New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-05
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We can well understand how men
really repa6licaW cddld 7smsen
the federal government upon tho theory
that the States were sovereign and indie
pendent, and 90 entitled to the right of
separate self-government. 1t is historical
that such men indicated the war of So
.cession upon the principle that they
wisheda still moro ;speHect Union" The
State papers of tbobe men were replete
with the code ola representative govern
ment, and We may assume that if any one
had proposed to them to implore his
holiness the Pope to shrive them of their
political imperfsctons or to accept their
accession to the PApal States, or to
have solicited England to send a Guelph,
France Bourbon, or Spain an Alfonso to
take charge of the political doctrines of
the South; to aceet tits sincere repentance
and its pledge never again to depart from
the allegiance due to the divine vicegerents
of God on earth, We do the justice to all
Americans to believe that such proposal
would have dissolved the Confederate
Congress and disbanded the Confederate
army. There were hundreds who quit the
South and plunged into the pleasures of
Paris or the profits Of Nassau. But neither
the vicious delights of Paris nor the golden
gains of tho blockade were approved by
the soldiers Of the Confedeacy. The
abuse Of republican government has been
in good part the work of these alb
sconding patriots, who despise their own
country and it's government, and worship
the rank and the style Of the kings and |
priests Of Europe For such men to call
themselves Democrats is a shameful
naockery. While, therefore, We regard
with supreme contempt those imported
patriots who have run away from the OPP
pressions of Europe to defame the insti-
tutions of America. we look with infinitely
greater regret upon those degenerate
Americans who, for a mere party purpose,
contrast the condition of this country with
that of Europe, to the manifest advan-
tage Of the kings and priests Our
neighbours of the Bulletin make contempt
uous reference to the centennial EXPOSE
ton. Its especial complaint is that this
is the most ''outrageously taxed COM
munity in the civilized world" It esti-
mates the taxes paid by the people Of the
United States, and sneers at the idea that
this the sbest government the world ever
saw" 1t pursues this subject, and COM
pares the condition Of the people of Eng
and, France and Germany, and proves
that we Of the United States
pay nearly double the amount of taxes
which the ''down-trodden" subjects of the
European monarchies are required to pay.
It then quotes q humorous" descrip-
ion of British taxation, and claims that
s literal truth as 70 the United States.
We can tell the Bulletin that this descrip-
ion of the tyranny of taxation was in
ended and used by the British satirist as
ruth, and not, as the British Punch might
ave treated it, as jocose travesty of
opular complaint. II
We can not, of course, tell on which
ide Of the. Atlantic or on which side Of
be Wing or Tory question which enlisted
ur fathers against the right of British :,
sxation were the ancestors of the Bulletin
ian. We trust such disparagement of
spublican government springs from the =
esire to get the control Of it, and not to Il
estroy it, but the Bulletin forgets two r
nportant facts: /. That the American =
eople tax themselves, while the European u
are taxed by governments in !"
hich the people have no representation. =
The happy subjects of those blessed a.
emigrate from, the kings .
ID priests of Europe to find =. -,
'mes for themselves and posterity :,
republican America. When we come to ~
alyze the taxation of the republic it is -
mprised in great part Of the cost of !"
uel war. OF this We will say no more :,
an that republicanism 10 not response .~
. for this mode of adjusting political :.
ferences. Those who read the history :,
the kings. and popes, know that
life, far more prolonged. cost, far
,re oppressive; death, exile and con-
cation, far in excess of anything Fl
1t America has ever known, have wi
solated Italy, France, Germany Eng tn
I'd. That those blessed kings and be
ests whom the Bulletin admires so oh
,ch have driven their despised and WI
graded people from their native homes, Or
build up freedom in the American lot
derness. Whatever may be the debt MI
taxes Of America, they are imposed by a
people. They can be relieved or re- ha,
lied by the people. That this republic int
lived century may be cause of Bo
Oh discomfort to despots, or to those hir
Ignorant of the evils Of despotism to no,
ue the blessings it has secured There wri
carcely dynasty in Europe that is as VIII
as this republic. 1t has survived the def
arts, the Bourbons, and forty or fifty mo
lie Gerolsteins of Germany. 1t has .tba
ested all the ignorance and Indulgence has
Europe could pour out upon our free Eli,
d. The republic of the United States req
OF only among the Oldest but the most abb,
sperous and powerful of nations and NM
hing shat the political malcontents the
, or in Europe can say or do is likely ma,
heck the-onward progress or protec- poll