New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-08
OouRTEs1Es OF pIsCussI0N.

VVUKTESIE6 OF DISCUHSlUk.
Mr.. ArchibAid' Mitchell, Who a.
} sumes to be ''is some sort 1eadet" IN
|. the Real Estate Association, deems himself
. aggrieved by an article which attributed
to the association. OF which he is = mem
bet, the same doctrines az were adv coated
BY Jack Cade. To say that no personal
!. offense was offered to the respectable Mr..
Mitchell by deducing this conclusion from
his dogmas ~ Leader. would be con.
f firmed by an examination of the article
I ITSELF It. however. would appear by
! inference that the same restraints which
should govern q Republican organ in
| speaking Of social organization do not
restrain the leaders of that Organization
in referring to the Journal which com.
mented upon the organization. Thus We
/ have the argument of the REPUBLICAN,
characterized as composed Of "sheer bald.
! erdash.- statements which are untrue"
"nothing but folly" The Republican,
government Of Louisiana sis administered
for no purpose but robbery" It is also
thought that q portion Of the article is
composed Of ''disjointed fragments Of the
preambles and perorations Of fourth OF
July orators. in which the American
eagle spreads himself largely on the
needs OF the farrago." Perhaps Mr.. Nit.
! ehell regards this national emblem as a
very ridiculous bird. Itmay be so. The
London Standard says:
Among Americans there are but few no,
actually participating in the general sys
TEN OF public plumber in their country who
would not oyfully exchange their institu.
tons tor the order. honesty aud loyalty of
tins empire. from which, o century ego.
thew made their insane revolt.
Not knowing the original nationality OF
Mr.. Mitchell We can not judge him. for
his hostility to local high taxes may have
made him despise the system of Repub- |
lican government under which he has |
chosen to live. r+
But We do not except to these phrases.
employed to disparage the REPUBLICANS
argument They do not ''taze." as We
say in the South, the serenity of an aver.
age journalist, nor does he protest that
they ''shall never occur again." On the
contrary, the journalist regards any dis.
play of vexation at innocent raillery as an
evidence Of effect. While general denun.
citation Of our govern ment is Q confession
Of inability to answer it L
We do not know. after all, that Mr..
Mitchell is arguing the same proposition
that We have attacked. We have under.
stood the association to mean that it
would ''bring about the reduction of taxa
ton at all hazards. We say with Battel:
Livery nation that governs itself under
whatever form Of government without
dependence on q foreign power is q
sovereign State"
'.Since then nation is obliged to pre-.
serve itself it has right to anything
necessary for its preservation" This is
The eminent domain, whether predicated
BY the State or federal government Under
his power the government may take the
property of its citizens. or place the body
IT the citizen in the eminent and deadly
preach Of battle. The citizens may appeal
o the courts. they may repeal obnoxious
legislation not vesting lawful rights
The citizens may impose by constitutional
any Limitation upon this
'ower, but any combined attempt to re. I
list taxes is iusurrection against the
overeign, As was decided when in Pennsyl. c
anis the distillers combined to resist
he tax on whisky. Our own American :
ncestors never disputed the power of q
sxation. They denied the right OF taxa
on without representation, and they ex.
hanged. BY revolution, government
'hich did no. respect the two correlative G
ights tor one that did. To-day the .
merican people pay q stamp tax No *
IAN maintained more strenuously than p
ohm c. Cslhoun the right Of sovereign to u
y or take the property of the subject n
: citizen for public uses. subject to the 9
upon sovereign power which =
I'D been imposed upon the exercise Of .
lis power. His opposition to tariff was :,
ever to the power Of taxation. He con. il
nded that tax for protection was uncon. "a
itutional. because it was neither '.equal II
or uniform" in its operation. No man is
aid his State taxes with more puncsuality - q.
with less objection than did MI. Cal. rs
ouns Let the Property Holders Associa- n
on adopt this principle Of Mr.. Calhoun. Ii
ID they will acknowledge the legal obiiga. al
On Of the Taxpayer, and resort to none but AZ :,
ch means as were in his opinion consti- a.
tioual to repeal or reduce taxation. Let n
7. Mitchell lay down the doctrine of po-
icA economy and take up the works Of o!
aniel Webster aud John c. Calhoun and Al
will find the true American doctrine Of pc
xation and the remedies for the abuses sa
taxation. We shall approve and APP III
aud all Lawful! measures tending to such pl
form. That We were neither peculiar tn
our impression Of the purposes of the ~
nor in The positions attributed Ill
Mr.. Mitchell. is, however. apparent e1
I'M communication. signed D. H. A.. st
the Times Of the second instant. That TIA
says: 10
Mr.. Archibald Mitchell. "A presiden. of an
il 1.-THE Property Holders Union, society. 80
nssS ou: as Tie cAapiptoE OF the tag ;,Sis....s
O., believe Mr.. Mitchell renders = poor
,vice TO the property holders in making
Z resistance tho object of this uriop NJ