Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-20

pect u paid to the national Consti-
tuition, or the laws made in pursu-
ance thereof. Look to the State of
Kentucky, where the provisions Of
the Civil Rights Bill are coQlly set
at nought, where, except in a few
localities, education is denied to
the colored people, where the ku-
Klux murder men in the streets OF
her capital and are discharged,
where government agents are driv-
en- from their work by armed mobs
which the local authorities refuse to
control. Look to Tennessee, where
in an evil hour owing to the Repub-
lican dissensions that party has
come into power, and instantly
school-houses for the education of
tie poor are closed, and school
teachers disappear.
The resolutions of the Democrat
ic platform adopted at Columbus,
on the ID of June last, hint at the
doctrine of the sovereignty of the
States as strongly as they dare in
this region, for you can drive a
Democrat from any doctrine of his
party but this. You can drive him
from a worship Of the foreign vote
to Know othingism, you can drive
him from hard money to greenbacks
YOU can drive him from free trade
to a protective tariff you can make
him forget the'doctrine of manifest
destiny and oppose the annexation
of new and valuable territory, bu.
you cannot make him forget this
fundamental principle of his organ
ization.
But 1.-THE measure of General
Grant administration which brings
out the heartiest Democratic abuse,
and at the same time demands oul
heartiest support, is the bill passed
in April last giving the President
power to protect the loyal people
Of the South against the organized
bands of assassins.
They gnash their teeth at this
righteous enactment, and denouncf
it as a tyrannical invasion of the
rights of the States. To Their
minds the fact that the black loyal.
lists of the South gained their liberty
in spite of the efforts of the De,
Snocracy to keep them in chains is
a sufficient reason for numbering
them. Why will these blacks ac-
cept the freedom that has been given
them? Why will they permit THEN
prejudices to be aroused in behalf
Of the party which gave them liber-
ty? Why will they madly vote the
Republican ticket? What else can
the Democracy of the South dc
under the circumstances than adj.
minister the scourge to the misgnid
ed black Republican till he dies, Oh
send him ont of life by the speediel
fundamentally of the pistol bullet
or the hangman's rope? What else
can tie Northern Democracy dc
than deny the murder at first and
when it is proven apologize for it
The Democracy of the North de
clares the ku-Klux Bill to be con.
trary to the letter and spirit Of the
Constitution, although that instru
ment was framed to ENSURE domestic
tranquility, and secure the blessings
of liberty" In their opinion, wher
State permits citizens to he driver
from the polls by armed violence
when it permits arson, brutal outrage
and murder to run riot, until il
whole regions of the country mer
dare not sleep in their homes les
they be seized by masked bands o
assassins and murdered, for the
General Government to interfere
for the protection of these victim:
is an infraction of the rights of tho
murderers.
There never was "a more needed
or more righteous law, and the Re
publican party can have no bette,
question to present to the people
for sanction than this.
1t is the glorious mission of oul
party to protect the weak against
the strong, and the people will sus-
tain it SO long as it continues to
perform that duty.
STATE POLITICS.
1t must not be forgotten that