New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-24
THE ExPRRrMEHT.


= their liberties, and by their verdict at th
late election have settled the question, s
( that this. with its associate and companion
81 slavery, is condemned to death and buris
- past resurrection. -=- ...s 1.rz
ul 1t was this abominable heresy tina
brought upon US our troubles and pro
nd duced the sufferings and horrors of the lat
r war, and when 1t arrayed itself against tn
a. Federal Government the people determined
: 1t should be exterminated.
: Twice has the nations verdict been rem
: dered and recorded against State rights
and its worshippers, and despite the dying
groans of that convicted and condemned
, ally of the Lost Cause the so-called
Democratic party, this political error may
now be considered as buried amid the rub
bish of the past. ..
In view Of these results, is it not
strange to witness the spasmodic eff
forts of some of our contemporaries
d at resuscitatlon of this obsolete idea OF
State sovereignty because one of the
great States of this Union has thought
, proper to obey the fat of the popular will
. and strike those words from her great seal.
To accomplish such thing is as futile
as it would be to infuse life into human
body after its decomposition.
The great revolution of the past eight
} y ears under which the people of this land
of liberty have been slowly educated
through trials and tribulations, has taught
them that power and authority for coercion
must be put where it can be exercised and
enforced against the resistance Of interiors;
that the Federal Union or general Govern
ment is the sun and centre of our political
system around which the separate States
reVOlve, and that they are subject to laws
passed by and emanating from Congress
of the people; that this Union is not rope
Of sand, but one which for good is as elias
tic as the atmosphere, and in power is as
resistless and binding as the law OF gravita-
ton. Had it not been for the false and
wicked teachings of Calhoun and bis fol.
lowers, who taught that the end justified |
the means, there would have been no war.
These men having resisted the authority of |
the United States, committed treason, dis
banded the Governments of the several
States where they had control under the
Federal Union, became outlawed and |
unworthy to enjoy the rights of citizenship
which they abandoned, thus voluntarily
DISTINGUISHING and depriving themselves
of the right to take any part in the
administering of government which they
refused to recognize and endeavored to
destroy and overthrow. The loyal people
of the country were not divided upon this
question, and their representatives in Con-
gress assembled, acting in accordance with
the views and opinions of their con-
stituency, did not organize any new Gov
eminent, but re-established it and made it |
frmer, stronger and the better able to per-
form its legitimate functions and powers
than ever before. Our forefathers had not
anticipated that a great civil war would
threaten the dissolution OF the Union, and
bad not fully prepared for the emer-
gency by guards and guarantees in
the provisions of the Constitution and the
enactment Of proper laws; they wisely left
this subject to the generation in which
such a catastrophe would threaten the
life Of the nation and the overthrow of its
The emergency arose, and our generation
proved themselves equal to it by engaging
in the conflict, obtaining the victory upon
the battle field and putting into our Con-
stitution and upon our statute books those 3
guarantees for the protection and safety of t
The nation for the present and future, and
he loyal people will not consent that this /
work be undone. None but the criminal G
md bis associates or his guilty companions I
complain that these acts were done to Y
punish them for their crime and disloyalty. s
Had they not committed the crime it 4
would not have been necessary to 1
nfiict the punishment; but now [
t only remains for the sentence to be exc b
'uted In accordance with the verdict of the @
,eople. v
As one Of the consequences of the late o
election it has been decided that the recon- c
truction measures of Congress are Just and b
light, and must be enforced against the ear ii
testify contending constituency Of the old il
Union, consisting of Ku-Klux, the Knights s.
i the White Camelis, and kindred ST. e
allied Democratic organizations for the
reservation Of their State Government as ]
was; and the loyal people of the country
mean that their will shall be obeyed.
1t Is no longer to be considered
IN experiment, but q .Jaa accompH;" n
md though men in their agony of defeat Il
md disappointment cry out, '.fraud, ? "dis- 9
ranohisement," "false verdict, q "proscrip- =
i've measures" and all that sort Of twadile. .
the work will go on under loyal govern q
nent, with loyal President, until its con- Q
when any peaceful and law d
abiding citizen throughout our land shall G
sit under his own swine and fig tree, with "
none to modest or make him AFRAID and G
peace and prosperity shall reign through 0
put our borders. c
OF TRADE AID POLITICS e
The Bulletin of last Saturday had a short Y
chapter of excellent advice to Boston ner. :
ahontc The h,,r1au of 4hn ao.A..-z | q