New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-03
FRATERNITY.

proving editorial on the result of the
fraternal commission of the two Methodist
Episcopal Churches at Cape May. An
address has been issued, declaring that
every obstacle to harmony has been re-
moved, and settlement arrived at of
every point affecting the principles of q
lasting and cordial adjustment The Ad-
uocate says:
We sincerely wish that satisfactory set-
Element of all questions in dispute has been
way, and with fraternal relations estab-
lished between the General Conferences,
good feeling and good understanding will
prevail every where after awhile. Sectional
prejudices and political asperities will him
der cordial relations much more than any
thing den0mi national.
In another article relative to the Ham,
burg outrage it quotes Paul's inspired pre-
cept: eff it be possible, as much as lieth
in you, live peaceably with all men"
1t does net entirely accept this, consider
ing it not easy to determine where the
immediate blame lies, but sat any rate
will not be forced into a premature de-
nunciation Of the white people of the
South by the clamor and innuendoes of
Northern religious partisans.
Its remedy is this:
The road to peace and security in the
South is go clear and plain that he that rum
meth may read. Carpet-bag and negro gov
eminent is q proved failure. Where the
conservative, intelligent element rules, as
in Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas
and Alabama, life and property are as secure
as in Illinois or New York. This would be
the case in South Carolina and Louisiana.
but for the bayonet regime to which they
have been subjected.
This is about as fraternal as some of
the utterances of its Baton Rouge name
sake or the New Orleans Democrat. How
far two years of Democratic rule have
promoted cordial relations may be noted
in the contents of yesterdays mail from
Texas.
In an article denying the existence of
the White League, the Houston Age says
that Texas "has the character of Hades
itself, where Apollyon is turned loose un-
chained" which is hardly desirable
place to cultivate fraternal relations. It
refers with approval to the resolutions of
the people of Goliad county, which de-
nounce Governor Coke, declare for lynch
law and threaten q division of the State.
The Galveston Neaos having deprecated
such course, the Age says that of the
thousand murderers comparatively few
have been hanged. The others are graphic
ally described as
The highway robbers, the infamous
marauders, the vile and crimson villains,
the reekiDg murderers, and the skulking
assassins of new State like Texas, whose
society has not yet attained the cohesion
necessary to its own defense by the ordi-
nary process of law.
In our desperado.cursed, assassin-ridden
State, the News would have the same rules
enforced as apply to old settled communi-
ties alone, and it is willing to wait for the
gradual exaltation of law and order and q
revulslon in public opinion for Kidding the
State of Texas of its lawlessness.
On the contrary, the Age wishes them
'tstrung up" as was done in California.
1t further states that Governor Coke has
pardoned thirty-fve convicts within a
year, and that Victoria county has already
formed company of sixty men ''to pro-
tect themselves from violence"
A correspondent of the Freie Presse |
writes that: Highway robbery has become
quite common occurrence. Not one-tenth |
part OF the capital offenses are published in |
The newspapers. l can fill you up whole |
column with murders and robberies that |
have taken place west Of San Antonio, of |
which no newspaper has had word to say. |
The reason for this is to be found in the |
act that such affairs have become of too fire. |
luent occurrence to merit attention, and |
he honest people are ashamed to publish it /
% the world, that the locality where their
ZONES are is 9 perfect paradise for thieves
md scoundrels."
Perhaps the Advocate considers the fol-
owing remarks from the Democratic San
Antonio Daily Herald on dueling SRA
ernal:"
The duel OF Rhett with Cooley was q
ecessity; both the duel and Its result met
With our approval. Without the formula
4 the duel the ethics of journalism will
ever be properly maintained.
Of his argument that some cases Of
ueling stand on the same basis, moral
nd religious, as defensive wars on the
art of Christian nations the Herald says:
All of which we conceive IL directly in