New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-07
white and Black.


1t is easy to abuse the carper-bag
ments, and to make them the scapH
for many evils of which they were q,
the consequences than the causes,
cOrding to Governor Kellogg's nj
there is one carpet bag government,
which has been kinder to the citizep al
the citizens have been to it. StateN u
favorably situated in every way than n
lana find it hard work to choke off tEk h
habit of spending money, and il wOuS Il
be strange If Louisiana had follow u,
frequent precedent of increased ex "a
and increasing poverty. Ia that urs -
State political opposition has taken IL
tude closely resembling armed rel II
and the government has been carr !
under conditions similar to those
once before plunged the country, az
and South, into debt; but in 81 n
the organized tax resistance, of the n
outbreaks and political murders, d n
eminent has succeeded in reduci n
penses; and though citizers of DO, IA
ties, respectively, have testified th
holding of any political opinions wa y
tain indication of death at the b y!
those who held opposing political OF u
the State has prOspered fairly-qd
fairly as it could expect to, even if l
pet-baggers had been chased out =
negroes reduced to that condition Of
tude which is held to be their norm
dition by those who have opposed
minietration of Governor Kellogg.
This is hard nut for the Whit
party to crack; the contrast betWee
they have done and what the COVE Y
has done is one which can not be
and i5 not very complimentary to
hpr
which lay In their power to obstrv
administration of Justice, to prev5 y
collection of taxes, to injure the q y
the State, to disturb the condition of
and generally to iDjure their own pro. ),
the government has steadily stri v
maintainn order, to enforce the Law
duee public taxation and improve y
credit, and to further the general pro. =
That such contrast should be
lished is not discreditable to the
ment. but to those who have been
against it, and the contrast is re Y
only more striking and more discre
when we find that the enemies of on .,
those who represent the wealth and
influence of the State, while the "
ment has had to depend fer ats
upon the poor, the ignorant and y
SQUIRE. That such is the fact will
denied by any one who will honestly
upon the history of Louisiana for
four years or for the last twelve yes n
the same contrast presents itself in 4,
dustrial as in the political aspecu y
State.
The Governors message barely
the circumstance that the whole pru
of Louisiana depends upon the pro-
the soil, and that this product does
resent any large result of white labd :
this hint quite suffices to dispel ID
| nary Democratic assumption that Ii
is burden and an obstruction, al
the State would get along a great a Il
ter without him. OF the two, we ar !,
the negro is the more useful, and thI Y
passionate inquiry into the econo 4
| poets of the case would estabe
truth that the negro supplies mo
the white man of all that
make up the real prosperity and
of the State. We are so accustomed
ing the negroes abused and cursed
the whole alphabet that We need
sional reminder, like the one GoVeFl
lOgg has given US, to be able to ap
them fairly, and when next the I'M
outburst against the carpet-bsgg
the negroes ia heard officially from
cratic lips in Louisiana, we hope it
accompanied by some exDlanatiOI =
strange circumstance that it is the
baggers who maintain the political :,
ity of the State, while the negroes q
the work which makes up its mater Il
perity.-St Louis Globe. y,