New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-06
OUR GOVERNMENT AND ITS SUCCESSES.

OUR GOVERNMENT AND ITS SUCCESSES
The latest enemy Of the United States
who has come to grief is Captain Jack,
the Modoc chief He has been pursued
from hole to hole in the lava beds, by
brave and resolute officers and soldiers,
many Of whom fell by treachery an an
buscade. He probably never had With
him at time more than one Lurlred
warriors, and some accounts place The
number as much less. Yet he occupied
an inaccessible position in a wild country.
where he could defend himself from at
tack against great odds, and into which it
is next TO impossible to throw regu-
lar troops, or use cavalry. Bandits
like Captain Jack often DEFY i
the efforts Of the Spanish md
Italian governments to capture or kill
them for years, and the instances are rare
in those countries where the troops con-
tinue the pursuit of banditti beyond tha
lines which separate the plains from tie
mountains and caves. Tie experience in
this country is directly tie opposite.
Here we Lave generally succeeded in
bringing outlaws and pub.io e----ieJ t.
bay aud breaking up their bands. TLe
fate of Tecumsch, Black Hawk, Billy
Bowlegs, Spotted Tail, Captain Jack, and
numerous other savages who have hour
;clo1 %cr ti-,a &ba nf +h q
soldiers Of tie Union, and the indomit.
able determination Of tie ALglo-Saxon to
assert his supremacy.
1t is no. alone in these minor contests
that the United States government has
shown Its superiority over its enemies.
It has undertaken and achieved works
of the greatest magnitude, IN ell OF
which success has been accepted by
the people as foregone conclusion
from the gery beginning. The two
contests with Great Brit,:n, tle tiiili-
Guilty with the Algerine pirates the war
with Mexico and tie stupendous struggle
with the great rebellion are examples OF
what determined people can accomplish
when they set about it, and attest TIE
highest qualities OF the genius, courage,
endurance and resources OF the nation.
The cases Of JEFF Davis, Wilkes Booth, tn
North Carollna Ku-klux, Colonel DeBlarc
aud hundreds of others illustrate its far
reaching vigilance and unfailing ability to
lay the heavy hand of authority upon any
body who is wanted. It is such Govern
ment that has proved itself more than
match for its enemies in all the known
modes Of warfare, that certain small FRY
politicians sometimes delight in attenpl-
ing to hold up to ridicule fer its inet-.-
cheney
The most formidable, dangerous and
tenacious enemy that our government ever
had to encounter was doubtless the spirit
of slavery. But whenever there has been
direct and open conflict, whether on tie
battle field, the halls Of Congress, the
courts Of justice or the political canvass.
the right has prevailed, and the enemy is
slowly and surely dying cut even in tie
most secret recesseS, where the arts OF
cunning and strategy have been employed
by its sullen advocates in place of open
warfare. The people Of the South even
are living it down, and it las fallen SO
low that finally its friends deny there is
any longer any life in it, though it is
plain that all love for it has not yet been
fully eradicated from the hearts of its
votaries, and many Of its victims are
still paralyzed by the fear that it
may return. AS this is question
which depends upon the power of the
government to vanquish all its enemies,
it viii be profitable to both parties, those
who hope fer the revival Of slavery as
well as those who sometimes fear it, to
study the successes Of the great power
that has been able to cope successfully
with immense force in the field, and willy
strategy in the forest and jungle. From
the most stupendous contests down to the
latest capture Of the Modocs, the Stars and
Stripes have been uniformly borne aloft in
triumph. And it will be well for the
enemy which Senator Carpenter dis
covered lurking in the political lava beds
of Louisiana, to come out and have a
peace talk. "
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