New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-12

L
y Mr.. Ellis, who had held prominent sta
) ton in all our political troubles, impru
y IDENTIFY pledged himself to bring tn
q wrongs of Louisiana prominently befor
r Congress. Now, we do not impute t.
= these gentlemen any dereliction of duty
: any more than we complain of GU
= Republican Representatives for not oc
i cupying more than their proportion 0
q the time Of Congress. Most people ar
: OF more consequence in the family circl'
f than they are even in ward meeting Th'
+ head of family who reprimands hi.
! wife because she did not foresee that chill
a dren would eat green plums if they could
, get at them, slides into seat at ware
? meeting, and accepts any snub of the
president, for being out of order, will
t commendable meekness. This is natural
/ The great Mississippi comes down with its
swollen aggregate of rills and rivers, dash.
ing from their cascades, triumphant owe,
, the potato patches, destructive Of the pole
bridges which dare, with their fragile
frames, to span the imperious torrent OF
Wolf creek or Duck river. The mighty
concentration of their force passes our
city On its way to the great field Of COM
bat with the ocean. Wagoners who have
been ''waterbound" by the rise in Cub
creek; steamboat pilots fresh from
the forty-mile inundation of the Ar
kansas bottom, have undoubted con-
tidence that when the ocean hears
the old thunderer coming it will squat,
or that the grand Mississippi will rush
like cannon shot right through the surg
ing tides of the sea, collar the Gulf
stream, and push it back on its current,
or conduct it, with accelerated forces,
through the narrows Of Bemini to the
coasts of Norway. Not bit Of it. When
this great bully, having left terror and des-
olation in its path, meets the ocean, it
does not rush boldly to the combat, but
sub-divides its forces into several small
| detachments, sneaks through its passes
into the ocean and disappears. The sole
trace of its contribution, the only proof
of its power, consists in few patches of
water discolored by the violence with
which it has wreaked its temporary ty-
ranny over the weak and unresisting. So
spreads Democratic violence over the
land. So it subsidies and disappears in
the calm and passionless sea OF American
deliberation.
Speaking statistically, the Democratic
repr esentatives of Louisiana have their
time and space as others. A nation of
more than 100000 of people, with |
$1,000, 600, 900 of annual commerce, a |
Congress which has the debt, the cur
rency, the tariff, the investigations and |
reforms, with possibly the complications
of foreign diplomacy, can assign no more
time TO Mr.. Gibson. or Mr.. Levy, or Mr..
Morey than that which is allotted to the
members and interests which they repre-
sent. This time would be about as the
number six is to the number 292, or about
3 80 per cent. If We assume the duration
of the short session at sixteen weeks, de-
Quoting two weeks for holidays, Sundays
and recess. assuming daily sessions of six
hours average, or 5SS hours, We will deduct
per cent for parliamentary
proceedings, leaving for actual oratory 3e2
hours. APPLYING to this capital amount
the percentage to which the six orators Of
Louisiana would be entitled, we find it
would divide among them 9.99 parts of
392, or when ratably divided among the
six orators Of Louisiana, just one hour
;wenty minutes and thirty-two seconds
each per short session. Now, as the
political representation of Louisiana is
equal in numbers, and as each orator
would refute the arguments of his antag-
mist, there would be a political "stand
'f' If each orator should speak his piece !
r neither speak at all. But what would
his little hour and one-third be among
all this multitude?" Literally nothing. 1
We wish to vindicate the Representatives !!
+ Louisiana from the criticism of the :
Democratic clubs and the dashing Con-
ederates.
Seriously, however, the Representa-
yes Of both parties from Louisiana
eem to have been convinced that the
nited States will not lay the national in
'rests on the table to settle local ques-
ons. We have published the opinion of
enator Edmunds (Republican) upon the
ouisiana election Of 1872. Mr.. Bayar2 "
Democracy has expressed a similar H.
oinion. Neither is favorable to the II
erits Of our politics. -
With the very limited time which our ~
representatives enjoy as Of right, it is
ot probable that either party cares to u
ar vindictive recriminations. We there
re think the Democratic clubs and the
lshing Confederates should not be too a.
!rd On our Representatives because they
not occupy the time Of Congress with -
rtlsan harapgues on the Coushatta and
'liciana outrages and the restoration Of
ate sovereignty.
The Vicksburg Herald calls upon Mr..
one, who is now employed as Governor
Mississippi, to veto few acts before
n, saying that the legislators ssfre-