New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-07

~ up bseors rs cosnt : bsrlae4ps en,gy
Of Uncle Gam whicll De procesds, in the
presence ofthe tstbnnal that derives al
its dignity and authority from the
constitution and laws Of the United
States, to characterize Is The
synonym for oppression. q grinding des-
potism, foreign ruler destitute Of JUS
tics, mercy, or of the slightest element Of
freedom. These two figures are. paraded
side by side before the court by the inge-
NOUS Black. Around the figure of Ken
lucky State sovereignty he throws halo
of poetical glory, and invests II with all
the attributes of justice. mercy, right and
freedom. The s.local laws" are extolled
as the palladium of the liberties of the
people. '.But," says he. ''assume the
laws Estate laws) in question to be wrong,
concede that the people of the State close
their eyes upon the error, admit that they
stubbornly refuse to be dashed into a re-
peal, something should be pardoned to
the spirit of independence which they
have inherited from their forefathers.
Possibly something should be par
doned, but not too much. The present
generation in Kentucky inherited one or
two things which civilization finds it
difficult to pardon, and which the people
of Pennsylvania, as Mr.. Black well
knows, would not tolerate for an hour.
Neither should the Supreme Court of the
United States pardon Mr.. Black for his
hypocritical professions of attachment to
the constitution of the United States,
while at the same time he characterized
the general government, composed of the
executive, the Congress, and the very
tribunal before which he stood, as the en-
bodiment of tyranny and grinding op-
preston.
Mr.. Black has made himself familiar
with all the bad characters to be found in
history or mythology, or both, in the vain
search to find simile for the automaton
figure Of Uncle Sam, which he had
erected in the court. The pious laws of
Philip and Mary, which merely burnt
people for not believing every article of
faith invented and promulgated by silly
priests, were not SO bad as the civil rights
bill which deprived Kentuckians of the in
herited right to murder negro women.
The Catholic emancipation laws came
nearer to the mark, as they provoked
. spirit of rebellion in the minds of
the Irish, and induced them to be
Romanists whether right or wrong,
merely because it was unlawful to
be such. Why, even 'Tiberius, the
worst of the Caesars, never interfered with
the barbarous practices of his outlying
provinces, but permitted the people to
rob and murder each other with the in
difference of modern Kentucky Ku-Klux
chief Why can not Uncle Sam initiate
the noble example of 1.-THE worst of the
Caesars, and let the Kentucky barbarians
enjoy themselves in their own way, as
their prototypes did eighteen hundred
years ago? Even the Roman proconsuls,
such as Gallo, refused to "boss police
jobs" but let the Greeks destroy each
other and ruin their country SO that at
last the imperial government found the
Grecian States Improbable possessions.
Thus Greece was lost to Rome, and Rome
itself fell a,victim to robbery, murder and
rapine, which we're stimulated by defective
local laws which "the worst of Caesars"
did not think it worth his while to inter-
fere with. With all Difference, Mr.. Black,
we submit that Tiberius would have been
much better Caesar if he had adopted
and enforced sort of civil rights bill in
his time.
The learned pleader carries us down
through the ages, stopping with his
ef6gy of Uncle Sam at the door of nearly
all the bad men of antiquity, the middle
ages and modern times, merely to COM
pare them with the amiable creature of
his own Imagination and to show the
COuIt tAAt AoukAty OoAUCA I'D "oAoO sA0A
either or all Of them ever were. And the
Times, who gets no fee at ali for arraign-
ingit country as felon and undertaking
to plead the cause of wrong against
right, follows the polished but sophistical
orator through his specious harangue,
and commends his glittering sentences
as so much pure gold. All this, too, is
done under the thin guise of q professed
admiration for the constitution of the
Union and love for the flag that floats
over the whole country, for the protec-
ton Of the persons and property of all
within its jurisdiction; as we'll for the
poor murdered negro woman, whose re-
mains molder in the green valleys of
Kentucky, as for Mr. Black and his clients
who stand in the very temple of justice