New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-20
WHAT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD.

government has been entrusted the duty
and given the lower to execute 1t, OF pun
ishing wrong-doers and settling differences
between litigants When sordld, SelnSh
men like Mr., Booth faunt defiance IN the
face of the sovereign authority OF the
State, because a demand is made Tor the
paltry sum Of one hundred dollars tney
must be put down. and they Will DC pun
| down because it is square Issue whether
tbav or the State is the stronger party
The Governor earnestly desires all citlzens
| 70 obey the laws from a sense Of love and
dntv: but when they fail in this respect
| mr. assume an attitude of defiance and IN
subordiuation he will be compelled to en-
| nlov those means furnished him by law to
enforce obedience. The peace and safety
of the State require this Of him, and we
| know he is not the man to shrink from an
IMPERATIVE duty because it happens to be
disaoreeable. He did not make the issue.
| He has not even made the laws nor origi-
mated our form of government. He has
merely been employed by the people to
administer it, and to him and the legally
elected and appointed officers Of the State
is delegated the power and duty Of inter
preting the laws and assigning to each
citizen his share of the burdens Of gov
erement. The officers Of the State are
simply the servants Of the people,
and an attack upon them Is an
attack on the people, and he who
sets himself above the public good is an
enemy of the State, and must and will be
treated as such. Heretofore it has been
the policy of the Republican party to
rule by appealing to the reason and good
sense of the citizens. Hereafter this
policy will be continued toward all who
are sensible and reasonable. while to such
as are neither seyerer measures will be
adopted. One poor deluded victim has
already succeeded in emerging from OBJ
security to bad eminence by entering the
arena, shellaleh in hand, to fight the
whole State, for a stake of q hundred dol
lars He lost the unequal fight, and
raves in his prison against tyranny
which he alone has created. Others who
set out with Mr.. Booth in the business of
rebellion have paused by the wayside.
paid their taxes and escaped the hospi-
talities of the Parish Prison.
The organ of the Fusionists and tax re-
sisters declares that the question has
passed beyond the control Of the press.
This is true to certain extent. The
press. at least the opposition journals,
have goaded such victims as Booth. the
rioters in Grant parish, and the destroyers
of Bentley's press in Franklin. the resist
ers OF legal process in Livingston parish
on to acts of rashuess and crime. and now
both the State and federal governments
have taken the case in hand. Attorney
General Williams and the Secretary of
War are moving against the Grant parish
rioters under the ku-kluz law. Attorney
| General Field has been absolutely forced
| by the tax resisters to make an ex-
ample of one whose folly or vanity made
him an easy victim TO the Vaccinations
| of his more cautious allies This admls-
| sion of the Picay1,,,e is a virtual recognl-
ton of the fact that there is a declaration
of war between the constituted powers
and the disorderly element, composed
chiefly of ex.rebels and their political heirs
and disciples. 1t now remains to be seen
which will prove tLe stronger OF the two
parties.
Let it be fairly understood that the ma
tional and State governments are i'll full
accord in this war. That they will CO.
operate in all measures necessary to prose
cute it to a successful termination. That
both the executive of the United States
and of tais State have recently been
elected by the people. the first BY ma
iority unprecented in modern times, and
the latter by one sufficiently large, and
that they alone represent the people ii
this matter. and they alone are authorized
to speak for the people. That any Other
pretenders to such an agency. whether
they appear in the stereOtyped mass meet
ings. as the small clique of tax resisters
the rioters of Grant. st. Mary and Living
ston parishes. the so-called Legislative
committee with Booth, Senator as chair
man. or in whatever disguise they may as
sumo, are simply frauds, and Will bt
treated as such.
The smolderins fires Of the rebellion
show threatening signs, and they must be
extincuished with blood if need be: fo1
we hold that the blood of the wicked hat
better be shed than the tears Of the limo
cent widows and orphans The Repub
lican party OF the North and Of this Stat,
are tea:tjllv il earnest i'll this matter. an(
woe be 20 linn Tat ,lisregariS our warn
iu:. 'iAc h.,o: =: ~" hundred muir
Ga:,.i citizen, i, cI'..u-, upon the Pres.
den; lot \t.I,e.in re-, n. t'.st r:E Wi. no
be in vain. The outraged honor and dig
nity of Louisiana demand Of Goyerno
Kellogg the exercise o. tirmuess. severit!
if necessary. and it is well to have it un
derstood at once that his eXcellency ha.
heard and is ready 20 comply with th;.
demand
Let i: further .t understood that AZ
honest, law-bidins citizen viii be mo
Tested. However the wicked political agi
tators may strive 70 misreprescnt matters
there will be absolute protection to th