The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-02-06
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+.'Fis Three Dollars Year. ,sas-

- ~ Three Dollars Year. ,s.,as,
Manufactured Public Opinion.
from The Republicl 4 .~.s
We have great respect for public
opinion, and believe tlh.e in the long
r,ua it is about right, bat We must b.
excused from accepting the Demo-
cratic clamat' That has recently gone
up over the policy OF protection.
adopted III Louisiana rs u genuine ex-
preston If public opininn. It comes
about as near % Il Asf dl6SsqaeakaOf a
penny trnmlset does, tor bqg!e blast.
A call was made in New York city
for mass meeting to g,tOteat against
the action Of the Government. Il was
to be 4. . non partisan expression Of
public opinion" The call WIS head
ed by such emitient patriots and
"non-partisan = gentlemen ~ William
H. Wickhamy the Tammany Mayor
of the city s Assust Belmont, OF draft
riot memory, whose good behavior
General Butler requested in July,
1861 wlssn negro Orphah asylums
ere'being burned by the opponents
of Grant and Sheridan MantOn Mar
BILE, the editor of the World, u red
hot Taminany organ, whose pen has
been busy for tue past twenty years
melting and defending rebellion;
Charles A. Dana, the editor of the
Sun, who can boast of having writ
ten moke libEls IN public men, and
having said meaner things against the
Government than any man.. LIKING or
dead !; Erastus Brooks, the editor Of
the Express, a sheet that has been
loyal to the Southern Confectionery
since the b6mbal dment OF Fort Sum
ter in 1861 John Kelly, the best man
in the crowd, but u diell-ia- the wool
Democrat, who runs the Tammany
machine III the interests of Bourbon
Democracy, and.A host Of others of
Jess 6otoriety, rbut equally strong in
their Democratic, attachments. If this
il fair sample of the " lO,l- partisan"
call. We should like to read partisan
list. We failed to find the names Of
John MoiTissey, Ben. Wood, Isaiah
Rynders, and a few ether "non-par-
tisan :" gentlemen, but we suppose
they we're absent upon business, and
OH that account could not be reached.
What farce! A few broker down
political hacks, wrapping themselves
IN the American flag, and setting up
their political venom as an expression
of public opinion. We are not sur
prised to find Whitelaw Reid, the
young man who was brought up I'M
der the eye of Horace Greeley, but
who, since his advancement as editor
of the Tribute, has .forgt,tten what the
good old Inan taught him, prominent
In this = mon partisan" call. But the
call il in Keeping with the meeting !
itself. Neither will have the slight
est ELECTION public sentiment. The
determination OF the Government to
secure peace and u republican form
OF government in Louisiana will not
be shaken iby the protests from men
who once locked with indifference on
the orsa l1li efforts to overthrow the
We have faith in. public opinion. |
We believe, on this question of pro-
lection to the loyal element Of the
South, it's tone is unnist;lkable. 1t
may not find expression III noisy
'1lass-meetings,s but 1t will. be heard
throu:s ii the, columns of the loyal |
press, aud in the deep resolves Of the
people to sustain the Government in
its discrimination t.b make life and
property as secure in Louisiana rs it |
is to-day. in massachusetts, Public
opinion is not yet ready to accept the
liberty to plumber and murder with
out interference, as, tie liberty guar
anteel by the Consultations. Liberty
is not anbridled RIGHTEOUSNESS, and
the White League element OF the
South m',st understand this sooner or !
later. ,RepublicaIiisn means security
to life and property everywhere-;.t |
hWme' as veil as abroad-anl the silly
twallle about military despotism will |
not turn the American people aside
in their determination to secure it, I
through State Organization, if pos
sible, but, if not b possible, then
though Federal authority. A,mistaken
idea of the Governments power led
to II rebellion which cost the nation,
both North and South, over 100000
lives, and at least S., OOO, OOO. 600. JUS
tice, and wisdom, and humanity, de-
mand that no such fAt,tl mistake shall
again be made by those having charge
Of the government. We can net, al
ford to allow ii sickly sentimentalism
{" interefero with IL high sense Of
public duty. % 's . -t... |
THE Texas PAcIF1c.-A Washing
IGN dispatch Of the Goth ult., reads as
TheTexas Pacific railroad project is
obstflcted by the pressure Of business
IN both houses. In the Sepate. Com
'pittee OH Railroads the chairman of
the sui. co.nn.ittee is endeavoring to
secure final action. Itsetms the delay
has arisen from tho proposition Of Col
'oneI iMcComb, Of the jackson road, to
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