The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-26
CHICKENS COMING HOME TO Ro0sT.

We are OF O loss to understand the events
now transpiring throughout the North and
West. Not that, In themselves, they present
any novelty TO human experience. History Ii
but too full Of accounts Of the excuses Of hui
man passion for them to excite surprise haG
they occurred In Paris, or among the igno
rant, brutal turbulent, untamed and untame
able savages Of the South. But that such
scenes as the telegraph depicts should
occur among SO highly civilized peo
pie as the inhabitants Of those sec
tions-that q people whose calm, judi.
cial temperament has been 80 cultivated
by the admirable common school system as
TO elevate them far above the passions OF
ordinary mortals, who are 70 law-abiding
that they cannot conceive of any other re-
dress for wrong Of whatever character than
that obtained through court OF justice.
whose admirably constituted society Is, In
fact 50 destitute OF wrongs that they would
die of ennui did not the crime and outrages
OF their neighbors give play to their exaber-
ant philanthropy-th that such people as this
should enter I'm day upon q career Oh riot
and destruction Is past all human UNDER
standing. For years IL has been necessary to
send rowing commissions through the South,
furnished with all the means of stimulating
perjury In order to obtain themes for the
preachers and phlanthropists oil the
North In picturing mans inhumanity to
man. No instance could be found In that fa-
vored land In which labor was honored and
capital placed itself with humble and affec-
tionate reverence at its feet. Unlike the vile
slnve-driver, the Northern capitalist is the
friend and companion Of the laborer and re-
CARDS his fortune as In no degree u source of
personal enjoyment, but wholly as q trust
fund for the benefit of the latter. How is 1t
that In this charming society. which realizes,
II il does not exaggerate, the widest dreams
of poetic philosophers, there should occur
such an outburst Of mad passion as has never
before been known in the history Of tho
country-except, as we are told, In 1862
Then It had the justification of being directed
against the most vile oppressors that ever
lived; now 1t liz aimed OF the noblest philan-
thropists, who evince their profound re-
spect for the dignity of labor by docking at
the same rate both themselves and their em-
ployes.
AHecc tAlhfS ttte peIISctly lueApllCaDle Hil-
less we venture, most irreverently to doubt
the verify of the picture which has been drawn
Of that higher civilization, which IL has been
attempted to force upon this stiff-necked
people by the sword. The fact is though we
make the avowal with some hesitation lest
we should be charged with irredeemable
have been compelled to
question whether the doctrine of "the higher
law" Is q safe foundation for society, particu-
larly when organized under a democratic |
form. We are forced TO doubt whether society
ian be preserved when men are taught that
10 obligation can be binding upon them when
: is repudiated by their conscience, or by |
heir interests or passions assuming It's |
yuise. For thirty years every organ of pop |
liar instruction at the North has been de-
voted to the propagation and strengthening of |
his doctrine; and 1t has grown apace. Find
ng an outlet for timein the crusade against |
,he South, 1t has not heretofore manifested |
tself ut the North, except in that general de-
'ay OF private morals which has immortalized |
he names of Beecher and Plymouth Church
But the chickens seem to be ct last coming
lome TO roost, and the men instructed In the
l.,
sheridan are using their knowledge for the
edress Of their own grievances, whether
voidable or not. This is one of the "fr,,its
4 the war, for the preservation of which Oil
er P. Morton and Jim Blaine are so anxious
hat, to attain it, they would tomorrow
lunge the country into another. The other
ruits are like unto this nothing but bitter
ess or ashes.
For time tho Northern people, in the
elirium OF triumph, thought that they had
astly increased their wealth by the war;
nd statesmen Of the Jay Cooke order dem
the vast advantage Of great ma
onal debt In which the capitalist might
lace SO much Of his property as could not be
eadily covered by perjury from the pursuit
the tax-gatherer. But the avenging angel
as on their trail and that delusion at last
anished, and they realized the fact that all
ne spoons, watches and finger-rings obtained
the South were but paltry compensation
n the millions spent in their acquisition.
hey now find themselves oppressed with
ebt, trade stagnant, thousands of unem-
loyed and a rapidly increasing proletariat
lady under the cry of riue rega1ite to become
lie camp followers of any movement in
hich plumber is to be secured and the torch
be employed. What Is to be the eventual
ltcome of this movement it would be diff
lit to predict We can confidently say,
,wever, that, whichever side may win, the
suit cannot prove other than disastrous to
e country.
THE TRUE AND SAFE REMEDY,