New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-09
COMING TIP TO THE MARX.

graduate themselves for having achieved
at least one important result They have
wrought something of revolution in the
minds of their opponents, leading them
by slow processes up to full and I'M
equivocal recognition of the authority OF
the United States. One great point oil
difference between the two parties that
divide the people of this State has been
the light in which the federal government
is regarded. The Republicans have looked
to it as the proper custodian and domino
tor of all general interests in the Union,
under all circumstances, while their an
tagonists have reluctantly acquiesced IN
such view, with q decided ten
dency to regard it as mere tenn
porary arrangement, to be set aside
as soon as they had the power to do
so. The restraints of federal authority
were to be endured and respected until
they could be removed. This was the
Democratic view. The Republicans
thought otherwise. They insisted that
there was wisdom and safety in seeking
federal protection, and hence were and
are yet jealous of any party that calls in
question the propriety or durability of the
reconstruction acts. Now, however, we
have an amendment promised on the part
of the opposition. Within very few days
we have noticed disposition to appeal to
Congress for the redress of some flncied
grievances. In their wild hunt for Office
in this State, the three factions of Democ-
racy, united for the purpose, have offered
battle to the Republican forces, or ac-
copied it from them at the ballot box, in
the State courts, in the United States Cir
cult Court, and in the Cabinet In all
previous contests they have been defeated,
and have now no resource left but to ap-
peal to the tribunal they have long pro-
fessed to despise To Congress, therefore,
they look to sustain them in their attempt
to wrest the political power of Louisiana
from the hands Of those who are the rep
resentatives Of majority of at least thirty
thousand of the voters. If they had been
wise enough to come to such conclusion
years ago, or had even been honest enough
to acquiesee in the decisions heretofore
made by Congress, they would be better
off to-day than they are. Aproper under
standing of the recent legislation of Con-
L II, I,,oh 70 tha
politicians of the South; for therein they
may read the nations will in regard to the
very matters in which they profess to be
in doubt 1t is not, therefore, matter of
SO much interest to the fusionists to know
what Congress will do in any given case,
as to know what it has done already.
Not long ago, one of the organs of that
party in this city, while riding high
trotting States rights horse, tauntingly
asked: What can a Representative in Con-
gress from New England know about our
affairs What interest can he have with
this people? What business has he to
meddle with our affairs? Yet now this
same journal is ready to go down upon its
knees to this same Yankee representative
if he will only make McEnery Governor
and seat the Odd Fellows Hall gentlemen
in our legislative chairs. The position is
also assumed that the Republican party
shrink from congressional scrutiny and
dread interior ence. This is, of course, an
egregious error. We undertake to say in !
advance that the Republican party will be
ready to bow in willing submission to any
order that high authority may, in its wis
dom, take in this matter. We will not
initiate the example of our foes by eagerly
embracing every congressional provision
that runs in our interests, and question
the authority of the federal government
in matters that do not suit our selishness.
The questions involved here are almost |
entirely those of law and fact. We claim
that fair construction of the one and |
correct application Of the other elects the |
State ticket by more than |
l8, 900 majority, and secures US a good |
majority in both branches of the General
This is our theory-our case.
And to prove the one and sustain the |
other we are entirely willing to go before |
any tribunal that is capable of exercising |
faculties and not prejudiced by |
partisan feeling According to the theory |
Of the Republican party, no State govern
nent can stand except upon principles of
aw and fact that meet the approval of |
Congress. And one forced upon people
Dy the combinations of the minority would |
De so repugnant to any sense of justice
hat We do not for a moment believe that |
congress would sanction it. Our fusion
candidates were undoubtedly the choice of
majority of the white voters at the |
asst election, while the Republican can
idates were the almost unanimous choice
If the eolored voters, and also supported
oy thousands of whites. 1t is, therefore, |
| question in arithmetic, easy to solve, and
one which we think will not long puzzle
he brain of congressional committee.
We are content, therefore, TO fight the
natter out III our own or the federal
courts, from The lowest to the highest, or
o submit the whole question to Congress,
being confident of the result in
my case. And We are heartily
glad to find our recent States rights
men with their eyes sufficiently opened
o perceive, even though it be rather indis-
inctly, that the supreme power of this
nation, in all matters of general concern.