New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-30
& MAKING MISCHIEF.

Persons at q distance would suppos
that aAswho hsvs any interest ct std
in Louisiana would be constantly en-
ployed IN doing all in their powe
to allay the excitement, reform til
abuses, and restore the business {
the State. To rel the daily oppos
ton press it will be seen that there is n
such unanimous purpose. It will b
plain that certain uncompromisin
element has determined that Louisian
shall know neither reform nor repose
but that she shall be kept on the politica
rack until her simulated outcries an,
agonles shall attract the sympatheti
Intervention of all outside humanity
An Eruption of philanthropy is invites
to break through all political forms ant
conventionalities which usually protect
people from the party fiibusters, who S,
often invade a country to redress tn
alleged grievances of its people. Thes
outcries on behalf of murdered Lou
isiana are kept up by a continued
and contemptuous abuse of ever,
Republican man and measure, and az
ascription Of every virtue to the OPPOSE
ton patients. This is copied into thu
New York World and into its tender. the
New York Tribune. This last iourna
having been founded by man of great
ability, in hostility to the sham of De.
mocracy and in maintenance of the equal
right OF every human being to political
representation. would weakly evade the
result If its own teachings by turning
Jackal to the sham Democracy, and re-
uniting the emancipated slave to q state
OF political, if not social bondage. This
accumulation of testimony against the
Republicans of Louisiana will furnish the
basis OF claim for Democratic patronage,
if that conglomeration of the discontinued
shall ever have anything of that sort to
bestow.
when, however, we come to analyze the
causes Of opposition complaint, they be-
come so perplexing as to be almost ludi-
crous. OF what does that uncommon scold
the Pic complain? l. That the prosperity of
New Orleans has been certified by some of
her merchants who would have at least
the excuse that they would like to put
fair face upon the business condition of
the city. The interests of such men
differ from those of the partisan spoils
hunter, as do those of the honest toiler in
the field from those of the professional
soldier who detests peace. So the NAL
contents will not admit that the city is
Very well. 2. 1t is repre-
sented by the Republicans that the State
has been replete with violence. Proofs
have been offered by the best oral, and
record authority that hundreds of men
have been slain, and thousands driven by
intimidation to abandon the exercise of
their constitutional rights. This state
ment is vehemently denied by the same
agitators. They say that these murders
are but merely the ebullition of a just in
dignation, arising from total exclusion
from lucrative office.
We submit that the malcontents are
inconsistent in their complaints. II they
wish this world to believe that the voting
majority in Louisiana is wholly incapable
of rational government, why not insist, as
hey do, upon the com mercial and agri-
cultural ruin of the State and city, and
i'd thereto the social narchy to which
ncontrovertible witnesses testify? Given
universal ruin, political murders so COM
non as to have become subject of news
PAPER jest, corruption and extravaganza
n the city government, and usurpation
n that Of the State, they would, we should |
oppose, make out such case as would |
atisfy even the Democratic Central Com
nittee, and commission of political
unacy and incompetency having been
July sued out, murdered Louisiana"
hight be consigned to the guardian
hip Of federal governor and
nd military detail. But the mischief
makers of the city press spoil all this.
hey insist that New Orleans is COM
lercial ruin, but that the Democratic
'hite people of the Red river parishes are
mild and amiable population, deeply
oppressed in spirit, while their colored mas
RS ride rampant through the country,
'bblng and insulting all they meet.
We suppose that this glaring incon-
steicy must have attracted the attention
the World, the Tribune and the Democ-
ICY, and that the Northern press pub
shed in New Orleans will receive instruc-
ons either to claim the prosperity and Or
er, or assert the ruin and rapine of our
ate and city. Which line will be
lopted to relieve the malcontents? The
'surdity Of prosperous people MUIR
red by the hundred, or of people ut
rly ruined, yet orderly and industrious,
a little too patent. The foreign public
n not understand the paradox, and their c
mpathies may evaporate before they '
We been fully utilized by the mischief t
,kers.
lie NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND THE
TEXAS PACIFIC ROAD.
We trust that Congress, with ample ex- !
rience in the ways of the Credit Mo- l
Ter swindle, will scrutinize closely the u
aracter Of any organization which may e
i'm public aid. We say this because q
desire that the Republican party shall "
ape any imputation upon its legisla- 81