Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-25
LOUISIANA.
A Home Journalist on HIS Travels
He Visits New Observation-Disclosures
Ram,auf
To the Union and American:

A Home Journalist on HIS Travels
He Visits New OrIeans-EadIeaIIsm
Rampant.
To the Union and American:
NEAR HOUMA, TERREBoNE PARISH,
La, Aug. IL, 1S75.-Before leaving Nash
vile you asked me to write you a letter,
provided / would not interlard any covert
advertising. Having often met with such
interlineatiOns, innOcently or deSignedly
put into correspondence Of the Winchester
Home Journal Zone Of the best weekly
papers published in Tennessee) 1 at once,
with an acumen worthy Of a Caesar, Ma
poleon, or Lee, conhprehended the perth
nency of the reminder. And so, begin.
LEAVING NASHVILLE,
arrived within six hours Of due time at
New Orleans. found very few concerned
about the yellow fever, not a tenth as much
as l was. My fear subsidized very soon
when every person met poOh-pOohed the
ideal A two days sOjOurn in the gay city
was not lost by me. When business did
not prevent l could have been found sta
toned where the world was most 10 be seen
and it can be seen to great extent here in
the Crescent City, though not to such an
extent as / have seen it there at other
All have a passion for novelty, and as it
acts on different subjects, it has very differ
ent consequences. Some one has said that
when religion or government are its objects,
it is the source Of most terrible evils. The
experience Of Louisiana proves it. But the
people, mean the whites, the honest pOr-
tiOn-had no passion for the novelty Of
negroes ruling those who once ruled them.
a Il
when the negroes could ill Offices that only
educated men could Ill before. But now,
alas! No wonder that
NEW MEN AND NEW MODELS
have been the dread ofthe Wisest politicians,
and that when things are tOlerably well,
they should be maintained upon the old
footing! Gentlemen of TennesSee-gen-
tlemen of the whole NOrth-men who
have white skin and straight hair, given
in the inexplicable decree Of God Al
mighty as certificates Of superiOrity-yOU
don't know how very guilty you are in
your sins Of omission. While you enjoy
freedOm-While your fair daughters and
brave SONS mix with their
s'oWn sort,"-yOu surely do not
stop TO reflect that here in Louisiana are
daughters and sons as fair and brave as
yours, and they are almost hopeless in their
struggle against an infamous social equality, |
forced upon them by that corrupt partisan
Long Branch government at Washington. |
You may say that society can regulate |
itself. So it can. But when the United |
Staies Government interferes to keep ne
groes and carpet-baggers in power; when it |
interferes with its superior force to keep |
tax payers subject to an infamous ring Of |
shameless robbers, for merely partisan pUr- |
poses, then il is that the people, who dele !
gate power, should stop and ponder.
Here in this parish Of ELECTROMAGNETIC |
sbeing Interpreted, means good land, y is a |
sheriff, black as the ace Of spades. lie can /
not write his name, but makes a sort of |
mark 10 the public documents his lrhite |
deputies officially indite. He was defeated
last election, but virtue had TO compromise !
with Vice-KellOgg had the support Of |
Grant, and this negro went in for the sec /
Ond term Of Office, and grows rich while /
honest intellect goes in rags. 1t isa
GOOD LAND.
l have seen much OF il. Corn almost rs |
good as can be raised in Tennessee. |
Rice almost ready for cutting, and looking,
for the world, like the golden wheat Of har- |
vest time in my native State. Sugar cane |
rich in It's green iuXUriance and full Of |
promise. Cotton looming up, as if il /
meant to become as tall as the oak Of a /
centUTy's growth. And this would be a /
great State, as it was in times gone by,
but for Radical rascality upheld by Grant. |
Look at the debt of New Orleans alone.
1t is 81, S12,0 900. The State debt is about |
the same. This vast sum Of near S50,000,-
200 has gone into the pockets Of Legislators, |
forced upon the people, and in
officers appointed to iii |
unnecessary offices, made as recon-
penses for services done. The State l
and city have nothing to show for
this enormous debt. No public i'm
proyement has been made-nO public
good done. Property is assessed at
twice its worth, and fellows 90 round and /
get it reduced in assessment if YOU pay /
them heavy fee. For a ''big COnsidera,
tom you can get rid Of having your proper
" assessed at all. The corrupt officials are
while the public welfare goes to /
ruin. Upon this subject I viii write you /
again. have a host Of others Of great in
terest which will discourse upon in future.
In fact, next time l shall be lively. am
preparing myself already. W. J. 5.