New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-15
COMPROMISE IN SPIRIT. ;

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, promise was its intirnation that evel
among the opposition members there wa
. q majority wearied of strife and deter
mined to respect the amenities of socia
and political intercourse. The people o
8 New Orleans could not have received (
more conclusive evidence of what damag'
, has been done them by this strife than il
the accumulation of bills resulting from
their persistent refusal to be represented
in the Legislature for more than two years
past.
, Before this article goes to press there
may have been proof or disproof of the
sagacity of its suggestions, but as they
may have some influence upon the solu'
ton and success of compromise they are
ventured. 1t is proper to assert with all
sincerity that the views affirmed are with
no hope or expectation to SOW dissension
in the opposition ranks. but to strengthen
the spirit Of compromise, far more i'm
portant. in our opinion, than the letter of
compromise.
The opposition papers are clearly di-
vided between the Democratic and Con-
sentative elements. The Picay,~s and
Times caution the friends of compromise
against in trusting men who are open pro-
testants against compromise with the or
ganizati on or administration of the Legis-
latare. The Bulletin and Bee, on the con-
trary, demand the organization of the
House for the opponents of compromise,
and avow persistent denial of authority
to the executive of the State. Both these
last journals threaten, if their wishes be
disregarded, to wage warfare very serious
in it's consequences to the peace and well
fare of New Orleans. The Bulletin calls
the Legislature
at the last election, nor yet the Legislature
created partly by the Infamous Returning
Board and partly by Sheridan's bayonets,
but spick and span affair manufactured
to order by committee of individuals
without authority in little back Office in
some business street in New York city.
1t intimates that little can be effected of
party success at this session, and hopes
''that no fruitless political strife or acri-
monious debate will be INDUCED in" The
force of Democratic assault is to be re-
served until the session of January, 1876: |
Then the usurpins Governor and bis Sem |
ate will need the CO operation of the House. |
Then the COnser yative House will have the |
power to enforce reasonable reforms, or |
refuse to sustain the government by raising |
and apprOpriating money unless such re- |
forms are made.
OF this extreme remedy we will only |
say that dead lock which would suspend
the appropriation of money fos ievee re-
parations, charitable purposes, payment
of interest on funded obligations. and the
whole municipal administration of the
city, would possibly damage our oppo-
nents as much as ourselves. 1t is the
holding the dog ont in the cold
ill the dog freezes.
The Bee contends that the Democratic
minority having come into the Legisla-
ture, all distinctions have been obliter-
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he Conservatives prescribe that they
should unanimously renominate Hon. L.
Wilt as Speaker of the House. Yet
t does not accept, but submits to the
if faithfully executed. 1t
,ives what lawyers would call an execu-
ory consent, conditioned upon the per-
ormance of the covenant of compromise,
I'd therefore holds that agreement which
claims to have been perfected, still open. .
even says that if there be any treacbery
will consider that nothing has been
ffected, and that the people of Louis ,
ana should remain in opposition to the
kellogg usurpation" passive hos
lity which is the only hostility possible. !,
The Bee, in standing outside of the !,
until satisfied that it shall
Q carried out according to its own a
,hedule, presumes to add threat. Ad-
erting to some scandalous reports in re- =
ard to certain intrigues in which the 1
are stated to have taken
art, it says:
If. contrary to our hopes. the Conserva- Il
We party is to be betrayed by sufficient p
lmber of its representatives and if the | ~
'mpromise shall tend to selfish partition
appointments, we will then say what "
1850 public servants who rest true to their m
tiles ought to do. 4,
When We add the unqualified and I'M y,
tracted protests of the Democratic ST
inority against the compromise, it D,
ems right to infer that this minority "
-enters the Legislature with no obliga- q
'ns to keep the compromise in spirit, b,
It to so control the session as that the f.
oral motive of compromise shall be de-
sted. The opposition will then resume
war against the Kellogg usurpation ex- y:
tly on the same terms Of passive HOSTILE =.
as before the compromise. We may ~
fine this passive hostility as refusal to r. r.
Id business or social intercourse with -
litiosl opponents and to deny employ hr
mt to colored men and women. :.
What the opposition may do will be, ~
rhaps. defined before this article meets
, eye of the reader; but should the =,
he have not been decided, we have ~,
ht to call the attention of the friends -
compromise to the latent and am ~
shed opposition which. apparently, ~
" awaits an opportunity to defeat that r.
asure. To give to an arrogant minority 49,
right to dictate the organization of o.;
House, and thus to defeat the