New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10
NOT MUCH GROUNDS FOB REJOICING.


The result of Tuesdays elections
throughout the country has definitely
closed out and settled two or three
things in which New Orleans and
the lower Mississippi valley have
very grave interest.
l.. The Southern Pacific Railway.
2. The repairs to the levees.
3 Subvention of mail steamship
service in Southern waters.
All these vital measures may be
considered as hopelessly defeated,
for the reason which we have time
and again alleged to the readers of
the REPUBLICAN. The Southern
delegation in Congress, though it
may be solid on these hereticle prin-
ciples can never bring over the
Northern Holmans, Randalls, ely.
mers, Woods and their political con-
freres to vote public money for any
improvements out of their own dis
tricts, while the Northern Republi-
cans will vote solid against filling
the hands of our Southern Congress-
men with public money to enable
them to carry their districts in 1880.
As the South has lost all these
prospective solid benefits, the ad-
vantages which it is possible to de-
rive from the result of the late farce
does not in our Judgment warrant
the liberal display of big ROSTERS
which some Of the personal and sec
tional organs have paraded before
their readers. The people will, how
ever, be crammed with promises of
reform, and amused with fnlsome
praise of the successful candidates
for two years longer. We shall then
be told that Notwithstanding the
most gallant and heroic exertions,
our members could not get the bills
up in, time for this session, but feel
confident that early in the next,
everything should be made right.
The truth is, they can not carry one
of the measures in, the next, or any
succeeding session of Congress.
Southern influence in Congress is
frittered away and paralyzed in the
earnest struggle which it is neces-
sary to maintain to stifie the voice
of the majority Of the voters and
safely land the minority candidates.
When such parishes as Natchitoches
and Tensas, with their overwAelm-
ing Republican majorities are made
to cast nearly solid Democratic votes,
a very peculiar state of affairs is
disclosed, and moral weakness of
claims to seats suggested, which
gives the members of Congress from
those districts permanent tickets to
back seats and obscure positions.
congressman thus elected are known
in Washington not to represent their
constituents. Their clientele is
composed of very small number Of
''the best men Of the State,n who
well know how to make two or three
hundred Weapons of precision in the
hands of skillful maTksmen become
substitutes for two or three thou
sand votes. The suspicious major
tiles by which Napoleon Ill, used to
carry France for any of his measures
which he submitted to 81 plsbiscite
were not more significant of the to-
tai suppression Of Suffrage than we
witness in LOuisiana at every cleo
ton. Nor can We doubt that the
parallel win fail to hold good to the
final downfall Of the power which
thus outrages the name Of liberty by
dOmineeripg ever unarmed and help
less sufEagans, TO whom the priv
iliga ofEsting iSiyst eneveltgs 3 \,
ThS white lion spd the black lant
4 are lying down together .ip Tensas
and Natehitoehes. The lamb agrees
with the leonine devourer; who ID