Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-06-25
RANDOM SHOTS.
New ORLEANS, June 10, 1881.

DEAR RibND--1 w h"" y"
your enterprising journal in my mind
more often, doubtless, than you have
supposed from my long silence. But
SO great is the lethargy Of seltishness
that those persons and things that
come to rs and minister to our graft
fication and pleasure without our
seeking actively, quite frequently are
received with apparent indifference
as if they belonged to as, as matter OF
right. l suppose it must have been
this disposition of frail humanity
from which the old saying that "oless-
ings brighten as they take their
fight was deduced. In the present
case | trust, my dear friend, you VIII
do me the justice to believe it is ap-
parept and not real. The disagreed
BILE necessity of work forces us to
sometimes neglect our friends. This,
am sure, you will admit, since other
wise, l should have had the pleasure
ofseeing you down here among your
numerous friends. You seem to be
but an hour or two from us now, and
when we can he whirled to our Capt.
tai. by rail, in that time, am afraid
your fine arguments about the health
fnl influences of rural districts on the
powerful brains of State Legislators
by which you "stole away" our { apl-
tai before the Convention, will have
lost much of its force and beauty.
The great progress and enterprise OF
your little city, however, "pleads IN
triumphant tones" in favor of the
"taking Off of the aforesaid Capitol
and New Orleans can bear up under
our loss, in consideration of your
"eternal gain"
The summer heat is upon US IN ear
nest. and but for the sweet consola'
ton of observing that many OF 0ul
friends are worse off than we are, II
would be into!erable. We can beal
heat and overfows, we can be beret'
of our Legislature and conventions
and political bummers; because oul
Railroads are beginning to stretcl
their iron arms over our State; the
grain of the North and West is pour
ing in like golden sands" and be
cause we have at least one honest ant
capable representative in the Unite'
States Senate while the great Empire
State, that has 80 often nearly crush
ed ont our existence has entirely with
drawn from that arena.
The stalwart Conkling doesn't seer
to have taken much by his motion.
isa fine thing to play the autocra'
but when the lackies refuse to parade
down comes the autOcrat. There Ii
however, great deal of tightin
power in Roscoe, and my Judgment
he has hard blows in reserve for tn
sanity Garfield and his friends. How
ever it may turn out, whether NJ
CoDkling be returned to the Senate
not, he never will WELD the pow'
that he has welded in the past. MOI
than that. There is little doubt tn;
much of the innate rottenness Of ii
Republican party, will be disclose
for public criticism by the war of ia
tons now active in that happy famil
The efforts of a few second class mt
like Frye, Davis and others in the la
session of the Senate, to stir up
blood towards the South most 81
nally failed. The manly and spi
tied manner in which our friend Jon
overwhelmed Mr.. Dawes, land the COZ
dispassionate and statesmanlike
terances of Jones of Florida, in viii
they both rebuked with becomin
dignifed and patriotic conservatls
the shallow inventions and section
trades of fading stal'cartism, was
pivotal point of political slgnltical
in the late session. From that ii
public sentiment, even IN the Nor
has been drifting away from Rad'
moorings, and we have every rea
to belive that the next National Ga
paign will develop broader sci
ment of liberation, and demand
ter government, rather than pa
plumber.
I am in recent of YOUR kind inv