New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-06
gated by their own request, to the modifi-
cations of it which appear in the Senate
bill.
POLITICS AND CAKE.

POLITICS AND CAKE.
Perhaps he can not help it. but the
average Louisiana man appears unable to
do or say anything without showing po-
litical animus of some sort. If he only
keeps soda pop shop he gives out the
word grandly that before colored man
can get five cent glass OF the liquid
at that Ay-strewn stand he must
first walk over the dead body OF the
proprietor. The lines of society are drawn
| by political cords. If Mardi Gras pleas
ures are inaugurated there will always be
found some wide-mouthed men ready to
shout, ''Put none but Democrats on
guard" The Methodist and Presbyterian
churches South refuse to affiliate with
Northern churches, and labor only to har-
vest Democratic and last ditch souls. A
late specimen of the ruling passion is
found in the Catahoula Ne,rs. The editor,
in his ungrammatical way, attempts to
say something pleasant of wedding. He
has received cake, with the compliments Of
the newly married, and concludes his no.
tice by saying:
The cake came wrapped in the New Or
leaas REPUBLICAN,. We ate the cake, but
not the REPUBLICAN, who is an old enemy
Of ours, and probably is thus cunningly
trying to wind itself into our affections by
containing what was rich, sweet and erjoy-
able-sOmething seldom found inside the
New Orleans REPUBLICAN,.
He need not have said that he ate the
cake, for the Democratic stomach swal-
lows all things edible, and the war for
Office is one for cake; but the war on the
wrapper which enclosed it was entirely
uncalled for, and must have been any
thing but gratifying to the bride and
bridegroom.
Missionaries tell us how men far away
in heather lands have learned to read, and
have been brought to Christ through the
influence of stray leaf Of the Bible. We
have heard of instances where hardened
criminals and drunkards have forsaken
their evil ways by studying odd pages of
a religious tract found among waste paper
when there was nothing else to read. We
do not expect our heather to literally swal-
low the REPUBLICAN, but it is pleasing to
know that it finds its way to them, and it
may yet make better men of some of those
who cannot even go to avoiding without
talking politics to the bride. The REpUB-
LIcAN is the enemy of no man. Its
mission is to subdue enmities between
men, that all may enjoy the rights to
to which they are entitled under the law.
We preach the doctrine of peace, and
counsel against outrages practiced by the
strong over the weak Make the minds OF
men right, and the prosperity of the State
will follow. We look forward to the time
when even poor German families will be
allowed to settle and live in the Felici-
anas. Louisiana is blessed with fruit
full soil and a climate unsurpassed; it is
cursed with lawless element equal to
counteracting its natural advantages.
Peace and harmony, and respect for the
law and rights of immigrants and laborers
are wanting. Let this better feeling and
condition be established, and the Cata-
houla man can have all the cake he wants,
and We shall not complain if it comes
wrapped in gold leaf instead Of the New
ORLEANS REpupr vrAN