New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-02
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY q 1876

pets and pounding Of drums, but have
completely disappeared in the vast body
to which they are accredited. There are
three Of them. There are in the House 291
members. with nine Territorial Delegates.
When we regard the total population Of
the whole Union, with the vast and intri.
cate interests which occupy and entangle
federal legislation, We can very well see
that three or four gentlemen can not ex-
pect to be received on their arrival at
Washington with the same fanfare OF
drums and trumpets, and with the same
salvos of small arms which accompanied
their departure.
They were headlined up to the moment
when their farewell speeches were made
from the car platform. The applauding
crowd were confident of their successful
mission. It was with the aid of Northern
Democracy, to redress all the wrongs by
which the Democracy is kept out of the
exclusive monopoly Of all Offices, federal,
State and municipal. When last seen
these gentlemen were in full vigor Of limb
and lungs. Their subsequent obscurity
is therefore the more mysterious. We
saw them snubbed and bid hold their
tongues in the Democratic caucus until
that Illinois Creole, Morrison, with other
colder heads" should arrange the grand
entree of the Louisiana Democracy. They
have occasionally sent q resolution of in
quiry about q railroad or levee to the
cemetery Of Democratic committee, or
perhaps risen to the surface for leave to
print speech. But nothing more.
The truth is, the Democratic represent
atives Of Louisiana have assumed little
too much in anticipating the exclusive use
OF Congress. They have unreservedly
held out expectations not to be realized,
when they assured their friends that the
Democratic party would affirm the doc
trine Of State rights, repeal the protective
tarif-except on the sugars of their con-
stituents, "the usurper" to Sing
Sing, and install, with all the honors, the
lawful Governor elected according to the
report Of the Warmoth Returning Board.
Democracy has done no such thing.
The Democratic representatives from
Louisiana are disappointed and crest
fallen. They have not so much legisla-
tive consideration as Texas or Minnesota,
because the interests of those States are
IDENTICAL with those of the great North
vest, while those of Louisiana are in most
aspects antagonistic to them, as we'll
IS to the Atlantic States. Hence the
Democratic representatives rest silent and
obscure. Thus they have been deceived
nd disappointed by their Democratic
olleagues, who neither give them the
light of secession, nor free trade, nor q re-
zeal of the State election of 1872.
1t was Moses, the pragmatical son of
he Vicar, who delighted in parado1es,
nd was the oracle of the family, that
7ent to the fair to sell the nine year old
colt" The family dressed him in his
est. His mother predicted that Moses
'ould return laden with the results of his
uperior sagacity; all attended his de-
arturo with reclamation and cast an old
hoe after him for good luck. Moses re-
lrned on foot, chop fallen and abased.
[e had met those at the fair much more
stute than himself SO that all he had to
low for the nine year old ''colt" he had
ipected to put upon some unwary pur-
laser, was "a gross of green spectacles
chagreen cases, worth about as much
the shoes upon the colt.
1t is in like manner the Louisiana
emocratic Representatives have been
leated by the Democracy of the North
I'd West. 1t is thus they viii return
npty handed to their constituencies
| the meantime we should like to know
ON the Democratic committee clerks q
no keep the wires warm with the city :,
citement over the West investigation, +
nat has gone with our Democratic Repre- :
natives?