The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-05
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMooRAT SUNDAY, AUGUST s, 1877.

Calling has come, in the opinion o.
the company and also Of great many
others-but well, "who laughs las
laughs best" and IL may be as we'll te
remember this as we go cunning fol
fortune and try to take her on the fly.'
The company may have forgotten the
transaction, but there Ia already a Cat
ling In this city. It was brought out on
the ever memorable l4th of September,
but It's moral" effect was eccentrio-it
was not felt at all by the ''mob ele-
ment." We had q government In
those cad days that was operated
on the Calling moral system.
and the efficacy of this new force
was thoroughly tested, and It proved a
failure not az an instrument OF de-
struction, but as moral force that is
restricted entirely to the conservation
governments. In few words, 1t was
captured at the first onset by the White
League and turned against the oppress-
ors Of the people, as was Knapp's Bat
terry at Pittsburg. which surely could
have been used as effectively against the
undisciplined mob-armed only with
''the fingers and teeth of nature"-that
turned It's guns against the roundhouse,
az the Calling to the old veterans OF Lee
and Johnston In the streets OF New Or
leans, armed with Wholesalers.
This letter corroborates In remark
able manner the testimony given by our
correspondent "Buell" In his powerful
and graphic letter, which appeared In
yesterdays DEMOCRAT, concerning the
disturbed condition Of the public mind
trouble Is not yet over-that the end is
not yet, that these riots have not been
instigated by the old enthity between
labor and capital, but that they are the
fret outbursts OF au irrepressible con-
tlict, inspired by two propositions that
have become the fundamental maxims
OF the poor mans creed, to wit:
"That certain men are richer than any man
has a right TO be In this country, and that the
times will never be good In this country so
long az there are Individual men In IL worth
enough TO make hundred thousand men
comfortable" The Calling Gun Company
evidently appreciates this, and IT 10 deter
mined to take the current when 1t serves"
It is a day of wrath-but 1t is dies irr
only for the people of the North. We
of the South have no dangers to appFe-
bend. and the Calling Gun Company
may az we'll send its wares to Utopia AZ
here. The weapons with which our
hands shall grow familiar in the years
that are just upon us are the hoe and
cane-knife and the cotton
gin. We will stand aside and leave
It with the people OF the North
TO establish distinctions between the
''people," the citizens and the mob
to test the efficiency and re-
liability of the militia in times OF pop
ular disturbance; to find out Ii a gov
ernment of the people can be made
strong enough to put down the people;
10 ascertain IL republic can exist while
with regulars. millionaires.
who are but living illustrations OF the
violation OF the elemental principle OF
institutions-the equality OF
all men and an equal distribution OF
wealth. These problems we shall leave
to them, and we doubt not that, In the
language of the Treasurer OF the Calling
Gun Company, wherever Calling guns
can be made available, they shall be
eagerly sought for"