The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-03
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Editor N. O. DEMOCRAT: "a ...-. . et,u
Your editorial OF yesterday, under tn
heading OF Let us Have Peace, had II
4 it the ring of the, true metal. All his
Tory sustains you ia the statement ''tha
the only true and firm foundation O
public prosperity is honest. economical
! and legitimate government. All thu
\ prosperity of States, all the misery o
communities, grow out OF government.
In confirmation of this, which should
be recognized as an axiom, permit me t.
quote the words Of Jeremy Benthan
when Macaulay said: "A great man has
gone from among us, full of years, OF
good works and deserved honors. In
some Of the highest departments in
which the human. intellect can exert
itself he has not left his equal or his
second behind him" OF security, which
comes from good governments. this great
| man says: This inestimable good is
the distinctive mark of civilization,
and is entirely the work of laws
without laws there is no secur-
even subsistence. And then, referring
des0late. he says: Hence the, finest
countries of the world, wasted, barren
and almost abandoned, can scarcely be
recognized in the hands of their barba.
rOus cOnguerors. But these evils need
not be attributed to remote causes civil
wars. invasions. the seourges of nature,
these might have dissipated the wealth.
put the arts to flight and swallowed up
the cities but the ports which have
been filled UP would have been re-
opened. the communications re-estab-
lished, the manufactures revived, the
towns rebuilt, and all tho ravages re-
paired in time, Ii men had continued to
be men, but they ere not 50 In these un-
happy countriesr--tlespair, the slow but
fatal effect OF long continued insecurity.
has destroyed all the active power of
their souls. The spirit of in
dustry has been seen springing up again
after destructive wars which have I'M
poverished nations like q robust oak,
which II, a few years repairs the injuries
inflicted by the tempest and covers it.
self with new branches. Nothing less
is requisite for freezing up industry than
the operation of permanent domestic
cause, such as q tyrannical govern
Speaking Of the destruction of !
through the agency OF taxation |
inflicted by a bad government, this
great man says :n IL property. were
DverthrOwn, no more security. no
more industry, no more abun-
dance: society ewould relapse into
The savage state from which 1t has
arisen. In such state Of things prodi-
yality would be wisdom, and none but
he mad would be industrious. The
sword Of the enemy in its widest fury is
! thousand times less to be dreaded; it
)nly causes partial evils. which time
sffaees and which industry repairs"
Such are the views of this profound
thinker, true beyond doubt, established
~ deductive reasoning and confirmed ,
W the teachings of history. Yet men,
closing their eyes to these truths, will
'ndeavor. by projecting railroads, i'm
migration societies, etc, TO restore a
stricken down by misgovern-
nent without attempting to remove the
folly ludicrous were it not
ragical in its consequences as until !
men, at all hazards, unite In one direc- !
ion and for one purpose, to tear down
his incubus, called State government,
10 amelioration can be expected from ,
Ill the railroads and other enterprises I
by hopeful but misguided ,,
nen nay, by the abstraction of capital
rom the industrial pursuits OF the coun- :
ry. these enterprises will accelerate our T
ntire destruction. pHtmrh =
Let our Legislature, now in session. E
these truths and act accord .
agly. Impeach all the seoundrels that :
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tate, blackened, as they are. all over
18th crime, and who have from the in
option Of this government, used their =
over for. no purpose but spoliation. ),
,et them be impeached and at once y
fsplaced. Let military government or 0
narchy replace the present order of r
lings, If better can't be done; yes, y
nything would be preferable to gov =
'nment organized and administered i'm n 4.
I its departments for no purpose but y !.
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