New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-21

CAN THEY STOP TIE FLANB THEY
STARTED7
We have been told that during the late
war 'a disguised stranger, or at least Q
man whose person and character were un-
known, asked audience of . Southern
Legislature to communicate q means of
incredible injury to the Northern people.
The stranger was granted q secret session.
He was young man, and of foreign COM
plexion and accent. he igKoduced at
the clerks table series u chemical
effects, proving that emissaries might
thereby arrange series Of fires to take
effect at from an hour to . month after
the passage of the incendiary. He rec
commended the application Of this agency
to principal buildings at the North, and
claimed that he had thereby caused the
recent destruction of federal store ship.
He was told that such an agency did not
come within the rules.of civilized warfare,
and could receive neither consideration
nor countenance from civilized Legis-
lature.
We have often since the war seen that
the most serious CONGREGATIONS have oc-
Cured within locked warehouses and in
other situations where some such deadly
device must have been resorted to. 1t is
thus that an agency for human destruc-
ton, tolerated for the purpose of injuring
our enemies, becomes . terrible scourge
when employed among a peaceful people.
Those who listened to and promptly re-
pudiated such an agency as applicable to
public enemy, would no doubt now
arrest and disable such an emissary of
crime should he present himself in their
midst with such an abominable PROPOSE
ton.
''The gentlemen of Louisiana" have in
famed the disappoint ment and destitu-
ton OF New Orleans against the Repub-
ican party. They have laid the murrain
and the scarla tina which aflicts the
vicinage against those whom they hate
as the holders of political heritage, to
which the gentlemen of Louisiana con-
slider they have vested interest. The
people have their private grievances.
The law has provided means Of settle
ment, but they are told by "the gentle
men of Louisiana" that where party has
been wronged, according to his own be-
lief, he has right to redress his wrong,
even by the murder of the legislator who
enacts the law, or the officer who executes
the process. This is q general dispense
don. It applies to poor as to rich, to
personal affairs as to public mat
ters. We have had many instances
in which the weapons and cartridges
served out by the gentlemen of
Louisiana, to place the gentlemen them
'elves in, may have been employed to ap-
oly the principle stated to the satisfaction |
# individual vengeance. The man who,
laving been himself wounded in pri-
ate rencontre, was shot to death in hos
'ital by six masked men, was prominent
roof of the applied doctrine. One young
nan shoots another for the reason of per-
onal injury. The masked man of Cou-
hatta was, according to the Democracy,
by personal animosity. The
'eliciana troubles are said to have been
aused by crooked cotton seed.
Here few cases. among many others,
'hich go to prove that the indulgence
xtended by the gentlemen of Louisiana
} waylay and assassinate any one whom
,e assassin may think has done him an
Jury, can not be limited to the mere
aughter of Republicans.
There is another phase, which business
EN- should regard. We have seen a
acard, said to have been so extensively
osted as to require the Intervention of
Ie police. 1t denounces, personally, the !
resident of an institution, upon the
legged charge of robbing the people of
ew Orleans, and taking the bread from {
Q mouths of widows and orphans. I
here is, undoubtedly, great distress
aong our population. "The gentlemen /
Louisiana" have chosen to attribute it c
Republican government. 1t has been
open argument for the appointment of t
3 gentlemen of Louisiana to the ad- r
nistrstion of city affairs The State q
ministration has reduced the public q
bilities from ffty-two millions to less q
an one-fourth. The city debt is nearly I,
times that of the State. The city tax n
as some twenty -three mills to State 9.
, of fourteen mills. The industrial .,
IS groans under heavy tax for the ~
anse to labor.
The popular masses then see that it a,
not be Republican misgovernment tt
ich impoverishes and keeps them idle. b.
ey cast about for some other cause and &C
nifest their discomfort in various ways. pl
It summer it was the unemployed ia
chanics who besieged the Common
lnciL They reproached some men, wi
s of that body with the ante election wi
misses which they had not fulfilled. CT,
v other sufferers or agitators seeing, wi
haps, gorgeous display of corporate KIN
lth in the golden prizes proffered to la,