Suppression of newspapers in New Orleans.
--The New Orleans
Picayune and
Le Courrier Flancais of the same city, have been suppressed by the
Yankee authorities.
The N O
are (the
Government organ) says:
‘
The
commanding General of the Department, by a special order has suppressed the New Orleans
Picayune and
Le Courrier Francais.
We believe that this action will receive the cordial approval of every loyalman in
Louisiana, who has watched the course of those papers, and is acquainted with their disloyal character.
The French
Courrier was an out and-out secession sheet, violently abusive towards the
Government, and teeming day after day with ridicule and insult toward the cause of the
Union and its supporters.
since the session of the Constitutional Convention, it has been especially violent and insatting; it even went to the extent of publishing a certain list of members against whom it invoked not only public reprehension but mob violence, because they voted against an pro slavery amendment to a certain clause of the
Constitution.
Day after day it published extras with fates rebel news, calculated to excite the public mind and to bring contempt upon the
Union cause.
We presume its obscurity, and the fact that it was published in the
French language, saved it long after it should have been stopped.
For our part we have long wondered that the
Government would tolerate on violent an advocate of the rebellion within its liars.
’
The
picayune, although more cautions, was more dangerous, and, in our judgment, has done more than all other influences combined to keep alive the secession feeling, and to fan secession house in New Orleans.
Professing neutrality, be office was a proficient seat of treason.
For cowardly to express its own opinions, he colleague were daily crowded with constitute extracts from Copperhead journals, and its "extras"were the vehicle for the wildest and most exaggerated secession rumor that reached the city by the "grapevine telegraph," A southern paper, containing fabulous intelligence of some great "Confederate victory," was its especial delight.
The immediate cause of its suppression, we believe, was the indiscreet haste with which if spread the bogus proclamation of the
President before the people here, in an extra — the same cause, in fact, for which the New York
World and
Journal of Commerce seem to have been shut up by the
Government.
Gen Banks delivered a speech on the 27th before the State Convention, in which he highly applauded the radical measures of that usurping body.
The
Erais certain that the
Confederacy is on its very last legs.
It will be observed, however, from the following, that what is going to utterly extinguish it has not yet quite taken place.
"We believe (it says) that the days of the boasted Southern Confederacy are well nigh numbered.
The armies of the
Union are moving on, and the final great struggle is in actual progress.
The results of it thus far, leave little or no doubt of the final result.
With
Grant successful in
Virginia; with
Sherman successful In
Northern Georgia, and with
Gen Banks successful west of the
Mississippi, there is little left on which the rebels can build further extravagant expectations of success"
Mr. Placide Canoege, one of the editors of the
Courrier, had been expelled from the city, and had left for Pascagonia.
