New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-12
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The man or the nation that can not be
troubled is not much ola man or much of a
nation. Trouble stirs up character, and
shows the world OF what stuff il is
made. Trouble stops revery and dream
ing, and tells men and nations to go
thoughtfully at work. Aud at this moment
we admit there is great deal of trouble
all over the land. The poor are troubled
to get bread; the rich are troubled to col
lect the money due them; planters are
troubled on account of bad cropsi mer-
chants are troubled on account of bad
debts; politicians are troubled about can
didates; statesmen are troubled about gem
eral principles and theories of government;
Judges are troubled about law, ard the
president is troubled on account of
the whisky bill just passed by
congress. The only man we know
Of who is not troubled is General Hancock,
who says in long letters that the millennium
is approaching, and that Texas will be the
first state in which the quiet and order of
heaven will prevail. Its very unfortunate
for the nation that General Hancock has
such q wonderful digestive apparatus.
1t is impossible to get man with a good
belly into trouble. He can digest fifty
massacres as well as a street fight when
| only bloody noses are the result, and feel
well after the dinner, lie can swallow a
rebel as well az an old soldier who fought
by his side in all his campaigns. A Texan
cut-threat is simply mustard, and Texan
bully pepper to his palate; and all the
compound villanies from the Mississippi to
the Rio Grande he can wash down with his
port and his sherry, and feel highly ex-
hilarated after it, Charles Lamb said he
never had any trouble until he discovered
that he had q stomach. Fasaff
never had any trouble worth talk
ing about, but Caesar and Clssius
had the trouble Of the nation on their minds,
and could not sleep at nights. Falstaff
from having good belly was a merry dog,
and the merry wives of Windsor were the
only creatures that ever gave him any
trouble. Afflirs Of state, what were they
to the jolly old knight? But General Han
cock isn't Falstaa', aud sweet Anne Page
hasn't yet conspired to tumble him into the
Thames or the Mississippi With General
Hancock all is "quiet on the Potomac"
All the Potomac General Hancock, you
fought nobly beside that classic stream, for
a noble cause, for a noble people. Regi-
ment after regiment, brigade after brigade,
division after division, and corps after
corps under your command went down
into their graves and now rest in quiet and
in peace From Hanover junction to
Petersburg you carried the trouble of the
nation on your shoulders, and none more
nobly bore it than yourself We honor
you; the nation has honored you for
what ycu did ir that long trouble
of brave people. We love you; your
old soldiers love you, for they can
not forget what is burnt into their memo |
ries by the red-hot hand of battle But |
love and grief more often walk together
than love and joy. Your old soldiers still |
take you by the hand, but tears steal down
their eyelids when they see their old com
nander calling around him Bragg, and
Beauregard, and Hood, and all the great
leaders Of the rebellion, whose gigantic
crime laid so many of their companions in
graves on every hill and in every valley in
the South In the name Of your old com
panions in arms we tell you peace does
not reign throughout the South, and civil
law is not the law Of tie land
Trouble is brewing and will continue to
brew if you dare to prove traitor to those
men who made you what you are. Congress
lid not pass the reconstruction act and
create the military districts for you to ele-
rate Beauregard, and Bragg, and Hood into
confidential relations with yourself. Il
rave you the power to put them in Jail if
and apply the Law TO them in all
Is rigor, and bring its recOnstructing
'irtues to bear upon them FIRST of all.
nhe only men who need demonstrating
n tao South are rebels but you
eem to act upon the theory that
congress had in view only loyal men.
Governor Pease and General Reynolds,
Who are on the ground, say there is no
,ivii law in Texas. You who have just
come from your confidential interviews
With Davis and his chief lieutenants declare
here is, and that II shall be enforced in
Ipite Of the civil law from which you de-
rive all your life and all your prerogatives.
Twenty miles from Galveston, Houston,
Texas, the man who would
dare say he is from Boston would be shot
The moment he uttered the words. And
would civil Law punish or protect the muir
iererl Can you psinatO a single instance in
which II has punished the marderera The
very papers yesterday that contained your
etter TO Governor Pease also contained /
he reports Of murders In every quarter OF
he state, and in themselves refuted every |
gord you uttered about civil law afrording
protection to the people. Why not be frank,
Ike good soldier as you are, and say that
lon are here 70 run the 9th military
district in The interest Of Andrew johnson,
and not In that Of the country at large
Poor politicians and poor presidents
Drste about civil law and constitutions;
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