New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-04-07

licau, to the position OF -four inspector, was
yesterday q cause Of loud complaint.
Harry A. COrbin, colored, was, it is said,
imported from Cincinnati by Pinohback,
and has acted as his secretary. His ap-
pointment Rs tax collector of the Sixth
District was at Piuch's suggestion. Worse
than all else, Pinch himself has been made
@ member of the State Board of Educa-
ton, body that has absolute Jurisdiction
over the public schools, and his services in
this capacity are construed into little less
than an insult to the ruling class Of the
community.
These appointments are considered not
merely objectionable, but are regarded
as violation of the pledge
That Louisiana shall be ruled by Louisi-
ana gentlemen.
And this complaint eliminates IN this:
The opinion is that there are numbers of
white men and Democrats who would glad
ly accept, and that the appointing of mo-
tori0usly incompetent men to office, Radi-
calls at that, is not good Judgment.
Just here is where the pottage and sham
currency comes in. The lawful Governor
of the State possesses the undoubted
power to remove from Office such incum-
bents as he may choose. We may well
assume that Governor Packard would
never recognize such class of appoint
ments. Should Mr.. Nichols succeed in
conquering and holding the State under
Federal neutrality, we may well imagine
he will exercise this right of removal, so
that the bestowal of Office upon Radicals
VIGOROUSLY incompetent would be atoned
for by turning them out to grass and
comforting the appointments upon
"white men and Democrats who would
gladly accept them. This category OF
venal politicians is happily very short,
It closes, we hope, with the expul-
sion of j. Ross Stewart, who, in express
ing the conviction that any Republican
member could be bought for two thou
sand dollars only avowed his own venal.
ity. This gangrene has, however, stop.
ped. 1t is indeed honorable to the Re
publican party of the South and of the
nation that SO few have proven fAithless.
Prominent among those who have refused
all the brides Democracy could offer are
the colored Republicans, Messrs. Kennel
and Casenave. How the mouths of the
Pinchbacks and Stewards would have wa
| tered at the hundreds of thousands which
these gentlemen could have received t.
betray their people. In what terms of in
dignant ridicule would the vendors o
birthrights and receivers of salaries have
spoken of such fools who would not hav'
enriched themselves at any cost to others
For the honor of the Republican part!
they have withstood all the brides Of Til
den and all the threats Of the bulldozers
The mess of pottage will soon hav
been digested, and the recipient as hun
CRY as before. The twenty pieces of salar,
silver will not, in q paroxysm of politica
remorse, be cast down in the presence 0
those who gave it. Both will perish
and the Republican party viii be reno
waited by its own virtues from the treach
cry of friends, and by its own courage
from the brutality of the bulldozers.
The Republican party in Louisiana has
in our opinion, retrieved the last sal
upon a payment in .pottage which wi
ever take place among the colored men
bers of the Republican party.