New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-13
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cited community President Grant has
been appealed to in behalf Of more than
seventy thousand voters to secure them in
their right to choose their rulers, and the
telegraph has flashed back the welcome
reply. Attorney General Williams, in his
brief dispatch to Governor Pinchback,
gives us all to understand the light in
which the situation is viewed at Washing
ton. The decision is unequivocaIly and
righteously in favor of the action Of the
State returning board, the Legislature
recognized by it, the subsequent action
impeaching Governor Warmoth, and the
consequent succession Of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Pinchback to thepowers and duties
of the executive. The Democratic papers
of every degree will now raise charac-
teristic howl against federal interference
with the rights of States, government
tyranny, and all the customary cant en-
ployed by bafHed conspirators. The
loafers who congregate around the rum
mills will echo the discordant sounds, and
grow very unhappy over the loss Of plum
der which they SO nearly had within their
reach But they will all obey the inevita-
BILE decree, and order will prevail. The
fight is virtually over for the present, and
the Republican officials have now nothing
to do but to proceed with prudence in the
discharge Of the high and important du-
ties committed to them by confding con
stituency. The ssseats Of absent members
Of the General Assembly viii at once be
filed either by the return Of those already
elected, or by new members, to be chosen
with the least practicable delay.
This prompt action Of the President
will relieve us from the presence Of a
pretended Legislature, which has as little
authority to sit as it has power or dispo-
sition to effect any of the promises Of re-
form which formed so large a capital
stock in the last campaign. It assures US
not only party but patriotic triumph,
for which we can not be too thankful.
We are indebted in great degree to the
Republican voters of the State for this
result; then to Judge Durell, who gave US
the protection of the laws, and finally to |
the President for his prompt decision to
enforce them. It is not to detract from |
the praise due to all that they have simply |
performed their plain duty, for it some |
times happens that a high degree Of cour-
age is required to discharge duties under
adverse circumstances. We are none the
less thankful that there was no other OBJ
yious course to pursue
Governor Pinchback has entered upon
the administration of the executive affairs
Of the State with moderation and pru-
dence. He is constantly at his post, and
ready to act with promptness and pro-
priety in every emergency.
After the issue of our extra yesterday,
the recognition Of the State
government by the President, there was a
decided smoothing down of the rufied
clements on the street. Those who had
heretofore been in doubt became firm.
were little jubilant, for
which they are excusable under the cir
while old Democrats, who
have measured swords with the Union
voters and Union soldiers on many oc-
,asions, and without much success, at
once saw they we're beaten in this,
heir last campaign But as they have
become accustomed to defeat, they bore
his reverse with creditable philosophy,
md good-naturedly admitted to their
Republican friends that they had no
lopes. except to Leaf them at the next
lection. And 50 they quietly enrolled
hemselved on the side OF law and order,
md began to consider their business in
erests, having for the present closed
Town on politics. Such are the masses
# the people but the newspapers
whose trade is agitation, viii keep
Up the excitement SO long as it (
promotes the sale of their otherwise
ather uninteresting publications. They s
AVE yet much TO say about Radical mis-
ule and tyrannical government, which '
t would be unsafe to keep corked up, {
itter they have unburdened themselves l
nd pocketed the nickels that they expect |
Q make during the excitement they too |
viii settle down to good order and devote
heir energies to praising the old and re-
pectable from whom they think they de-
i've an existence. The second Dorr re-
ellion has come to a close, and the pros
,ect for peace is good.