New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-29
GNAW AWAY.

fapclo0 that common anu COuCoutIatou
abuse of the REPUBLICAN,, would cOmpen-
safe their readers for the want Of other
qualities which render journal attractive.
We have, of course, felt the opposition Of
this prejudice in denying to US legil-
mate share of business patronage, most
of which has been perverted to the adj
vantage of our dsfamers. In the mean
time our opponents have not been entirely
harmonious. One of them has been
charged by its colleagues with receiving
support from Republican of6ceholder,
another with substantial aid from Repub-
icans in and out of office.
We are not conscious of having deserved
their common abuse and business pro-
scription by any want of character, of
courtesy, or of the manner or matter of
discussion, yet there are some chief points
of de.raction against which We shall e1-
ercise our right to protest. The Picay,lne
reproaches Us that We are ''never in &C.
cord with the people from whose taxes we
derive our support" 1t says:
The REPUBLICAN has . certain work to
do for its party. The party pays it we'll
not out Of it's own money, 1t Is true-out
still it pays it, and the REPUBLICAN is not
insehs;ble to the consequent obligation.
We are also represented as the organ Of
interests alien from and hostile to those
Of Louisiana, and it Is said by the same
authority:
No reported Ku-Klux outrage, no bold
and transparent fiction of carpet bag man
ufacture, is too inherently improbable to
receive credit from that journal.
These are charges az unjust as they are
discourteous. They show a purpose to
concentrate public prejudice against
journal which has committed no ofense
except to maintain the principles of the
party of which it is the trusted organ.
1t is not the Picayuns which should raise
the exceptions against American immi-
grants. A residence in New Orleans of
nearly quarter Of century should give
the conductors of the REPUBLICAN some
rights as American citizens The Plea
yi,ss was founded by Yankees and owed
all its success to managers Of the same
origin. It has established the fact, from
which We may receive some encourage
ment, that after living in New Orleans for
sixty or seventy years New Highlander
may so far overcome Southern prejudices
as to be acceptable in all the social rela-
tons, and entitled to the unqualified con-
fdence of the most embittered Confeder-
ate. It is true the Picaytne so far weak
ened in its Southern fealty, as
to accept the conditions which General
Butler imposed upon its utterances. Other
Confederate journals stood fast in their
convictions, even to the confscation OF
their property and the extinction of their
name. It was an ingenious ruse de g,e're
suggested not impossibly By the inspira-
ton of early nutmegs, but it was calamity
atoned for after the fighting was over.
Inc Pjcaylne has been from time to time
the most violent assailant of the federal
government and the most uncompromis-
ing enemy Of the Radical Republicans.
The opposition journals have made
frequent and triumphant point that the
REPUBLICAN is published in great part by
the contract for the public printing. We
require no justification for having made
this contract, nor for having applied its
proceeds in part to the purpose indicated.
We have shown that the same thing has
been done-though not as well done-by
the Democracy; that the national Democ-
| racy made the fortunes Of Blair and Rives;
gave Mr.. Richie bonus of fifty thousand
dollars to indemnify his alleged losses
| in taking the public printing at too low
| rate; that the Democratic Courier of Louis
iana was also published by the State
| printer; that the Democratic State printer
published the Crescent, and that We sue
ceeded by purchase to the property OF
that public printer, as we succeeded by
election to the same Office. Why, then, is
the REPUBLICAN subject to reproach for
having done the same act that the Democ-
racy have done with impunity and ap-
plause? Is it because Democrat may
do any act with propriety, while the same
act done by Republican becomes GRIM
inal?
The Picayune, however, says the REpUB-
L1cAN pays the costs Of publication ''not
out of its own money, it is true" Now,
if we perform contract, the considera-
ton becomes our own money, and We may
use it for any purpose. The Picayune is
not, therefore, accurate in saying the ex-
penses Of publication are not paid out CT
our money.
If. however, we have any right of speech
in the premises, we would ask whence
does the PicGyune derive its money of pub
LEGATION? Judicial disclosures have re-
Gently shown that paper to have been in.
debted to the owner Of the lottery mo-
nopoly for large loan. Suppose that the
Picayune is run 'snot out OF its own money
it is true" but, in fact, out Of that which
comes from the lottery Office, in what
respect is that fund more pure than that
which comes from the public taxes col
lected and paid ovez to the public con-