New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-13
sUPER.SQUTHERN.

Il. The fiction of q ''South" is kept up by
! two sorts of people. The one is Influenced
by romance and prejudice; the othel
} makes profit by ministering to this he
roic sentiment. In the first place, Louisi'
ana is no more South than any other place
this side of Canada. It has no produc-
ton or interest in common with all the
former slave States, nor is there one OF
those States which is not the competitor
: of Louisiana for labor, the sale of goods
and the control of the Western trade.
The population Of Louisiana is composed,
like that of other States, of all sorts of
people. 1t is worthy of remark that there
is large part of foreign birth and nation
Atty, while among the fnanciers, mer-
chants, attorneys and mechanics very few
are natives of this State or of those South
of the Potomac. There is large propor-
| ton of individuals controlling our society
who are Yankees, or but one degree re-
moved from Yankees, having gone through
the form of being born in Louisiana.
These last go back on their ancestral
antecedents, and denounce Connecticut
and Massachusetts, as if it were q crime to
owe ones nativity to such an abominable
latitude.
These Northern people Who avail them
selves of this super-Southern suscepti-
bility must have funny time of it. They
build Southern carriages, weave Southern
silks, publish ultra Southern books, con-
struct Southern platforms. They even
furnish to order and put upon their plat
forms "a Northern man with Southern
principles" and would blandly accept the
administration and patronage of the Fed
eral government conferred by a majority
of Southern electoral votes, thirty-four Of
those votes being due to negro numbers.
There is a peculiar pleasantly in the
Northern use of Southern attachment to
men distinguished for their gallantry in
the Confederate armies. Chief among
these names is that of Robert E. Lee. We
find it over the stores in which is sold
hats, shoes or saddles, all manufactured
at the North and sold under the super
scription Of the Southern hero.
One most redoubtable job of this sort
is the steamer r. E. Lee. She was built
in the Southern State of Indiana, nearly
opposite the Southern State of Kentucky.
This last named State maintained per.
feet neutrality of mule and pork con-
tracts, which furnished desperate Union
saver in the person of James Guthrie, |
Democratic member of the administration |
of the Democratic Pierce, and which con-
tributed greatly to the success of the |
Union arms by declining to reinforce |
Buckner at Fort Donelson. Kentucky |
has returned, since the fighting and the |
contracts have stopped, to the Democratic |
States rights party. Whether this splen-
did vessel. the R. E. Lee, has been built |
with Western or with Northern money We |
know not. But if it has been rebuilt out
of Southern money, it must have been
in great part with the profits earned in
the South. All honor to the enterprise Of
the builders.
Stonewall jackson is considered in Con-
necticut and Cincinnati a good paying
brand, and may be found on many wares
put up in those markets for Southern
consumption.
The devices of many Northern born
men who come to do business in Louis
lana show the indispensable necessities of
trade. 1t is well known that Northern
men are here as the fugitives of Eph-
rain were-"Ephraimites among the
Manassites." so that when they would
enter into business in Louisiana there is
a shibboleth propounded to the immi-
grant. 1t was: ''Say unto me now cow"
And if he said unto the interviewer
"keouw" he stood no chance of being
made free of the Southern gid. How
belt, many by dint of preliminary prac-
tice, Crane to pronounce it right" There
are some Connecticut Creoles and few
Ohio Creoles in the country who have
fallen into the ways of the land so rapidly
that the fatal flaw in their political line
age could not readily be detected.
When the New Highlander has estab-
lished himself, or placed his friends
among US, he speedily becomes, with a
proper profession of political faith, q
leading member of any interest with
which he is connected. He will buy and
sell among our people. His money will
be borrowed, and his political aid &C.
copied as if his ancestors had come over
with Bienville He will marry or be
given away in marriage-for he is
great catch-your Yankee, and in all
cases Of confscation or military arrest be
was found in the late military occupation
of our city an invaluable acquaintance.
1t is thus that we have among US super.
Southern sentiment.
1t is very true that our banking and insur-
ance capital is chiefly imported from New
York, Boston and England; that our mer-
chants deal greatly on Northern capital
and credit; that our clothes, furniture,
type, printing presses and physic are put
up in chief part by Yankee hands; that
our ultra super-Southern Democracy
must go to Wall street for candidate of
New England birth and parentage, while
they repudiate a man of the West, with
which section the commercial destiny of