposition on tho
OF any one to proceed further with the
lslaha case, ii the bondholders have