New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-20
A TRIUMPH AND Irs coHsEouEHoEs


The Democratic papers Of this city have
been for some days in q high state of
tickle because the admission of Senator
Pinchback has been postponed for few
months. Such joy q the act of Repub-
lican Senate by our cratic contempora-
ries is not easily reconcilable with any
known rule, reason or common sense
That the Democratic partisans should
prefer Senator to be of their own faith
and practically under their domination is
natural and proper, but that they should
prefer none at all rather than have a
Republican is strange conduct in persons
who make SO many sentimental profess
sions of friendship for Louisiana. Lord
deliver the poor old Pelican State
from such friends and save the
betrayed planters from the rush.
ing torrents of water now pouring
down from the valleys of the North.
One vote in the Senate would have given
us an appropriation of $500, 600 for our
levees. But Senators Gordon, McCreery,
Hamilton. Bayard, Salisbury and Upton
were so averse to putting themselves on
ON an equality with niger" that the
needed vote, was not allowed to be cast.
These whorthy patriots have groaned in
spirit and shed crocodile tears over the
woes Of the South in general and Lou
isiana in particular with most unremitting
fervor. But when it comes to a practical
question; whenever they are asked to put
their sympathy to some good use for us,
they pirate of the constitution and the
fathers, the bones of dead Confederates,
the traditions Of the party, and everything
else that has no special bearing on the
subject.
Thus, we are left with low levees, and
are threatened with high water. There is
not dollar of public money coming this
way to prevent the impending calamity.
The man who could, by his vote, have
secured the great advantage for us, has
been wrongfully kept out of the Senate by
Democratic votes. The defeat of Senator
Pinchback is greeted in shrieking head
lines, while the prosaic utterances OF
Gordon, Salisbury, Upton, etc., are
paraded in the foreground as the sagest OF
counsel. It is probable that before the
first of June thousands of the people of
this State will be driven from their homes
BY the merciless waters of the Mississippi.
As the lamentations of homeless women
md children come floating on the mid
aight air, they will meet the glad refrain
rom the New Orleans Democratic papers,
Good News!' ''Pinchback on th0Ragged
Edge" "He is laid on the shelf, high and
lry!' We doubt whether this great piece
If intelligence, this gospel of Democratic
intrigue and success, will be sufficient to
console the poor shivering wretches
lriyen from their homes because Louis
ana lacked one friend in the Senate. The
of the calamity will, of
curse, justify an extra, and thus the old |
'dage preserved, ''There is no great loss
Without some small gain" Louisiana
Vill have lost her levees, her crops and
redit for common sense, but nickels will
ome into the hats of the evening papeas,
nd the Democratic traditions will be vim
icated. Who ask for the preservation of
heir homes at the expense ofthese? What
) the paltry sum of million and half
f money to the glorious achievement of
eeping ''nigger' out of the Senate.
furrah for Democracy down with
Pinch, the levees and the homes of the
eople. Up with the ''true friends of
,ouisiana!'
We hope, when the calamity comes,
nat those who are chiefly to blame for it
ill not attempt to lay the responsibility
n the Republicans, or attribute foreseen
isasters to Providence and high taxes.