New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-05
A RESPITE.

"ANA"Ns ~S--~~
r. fears of constant interruption on the par
of the political country savers, whose pre-
scription for all the ills Of the body
- polite is subscription list. Our mer
chants have poured out their money like
a water to sustain myth claiming to be
the de jure government of Louisiana,
which never had the slightest chance for
. success Their money has been paid for
dragons teeth by wholesale, and the crop
/ of armed men has become an abundant
harvest. This game of cheating the sim
t ple-minded and timid capitalists has been
stopped for the present. The dead-fall
ha been broken up, and the chances to
win, always slight, have disappeared
been postponed for year at least. Let
us hope, for all time.
The willy fellows who have been living
off this community for several years by
merely "talking politics" by which the
consultations of the rings are designated
by sort of strained courtesy, must now
turn their talents for mischief in some
other direction. They have been tried
and found hopelessly wanting. Some sixty
or seventy of their number or of those
dependent upon them were last fall given
an opportunity to prove their sincerity by
their works. They were elected to the
Legislature by a deceived people, who
took them at their word and actually be-
lieved they would embody much needed
and long promised reforms into practical
shape. The fourth of January brought out
the true character of the Democracy. 1t
was then made apparent that lust for
| Office was the handspring Of action in the |
opposition to the Republican party. The |
Democratic members elect to the Legisla- !
ture were to be the Instruments by which |
the government was to be overturned, the |
offices all cleared of the Republican oppo-
nents and their places filled from the |
ample reservoirs of the reforming party.
The history of the sixty days of the last
session is trite, but humiliating to friend
of Louisiana We have seen members
refuse to perform duty of any sort because
they were unable to depose Republicans
whose rights to the places they held were
as valid as their own to the positions
they neglected. Such conduct is not
craftsmanship. 1t is not dignifed
1t is not characteristic of honest men.
The occasion which brought these
schemers to the top of the boiling pot,
has passed away for season. They have
been silenced either by the enactment of
reform measures or by the history of their
own refusal to put their professions into
practice, when they had an opportunity.
We have happy respite from the tyranni-
cal rule which forced brave men to their
death on the fourteenth of September.
The honest man will be permitted to turn
his attention from the squabbles Of the
Clay Statue rioters and the St. Pat
ricks Hall "outpourers." The money 6
which has been heretofore su,1an-
iered upon them to maintain them I
while they We're shrieking in the
name of 1.-the people" can be applied to g
something useful. We hope our mer- G
'hants will mprove the coming interval
If sun shine to recruit their crippled re- a
ources and retrieve their lost character i
or men of sound sense. Let them, one I
nd all, learn to look upona man with
Inscription paper in his haad as a self Il
vagrant; one who processes to |,
owe Louisiana better than his own adj T
ancement as whining fraud, and a n
ogc chopping attorney or journalist who il
eek' to beguile with false promises of n
lccess on some future day, either at an O
lection or in the coults, as an itinerant a
lendicant with an ak to grind Above el
II, let us all resolve to hold everybody Al
ho seeks to prescribe man for his pol O
ical opinions or the color of his skin as h
ublic enemies. n
We have something to do Of vastly more al
Importance than helping men Of no ability
} get into offic es to which they have no Il
aim. We have enemies to fight, rivals a
| trade to head off and commerce to b.
ring back. While We have been wasting HI
lr energies in vain endeavor to swallow a
lch other up on account of two or three el
illions of political patronage interests ii
volving tens of millions have been neg 81
cted. st. Louis has cut us out of the g
outhern supply trade. The little Allan OK
c ports from Savannah to Norfolk, act &C
g in concert with the mammoth railroad ri
terest, have drawn eff 200 much OF the al
'tton trade which little attention to vi
lsiness, decent show of liberality and to
asonable ability to help the country la
anters and merchants would have in Sc
eased instead of diminished A great sc
al may be accomplished in year by vi
lifted people. We see what has been OF
st by dissen sion, riot, injustice and dis
gard for honor and truth 50 long as N
Q wrong practices are continued, just co
long will the prosperity of the State Vi;
ntinue to decline until such tire as a.
ere is nothing further to lose. 1t is no. no
ID government and high taxes which lie of
the root of the difficulty so much as d "a
for honest work, and the IF;
mt Of liberal and fraternal spirit to- no
ard each other ~,
While the politicians are RENTED to an pa
itorced silence, let us cultivate a habit "a.
working in harmony against the thou atf
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