The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04
"wednesday. April 4, 1877.
rne eflcc of the New Orleans DEMO-
CRAT has been Removed from "a CAMP
street 10 100 Gsravier street.
Tte Only Authorized soliciting Agents Of the
Democrat for the City IRE Messrs. H. He
BAKEH and r. o. DEvEZIN.
PEACE.


PEACE.
The people Of Louisiana want peace.
For sixteen years they have lived in the
midst OF war and civil commotion.
During d period of eight years the only
government they have known has been
sort OF scheme OF ruling by discord.
The State has suffered a loss, in that
time, in the depreciation Of property.
the decline Of trade, the repression OF
enterprise, the ruin Of agriculture and
other industries, and the repulsion Of
capital, OF tiue hundred millions Of dol
lars.
The poisoned winds Of the desert
could not have more effectually blasted
the productive powers OF the State and
destroyed the energies OF its people
than has the CLEAN Of the Federal
bayonets; and had the Republican
leaders sown dragon teeth upon our
soil, they could not have more certainly
imposed upon us the curse Of civil dis
Z =. Z. I'd than they did when they sent into
midst the carpet-bagger with his
s...o,oro.> and thievishness: his impo-
. tepOa1I for g. ,od and his capacity for
avarythino tba, is infamous and vile.
indeed. it would So m that Louisiana
has been bound to the , ioh curing .en
years for no other purpose .han 'na'
the Federal Government might ~.ooA
teract the bounty Of Providence in her
favor.
It is not surprising that people who
had thus suffered should have reJoiced
at the promises Of peace sent them by
Mr.. Hayes previous to and on the Fourth
Of March. nor that they should receive
with distrust and impotence every de-
Law in the contamination OF those
pledges. The Impotence Of the people
of Louisiana at the dilatory movements
Of the President, not less than their de-
caying cities and abandoned fields,
should impress him. with sense OF the
terrible wrongs which they have en-
dured and of the richness OF the bless
ing q policy Of justice and peace Will
bestow upon them.
We are told that the President hest
tates to withdraw the troops and en-
trust the State to the chosen govern
ment Of the people lest the unclaimed
passions of the whites should vent
themselves upon the white Republicans
and negroes. Never was there more
groundless apprehension. AS we re-
marked at the outset Of this article,
the people of Louisiana iudnt peace.
God knows they have had enough OF
strife. They have crops to make;
properties to protect and improve;
commerce to recreate. wives and
children to provide for and educate.
and they know too well that these
things are not to be accomplished or
forwarded by numbering Republicans
and negroes, or by prosecuting them
in any manner. They are an enlight-
ened and Christian people. and left to
control their own affairs they may be
trusted, like the people Of other States,
to look after their own interests, and to
establish such order as will make prop
erty valuable and industry profitable.
Eight years Of federal oppression and
CARPET. baggery have despoiled them Of
1--WE hundred millions Of dollars, but
have not transformed them into either
savages or rsffians.
When the President shall withdraw
the troops, and thus remove every obsta-
ole in the State to the authority OF the
Nichols government. what is It reason
bletosuppose apeople. owning millions
properly, and with millions OF COM
rcial and industrial interests at stake,
do? Will any sensible man reply
hey will, of course, set in 10 muir
naltreat men because OF any
creed, to butcher. whip and
the laboring people among
| plunge the whole COM
scenes of desperate vio-
oodshed? Or will such a
that they will imme-
work to rebuild their
to establish the su-
avs that life. liberty
trymay be protected
We should like to
,swer those cues
h hen explain the