The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-05-18
SUNDAY, MAY Is, 1873.
A PARTY OF STRIFE

OF thinFP when Hhh'h ""'''"' '""' "'""""
md musketry the too familnrag agents Of the
government, may he set down M one OF It's
lending characteristics. II seems ne II tho
long'lrhnquillily which was broken by i's
first accession Ia power WINS never to return
even though President Grant said, "Lot
us have poace,n In his FIRST inaugural, and
tho whole country responded, "amen'" II
Ia eight years since the war, which TINS
party brought with 1t, ended the time Is so
great In these days of rapid accomplishment
that the great war between Germany and
France, which took place long after ours,
has passed into history and been almost
forgotten except for reference. Yet we are
still without repose.
Tho peace which the President invoked
and promised, moro than four years ago.
he has been most signally successful IN
rotarding; and he cannot take little TRIP
OF relaxation and pleasure over the ceuh-
try without being disturbed by exciting
dispatches from two different seats of war
There Is fragrant civil war in Louisiana,
where armies, with artillery and muSketry
are pitted against each other, and with
or Fe deral troops are being ordered TO
take part in strife which they should
have nothing whatever to do withi ana
even the boasted "peacc policy with the
Indians has yielded the bloodicst series oil
disasters in this relation that We have had
since St. Chairs defeat in tho last GEN.
fury.
The Louisiana war is tho most cruel,
couseless and want0n piece of mischi OF
that eau DO imagined. 1t should never
have been permitted TO occur. IT could
have been easily avoided. Indeed, 1t
ooul d not, and would not have occurred,
had the unthreatcning and insignificant
question in which it had it's origin, been
left 70 itself 0nr Peep are tired ofwaT
even the People of Louisiana proved by
their admirable patience and self-posses-
sion all through this controversy, that
they could bear more than ,hone of any
Northern State would submit TO- rather
than DO scourgod with it.
But the Presidents partisans said they
would have war, and they have managed,
with wonderful adroitness on their part
md striking wisdom on the part OF the
President, to drag him into their desplca'
Bile quarrel, and make him the chief agent
of a disturbance which he now bitterly
regrets, and will regret yet more bitterly
before he is done with il. II is the Presi-
dent alone who has complicated the Louis
lana question, and forced it to condi'
ton of war. The proper constitutional
treatment which it called for was plain
and simple all that the President had to
do was to leave Kellogg to exhibit the
high authority which he claimed, or aban-
don his claim--te leave him to be sup
ported by his boosted majority sfthc peo
ME. or to surrender--to leave him to stand
in his own strength, or to fall in his weak
ness.
Had this been the Presidents policy at
the beginning, the Louisiana question
would not have lasted single week, and
the Louisiana war would mot have been
heard of. That the trouble was not per-
mitted to reach this easy and peaceful So
luton is hardly more Kelloggs fault than
the Presidents and that Of the worthless
Congress which left it to disquiet the
country. To say that the President was
bound to enforce the admittedly " null and
void orders of Judge Durell, which re-
cognized the kellogg government, places
the Presidents in more discroditable light
than the known facts themselves do for
II President Grant holds that the Execu-
tive Of the United States is bound to be
the servile agent of every inebriate parti-
san, like Durell and Delahay, who may
cha nce to be Federal Judge, he degrades
the Executive Office. and needs to be in
structed in its dignity and power.
The whole history and present attitude
of this Louisiana war show that Repub-
lican President and a Republican Con
eress have been willing to plunge State
into civil strife TO maintain the most de
testable men Of their party in local as
ocJnency; that they have preferred the
interests of their partisaus TO the inter-
es,s Of the country, and have not scrupled
to imperil the one to secure the other.
Ths Republican party have added civil
war to bankruptcy, misrule and usurpa-
ton in the South and have arrayed the
white and black races against each other
in hostility which will threaten us with
strife as long as that party continues this
disastrous policy.
That President Grant perceives the grave
mistake he committed is evident from tho
anxious care with which he hedges his in.
struclion TO Col Emery, and the stern
ness with which he tells Kellogg not 10 ex-
psct Federal help till he does something
10 help himself Had this been the treat
ment Of the case at the beginning, its
difficulties would long since have been
over. 1t 10 not too late TO apply il now
and If the President has any sincere
friends anonv l:g followers, they cannot