The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-03-20
Knock Down Truths From The
National Intelligeneer.

| tcI VI uiuskcts anu Clic CidHS VI SWOlus.
Judicial justice demands patience, in
vestigation, ample, leisure, and unbiased
will. 1t deals in precedents and ap-
plies well-established principles. 1t
laboriously establishes facts and search
ingly Sits evidence. It can only be
secured by the calm deliberation and
skillful labors of men learned in the law
and skilled in legal investigation. But
military justice must be prompt, for the
virtue of the soldier is decision. 1t has
no time and less taste for labored in
quiry. 1t is always more or less faint
ed with passion, for the camp breeds
the atmosphere Of contention. 1t is at
the mercy of adroit flattery or tle..keen
hope of promotion. It despises the
poor and sights the uninfuential. 1t
is warped by the hand of beauty, and
too often perverted by petty malice and
the baseness Of revenge. Yet this is the
kind Of justice that the House of Re-
representatives. would administer to one
third Of their countrymen.
The American sense of justice can
not long be blunted by demagoguely
and partisan catchwords. Governor
Fenton, Of New York, made a requisi-
ton on the authorities of North Carroll
ma for an individual charged with fraud.
1t was honored, and the alleged cnlprit
handed over. Governor Pierpont, Of
Virginia, made a requisition on Cover.
nor Fenton for an alleged criminal now
in the Empire State. 1t was not hon.
ored, on the plea that Virginia is not a
State in this Union. Itsuits partisan
Governor to consider North Carolina a
State to secure justice to his own citi-
zens, but to deny that Virginia is
State to prevent all efforts to do justice
to citizens of Virginia. The fact tells
it's own story. We forbear comment,
simply saying that the national love of
fair play will stand much, but it viii
not long stand such transparent dou-
ble-dealing.
1t is not remarkable.that among all
the representativcssof the Republican
party in Congress, obscure or distin-
guished, insignificant or potential,
there is not one that has had the manli-
ness to rise in his place andIinsist;on a
generous, forgiving policy towards the
Southern people Z The history of Rome
is brilliant with examples of generosity
and magnaninlity, but IN the control
ling party Of the country, in the great
Legislative assembly Of the nation, we
hear of nothing but punishment, dis
REIMBURSEMENT and death.
1.-THE President has betrayed his
party" is constant expression in the
mouths Of the Radicals. His party
were pledged to the war for the Union.
But the Union necessarily implies that
citizens of the several States should
have State governments and Federal
representation. He urged the South
to organize the first and prepare for the
last. For this his party leaders turned
on him, and deny the Southern people
representation, and now wish to pre-
vent them from having governments
acceptable to them.
Was Governor Pierpoint a legal.
Governor of Virginia. Ifnot, how was
the consent Of Virginia obtained to its
divisionf Ifhe is the bona tsle Cover
nor Of Virginia, how can Congress,
without an inevitable violation Of the
Constitution, contemplate the estab-
lishment Of a military government in
the Old Dominion, when neither he nor
his Legislature have asked Federal
interference?