The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-23
OUR POLITICS.
A LETTER PROM new ORLEANS AN
ALYZENG THE POLICY OF
OUR RULERS.

OUR RULERS.
/, The Natehitoehes indicator Is publishing
, series of letters from correspondent in thil
city, who signs himself "Amicus Curi@.'
There is no writer In the South who Yields I
more vigorous and trenchant pen than TIN
New Orleans correspondent Of our Natchi
toches contemporary. On some points w
differ with Anxious CuriB, though as to th'
theories Of our late struggle, which he pre-
sents, and the principles he advances as thu
proper ones which should guide our Statt
polity, we fully and candidly agree with him
In his last letter Anxious Curi@, referring
to the fact that while he was writing his pre-
vious letter exposing the designs and evi
tendencies Of the Louisiana State Lottery
that institution involved the courts In q con
| t1ict Of jurisdiction and very nearly preciD'
itated a scene OF violence, proceeds as follows
THE LOTTERY MEN
are only Of the average run Of their species
/ They are engaged in an enterprise that rec
OmmendS itself to them In but one aspect
the making Of money, and O plenty OF 1t. 1t
is clear that their principle OF action is-"the
end justifes the means and the means they
| determined In their calculations to be most
/ efficient was to invade successfully the prime
/ La
rest was plain sailing.
To effect this they laid their foundation
| sagaGlously, and all their calculations were
sound save one. They made no proper caletl-
lation against two characteristics of man, or
| they were ignorant OF them, viz: patriotism
and obstlnacy.-.the latter at the present day
being often called pure cussedness."
There are very good reasons why they
should not have calculated on encountering
the first named trouble. In the first plaee
they have clearly shown that they have none
of the characteristics themselves. In the
second place, their perfect control of the ex-
listing administration furnished the best rea-
son why they should doubt the existence of
such thing in others.
But 1t Is not SO easy TO account for their
NATURALIZATION on the second count. There Is
no doubt that the State authorities had made
the path as smooth as they could for the lot
terry, but they ought to have known that man
Is possessed OF at least as much pride as @
mule, and that there are some liberties you
cannot with impunity take with a mule. Any
plantation negro will tell you that.
''Pure cussedness" on any subject Is to be
expected Of man, but it Is prominently apt
to be displayed II you ruthlessly invade what
he calls his political rights; and more es-
pecially II you undertake to contiseate his
private shotgun or to stick him in the parish
prison because he sells Havana lottery tick
cts on commission In order to feed his fam
lily. And then there Is another thing. IF you
find your next-door neighbor ordering around
and utilizing, as against yourself, the SER
wants whom you pay to do your own work,
your pure CtISsednesS' Is almost sure to as
sert itself. This Is what Charlie Howard was
doing with our police, and, notwithstanding
the Legislature and all the rest Of the all-
thorities sustained him. the people kicked in
the traces. And so 1t will be to The end of the
world. Charlie Howard will learn before he
gets through that 1t is one thing to run lot
terry and another TO run State.
1t was not mere coincidence, then, that
THE AGUsTI HABEAs CORPUS CASE
occurred just as / was engaged In eriticisinp
the course of our administration towards the
lottery. No, the whole thing occurred under
the direct rules OF cause and effeet-iust as
much so as the occurrences of the fourteenth
Of September. The seed was planted by the
Radicals, the tree has been nursed and cher
ished by our administration, and this Is the
bitter but legitimate fruit.
But proceed with my analysis of the plat
form on which the State is being condtcted.
and which stated in former letter under
nine different heads. / charge that the policy
OF the administration is the continued foster
ing of
MoNoPoLIEs
No man can gainsay the truth of the
charge. In the case of the Louisiana State
Lottery, the most gigantic and most danger
Gus of these monopolies, the proof Is over
whelming In regard to any other monopoly,
defy any man to show that the weight Of
OA3 lbRlBlhblN6 Vi baBGublNB niger nus DbpIl
raised against one of them and II these great
evils exist, and are so repulsiye that the peo-
pie considered their representatives bound to
attack them; and yet they have not been at
tackled, but have, to q greater or less extent,
put the powers that be under imagined obi"
cations to them; l therefore argue that they
are fostered by the government, in direct vio-
lation, both Of the will of the people and of
the pledges given by those entrusted with
State control.
Head No. says the policy of the powers
that be Is ''no Radical inroad ON the State
constitution; consequently
NO CONVENTION
Of the people"
Surely, no man can deny this feature OF the
policy Of our rulers; and it Is one Of the most
repulsive OF all.
II there be one feature of reformation above
all others on which this people had set their
hearts, which their Judgment told them was
above all others necessary, and which they
considered their chosen rulers .solemnly
pledged to, 1T was the assembling of g constf-
fishing an organic law emanattng from the
people. The organic law under which we
have for years been living is the spawn of
military despotism, and shows its despicable
parentage all over its hideous face. 1t has
been loathed and cursed by every intelligent
and thoroughly patriotic man In the State
ever since its birth, and its utter ami
hilatIon has been the nightly dream of
all who love country Tor cOuntryS sake. /
undertake to say, that not one of the servants
of the people now holding Office, from Gov
ernor down to constable, could have procured
O nomination If he had proclaimed himself
opposed to thorough revision Of the constitu-
tion by the people in convention assembled
and II any one of them, In the face of all we
haze suffered at the hands of depotism and
lawlessness, had dared to suggest that we
were electing a legislature that would ar
range the present constitution for us, to the
extent Of twenty amendments -leaving I'M
touched the most Objectionable features-I
think that individual would not only have
failed nomination, but would have been put
Ia a lunatic asylum by his friends.
1t is very difficult for man who reads and
thinks, and is at the same time at all Jealous
for relief of his State from bad government,
to speak or write temporarily Of conduct in