New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-12
ANOTHER DESPERATE SUGGESTION.

!. arms to reverse decision which had bee
ia submitted to the ballot box, and whic
IS the vote of the country decided again
r her as it had decided other questions
times gone by. That one great error, s
Is wickedly committed, provoked a thousan
If minor evils in its support; and to-day "
# are not free from pernicious suggestion
and most ruinous efforts at the hands {
the authors and abettors Of this origins
wickedness. The men who precipitate
the country into the terrible evils Of tn
rebellion, and who still exercise great in
tiuence over the Southern mind, are to-
weak to confess their error, and too seltisl
to forego their right to advise the peopl
whom they mislead. They have neve
told the South of the mistakes that wer,
committed by the leaders Of the rebellion
nor have they ever had the courage to say t
their followers that the duty of every
Southern man commands him to submit
to the laws, and to respect the rights OF
the people i'll whose favor the protection
of the government is pledged. Always
seeking to avoid. the disasters which their
folly brought upon Themselves, and their
friends, the original enemies of the MON
| as an old one was discovered and defeat
ed. Too obdurate to disavow their orig
inal error, they have been too weak to
strive in the only direction that promised
to rectify the mischief which they had
committed and thus from one wrong and
defeat they have gone on to suggest other
wrongs and suffer other defeats, until
now, in their desperation, they are fallen
SO low as to propose the utter destruction
of free institutions in order to acquire
from the selfishness of an officer what they
may not hope to secure frem the justice of
the nation.
The proposition that Mr.. Tyler. of
Virginia, makes to the people of the
South is this, that since they can not OBJ
tain their rights from Congress, it is their
duty to ally themselves with the execu-
tive in order that he may afford them his
powerful support in achieving a victory
over the public sentiment Of the country.
That We may not be accused of charging
a public man with designs which be does
not entertain, his very language is given
in the following paragraph from letter
addressed by Mr.. Tyler to the people of
Virginia
Is it not apparent that all old issues are
at an end. and that new issues are rapidly |
forming. involving the struggle between |
order and anarchy! Is not the first asso-
ciated with all the property interests of the
land, and especially identified with the
executive arm of the nation. and is not the
last associated with the spirit of agrarian-
ism in the mob. and will it not find its
representatives IN the popular branch of
tue government, DO you not detect in
tins the rapidly advancing contest between
Imperialism and oligarchy. and are Won
sui so blind us not to see the forces of
igrarianlsm reorganizing to sweep over
you again with redoubled energy, How.
then, will the Southern States and people
protect themselves from total annhiIafion.
II they continue in the situation in which
the Democracy have placed them, alike
tntagonlzed to the executive and to the
popular branch OF the government COM
pletely Isolated and without sympathy in
any quarter. Nothing is more evident to
my mind than the immediate necessity
upon you all OF sheltering yourselves be-
Meath the a'gis OF the executive: for lust
IL proportion that You should give support
aud add strength TO the executive of the
nation, he will be able to defend. protect
md To save You.
The intention is plainly evident in these
that Mr.. Tyler hopes to ar
ay the President against the Congress of
he republic, to TIE end that by helping
he former to sustain himself in this trea:
enable and unnatural conflict, the South
nay overthrow the national legislature
nd secure for her ally and friend, the
resident, the power to vindicate his fam
led wrongs. 1t is plainly proposition
0 establish a centralized one man govern
lent; and the inducement which is held
ut to seduce us into this second treason
!; the hope that the dictator who is to be
1ounted Oh the ruins Of the republic by ,
lis overthrow of the Congress- of the
'nion will help us because We helped {
i'm. In other words, we are to create a |
lonarchy in the uncertain hope that the {
ing will be more partial than the repre- {
'ntatives Of the people whom he will t
isperse.
Ir. Tyler is not original nor alone in
lis mad ambition. Tie Montgomery
'Vl, most powerful organ of the De-
ocracy, has declared the same problem, &
at with dictatorship at Washington 5
e South would fare much better than t
e may hope to do under the auspices of t
e republic. And this wickedness has u
1t been resented by single Demo-
attic organ in that State, but on ?
e contrary, its poison seems to have ex- q
nded to Virginia, and afflicted the son c
i. President with its virus. q
There never was greater necessity for Il
e Republican party than now, to watch Ii
d preserve the liberties Of the people r.
ainst this insidious suggestion Of the a
perlalists who were overthrown with Il
Il Davis, but who still employ their Wis c.
III to devise treason against the gener- al
, institutions of a government that they "
not and never can appreciate
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM Il
While it is very generally conceded that u