Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-08-29
From the National In%teIllgencer.
BEGGING FOR RECOGNITION.

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The organs of Radicalism appear to bo
in great distress about the legitimacy o
the State governments in the Southern
States by the combined efforts OF Con
gress, the carpet baggcrs, and the Freed
mems Bureau. The nervous anx city man
ifestcd to find some shadow of recognition
of the validity of these State government:
by the President, or by Democratic and
Conservative journals, goes far toward,
showing that the creatOrs of these bogus
governments have themselves no faith il
their legitimacy. If it were otherwise,
there would be no need that the Wash.
ington Chronicle and New York Tribune
and kindred organs of Radicalism, should
be desperately catching at the merest
straws, to find some ever so indirect to-
ken that the President is willing to re
cognize the validity of the congressional
State governments in the South.
We had occasion yesterday to expose
one phase of this weakness Of the Radi-
cal organ. We find them now making
desperate efforts to extract some conso.
%lation, and to manufacture soma color of
claim of the recognition of the legitima-
cy of thes reconstruction acts from the
instructions issued by direction of the
President to Gen. Buchanan, commanding
the Department of Louisiana.
W. said yesterday /: Mr.. Johnson has
publicly, in his various messages to Con
gress, placed on record his protest against
the vitality Of all these acts, and express
cd in unequivocal terms bis opinion of
their unconstitutionality =; but he has also
declared his purpose-as they have given
the form of laws-to execute them until
their unconstitutionality shall be adjudg.
ed by a competent judicial tribunal
This surely affords no shadow Of pretext
that their validity is in any manner re-
cognizcd by Mr.. Johnson, or those who
the same opinions be has pro-
mulgated in regard to this iniquitious
legislation, as it has progressed step by
step.
We have only to add to this, now, that
he instructions to Gen. Buchanan are
10 a military officer of the United
States, reciting the provisions of the con-
'~titution and the laws under which the
Federal forces may be used for the pre-.
.'ervation of the public peace in any
State of this Union. They contain no
word or sign from which there may be in
erred any recognition whatever of the
egality Of Gov" Warmoth's pretended
authority. The President holds the opiu-
that no State once admitted, is or
'ver has been, subsequently to its admis-
ion, out of the Union. 1t is his duty,
lnder certain contingencies, to employ
he Federal forces, and ever the militia,
o preserve the public peace in any and
II Of the States.
In these instructions Gen. Buchanan is
Of the contingencies provided,
md is specially directed to communicate
promptly to the War Department any
acts that may make it tie duty Of the
resident to use the military forces of the
United States to keep the peace. In these
Instructions any, even the slightest, re
'ognition of the carpet-bag State Gov
Of Louisiana, has been carefully
md studicusly avoided. There is no
proposition whatever to act through the
so-called Governor and LEGISLATURE"
tut only through the War Department
nd the military commander.
We should add here that there is not
ne single scintilla of truth in the state.
nent of various newspaper correspond
nts, that Col. Deane, the agent of "Gov."l
Varmotb, received any assurances, either
the President or the Secretary Of
Var, that the instructions to Gen. Buch.
nan "were intended and expected to
over the grounds presented by his chief
nd the Legislature of louisiana" He
vas simply informed that his communi-
alton would be referred to the proper
of the Government for consider.
ton.
This piteous begging for recognition,
nd desperate efforts to find it where
one exists. furnishes convincing proof
the ca~rpet-baggers themselves are
ainfully conscious that their pretened
tate governments are purely bogus.