The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-05-20

L, WI n 4 ~, 1911.
the United States shall he invaded, tn,
President alone, by virtue of this legis
lation, must judge whether the use %
the militia is necessary. How ditferen
from all this is the statute under re-
view. Our President is not now callet
upon, during the existence of facts pa
tent to all men, and which cannot bC
cOntrOEcrtcd, to determine simply
whether the employment of the mill
ttry and tho suspension of the writ OF
habeas corpus arc cNpedicnt; he is to
pronounce upon the nature and effects
of the domestic violence, combinations,
or cOnSpiraciCS, and to decide whether
the State authorities are unable, or
have failed, to protect the people, and
whether they are in completely with or
connive at the unlawful purposes; he is
to pass Judgment upon the acts and de-
faults of State governors, judges, sheritfs,
and .jurics, and find them to be uidcrs
and ahcttors of violence, directed not
against the authority of the United
States but against their own local laws;
by his flat, he is to raise this domestic
violence to the dignity of an insurrec-
ton or Il rebellion against the nation;
he is to make that II war which is no
war, and to follow up his decision by
the extreme measures only designed for
the suppression Of actual hOstilities; he
is, in fact, to toe Il dictator. Never in
the political history of the country has
so direct IL blow been aimed, under col
or of legal authority at the supremacy
of the Constitution, or Il precedent been
established so dangerous to free institu-
tions.
'Wc Must 20 Forward, and not Back -
\ weak attempt is making by va
rious journals of the Radical persuasion
to show that the recent letter of John
Quincy Adams to II Southern gentle
man contains sentences that are not il,
accord with those of the Democratic
party at large. According to these
critics, Mr.. Adams is progressive and
his party retrogressive, representing
totally antagonistic theories. Such :,
construction of his language is forced
and unnatural. He says: awe must
go forward, and not back. We must
demand sclf-govcrnmcnt for all, and
guarantee equal rights to every man
Democrats must be Democratic to sue.
ccetl."
The question now before the people
is, whether the principles that entered
into the formation of the government
and, as Republicans claim, were rcVin
dicatcd in the military triumph of tn
North, shall direct the national polio,
of the future, or whether the cNtinC
ton Of slavery necessarily wrough
such Il change in our political system
as to nCccssitatc restrictions upon civi
liberty, and the supervcntion of Ecdcl
III authority Mt the expense of IOcH
rights.
Upon this question, so far as we hav
| been able to SOC, there is no sort of dis
agreement among the leading Demo
Gratis of the country. 1t is their almOs
unanimous voice, as well rs the dc
clarcd sentiment of the Democratic
press, that the results of the war, So
| far as the elevation of the cOlOrcd rae.
to political equality is involved, bc ac
copied as tinnl that there be no retro
grcSsion here, no effort to undo thai
which endangered the very existence
of the government to dO, no further
agitation of an issue that so long en-
bittcrctl and ScctinnaliZcd the country
awe must go forward, and not back. ,
the property of II single Democratic
StatcSman; it is the WatchwOri thai
rcSOunds along the line from one enc
of the Union to the other. awe must
demand srlf-gOvcrnIncnt for all.' Mr.
Adams is not alone in the uttcrlncc o
this thought. 1t is the crowning inspi
ration of the party to which he belongs
that what is now wrOngfully withheld
from thousands of American citizens by
the measures of Il Republican Congress:
shall be restored without prescription
or discrimination. awe must guaran
tee equal rights to every man. This
is no new or isolated cnuncintiOn. l.
is the "Vital air'' of that great partN
which alone insists that the guarantc,
be made, and herein takes direct ISSUE
with an administration whose cOntin
unnce in power is made to depend upol
an oStracisnl of the ballot and II limita
ton of the jurisdiction of States.
On these points Senator Thurnluti, q
Ohio, is no less explicit than Mr.. Ad
ans. The entire Democratic dcicst,
tiOn i'll Congress occupy the same posi-
ton. Liberal Republicans of prOni
ncncc and influence everywhere sustain
it. Journals of unswcrving Kcpubiica
antcccdents and powerful motors ,
public opinion join substantially in TIN
same views. No man in the Unite
States has more boldly or plainly POI
trayCd the dangers to which Radio;
Legislation is tending than ftcpubTica
Senator Schurz; no newspaper printe