New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-16
DIAL GOVERNMENTS.

u governed too much, were living ~ Ine
present day, he would SEQ no reason to
recall saying that has become trite and
altogether inadequate to express the
groSiSg lust for power, aided BY the de-
sire to live in ease at the public expense
which has everywhere seized upon the
democracy of the United States. From
tho day when the rebellion Of JEFF Davis
and his colleagues raised it, crest in the
halls of Congress to the present. no part
of the South has been FREQ from the curse
of q dual government divided ale
glance, save and except those States whera
the '.peace of death" has succeeded in
crushing out the unsupported Union
sentiment In Arkansas, Texas, Georgia,
Mississippi and Alabama the Confederate
sentiment is dominant and supreme.
The forms Of law have been seized BY
force, and in some cases half, in otherl
more than half, the popular voice stiied
by the swagger and terrorism Of the
swashbuckler retainers Of the chief poll
ticians. In only three Of all the States
heretofore afflicted by slavery has the
jewel of freedom retained even nominal
place. In Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina something like the forms of con-
stitutionsl and popular government have
been maintained; bgt this hes been done
at the expense Of constant vigilance, un-
ceasing labor and great risk Of life and
property. The satraps Of the idea called
= Confederate government have kept up
all the forms and attributes of Stale i'd
ministrations hostile to the legal authozi-
ties, subversive Of public order, ruinous
alike to public and private credit, and f.
tai to the prosperity Of the people. The
substance of the mercantile community
has been steadily consumed ct both ends,
first by the paralysis of commerce. which
has been driven away to more quiet and
less risky cities, and, second, by exacting
forced contributions under pretense Of
sustaining, in the inflated and false poll
teal language of the day, ''the govern
ment Of the people against the illegal
and usurpatory Radical administration"
Under the various names Of ''White
League" 1.-THE Dsmocratic-C Conservative
Committee" and other cognomens which
have been changed from time 70 time to
suit the existing exigencies the unem-
ployed aeitators Of the Southern Democ-
racy in Louisiana have succeeded in COM
pletely dominating the timid shop-kesp-
ing and business elements, and raised
money enough out Of their scanty gains
to maintain an army Of political loafsrs in
comparative elegance and at the same
time provide them with the means to keep
the agitation hot. The Democratic COM
mittee and its employees and retainers
have cost this poor city and State in di-
rect assessments, loss of labor, paralysis
of trade and the terrible demoraliza-
ton of the young men, more than ten
times the amounts required to pay their
State and city taxes. -.
II Messrs. Thompson, Palmer, Ray
mond and the other sleek and well fed
priests, parsons and financial employees do
not know these things to be true, and did
not know them to be true when they were
forced by the Democratic committee TO
sign that mendacious appeal it is be-
cause they are in fact the most ignorant
people in the State Of the occurrences
actually taking place around them. But
they were forced to. eat that leek, and
have not since dared to defend their sim
gular conduct. They ought to be sum
moned before the congressional committee,
and give Mr.. Huflbut . chance to inquire
how it happens that . dozen OF two men,
not specially noted for political good
sense, who were absent all summer, either
1t the North or in Europe, drawing fright
ful salaries for doing nothing, came to-
snow so much more of what has .oc-
cured in places whore they are
perfect strangers than the eye wit
,esses who have related what they
Jaw. No doubt the pious shepherd Pound
Text can assert with all the solemnity
II his pretended sacred calling that he
lid not see the innocent Babe Matthews
Hanged, or the poor wretched woman
oinkston outraged, but if pressed he
would perhaps admit'that it did not make
much difference, as they were only ne
,roes, and that he is running his heavenly
gency strictly on the white line prin-
iple. But they bow their necks to the
Democratic committee, which for the
resent at least is the only power, human,
nfernal or divine, which they fear. God
8 merciful, and may either forgive or
verlook them altogether, while the Re-
'ublicans do not make war on women and
,riests. s,r
Hewitt, who is now acting as Tilden's
rainer, seeing with what success dual
has been established in. Lou I
siana, has taken steps to set up one in |
ach OF the loyal States. He very natur-
lfy and properly began with Indiana. |
levitt has had profitable experience
nth Indiana mules, and hopes, perhaps,
Or satisfactory returns on his outlay with
ut the trouble of breeding. So he es-
avs the unchanged Democracy. Accord.
Dg to his ukase,a meeting il. to be held in
very county to send delegates to Indi-
napolis to answer this great conundrum: