New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-02
TIE GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

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laid before the public. His review Of the
| financial policy of his administration,
however, presents no new points of strik-
ing interest, as nearly every fact which it
is possible to urge upon that subject has
been time and again In the possession of
every intelligent man in the State. This
has been the chief feature of Governor
Kellogg's four years term of service.
He has been ready on all occa-
sions to explain, with invincible pa
tience, every detail of his financial
system to bondholders, possible investors,
reporters, interviewers and all manner of
people, whether they had an interest in it
or not, and has done it so often that
nearly every hidden thing about it has
long since been brought to light. The
Governor feels just and commendable
pride in our funding scheme. He is
mainly entitled TO the credit of all its
best features, while the odium of throw
ing distractions in the way, which at
times threatened its success, must forever
rest upon those enemies of Louisiana
who have, for the past six or seven years,
under the name of Democrats, been NOV
ing heaven and earth to get into place
and power.
Governor Kellogg arraigns this class of
evil-minded men in severe but just terms.
ALI the congressional committees that ever
sat here, are here now, or ever will come
here, can safely take the conclusions pre-
scented in the message as the basis of their
reports. Every charge made against the
Democracy is more than sustained by
irrefragable proof sustained by as great
a cloud of witnesses as appeared
| in the celebrated 'Yision of Judg-
ment." How true it is, for in
stance, that the white male popula-
ton of certain localities would come out
in armed force to resist process of law
against a political criminal, and then
taunt the State government with inefi-
cheney. 1t is a maxim old as the Law it
self, that q virtuous people will have
good rulers and the laws will be enforced,
while the small force of peace officers
provided by law are entirely inadequate
to cope with a hostile public sentiment.
It has always been an easy matter to scare
the negroes like lot of children and pre-
vent peace officers from making arrests.
It is no new thing to say, as the Governor
does, that the first case of successful
prosecution for political crime has yet to
occur in Louisiana. And this, too, in a
State where little regard has been paid to
the laws against offenses to persons by an
almost unanimous party, one which claims
to have ali the wealth, ingenuity, skill and
prestige of domination. Their trained
marksmen, with weapons of precision,
have always been able to cope successfully
with any reasonable number of laborers
whose best efforts have been confined to
the knowledge and the use of peaceful
agricultural implements. Doubtless, were
the shotgun to be the srbiter, the Demo
cratic party could prove their arrogant
claim to be the people; but where the
laws are respected and enforced and hui
mainly counts as a factor in political
transactions the. Democratic party is
swept away like frosts before q midsum.
mer sun.
During the last year this party has
sown its outrages and violence with q
lavish hand So far the only harvest has
been a crop Of pretenders to the State Of.
fees, pretended Legislature, the evan.
ishment of public confidence and the loss
of from two-thirds to three-fourths Of the
Wholesale trade Of this city. Luckily
there is no other escape tosmarket for the
bulk Of the sugar, rice, molasses, and 9
portion Of the cotton raised in the State,
except past our doors. But these pro.
ducts are chiefly paid for in drafts ON
New York, Boston, Cincinnati and st.
Louis, and the return trade given Ia
these rival cities, all Of which it is to be
observed, agreed with New Orleans in
voting for Tilden and reform, and with
each other in robbing this city of every
dollar Of trade it was possible to Rlcb
away. The merchants of these more
prosperous cities are strangling the
life ont of our wholesale and jobbinc
houses, while their politicians amuse ourE
with reciting the "woes Of Louisiana,
which God knows it is not their inten
ton to alleviate. While Abe Hewitt i
writing fraternal letters to our Demo.
cratic committee, the business men are
shipping their wares by every steamer
and railroad train to every country store,
village and landing in the State. While
our people are standing with open mouths,
waiting for Congressional Committee to
develop something, the shrewd drummer
from the Northern cities gets in his woFk.
So that Il even the Democratic millen.
MUM were TO arrive, and every seedy
white man elected to Office with deputy
appointed by the State to run.it, while
he has only to draw the salary, this
commercial servitude could not 5.
shaken OF It will be found that the Do
litical enemies Of New Orleans have b
tEayed her 70 those rivals who have vosad
Democratic, thus putting themselves il
political rapport that they might the mon,
readily ruin US in q much more importan