New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-31
PLOT I'd REPEAL THE COMPROMISE *
POSED.

PLOT I'd REPEAL TIE COMPROMISE 81
- POSED.
III There wos = decided msjority oS ID
!. | people Of Louisiana whe secepted sh
Wheeler compromise. Some accepte
il upo1 its merits but many tnor
= because Louisiana vas involved il
strife in which the American publ
took 10 interest, while it's consinu
ance destroyed oil cooperation al HON
and repulsed all AID and. enterprise fron
abroad. The compromise gave the oppo
, 4ition = majority of the lower. House. .Tw'
/ opposition members of Congress had re
ceived their credentials from Governo
/ Kellogg, and tive others are preparing q
! contest for their seats before q Congress
! whose majority belongs To- that part,
( which found Nathaniel Head disqualified
I fof Office because his name had beer
/ abbreviaredto 'Nat Head" There would
seem very fair share Of State and federal
/ Offices undey this compromise The Re,
publican part Of the bargain seems %
have been = truce of ten days, during
which Governor Kellogg vas not openly
called usurpe1.
T But il now appears that some Of the
1 opposition who declared themselves ia
imical to the compromise propose to
gather to themselves others Of che same
4 spirit and declare in convention as follows:
/ The convention means the expression Of
| the white people Of Louisiana upon tho
matter of Wheeler's adjustment. It is
thought by some that uine-tenthe of the
white people Of Louisiana think exactly to-
day of the Kellogg usurpstion as they did
three years ago; yea, 90 they DID when they
platform, certain men to the Legislature.
Thus says correspondent Of the New
Orleans Times. Of this communication
the Picayune remarks:
We are glad to know, however, and from
an authentic SOURCE. exactly what the
Democratic propose to do with their conven-
ton.
In one column of the Bulletin under the
head Of "Business vs.. Politics." We find
this expression of opinion:
We believe We correctly interpret the
wishes Of. the mercantile community, and,
indeed, of the vast majority of the entire
community, when We cay they are in favor
and earnestly desire absolute cessation If
political turmoil for months to come. i
It struggled hard to defeat the COM
promise, as IAN atrocious crime commit
ted upon the people Of the State" but
proposes to remit.the question to Congress.
It believes that any man who devotes
himself to "the building up aud advance
ment Of the commerce of our city should |
be regarded as public benefactoF and
good citizeu," but utters an anathema
which, in this connection, must fall like
an aerolite upon the heads of those who
would assemble in convention to unsettle
the compromise. This anathema is as
follows:
Those who would fomeut discord and
create useless wraDgles, or needlessly ex.
site the masses IF the people ON political
ssues, the discussion of which legitimately
belongs to the next campaign, will inevita-
ply be regarded as place huntere, and men
who think their own advancement Ut more
Importance Il al the pubic veal.
We have nothing to say so severe as
las been said by two conservative jour-
lals against the incendiary leaders who
propose to repeal settlement which one
If these journals advocated and the other
opposed. The whole movement translat-
d means just this: The Democratic party
laving accepted from the ''usurper' the
COMMISSIONS of the city administration
nd two members Of Congress and secured
majority of the House Of Representa-
ives, now propose to employ these agen-
les to expell the authority they have ac-
and SO monopolize for the {
Democracy. the whole administration of 6
he State, city and federal patronage. q
lence the protest of the old Wings and ,
lnion men, calling themselves copsefva- ,
ives, Fusionists and Reformers. They
nd that conservatism was but the meal j
18th which the Democratic mouser t
listed herself to get within grab of the '
'oil. They see that just when they had
'nsented to compromise for the sake of
eace and business, the Democracy first
'ntrol the compromise. then repudiate a
}, and, having taken all it brought to
lemselves, rep1diate conservatism and
sion and resort to the Yankee Demo- S
ats in Congress to place them in exclu-
We political command in Louisiana. Il
1t is natural that those elements which t,
ut name to cover the nakedness of II
emocracy, when it was afraid to avow Il
'elf, should be outraged at such treat a
ent. 1t does not surprise as that brave d
ID independent men should be disguised q
such an attempt to domineer and die il
Ee to them. Southern Democracy is Il
rogant and ambitious. 1t will make "
ends with Yankee Democrats who have O,
en- guilty of the most fraudulent prac- O,
es. 1t will combine with them from W
to Passamaquoddy to re- D
tablish supremacy at the South which Fl,
ey have long since forfeited by incapac- Ii,
either to command or obey. :. a,
The plot to .repea! the compromise has a
en- exposed. 1t has met opposition from a,
ose whose faith was committed to its W
option and pledged to it as a finality. in
3 derive from this encouragement for oc