New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-04
nv oRI1ANs R1r6si6AN, SATURDAY NovEMBER 4, 1878

PUBLICAN, SATURDAY,
troll Of the nayigable rivers tributary TO
the sea Of Aral, gives to Russia base o.
supply, with facilities Of transporting
men and material to within few degrees
Of the British possessions in Hindostsn.
Here is the commercial heart of England,
it is in the tribute of 200, 900, 900 Of ma
tives; in the production Of some millions
Of bales of cotton for her looms; it is in
the vast expenditure made in India for
railroads and other measures of develop
ment; in the prestige and prosperity OF
her vast colonial system.
Every device which diplomacy can sug-
gest will be employed to prevent the war
in the East Every concession which Eng
land can make consistent with honor may
be anticipated, yet if no effort shall avail
and by any complication which may
spring out of such conflict, Russia
should be found at war with England, it
is not at the Golden Horn alone that we
shall expect the most serious demonstra-
ton of Russian purpose. An army may
be put in movement on the objective
point of Hindostan, which would render
the hosts of Alexander, or the hordes of
Tamerlane contemplate by comparison.
Whether the native Indians shall prove
willing or hostile, such an army as Russia
could direct in that quarter would defeat
the combined resistance of India and of
England. We will not extend these pos
sibilities. They may involve consequences
of the utmost importance to the United
States and especially to New Orleans and
the cotton States.
Should England be dislodged from the
cotton fields of India, it would compel
her once more to acknowledge her de-
pendence upon the American supply.
Then might follow capital for reconstruct
ing our levees and direction of pro-
ductive population to stimulate our in
creased crop. The advantage to England
from an adequate and regular production,
with the protection of an ally capable of
preserving the intercourse between the
mills and the producers will be obvious.
1t is useless at this time to expatiate on
this subject. It is sufficient to indicate
Q possible consequence to the United
States of the march of Russia to the sea.
COLD COMFORT.
Mr.. "Abrsm s. Hewitt, chairman, New
York, had scarcely finished reading Mr..
Tilden's letter, in which he promised to
veto all bills for rebel claims, when he
received q tale of woe from Louisiana
which must have made him prick up his |
ears like an Indiana mule. Mr.. Patton's |
intelligence that "ten thousand citizens"
all Democrats, were being arrested in
New Orleans, and that the United States
marshals would not serve the warrants and |
the commissioners would not try the
prisoners before they were arrested must
have filled the guileless heart of the inno-
cent Hewitt with anguish. "The mar
shals hold the warrants in their pockets"
says Mr.. Patton. This would indicate to
an ordinary thinker that none of them
had been served, and no arrests had been
made, which is pretty near to the truth.
''The United States commissioner won't
try the cases" Mr.. Hewitt may have
paused to wonder what cases there were
to try if the marshals retained the war
rants in their pockets; but he does not
say SO. "Would you submit to it," is
the final and significant question. Submit
to what? The neglect or failure of the
to find the parties who are
wanted, or the refusal of the commits
'ioners to try them before they are ar
rested?
Mr.. Hewitt sends very consoling re-
ply. After denouncing the Federal
in this State in good round
erms, and bemoaning the unhappy fate
If the lamb-like Democracy, the cautious
Chairman" advises Mr.. Patton to s'trust
With confidence to the intelligent liberty
owing people of the Union" to set all
Vrongs right
This correspondence is about the COM
'letest bosh we have seen in this cam
aign. 1t is founded upon nothing that
an by any stretch of the imagination be
onsidered an infringement of the rights !
nd privileges of citizens Democratic or
therwise. Our registration lists have !
cen for years burdened with several
thousand names which have no owners
esident here. Some have died, some I
one to sea, others moved out of the
ard, parish or State, and perhaps large
lajority of them never had any existence. +
he nominal registration stands at about
fty-six thousand when thirty-six thous-
nd is liberal allowance. But by we'll s
system of manipulating regis
alton papers, the Democrats succeeded =
| getting at least eight thousand fraudu-
mt votes into the ballot boxes in 1874,
i'd they fondly hoped to repeat the sue
'ssful dodge this year. The Republicans
ave spiked that little gun, and there is,
consequence, lively futtering among
10 reformers.
When Mr.. Hewett and the sintelligent
people of this Union" learn h
at the ''ten thousand Democratic citi- ~
ms" have no existence here, they will be p