The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-03-23
TREBLA
Reception Of Seward.
from the N. Y. World.1

A scurrilous morning sheet in this
city-which, amid its vulgar ribalry
upon good men, deifies Stanton as a po-
John Porter hung, for no other reason
than that the Lincoln administration
needed a political victim to divert at
tention from its crime Of removing
Mcclellan from command of the army
and elevating Pope--is tOuter for a
public reception to Mr.. Seward by the
city authorities. 1t talks in this style:
Now, let the people prepare to do
their part: and by people we do not
mean the wealthy classes alone. but
the great mass-the industrious and
honest myriads, the genuine democra-
cy of the metropolis. Mr.. Seward
comes here crowned with years, ripe in
experience, a thorough democrat, and
above all, an American. Let us re-
member his services to the country
and his sufferings in her cause; let us
call to our mind his long struggles in
favor of freedom and equal rights; let
us inspire ourselves with the rccollec-
ton of his noble, philosophic eloquence
and hail his coming among us as that
creeds gladly combine to honor.
1t may suit the purposes of the Ring,
for whole enlargement SO as to take
in Republican politicians in Albany
and in this city the public is largely
indebted to leaders of Seward wing of
the. Radicals, to laud the political deeds
of the returning traveller from Alaska;
but 'the genuine democracy" will be
likely to reflect little.
The echoes of the ''little belr' have
not quiet died away.
There arc those in this city who
have not yet forgotten the rude inso-
lence with which Mr.. Seward-with
purpose aforethought, as is capable Of
proof, to thrust in Fort Warren as a
political prisoner an ex-President Of
the United States, lately deceased,
whose name and memory are fondiy
cherished by the Democratic masses
charged Franklin Pierce, on the pre-
text of an annoyance letter, with being
a member of a secret league the pur-
pose OF which was to destroy this
Union, and in the end, when the ac-
cused, defying his partisan malice
dared him to his worst, SUNK back
like whipped cut into the recesses Of
the State Department. under cover Of
) its then congenial chief clerk.
There are Democrats who remem'
|, Der how that Seward endeavored tx
make Stanton "divine," sanctioned al
3 his deeds of infamy, and Endorsed t.
: the utmost all his dOgmas in respect t.
: the authority of the Federal govern
I ment, under the war power, strip ava,
}. from a civilian, troublesome to the ad
!. ministration in political sense, al
' the guarantees of the Constitution il
8 respect to individual rights, wrest hir
: from his home, deprive him ofhis prop
6 erty, and cast him into dungeons S
% fetid and filthy that those of Venic
g under ground were airy palaces l
It comparison.
o If there be any Democrat who ha
, ceased to be mindful of what Sewar
= and Stanton together did in that hot
1t of woe, let him tnrn to the Bureau I
Or Military Justice for decisions of thf
. plant tool of both, Judge-Advocatt
le General Holt, and ircad how civ
1t court in a loyal State had no jurisdi'
n ton, in time of war, to try soldi,
for murder, burglary, or larceny; TIL
u persons accused of interference wit
r. voting by soldiers could be tried by
If military court; that trial by jury
Indiana must give way to be war pow
T. er; that the authority of the admin
" tration to suppress by force DEM
=. cratic newspaper New York restcaa
), as solid foundations as the right
x lombard the enemy'sGort at RichmOn
ID that military commission was usef
~ in civil causes, because of s.the exte
- ded reach" am. 'swide scopen it con
N make 'the most complete and reliab
r. disclosure of the elmer life" of witne
NJ ses. Much or all of this was swe
8 away by the Supreme Court in Mill
III CAMS case; but it still lives to sho
sn what ideas of. civil liberty Seward az
~ Stanton each bad. Let those wi
sanction such doctrines make haste
ry fall down in alteration before their G
Id administrator, and, for all the publ
- knows, their indicator ever since tt
70 Supreme Court has stamped them OF
I'd In respect to Mr.. Stewards emine
y services to his country while Secreta'
of State, in what great acts do TIL
ns consist That his writings in the d
ne parhnent Of State were great in qua