New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-03
Trr norpRou1sE OF nARDI aRAs.

THE oouBonsE OF nARD1 aRAs.
Sheridan once said, ''When they do
agree upon the stage. the unan,mity Is
remarkable" Who has not been struck
With the truth of the remark? The heavy
father has been disinheriting his son. the
villain had secured the hand of the heir
ess, the hero had been kidnapped or des-
perately wounded. Then there comes ex-
PLANTATION and recantation, then the true
lovers are betrothed, then the right heirs
come in possession Of their proper names
and lawful property, then the Wallets and
soubrettes are assured of settlements and
made to marry. The benedictions OF
parents and clergy sdsScend upon the
happy and harmonious Scene. the curtain
falls, and Sheridan's observation is veri-
fed.
An act OF our political drama has ended.
Democracy, in the peaked hat and banded
legs of Fra Disvolo, has assumed the lead
ing role. It has 80 terrified the pacific
interest Of capital and work that they abb
seconded and hid themselves. It has black
ened and begrinmed every name that was
not Democratic, and SO made it shame
and stencil not to belong to the virtuous
political allies of Tweed. It has threat
ened the violence of blood by the thou
sand; it has bullied and DETAINED the bust
ness interest, who refused to abide by its
order. It has commanded the Legis-
lsture to accuse every Republican
executive incumbent and expectant
and every Republican judge out of Office.
and proclaim the Democrats so enstalled
by coup detdt and pronounciamiento; and
was directed to take command Of the
military forces of the State, to appoint
Democratic generals and judges, and so
inaugurate a Democratic administration
BY force. This was entirely too steep for
any man who had anything at stake
beyond riding horse and revolver.
The want of familiarity with the usages
Of a people who 60 to market every day,
and who must have something to go to
market with every day, was fatal to the
tribe Of Coushatta. Had this coup detat
or pronounciamiento been planned to
come off in the summer months, when we
have little other use for our streets, they
might have been employed for barricades
or butcheries. In the midst Of Mard
Gras, with the city filed with paying
strangers, who would fly like pigeons at the
crack of the first revolutionary frearm, who
wants their plate glass windows smashed,
or customers driven from their counters, or
children taken from their schools, or
rooms vacated without notice? Coushatta
has failed from the want Of sufficient
familiarity with the laws which govern
the social and business interests of great
commercial city. Mardi Gras, the great
compromises and composer of strife, has
sent Coushatts back swearing to his cane
brake and chappareL Let the colored
citizens look out for his return. For this
revolutionary programme, worthy the
sierras of Spain or of Mexico, alarmed the
public. The lariat by which Coushatta
had been dragging the conservative peo-
pie and press broke, and these in
terests stand free and indignant.
We were satisfied that when Coushatta
discarded the despissd metaphysics of
1889, and substituted the force tactics |
of September. 1874, it had undertaken too |
much. 1t had attempted to introduce |
among civilized and business commu-
nifty practices which have been repressed |
among the lawless borderers of every
modern government.
The political Comanche rode bravely
into the grand plaza of the Crescent City,
and struck his war spear against the
statue Of that great champion Of peace
and commerce, Henry Clay, Of Kentucky.
The Comanche inspired neither terror
nor Cancellation. He was ignominiously
driven out, and fees to his tastness, and
the land is at peace. Now occurs that
happy unity which Sheridan has de-
nounced. The revolutionary House will
not rush wildly abroad, crying, elm
peach! Impeach!" The Senate will neither
shelter itself behind the Notifications
of thick doors and embattled peelers, nor |
will it trust the abattis of charges |
dismissed before they came within gun
shot, but all will join, as in the warlike |
conflicts of the opera boufe, in general |
legislative can-can, in which each house |
will set to the other with the widest dem
onstration of competitive affection.
We have had the most cordial co-opera-
ton of both houses in the enactment Of |
some laws which are indispensable, and
each will strive to repel the charge of
having been the impeachment to measures
of reform in which the whole country is
interested. Many thanks to Rex and
Mardi Gras for their timely. Intervention.
GOVERNOR KELL0Ga's MEDICATION.
The voluntary abandonment Of i'm
parchment by the House may be
taken as complete proof of Gov
ernor Kellogg's innocence of any Of
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