New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-16

holders and lawyers would fix such limit
to this disobedience, but those men Of
blood who, like the Calmuck or the
Comanche, have no property save their
horse and arms, and no restraint save
their own will or the superior force of
others, will execute the doctrine of tax
resistance as they understand it. Sections
OF this State and wards of this city are
under the control of this lawless senti-
ment. They have been taught that it is
their right to resist payment of taxes, and
they have reasoned logically that they
have the same right to violate or oppose
any other law which may be unacceptable
| to them.
With the evidence of this demoralizing
doctrine, what mean the true conserva-
tives? They are men of business, de-
| pending upon the restoration of the cot
ton and sugar crops. Will they consent
| that the rough riders shall decimate the
negroes to carry precinct election :?
When the cotton wants picking, will the
Conservatives agree that the pickers shall
be chased out of the field, to take refuge
in the swamps? Will they approve that
the cane shall lie in the field for want of
carriers to haul it up, or the furnaces and
machinery stand idle for want of hands to
conduct the rolling? There are landlords
and land owners. Does the one wish an
empty house because his tenants can not
make their living on the irregular produc-
tons of the country? Will the other be
satisfied to see his land rated at twelfth
part of its value because only one arabic
and inclosed acre out Of every twelve can
be, from the want of labor, kept in pro-
duction? When the Conservatives need
labor will it crafty them to see the labor
ers rise like a flock of birds and light down
in some part of Texas or Arkansas, where
they are safe from those who make their
living by hunting them
Political events show how little Louis
lana politics affect public action elsewhere.
The naturalization of the war of Louis
lana has not been alluded to in the cleo
tions of Ohio and Iowa. The Democratic
purpose to violate the laws to secure Office
has had an injurious effect in repelling
immigrant capital and intelligence. 1t
has arrayed the people against each other,
and destroyed commercisl and social CO.
nnernf,Or Will ha fr,,a -
the State sustain such doctrines fraught
with such consequences? We shall ex-
pect to see them give the benefit of their
influence to the Republican party, and in
the next campaign instead of the Demo-
cratic and Conservative party, We shall
hope to see the Republican and Conserva-
tive party. Such a combination will
secure to the conservative interest the
best opportunity to suppress the lawless
violence which pervades the State without
responsibility for the principles of the
Republican party, if any should disap-
prove of them. The common building is
in flames. The conservatives have Joined
the Democracy, who have fallen into law
less violence as an avowed doctrine of
their organization. As the fire is far from
being extinguished, let the Conservatives
try the Republicans, who, ifthey would be
guilty of any such deeds, will at least be
violating the principles which they pro-
fess, and will be held to answer by their
own political authorities.