Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-13
The N. Y. Herald on the Presidents
Inaugural.


The N. Y. Herald, Of the 5th, COM
on President Grants inaugural
says /
eve do not believe that the President
utters words without meaning and with !
oi,t sincerity and hence we have right
~ eypect from him such change of poll
cy towards the South as will restore the
~ GOOD feeling between the sections, lost
through the illiberality and political In
rhymes of Congress in the work Of recon,
struction. The civil rights Of the colored
pooulation of the Southern States, to
which the President pledges his support,
can be better secured throug II the action
Of the States themselves than through
the intermeddling Of the schenlng poll.
ticians in Congress, whose object is to set
race against race and TO sthp the white
men of the South of all power over tneir
own political affairs. To-day Louisiana
stands bound in the fetters Of usurpatllon
and nowerles. to enforce those rights
qua, anteed bv the constitution to every
State IN the Union. With her legitimate
government driven from power at the
point of the federal bayonens, with her
legally elected Legislature psralyzed, and
with self-elected men assuming the pro.
| vince Of making her laws and levyln1e
t,xes on her people, with her Courts pack
ed with partisan judges by bogus Leg
islature and usurping Governor, LOUIS
lana is at this hour in q worse state OF
bondage than when the fetters still hung
about the limbs Of her slaves. 1t would
be a mockery to pretend that good teei-
ing" could be restored in Louisiana with
these outrages heaped upon her, and the
| words of the President afford hope that
The South will no longer be subjected to
the oppression which, if continued, must
DESTROY all confidence between the Sec
tons But the President also says
;" The States lately at war with the, gene
raj government are now happily rehaolli
tated and no Executive control Is exer
cised in anv one Of them that would not
be exercised in any other State under like
circumstances" Surely President Grant
must have forgotten Louisiana when he
pepped this sentence. Does he remem-
her that United States Judge, since
branded by Congress, distorted law IN
order to issue an order driving from power
rhe regular government and placing the
State at the mercy of a band Of reckless
conspirators; that theseillegal orders were
enforced bv a partisan United States Mar
shall backed up by federal troops; that
the State House was seized and surround
Cd with cannon, the constitutional officers
driven out, Governor. Judges and Legs
lators, and the usurpers installed IN their
places that the Senate Of the United
States, appealed to as arbitrator, feared to
endorse the outrage, denounced the Judge
and left the State to get out Of the dith
Guilty as best it might; that the federal
government is now asked by the usurp
ers TO stand at their backs and to enforce
their authority even at the cost of mas
sacre Of the outraged people? And II the
President has not forgotten or overlooked
Louisiana, does he intend to say that the
same Executive control" that has been
exercised through Durell and Packard and
Kellogg in Louisiana would be exercised
in New FORK, provided the result OF an
election did not suit the politicians OF the
dominant party? We incline to the be-
| lief that the President must have forgotten
Louisiana