New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-09
TOO LATE FOB THE BATTLE.

Owing to the insuficiency of mail com
munication between u city and the in
telior the reserves commanded by the
Ouachita Telegraph did not arrive in time
to support the Coushatta Democracy in
its attempt to take the State government
by storm of accusation. The line of at
tack upon which the Ouachita forces
were moving would have struck our mer-
camille and capital classes in flank, and
would no doubt, from the fe~rocious
character of these warriors, have produced
much CONSERVATION. Having. however,
repressed C~oushatta, the business in
terests will have no difficulty in holding
the post against the supporting force Of
Ouachita. The protest of the hotel
keepers, bankers and retail merchants
having large three hundred dollar plate
glass in their show windows had just
reached Ouachita on the day before the
adjournment, and after the impeachment
assault had been countermanded by the
Democratic lancers.
This is the indignant notice of the mer-
chants protest which mad such effect in
ment:
And 80, the people are again to be in
structed by the money lenders. stock job
bers, pawnbrokers and thrifty merchants OF
New Orleans.
Who, it is savagely asked
Are these capitalists! Are they the men
of Carondelet street who buy and sell war
rants and bonds-the lobbyists who hang
ers-the bankers who live by specializing
Upon the distresses of the State or by get
ting up corners in stocks; or are they the
minions of the Louisiana Lottery, and the
cOwardly devotees of a dollar, whose intlu-
ence is bought and sold with a barrel of
sugar, or q bond in some worthless mono
poly9
Then follows a TRADE against the com
mercial element:
We say it in candor after observation,
there is not in the State an element so un-
trustworthy as the merchants and capital
lists of the city of New Orleans. This ele-
ment never looks beyond it's money draw
ers and balance sheets. 1t is exclusive,
ar~ist0cratic, selfish, mercenary. Beyond
the investigation of balance sheets it dis.
dams to tread. Will it pay! Is he solvent!
Are we safe for twenty per cent? These
are the questions which direct the course
of the average business man in New Or.
leans.
And then follows the splendid declama-
ton against property holders, worthy the
communism of Rochefort himself:
Do these capitalists believe that the |
fimsy. cowardly pretexts they set up in be-
half of commerce as against human liberty |
will pass current for the disinterested rea. |
sons Of patriots! Commerce, indeed! Is
to benefit the moneyed few
alone? Taxes are to be paid, women and
children to be clothed and fed, horses and
farms to be kept up and repaired, children
to be school. d physicians to be paid, and
Of Neu Orleans would haze as believe that
expenses cam be met by not disturb
the commerce of that c,tv, and by
refraining from the assertion of our rights
as a free people. We say, out upon those
capitalists who plead pardon in behalf of
he plunderers who have stolen from the
Door. and who themselves will not aid the
,oor unless with q mortgage as security at
per cent per annum. They hare
,een, ever since the war, the bane aud ruin
# politics in the State. They hung around
Wells, dined and wined with Warmoth and
ollowed like b~loodhounds wherever he led
oward q job, and they are now the main
tags and props Of the usurping govern
nent of Kellogg. They need not plead
heir birth, their ancestry, their respectable
Go to the brokers, lists of
took Jobbere; 60 to Kellogg's card basket,
ok the leading devils In the Republican
arty, anda strict search will show what
il controlling the men Of COM
,erce in New Orleans. Their pockets are