New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-23


throughout the State as any part of the
Union.
The hands of the courts must be strength.
ened and upheld-the peace officers must do
their duty-the good people must rise up
and vindicate the law. The press, too vim
dictive and partisan, should unite with the
government in denouHcing crime, and aid
in the establishment of healthy public SEN
timent which of itself would protect the
peace by its frowns upon evildoers. You
should drive those drones upon society who
eat but do not work, who consume and pro-
duce nothing, more dangerous to peace and
prosperity than famine. or pestilence, to go
to work or find another country than this
to curse.
The political meal tub of the Democracy,
labeled en- the outside estate Rights we
greatly fear contains several things besides
meal although studied effort is made to
induce the belief that there is nothing in it
bat meal. The tips of the neatly curving
ears and the sharp claws of the big tom cat
Secession, we opine, may be discerned by
close inspection obtruding themselves from
beneath the mass of pulverized grain. The
platform of the party, as readjusted lately,
announces that there is to be no more Sc
cession, but it does not abjure the doctrine,
nor declare the non-existence Of the right to
secede. We have searched in vain among
their campaign songs to find a penitential
hymn expressing contrition for having en-
braced the heresy. Plaintive ieremiads.
thick as "autumnrl leaves are every
where met with evincing obstinate con.
dolement' over the "lost cause" This
lost cause the Democracy mourn for and
refuse to be comforted. They as persist
emily assert to-day as they have at any past
time that the "lost cause" was a righteous
and just cause. The right Of State to
withdraw from the Union is, in their cata-
logue of State rights, the greatest, the most
fundamental of all others. Estate rights"
without the secession right would in their
estimation be as fat and jejuue as the play
of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet
omitted
We have not the slightest ground to be-
lieEe that the Democratic party, as now
constituted, do not comprehend the right of |
secession among State rights as they
understand them.
The term State rights, in the vocabulary
of that party, is pretentous title to very
pernicious doctrines. The principles EN-.
braced by it admit of elaboration into
formulas to cover all possible cases. 1t
may be shown by State rights that
against the Government of the United
States rebellion is no crime that it is
merely an adventure III which everything is
to be gained, and nothing lost; mere
game of heads win, tails you lose. One
State, or number of States may, by re-
bellion, involve the nation in aruinous and
bloody war; and if the rebellion is unsue-
cessful no penalty is incurred, because
g State rights present the ready shield to
protect the guilty State or the guilty peo-
pie Of State from the legitimate conse-
quenees Of treason and rebellion. Any
disqualification for voting or Office holding
that the government may impose upon the
guilty is tyranny aud oppression, because
it is violatiVe of Estate rights.o State
rights are indestructible. They exist " per
Sc, " and the people Of State can never
aivest themselves of them. Such is the ar
gument such the doctrine. But the people
Of the several States lately in rebellion.
speaking selennly in the names Of
their several States, voluntarily and uncen-
dHionally renowned all benefits and every
right they possessed under the Constitution
of the United States in virtue of their Or
ganization under the supreme law. They
Iolemnly abjured the Constitution Of the
United States. They repudiated it as eff
etc. They affirmed it to be failure. They
constitution of their own, and
wore to support it. These facts are noto-
ious. Now, putting out Of view altogether
he old fogy notion that men forfeit their
ives and their property, and lose all their
political rights by rebellion and treason,
We see that our seeeasiOnlsts voluntarily !
Invested themselves Of those rights. They |
enounced BY their voluntary act, among
'ther rights, the right Of establishing The
publication Of voters. Being themselves
Without that right, they charge the govern
lent with usurpation aud oppression for
xercising il, and allege violation by the !
governments Of State rights.f Such are
be convenient uses Of Estate rights.v y
One Of the heInOus offsnses of the govern
lent alleged by the Democracy ls that in
iolatien Of State rights It made war upon Y
be rebel States The Buchanan and Sey-
leur doctrine e that the government has
. right to coerce q State that thinks I
roper. to secede, and therefore it was tyr
nay on the part Of the government after :
b rebels took up arms againstit, and fred I
pom the national flag and Is defenders, to Il
lake any eaort 10 sustain The national au-
ioFity.
Hers then, organised under Seymour E
"a Blair y party whose sympaEhiea are \
! unison with tss s1osf cause,-whose s
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