New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-26
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Tia uolitiosl condition Of Louisiana haa
d..-n n it the attention Of the country.
The history of tho State during tho past de.
oade has not been cheering. Little evi
depce il forthcoming that the 6re-eating'
| negro hating Glasses have learned wisdom;
and in spite Of the efforts Of wiser men,
who, although strangers, showed greeter
regard for the welfare of the State tnan
many of the residents, it would seem tnat
these classes are ready to plunge the o.sse
into disorder with all its attendant n9rsGIs.
The Democratic press of the city OF New
Orleans does not appear to 90 awe 70 Iae
dangers of the hour. If it does aPpreclate
the danger, it has not srrayea i. i on .n Ns
side Of law and order. Indeed, tho reign OF
Law and order, it may be, is not what the
1anoerous classes referred to above require.
INA cIasees in question include just the mel
! that ma prepared to hurl back the city into
= stste Of anarchy that they may secure
some chance of profit by it. There are the
| politicians out Of Office who want to get in;
| and there are men who won't work. yet who
| must live. With the latter it has been re-
| duced to Q mere struggle for life. and who.
| ever stands inc0nvenientlv in the wAJ must
unceremoniously retire. Political eruptions
are, therefore. accounted for; and It il
feared that such eruptions will continue
until public opinion shall be strong enough
| to put down political assaults and assassin.
alton, which, wherever permitted in the
South, are really the pr0lopgation of the
rebellion. The Wheeler compromise, when
entered into. was held to be the settlement
| Of pending difficulties. What has occurred
| to Justify disturbing 1t? If the Democrats
of the House of Assembly and their abet
| tors were put upon their cath. and testitie
according to their conscience, nothing could
be said as unsettling the compromise. But
now q Democratic journal, taking the Cp
portunity when New Orleans is filled with
strangers from every part of the State, who
have come to witness the carnival, thus
gushingly whines:
Last spring this same set of political
wisescres, in their role of business men
predicted that the Wheeler adjustment
would insure wondrous prosperity in the
| country and city; that etOcks and bonds
would 20 up, business would revive, and
prosperity would be ours. How have these
predictions been fulfilled? The condition
| Of affairs have gone from bad to worse;
property has continued to depreciste-
| everything, in fact, has gone even faster
l down the road to ruin"
Could not the journal give reason for
this, and good one, if it triede Business
men can account for depression and the
| lack Of prosperity. None know the cause
better and none feel it keener, for it comes
home 10 their very households. The
Wheeler compromise laid foundation for
auietude, and if it is allowed to continue
unbroken, and the interruptions Demo
cratic element at work restrained, it is pos.
sible that still greater good may come out
Of it by the eft1ux Of time than has already
One thing, however, is quite certain.
There can be no commercial prosperity
where there is political turbulence. A State
cursed with an unsubdued rebel element
which prefers to wait tor chance of some.
thing to turn up instead of living by honest
labor. has within its borders an evil, unmit-
ieated and altogether without compensa-
tlon. Itcsn not be appealed to in the hope
that it's moral sense can be reached. 1t sb-
by fo1 &c, and force only. Yet during the
intervals of restraint it becomes restless and
seeks to throw it of. It il also Q source of
corruption. virulently active, and never
hcnorably. 1t the vicious effects it makes
were directed to honest labor. the city
would rise out of it's trials, purified and
strengthened, and blossom a. the rose. As
it is. it is convulsed whenever it is called
upon to protect itself from the attacks of
will cause them to be extirpated.
The existence of the INSCRIPTIONS lead.
ers of the Democracy in New Orleans. and
of other unscrupdlous politicians, have held
the city down almost at their mercy. What
ever misfortune the city has had TO paes
through is attributable to them. They have
driven away capital, and it will keep away
while there IL any fear for it's safety. They
have prevented emigration. Emigration 10
chiefly that of labor. Working men know
the character of Louisiana politicians.
Louisiana politicians do not know how to
treat the w0rkingmen now among them. and
their number win not be swelled by others
who can always earn their daily bread by
an honest days work. Even the progress Of
the jetties, and the near prospect of deep
water channel to the sea, and the hopes
founded on Texas and Pacific railway, will
be insufficient to encourage trade and COM
merce and capital and emigration to return
to the State, # the politicians are not routed
and their power for misohiefdestroyed. Their
iaet effort. it is true, has met disaster. But
it showed what they were willing to do,
and what risk they were prepared to run.
The attempt ut impeachment of Governor
Of right and justice. But the Democratic
leaders were anxious to accomplish it, and
drew up their charges. Had not the Senate
remained firm New Orleans would have
been like volcano, and bloodshed would
have resulted. The Democracy in the State
have shown their unfitness for power. They
have shown it in every Southern State in
their hands. They know nothing of obedi-
ence to law as the duty of good citizens;
nor do they recognize the rights of others
when conflicting with their own. The Dem
Ocratic party has outlived it's reason to be.
And Louisiana, and the South generally
can only prosper and be orderly under Re- =
publican rule.-1he Republic.