New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-29
TEE COST OF DEFAMATION.
The Richmond ENQUIRER says:

The Richmond Enquirer says:
Don't let ue make Virginia out poorer than
she really is, for the world does not care
much for poverty, and people in search Of
homes and places of business 90 cot Ike to
settle among paupers.
We have many resident and imported
politicians who, for the sake of partisan
victory, denounce the whole Republican
party, and to create sympathy abroad,
admit the NOS. deplorable condition Of
our industrial interests. 1t is the pol
icy of our professional agitators to main
tain such a social antagonism between
the people of different opinions as to pre-
vent any cooperation, or, indeed, associ-
alton between them.
This policy has spread abroad the most
unfavorable representations Of our social
condition. To excite the political interven-
ton of Northern Democracy louisiana is
represented as under the government of
gang Of robbers, which has justified total
disregard of law, and an almost unparal-
leied series Of outrages.
These impressions have rendered New
Orleans an unsafe place Cor the investment
Of capital, ard Louisiana dangerous
place for immigrant enterprise. The same
systematic defamers appeal to Republic
can Senate and President to grant money
for the reparation Of levees and improv-
ing the river and railway commerce
Of our city. Can they expect that
those whom they assail and de-
fame have 20 feeling? Do they sup
pose them such groveling towards as to
obey tie request for millions as an order
from their superiors? In other States the
cooperation Of all citizens is required to
carry on: the common interest. A meet
ing for any public work harmorizes men
Of all opinions. Here there is among the
Democratic par:isans not merely pro-
scription Of those who differ from them
in party opinion in public enterprise, but
in social intercourse. We have noted
in the speeches made at the railroad meet
ing Of Thursday night explana tons Of
the decline Of our trade, from its diver
sion upon other routes. We have even
seen i. conceded upon the authority Of
Macauley-
That "protuse expenditure. heavy taxa
ton, absurd commercial restrlctione. cor
rupc tribunals, disastrous wars, sedi:ions.
prosecutions, contagratiors and inunda-
tons have rot been able to destroy capital
so fast ss the exertions of private citizens
have been able 20 create it,
This may be confirmed by the history
of any united people who have ever re-
sisted an invader or an oppressor. None
of the speakers, however, estimated the
injurious effects Of a body of speakers
and writer's who sedulously cultivated the
antagonisns of the people, and made use
OF tie poverty CT the people as an argu-
ment to promote their own political ad-
vantage. The cost of systematic detama-
ton, with the exhibition of our social
sores as means Of exciting political aims
is greatly to be deprecated. The higher
the city taxation, the more pau
pers, the larger the criminal list,
the greater the decline Of our
commerce and the rewards Of Our labor,
the greater necessity for expelling the
"usurpers, repeating the colored suffrage,
electing Congress and President who
recognize the right Of secession, with the
appointment. OF Democratic Cabinet,
foreign ministers and monopoly of all
the offices in the gift of the federal, State
and municipal governments. We expec:
Conservative business men to estop these
professional defamers of our business in
terests and social condition, and see that
they shall not, under any pretense, ac-
quire the power to carry out their intol-
Grant purposes.