New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-29
ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY TO OUR
VISITORS

Our visitors are like to be treated tc
an entertainment not set down in the
bills. It is Governor impeached for hav.
ing aided to pay the police to protect the
lives and property Of the people. This
uncommon State trial will be great
curiosity to people coming from com1nuni.
ties which abide by the laws, and which
do not continue the canvass fer Office
after the election.
Many of our business houses express
their unqualified disapprobation" Of this
disturbance. They look above and be-
You'd the satisfaction Of party vengeance,
and see in the disturbance danger lest
capital may be diverted and the Repub-
lcans in Congress disguised from the sup
port of the levee bill, the railroad, or the
mint appropriation. Coushatta is, how
ever, greatly provoked at these timid
shopkeepers:
1t will be shameful commentary upon the
character Of the merchants and capitalists
of New Orleans if they shall be the first of
their class to use their influence and wealth
TO shield, from righteous justice, public
lnalefactor, and to check the efforts of their
representatives TO vindicate the laws SO fla
gravity insuted by a high Official.
The merchant, rs regarded by the
Shreveport Times, is sometimes fellow
who deserves to be burned Ga: because he
buys crooked cotton from the negroes
Some merchants are as much gentlemen"
as those who have decided in advance
that the Governor is malefactor. They
claim right to decide fer themselves
whether this abusive charge be true. These
pregnant and overruling questions are
addressed to men who have lived here for
years, and have fortunes and families at
stake.
The executive is thus spoken Of:
The htnchmen of Kellogg. headed by Il
fellow named Mat; hawE. backed by white
and negro labble, actually threatened, if
the Hou:e acted in this matter in accord
ance with the facts of the case, as their du-
ties prompted, to precipitate an era of
violence and perhaps OF blood.
This assumption of threat is made the
basis for this inquiry:
Are the merchants and capitalists Of
Louisiana prepared to stand before their fell
low. citizens of Louisiana and before the
American people as the cOadjutors of the
Radical ruffians who have thus sought to
intimidate the representatives of Louisiana.
and bully them into abandoning the trial
of a man who has wrought incalcuIable in
Jury to the State and whose whole official
life is nOisome with crime!
Aud another equally respectful:
Are the merchants and capitalists of New
Orleans prepared to give aid and comfort to
white and negro rowdies who threaten the
peace of the city and State if they and their
chiefs are held to an account for their mis-
deeds.
This complimentary intimation follows:
Shall it 60 forth to the country that the
enervated, timid and servile merchants and
capitalists of the city, whose streets once
ran with the blood of the heroes OF the four
teenth OF September, are alarmed, fright
tned, scared by the fierce buster and cow
ardly threats Of Kellogg's array of rascals!
Then come the threats of Coushatta:
The country people will not indorse the
action Of any New Orlean, merchant or
capitalist in signing any such document as
that spoken OF; and its publication will
arouse the hot indignation Of the public in
every parish Of the State.
They do not know, perhaps, that country.
men regard their lives and the eanctity Of