New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-24

government would Halter and tawn upon
its officers in the latter, will be readily ap
preciated.
Turn the case as you NAV, the idea of
loyalty for the general government, among
the masses in louisiana is simply not to be
found in the book. The sooner it is thor
oughly exploded in the minds of the public
at large, the sooner will that public begin,
to appreciate the situation as it is. Louisi-
ana, as foreign rather than American
community, never was loyal to the federal
Union In the sense as interpreted by the
loyalists of the North. With general
population of such foreign, mixed, mOngrel
and Latin birth and extraction, in fact, it
would be a moral impossibility that she
should. The large element of naturalizad
foreigners, as found in New Orleans were,
almost to man, the bitterest of all bitter re-
bells in the rebellion of 1861. The exceptions,
if any, were found among the Germans; Even
this element, in marked cOntradistinction
to that found in the North, was always
Democratic. If such fact be claimed as
affording an insufficient proof OF dislOyalty,
there is the ever attendant one that not
man, so far as heard from, among the
original UniNnists. was ever classed with
the Democracy. The two, in fact, were
bitterly antagonistic from first to last. The
foreign born citizens are found as bitterly
opposed to the party of the Union to-day as
in the times that tried mems souls. They
the line of distinction between the party
and the government. Their Democratic
leaders we're the leaders in the rebellion of
1861. Their Democratic leaders are the
leaders in the revolutionary movements of
1915. They were eOerced and held in
subsection then; they are coerced and held
in subsection now They recognize the
same hand in the one as in the other-the
party in power.
The Creole elements-cOmprising in the
main, the representative whites-are at once
distinctive race 1t is not within their
composition to be Americans, if they would.
Save in the matter of birth and exercise of
the rights of citizenship, they are as much
French, in their general makeup and cOmpu-
sitOn, as are the natives of France to-day
They are French in manners, French in
language, Frehch in feellng-French in
everything. Then loyalty, at most even
in the olden time, may be said to have been
confined to Louisiana, and Creole Louisiana
at that They made strike in the rebel
lion for, as they Understood it, the indie
pendence of their native Louisiana. They
were forced to yield to the strong arm of
the government. 1t was welded in the
hands of the party of the Union. They hate
the party with the deep, yindictive hatred
that forms one of the peculiarities of their
general character. They have little love
for the government it represents. The two
would seem as inseparably connected. A
government as welded by the Old-sehool
Democracy, the more especially if Louis.
lana was fairly represented, would COM
mand their allegiance. A government as
welded by the Republicans is at once, prac-
tically, a government of their enemies. 1t
forms government, as a consequence, that
is simply intolerable, save as it represents
the strong arm of power.
With the lower grades, the more espe-
ciRlly those of the Latin extraction, this
one idea. Of power may be said TO comprise
the whole of their comprehension of what
government, of right, should be- From
their very nature, it is the only attribute
through which government can command
respect. A government must make itself
telt-must be one that shows its power.
They can respect none other. If they have
any conception of loyalty, save as confined
to their DigOted ideas of caste, il is simply
as one recognizes, so to speak, the right of
might A government has right to their
allegiance, according as it evidences the
might to enforce it.
The DagOs of Louisiana, at hest, have
about as fair conception Of a Republican
government as have the canaille of Paris
an element to which they are probably the
nearest approach OF any the average Amer
loan is prepared to comprehend. Like most
of the lower orders of whites, too, as known
10 the American, they have little of love-
at the same time, a bitter aud clan-
nish hatred for all strangers-such as are
foreign to Louisiana. The party ia power
as seen in Louisiana is made up in The
main of blacks and Northern born Repub-
licans. The Democracy, on the other hand,
is made up of CreOles, naturalized foreigners
and Americans of the good old Southern
school The latter represents "the people
of louisiana" the former the carpet
baggers and niggers." The DagO, from the
very ties OF caste, as well as party discipline,
belongs body and soul to the one. His very
prejudices enforce deep seated and impla-
cable hatred of the other The carpet
baggers and niggers" too, as the party in
power are the representatives of the gem
eral government. The average Dago, as a
consequence, has little of loyalty in any
sense TOR the government as he understands
it. 1t is neither Creole nor Democratic. 1t
is as effectually damned in his estimation
as though vertically cast into regions in
fernal by bull from the Pope.
Travel as you please throughout the
State, the result is the same. Here and
there you may ind an exception in the
person of az Old Line Wing and original
UniOnist. You find him deprecating the ex.
listing order of. things, aud, at heart, damn
ing the Louisiana Democracy, You find
{. him, however, as rule, far from ont
spoken, and decidedly impressed with the
necessity of holding his tongue. He is sur
rounded, as before the rebellion. with the
elements Of sedition, he has learned from
bitter experience it is worse than useless, as
| it is far from agreeable to contend against.
He is content, rather, to float with the tide.
His sons, at the same time, are active
members of. the White League and are
EsfOund, as a rule, rampant for the extermi-
nation, if need be, of all State officials and
Radicals in general. Like the young men
in commons they are thoroughly Indoe-
trinated with the idea that Louisiana be-
| longs to the natives of Louisiana alone; that
the Radicals e., the carpet baggers and
niggers"-have defrauded the people, e b,
the Democrats-of their rights and they, as
| true sons OF Louisiana are, each and all, in
/ dividually and collectively, bound to stand
| by, and, if need be, redress the wrongs she
has suffered. The general government is
| simply the head centre of Radical authority
and power. 1t has aided and abetted in
overriding Louisiana with 'carpet-bag gers
and niggers.n 1t has proved itself an en-
envy in so doing 1t has lately been snubbed
and repudiated in its management through
the success of the Northern Democracy. 1t
dare not, as consequence, longer interfere
in Louisiana affairs. 1t need occasion little
| fear in the future, as il is entitled to little
of respect at their hands. It certainly can
claim nothing in the way Of loyalty.
Not few Of the parishes there are, too,
in which the mere idea of loyalty is, in any
sense, simply ridiculous TO contemplate.
| There are whole parishes, in fact peOpled
| by the lower classes of foreign extraction,
in which you could scarcely obtain a re-
spectacle. even ineligible definition of the
word. Their loyalty, at most, is confined
| To their reeognized Leaders, "a reDreaen tin o