New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-21

the oepAToto STATES t0emSolve0. Inc no
publican resolutions declare the suprem-
acy of the whole people. and the proviso
of Mr.. Cox assents to and confirms the
doctrine.
THE REPUBLIC DEPENDED.
There are many Democrats who have
never impaired their intellect by study.
but rely upon natural powers of unscru-
pulous obloquy to create popular preju-
dice against any. who may hold an Office
that the Democracy desires to get. Igno-
rance. creduity and intolerance are the
three pillars which have supported the
superstitions Of all ages.
There are, however, some other Demo-
Gratis who know very well that, under all
other governments, there has been an op-
preston and cruelty unknown in the
United States, with corruption which
has required the revolution of blood to
reform. There are in the United States
communists, ecclesiarchs and royalists
who take shelter under American tolera-
ton. They denounce q republican form
of government as failure, with the cor
ollary of 1etrocession of territory, q re-
peal of property tenure. community Of
all things. royal prince, with an i'm
ported court, OF an abject obedience to
human infallibility. We have had the
case of Bacon, q judge under despotic
monarch, cited as an example of Repub-
licsn maladministration. This proves
that men may be corrupt under any form
of government. A republican govern
ment may be defrauded by its trusted
agents, but it is memorable in the pursuit
and punishment of the offenders.
To those who regard the republican
government failure, We will give an ex-
ample of what was alleged to have occur
red in Louisiana under the good and
glorious reign of the Bourbons, long
before the American republic was forced
upon the colonists by the oppression of
king. The historian of Louisiana,
quoting for authority from documentary
works, says:
Governor Vsudreuil and the Intendant
le Normxnt. had quarreled,
to the good old custom prevailing
in the colony since its foundation.
So there does not seem to have been
entire harmony even in the halcyon period
Of the kings, the nobility and the priest
hood.
The Intendant Commissarie Michel de
10 Reuvilliere, on the fifteenth of May,
1851, wrote to the French government,
making, among other charges Of malad-
on the part of Governor
vaudreuil
There is no question [wrote the COM
but that the Governor is interested for one
third in the profits made at the military
post of the TOmbeckbee, and that he has the
same interest in all the other military
posts. Nobody doubts it here. Le Nor.
mant, my predecessor, must have presented
t to you in his memorial, and in informing
vou that Mr.. Vsudreuil had given security
or the commanders 1T these respective
military posts and for the traders who
lad taken on lease the privilege of traffic
ng with the Indians. Tie Marquis is too
,een prompted to it by self-interest. Tho
at the posts are all Canadians,
Who are kinsmen or relations of his own or
II his wife.
Mr.. De Pontalba. the only one who does
not belong to this lCanadiAn] gang. holds
tho government OF P0inte COupee solely
because he shares his profit with the Gov
,rnor's lady.
As usual aour was lately sent to Tom
oeckee for the garrison, but it was sold,
also as usual. and corn was given for food
20 the soldiers, of whom many have de-
,erted.
There is no discipline. The most indul:
yent federation is granted to the soldiers,
provided they drink their money at the
licensed liquor shop [cantinel.
1t is Mr.. De Belleisle, the old mayor.
Who has the lease and administration of
he liquor shop, and who gives for it Ger
ain sum to the mayor-others say to the
Governors lady. What is certain is that
Mr.. De Vaudreuil has drawn upon the
for ten thousand livres of his
,alary as Governor, and it is with these
'unds that the supplies of the liquor shop
rave been bought.
Moreover, Mme de vaudreuil is capable of
carrying on still baser sort of trade. She
ieals here with everybody, and che forces
merchants and other individuals to take
,harge Of her merchandise. and to sell it at
he price she fixes. She keeps in her ho-en
very sort of druge, which are sold by her
teward, and in his absence she does not
cripple to descend herself to the occupation
# measuremt Of, and to betake herself to
he ell. The husband is not ignorant of
his. He drs 70 from Y handsome rev.
nue., to obtain which is his sole wish and
i'm.
The appointment of military cadet to
ach company seems to have surpassed the
levices attributed to Congressman Hays.
The first use of the ministers
vas, to bestO these fav0rs on new born
hildren. There are some between fifteen
months and elk years old who come in for
he distribu ton of provisions.
The Governor retorted by similar
harges against the commissary, COM
flaming that he did not furnish the
ural military posts with the supplies of
7hich they stood in need; that he did not
urnish the customary presents to the In
ians in proper time, and that he was
only intent on gratifying his self-love
nd his taste for despotism."
If half what the historian says of the
ommissary be true, the colony must have
zen in a deplorable condition, for there
PREVAILED in 1t the most shameful venal-
ty, and the stream CT corruption origi-
ated and run down from the upper re-