Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-24
PARTY or STRIPE

The Htpuhlican pnf'yf oarho'V '"'
fomendng strife and producing ihs. STATS
n things which makes martial law cannon
and nuskslry Tho TOO famillsfsgsnis Of Tho
posefnmeni, may te sel down ~ one OF l'a
leading thhracietlalles. listemsnsf INC
long tranquility which was broken by us
dfsi Accession ie epowor was never 10 return
-- even tlmgl, President Grant said "l"'
ns have popcc," IL his first inaugural and
The whole country responded, "amen'" 10
Is eight year, since the war, which THIS
parly brought with u, ended the timeis so
groat IN these days ofmpid accomplishment
that the great war between Germany and
France, which took place long after ours
has parsed into history and been almost
forgotten except for reference. Yet We are
still without repose.
The peace which the President invoked
and promised, more than ouryears ago.
no las toen most sienally successful in
rstardingi and he cannot take little trip
of relaxation and pleasure over the coun-
try without being disiurbed by exciting
dispa tohes from two different seats of war,
There Is ilagrart civil war in Louisiana,
where armies, with artillery and musketry
arc pitted against each other, and whith-
er Federal troops are being ordered to
take part in strife which they should
have nothing whatever TO do with and
even the boas,ed "peace" policy with tho
Indians has yielded the bioodiest series Of
disasters in this relation that we have had
since St. Clair's defeat in tho last CEN
tury.
The Louisiana war is the most crucl
causeless and wanton piece Of mischief
that can bo imagined. 1t should never
havo been permitted to occur. 1t could
have been easily avoided. Indeed, 1t
coul d not, and would not have occurred,
had the untbreatening and Insignificant
q ueslon in which it had its origin, been
left to itself. Our people are tired Of war;
even the people of Louisiana proved by
their adm rable patience and self-posses-
sion oil through this controversy, that
they could bear moro than those Of any
Northern State would submit to, ra ther
than be scourged wi th It.
Bnt the Presidents partisans said they
would have war, and hey have managed,
with wonderful adroitness or their pa t,
and striking wisdom on the part Of the
President, to drag him into iheii ",spica-
bic quarrel, and isake him the chief agent
Of disturbance which he now bitterly
regrets, and will regret yet more bitterly
before he is done with ii. H. is the Presi-
dent alone who has complicated the Louis
lana question aud 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
hi h authority which he claimed, or aban-
Ion his clnim--to leave him 10 be sup
ported by his boosted majority sf the peo-
ple, 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 not 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 disquiat tho
country. To say that the President was
bound to enforce the admittedly null and
void orders of Judge Durell, which re-
oognized The Kellogg government, places
the President in a more discreditable light
than the known facts themselves do for
if President Grant holds that the Execu-
tive of the United States is bound to bo
the servile agent of every inebriate parti-
san, like Durell sad Delahay, who may
cha nee 10 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
OIL tnlS LUutSlaHb Nui pbuW ihoN h~PNp-
lican President and Republican Con-
gress have been willing to plunge State
into civil strife TO maintain The most de-
teslable men of their party in local as
tendency; that they have preferred the
interests of their partisans to the inter-
ests of the country, and have not scrupled
A.. l,n tn
Tho Republican party have added civil
war to bankruptcy, misrule and usurpa-
tion in the South, md have nrrayed 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 psrceives the grave
mistake he committed is evident from tho
anxious oaro with which he hedges his in
struotioa to Col. Emery, and the steru-
ness with which ho tells Kellogg not to ex-
pect Federal help Till he does something
10 help himself. Had this been the treat
ment of the case ut the beginning, its
difficulties would long 81 nee have been
over. It is not too late to apply it now,
and if the President has any sincere
friends smong his followers, they cannot
render him better service than by CON-
N nsnding it to him. All that the Presi-
dent may do in Louisiana will only aggra-
yate the disorder; he needs only to re-
solve TO do nothing, to cure it. This might
lose Kellogg his position, but it would
b-;,g reace TO the cOuntry-l Missouri
Republican.
.fAMoEG the many curious phenomena
which presented themselves to me in the
course Of my travels" says Humboldt, al
confess there were few by which my imag-
ination was So powerfully excited MS by