New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-11
POLITICAL NOTES.

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assuming Importance in the eyes of the |
trading politicians. In nearly every par
ish the local officers have taken commits
sions from both Governors, with an alac-
rity that showed how blessed a thing they
considered the status quo. But here is
an article from the Mansfield Reporter
one of the staunchest Nichols organs in
Louisiana-which comes as near to de-
veloping the very marrow of the subject
as Democrat can:
TAX REsIsrANCE.
The tax resistance movement, which is
the tavOGite mode of resistance t. the Pack
ard usurpation bV many of our people, will
fail, if it shsuld be put to the test, and for
the following reasons: Assuming, for the
sake of the argument, that Mr.. President
Hayes should feel called upon in the dis-
charge of his duty to reward his friends in
Louisiana AMI that no reward would satisfy
| their clamorings and cravings but sub
! vereiOn of our state government and set
| ting up in it's place Packard's fraudulent
usurpation. The first step necessary to ac-
cOmplish this purpC 90 would be to dis
perse the II glslsture and overturn the
| supreme .urt by the military.
The next weuld be the turning out
| of all officers in the city of New Orleans
who did not suit Packard's views. TIE
next a total change in the police, so that
none but partisaus of Packard would hold
Office. With these thing accomplished and q
| force of 1000 OF 5000 United States soldiers
to back them, then ths chains would be
riveted on three-ffths Of the taxpayers of
the State, and they would pay their taxes
| to the Packard government, because many
| of them are Republicans and many are for
| eigners, aud many are persons of Northern
| birth and extraction, who may possibly
| think as they did in 1872 and 1874 that
it was better to put up with another
usurpation than TO have strife and
litigation and be annoyed by quits from the
tax gatherers, and fees to lawyers to defend
| those suits, aud finally be compelled to pay
those taxes with penalties to some party or
parties. 1t ia easily seen with the usurpa
tiOn accepted in the city, it will only be-
come a question of time in the country, and
in the meantime eur people will tire of
having no law, no order, no courte, no
business, no advancement, no prosperity,
and will finally yield to any government
rather than longer reign of anarchy and
disorder. And hence our conviction Is most
unalterably fixed that tax resistance as the
only mode of conflict with the usurpation
will fail, and our people will submit after
many trials and much tribulatioD.
The Democrats openly boasted yester-
day that the confirmation of Hayes Cabi-
net was a Democratic victory! "How
long, o Lord! how longw will this thing
last2 How long must the sword ofjustice
remain sheathed?
A member of the Nichols Legislature
manifests his political sagacity and high
moral principles by writing this view of
the situation to the Morehouse ClGrioR a
week ago:
Grant has got his bristles up, and think
if the matter is not settled he will keep in
office till a Rew election is carried into
feet. There ia about to De serious ms-
understanding between him and the friends
of Hayes because he would not consent to
use the army to help the Senate inaugurate
Hayes 10 any event, should the Democrats
lot the fourth OF March pass without q de-
clsioD. In my opinion there will be "bar.
rels of money" spent in Washington during
the next three or four days, and whoever
uses it the most freely will succeed.
We don't want to be considered as in.
truding between the Times and the Presi
dent it has done 80 much to make. But
really, now, isn't it piling the Penn bust
ness on pretty thick1
Penn, Sloanaker, Tom Bynum, George
Carter and Sheridan are showing Presi
dent Hayes how, with "solid South,
Kelly's Tammany repeaters and Hewitt'i
Kentucky "mules" run over into Indiana
they can make him President for a sec
ond term. Hayes is the sort of man tc
be caught by such a mass of brains ani
influence, too.
Ex-senator West never had standing
) in the Republican party. He wa
crammed down its throat by Governor
Warmotb, and event back" on his politi
cal creator the first time his services
would have been of benefit. Out of self
respect, the party has endeavored to de
fend him throughout his term as Senator
: but it has been heavy task, and no
where is this better known than in Wash
, ington. Now we find him giving las
dying kick by joining Sheridan, Garter
Sloanaker and the other peripatetic carpet
baggers whom the party in Louisiana ha
cast off in their effort TO strike down tn
chosen leaders of our party in the STAT
SO well rid Of them. The President
fortunately, appreciates their politica
worthlessness, and is by this time in
formed of their personal character.