New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-06
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Baton Rouge. to use q common and
somewhat vulgar phrase, is breeding |
scab upon her nose" She came out o
the riot investigation victorious, shavins
secured the release of the offending par
ties under technicality Of the law
There is nothing SO dangerous to rowd,
as a little encouragement. Justice il
never SO unjust as when she is weak
And that Baton Rouge is in danger o
proving this proposition is our most seri
Gus apprehension at present. She ii
already perverse of her own motion, aild
some indiscreet friends are tanning
her heat with incendiary sugges
tons. The Bulletin indirectly urges the
application of violence to Captain
Meyers because of his part in the trial,
and the course of man named Skol.
field, who insulted and abused Captain
Bandy, is considered just the thing in
quarters where reason and prudence have
never had their fruitful residence. Captain
Bandy was interrupted when away from
his friends by this man Skolfield, and il
has been published as q reflection on him
that he did not resent premeditated as
sault in the presence of squad that had
determined he should be beaten if he
offered any opposition. Discreet men
will say that Captain Bandy acted wisely
and bravely in keeping his temper and
his discretion in prerence of an overpow-
ering attack. Military men are never ac-
cepted as generals who engage with des-
perate odds and come off beaten. Indi-
.vidgaLs are. entitled to due credit who foa
assassination or great personal injury by
the exhibition of, GOODNESS and eq,Ia-
nimity.
A correspondence which we publish
from Baton Rouge, gives an unfavorable
account of other matters thereabouts. The
escape which the rioters made at the
hands of the United States Commissioner
in this city, has had the effect to render
them obstinate and wicked at home, and
their conduct now is such as to justify
remark which will be found in the begin
ming of this article, that "justice is never
so unjust as when sue is weak" While
the Baton Rouge rioters were in custody,
and while the law was drawing them
toward the thoughts of punishment, they
held themselves to be the most peaceful
lambs that had ever been dragged from
The fold. Every one of them was model
of the law and of justice.
Each one was swift messenger to stop
awlessness. Never medley Of in
accents was more mistaken than
we're the officers who arrested these
men under the impression that their
thoughts had conspired to overlap the
limits of quietude and acquiescence. The
Impression was distributed far and wide
hat the authorities had done great in
ustice by arresting body of men better
'dapted for prayer meeting than a riot.
md all that We could say and do was of
10 avail to stop this grievous error. The
lot pistols, the fallen men, the presence
# the parties, went for nothing. The
men who had the pistols, the men who
we're present at the killing, the men who
we're identified, are all at liberty, and
My the dead are the objects of abuse.
And the innocents who were spared
nd sent home their to friends, are now
eeping the peace Of Baton Rouge just as
hey kept itwhen Captain Meyers marched
own the street and caught them with the
eadly missiles in their hands and the
alsehood of an excuse in their mouths.
hey are hunting in bands to insult and
nnoy all the men who have sought to
estify against their lawlessness. They are
both by words and by looks,
he men who opposed their success at the
tie election. They are being melted to
iolence by innuendo from abroad. They
re well nigh fixed to adopt the sugges-
ION that the time has come for them to
ight themselves.
And in this is the danger that we speak
f. Baton Rouge is very small place,
nd her range of observation is not great |
nough to allow her philosophers and
tatesmen to measure questions which af-
ect all the people of this country. When I
;eneral Grant declared for peace, and
hen the people accepted the declaration,
hey meant the genuine article and not |
nat bogus stuff which is accepted as
eace in Baton Rouge. They meant the
eace of the law. They meant an absti-
ence from revolver, rifles, shot guns,
hives and assassinations. And if Baton
ouge does not feel willing to accept these
,rms, why, she viii! either have to con-
uer different result from what fell upon
eff Davis OF she will be made to acquiesce
/ what the balance of the country has
titled. She will not be allowed to exist
) an outlaw in the midst of peaceful
and it will not take long to
,nvince hef that although her rowdies
;caped from the hands of the Commits
oners, their tether is in the hands of
arties who will bring it to end quite to
leir discomfort.