New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-02

weyssO mako more occupation in New Or
leans ia 70 increase the producing element
Of the State by importing more negroes
from the poor uplands of Georgia, eto, IN
til all the lahda in the delta of the MiHsie-
sippi are under cultivation. The producing
element being thus the Republican element,
and that being the only source Of prosperity,
it follows that the welfare Of the State, it's
outcome, Is in their hande. The Importance
that this element bears to the prosperity Of
the State is to be found in the fact that,
while New Orleans could lose 0,O00 of her
loafng, whisky drinking, riotOus popula-
Ii N, or even that number of her quiet eiti-
zens, ali belonging to the consuming class,
there being fully that surplus in the city tor
handling the crops that come there, and be
the richer for the loss, she yet couldn't lose
single one of her negro farm labOrers
without being impoverished to the extent Of
tho crop he would have made.
The crops tributary to New Orleans oc-
cupy say six months in their handling. The
balance of the year, or fully four months in
the twelve, the city is idle, waiting for the
producer to get another crop ready.
This brings us up to the answer to the
question prOpounded in the opening of this
article. Take the fourteenth of September,
1874, when Governor Kellogg was deposed,
as a sample. What had this Democracy
being doing for the past four months3 They
had been idle, Furnishing whisky and play
ing billiards, etc, waiting for the Repub-
ican element of the State to get another
crop ready 70 be forwarded so as to put
them to work.
Thus, of the Republican element of the
State, ninety per cent of it was out on the
plantations as farmers, while the Demo
cratic strength of the State was massed in
New Orleans-lOafng about waiting for
the crop season to open mp. They had not
done an honest days work for the previous
six mOnths-lt had not been there to do.
Their nights had besn spent at their armor-
les in drill and warlike preparations. The
small Republican element left in New Or
leans was not sufficient. 1t was only as it
were a picket guard of the Republican
strength, these peaceable, quiet, non-bel.
ligerent blacks-the Republican forces were
in the country, and hard at work. The har-
vest of cotton and sugar was ripe for the
gathering. Where would these crops have
been if these Republicans had gone to the
help of their attacked brothersf Ruined.
And ruined would have been the New
Orleans cotton factor and sugar
broker who had loaned money to
make the crop; ruined the landlord,
who, unless the crop was gathered, could
not get his rent. General ruin in brief
What sort of a militia would it have been
Black. The white Democrats on the other
side. Thus . war of races would have been
the result-the negro the producing element
and only source of wealth, would have been
slaughtered. Was it not wiser, then, for
Governor Kellogg to call upon the govern
ment for few troops to crush the rebellion
than to have decimated the plantations for
g militia that would support him thus
running crop, bringing on war of races
and the slaughter of Louisiana's pride and
prosperity, her loyal negro Republican-non-
belligerent farmers.
What was true Of September Ia, 1874. has
been true ever eince-is true to- day. Gov
ernOr Packard is threatened in New Orleans
by the same army Of hungry consumers,
while his support is in the country starting
new crop. Is It not better for the Presi-
dent to quiet the situation with the forces
ct his command rather thaB call en- Cover
nor Packard to demonstrate his strength at
such fearful SACRIFICED