New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-05

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at the North and West was. The truce
hos been broken. The war is tt
be fought over again. Right o.
wrong, the sectional issue is upon US
The White Line press has endeavored tt
suppress the evidences of violence which
accompany this policy, and actually ex
pect to contradict the tales of murder
and inhospitality which traverse the whole
world by force Of their limited access tc
the opinion of the whole world. To read
our daily city journals one would suppose
they expected to convince the reading
public that the Democracy have been
always in the right, and that all these
acts Of assassination and exile were
meritorious, or at least excusable.
There was an adage that falsehood may
tra7el a thousand miles while truth is
putting on his shoes to follow; but what
ever the embellishments Of Southern
Democracy, it is impossible that it should
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American people SO long as it has such
inadequate means of communication. We
have before US schedule of the Repub-
ican version of the Democratic deeds.
1t consists in hundreds of speeches and
tracts upon the single question, "Can the
Democratic party be safely intrusted with
the administration of the government"
Let us see the machinery by which the
Republican negative of this proposition
is being demonstrated throughout the
Union. Let us apply to this proposition
some figures of undoubted authority. In
1870 Georgia, with population of a
million and quarter, had but one
hundred and thirty-two newspapers.
In Massachusetts, with a population
of about one and half millions there are
two hundred and eighty. The circula-
ton of Georgia is fourteen and half
millions; that of Massachusetts, upward
of one hundred and seven millions. In
educated Ohio, the circulation is ninety
three millions, in population of two and
two-thirds millions. In Texas, with q
population of under one million, the cir
culation is less than six millions. Seven
copies are printed annually for each in
habitant of Texas, thirty-6ve for Ohio,
seventy -four for Massachusetts,, nine for
Alabama, sixty-seven for Pennsylvania.
Each person in North Carolina is allotted
q newspaper every three months, or four
newspapers year. New York prints one
hundred and thirteen for each inhabitant
We may look at the tremen-
1ous circulation of the Western States.
The city of Chicago publishes sixty-four
newspapers; nine of them claiming a
laily circulation of more than twenty |
thousand. Boston publishes one hun
1red and thirty newspapers; New
York four hundred and twenty New
Orleans, twenty! Upon a national cir
'ulation Of nearly two thousand mill
ions of papers, the public can judge
what chance the Southern press has
o correct, counteract and place its
'wn construction upon the acts Of the
Democracy throughout the nation. Prima
acie, murder is wrong. The defense
equires evidence and argument. What
how has the Southern press to meet and
o construe the events which have spread
UGH horror over the land as to divest
hem of all censure? The Picayarne, claim
ng, We believe, the largest circulation
q the South, has just the circulation of
be Indianapolis Journal The Nya Srenska
imericanarem is Swedish Republican
aper of Chicago, with circulation of
566. Der Skandindren has weekly cir
ulation of 10000. Der Gamia och nya
iemlandet, the Freie Presse and numerous
Their German papers of large circulation,
re published in the tongues of Northern
Europe. How could the Picoylne, even
18th the Times and Buuetin as Interpreters
nd CONCORDANCE e, make plain the defense
Coushatta or the vindication of Ham
urg to Swede, Norwegian, Dane, or
Dutchman. It would be impossible. On
,e other hand no paper of any politics at
le North dares to defend or publish de-
nse OF murder, arson, or prescription
" opinions sake. They cooperate in cir
ho |
pom their justification. The press of
ew York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chi
Igo circulate half million of papers
ally. Most Of them contain the massa-
'es of Louisiana and Hamburg. How
IN this be contradicted? How explained?
ny, the circulation of the best Southern |
aper is to that of the chief Northern
urnals as the feeble and futile lodges
the leather-winged bat are to the impe-
al flight of the eagle.
Now, we do not say that all this cir
,lation is under control of the Repub-
,an party, butwe do say the Republican
Irty controls the larger part of the cir
lation, and so diffuses Republican con- +,
ruction instead of Democratic construc- ,
IN of the deeds Of violence and inhospi- =
lily which have been perpetrated at the i
'uth. Are we asked for the proof? It {
ay be found in the admissions Of the 1
resolutions of Mr. Lord that I
state of affairs existed in the South I
,ich rendered proper the employment Of '
,deral force to execute the laws.
1t is thus that the White League Dem .
racy have started fire which they can