New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-21
OUR COMMERCE BULLDozED.

One assistant Democratic organ has the
following:
Some of our business men have received
letters from shippers in Western cities ex-
pressing apprehension that property might
be unsafe in this city during the political
excitement pending the election question.
Another says:
The private correspondence of some of
our merchants from the West indicates
deplorable ignorance of the position of af-
fairs in New Orleans. They seem to think
that our streets are daily thronged with
bands of armed mobOcrats, and that their
goods, if sent to this market would be IN
safe. Nothing could be further from the
truth.
The first declares
That peace and good order and security
to life, liberty and property are better as
sured here now than at any time in many
years.
And the other gives the assurance
Whatever military demonstrations have
taken place, were conducted with the order
and decorum of trained veterans, and bust
ness, so far as the military were concerned,
moved along quietly and without Interrupt
ton.
So, the arrest of formal government,
the threats of storming the State House,
and shooting, stabbing or hanging any
Republican found in the building
are in perfect accordance with "the
order and decoram of trained veterans. ,
1t would be pleasure ''to be hanged by
SO polite judge" exclaimed prisoner
wholly overcome with the decorous an
nouncement of his sentence. The latter
day organ even adds its guaranty:
Western goods are as safe in this market
as they would be in tho warehouses at Gin
cinnati and Louisville.
We have, repeatedly told the organs
that, while their one-sided extras even
into the fourth and fifth editions stimu-
late popular violence here, they can not
reach the great interior of the country.
They belong to the short-winged tribe,
whose whirr and hutter is an evidence of
weakness, and they fall exhausted within
the parting line of Mason and Dixon.
Truth is borne on and over them and
sweeps in majestic circles over the nation.
While the Democratic organs here pro-
test against the atsurdity of believing
that Louisiana is not in state of pro-
found peace, one of them incautiously
publishes letter of Mr.. bennett, in
which, writing from Maine, he says:
The people of Louisiana would be shocked
and aetounded to see the newspaper &C.
counts in this State about the number and
Atrocity of negro murders in that martyred
| State. There are plenty of intelligent men
| in Maine who think Republican in Louisi
/ ana, fresh from the North, would be in dan
| ger of instant death were he openly to at
| tempt to defend his political creed, and thai
/ innOceat negroes are slaughtered in great
numbers for simply being Republicans, OF
for attempting peaceably to vote with thai
party.
Can this be possible after the assurance
and guaranty of the assistant organs? L
is in precisely the same manner that thu
change in the rate of cotton receipts a
certain Southern ports has been affected
in part at least by reputation of politica
violence.
The following are the comparative re
ceipts up to the same day of the montl
this year and last year, taken from tn,
| New Orleans Price Current.