New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-25
NEW NEWSPAPERS.

I uCSOSCd " % bpcClbI lAuuol1Ns 00vO OCO
issued within 2 few weeks past. show
that the people of Louisiana are not sat
| isfied with the abstract and empty dis
cussions of federal politics. Planters ar
exhorted TO shoot their laborers, and GU
city mechanics are furnished with torche
; and formed in professions behind politica
committees clad in foreign manufactures
and riding in foreign chariots. Thes'
interests demand special representation
The Changers seek emancipation from thu
middlemen and monopolists. The arti
sans wish the aid of capital that they may
command the same advantages Of ma
terial and machinery with the!: rivals
abroad.
The latest Of these self-protection yep.
resentative is the Co-Ol,e.rtice Ne,cs. 1t is,
We understand. the organ Of the State
Oranges. and begins life apparently with
q fair circulation and an encouraging list
Of advertisements. The salutatory is a
we'll written introduction. but does not
seem to have been conceived il any
centennial temper. It seems to consider
the ma,eria! development of the South as
a sectional question. The North ''intend-
ed to strip the South without compensa-
ton Of four hundred million dollars value
in slave property" The South is now
awaking into prosperity. while reaction
has set in at the North: the "shrinkage of
values is progressing at fearful rate,
the national treasury is threatened with
bankruptcy. and agriculture at the North
j. almost ruined by its burdens" BY a
sort of retribution the troubles (Which
have beset the SoI.h are now yeacting on
the North. etc.
The writer in opening new vista has.
We think. fallen into error. not merely in
spirit but in fact. The power Of the
Oranges is in the West. It is from that
quarter comes the war against the monop-
olies and middlemen. 1t is not we'll to
begin by rejoicing that the mise,ies of
civil war have befallen the allies Of the
'.co-operativ-" journal. Almost the whole |
of the food. the horses FOR transportation !
and war. which supplied the federal army.
came from the West. rs did a very large !
part Of the men who accompanied Sher- |
man. These men make the great Granger |
power. Any calamity which may befall
the West wouid certainly not benefit the
~ Of As fnr fh6.n v,tyr
ipated retribution which overshadows the
North. perhaps commercial revulsion
might stop cotton mills and sugar refner-
les. Would this advance the interests Of
the cotton or sugar Changers: Perhaps
The postponed vengeance Of fraternal strife
may ruin the capitalists OF the North.
Would this aid our people. who
have at present no other source to look to
'or the very means of Industrial develop
ment, which all the new journals deem
essential to the developed prosperity Of
he South: To say that the North ''in-
tended" emancipation is. perhaps. a mis-
AXE. II was war measure. like cutting
he levees, not of first purpose but Incl
iental. 1t is probable the cotton Gran
gers do not admit that the conversion Of
he slave value to the use and ownership
If the freedman was a 'total loss" Many
cotton Changers who could not formerly
nave employed colored laborers without
having the means to purchase them can
low hire as much of the same labor as
hey may need. There can be no Iues-
ion but that emancipation has opened an
ccess 10 free labor. by which the nom
laveholders has profited greatly. As the
alue Of our agricultural production is
reater than before the war. although the
oss to individuals has been great. the
opportunity for planters. mechanics. mer.
hants. clergymen. physicians and attor-
eys to participate in these enhanced
alues is greater than heretofore. |,
We could not find better opportunity q
, lay before the industrial interests one
ignal and singular result of emancipa. l
on. Slave labor represented as the Co.
,perat;re says correctly many millions Of l
lvestment. Free labor on the contrary
; held on account and at the risk OF the !
lborer. When . man child is born into
10 world his exulMnt mamma present I
ociety with value Of eight hundred e
ollars due eighteen years after date.
abject to q discoun: of the cost Of y
laintenance up to that period. This r
ratuitous laborer then begins to make !
sturn TO society for the cost and care on +
is behalf advanced and expended. 1t is =
ut proper to state that the exultant .
amma receives usually but small share /.
this compensation. Society, however, ,
,ceives the fire. laborer as gift. Society q
so advances capital for the purchase of p
ave labor. Illinois received from h
ermany laborers full grown. ready Ii
ade and fit to cast vote :,
carry u carbinc. What did they I;
'st: Nothing. They paid their own r
,penses and bought with them in silver ,
alers an average OF seventy dollars. Y
atisticians vary little. but have agreed a.
mt ready made freeman is worth !,
ght hundred dollars. The State Of Iii. :,
Dis added to her number Of aliens. I'm.
,rted between 1860 and 1870. 1866 | I,
.rsons. Q: these we shall estimate one. l.
til to have been adult males. These. 20
the price stated. would be worth $50. r
$500. Louisiana during the decade of .,
80 90 increased the number Of slaves !,