The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-03-02
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

ON frluay, recognizing Tue peliiSe1
ency of the Cubans has inspired new
life into the friends of that unhappy
island. Mr.. Sumner as the mouth
piece of the administration is oppos-
ed to any such recognition. At the
next meeting of the House Commit
tee on foreign affairs they will con-
slider the Cuban question at length,
and it is believed that they will re-
port favorable to recognition. Sec
rotary Fisk thinks the passage of Mr..
Sherman's resolution would simply
result in war with Spain, as the re.
cognition of an actual state of war in
Cuba by this Government permits
the Spanish Government, under the
treaty of 1895, to make search on
the high seas of all American vessels,
which right they undoubtedly would
exercise. It is now thought that the
committee will report favorably to
the Senate on the nomination of
Bradley of New Jersey for Judge of
the Supreme Court. The clamor of
the Southern members for a man
from their section will, it is thought,
be stilled by the pledges given before
confirmation by Bradley, and also
Judge Strong that they will unite
with the minority and reverse the
decision lately rendered in the legal
tender notes case. Also pledging
themselves to decide certain other
cases, which will come before the Su-
preme Court for adjudication, in con-
sonance with the views of the Radi-
cal party or in other words the cap
italists, monopolists and bond-hol-
ders. How long will it be before the
toiling masses, the people, will see
that the party now in power are an
to labor in every particular
and that every other act of legislation
is either riveting the shackles already
on our limbs or making still further
encroachments on the rights of the
States or the people? We are to
have a new naturalization law, by
which the naturalization question is
taken out of the State courts and
in the bill ingenuity is exhausted to
devise means to prevent that which
they propose to consumate i. natu-
ralize foreigners. This is only an
other blow at Democracy and an
usurpation OF state authority. The
Radicals have put in motion the
scheme for the absorption and CEN
tralization of all power. The first
step is the Telegraph bill, by which
The Government is authorized to pur-
chase and control the Telegraphs of
the country. This proposition is
most dangerous and inimical to lib
erty of the press and aside from the
grievances both of a public and pri-
vate nature that it will entail in it's
it will set a most danger
ous precedent as on the heels of it's
will be introduced the Sc
cond step in the programme of Rad
ical Capitalization, the bill author
izing the Government to buy up and
control the Railroad and Express
business of the country. The danger
20 the freedom of the press in the
Telegraph bill should, without regard
% party, make the press Of the coun-
;ry, as one, protest against this en-
on their province. The
press to-day makes public
opinion by their unfair and partizan
dispatches, how much worse would it
20 when directly under the control of
party. This is very important
question, striking severe blow at
he freedom of the press by a Gov
,rnment supervision and control over
he news that is daily and hourly
dashed over the wires to all parts of
he country. Let the press awake to
he Importance and danger of this
dill and without party bias, fight for
he freedom of the press-against
his attempt to muzzle it. All these
desperate efforts at centralizing pow
II are only the plainest evidence of
he weakness of Radicalism and they
re well aware that if the people are
eft free to change the condition of
Kings that their time is short, hence
hese efforts. They are fast disinteg-
ating. Drake, the bitter" admit.
ed it in the Senate and cut and
dashed at the week kneed Radicals
most furiously, himself determin-
ng to be a Radical il alone in his
;lory. The old cry of Rebel and
has lost its music to the |