New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-23

account a. his hatred OF 1OreQSnegS' nc
has, however, given his own reasons which
are every way worthy OF the reflection OF
the White Leaguers. The assassin says:
The foreigners residing in this city are
plotting the overthrow OF the emperor %
our country. Therefore. kill the thieves
both foreign fcarpet-baggers] and Japan
ese IscallawagsJ who form with them IN the
conspiracy. Immediately. before they nave
| the power to do %.
The change OF an administration by
killing the incumbents, though advised
and attempted in our city and State, is
no. an American remedy and should not
be recommended directly by advice. OK
indirectly ny foreign example.
Lincoln and Caesar were assasslnased
under such different circumstances as TO
have made one act a horrible crime. and
the other an act Of exalted though in.
etectual patriotism.
Mr.. Lincoln was the President Of re.
public, chosen to his trust by the major-
ity o. free suffrage. II he lad committed
any act Of official wrong there were tribu-
nails appointed for his punishment.
Caesar ihad been offered au imperial
Crown. and delibersted on accepting it.
This act would have changed the form OF
government, and Republican may have
vel! determined that no king should sub.
vert the free form Of government and
establish hereditary and irresponsible
iespotis,n.
The whole trick Of calling this govern
ment "a usurpation" is calculated to i'm.
press political fanatics with the idea that
it would be doing the country service to
assassinate any OF its members. Indeed,
it was said that a list Of persons who were
TO be murdered out Of office had been pre-.
pared by ccnspirators. Thus this murder
club, like the Italian society Of assassin,
might have created vacancies in any office
where the incumbent was personally OBJ
noxious OF his salary especially desired.
The REPUBLICAN has endeavored for years
TO teach the Democracy that no one is en-
titled to Office by birth or color. It has tried,
it appears Intellectually, TO convince the
Democracy that the majority of voters
ought to rule and the minority to submit;
that if the majority commit wrong, in
the opinion Of the minority. there is no
remedy but at the ballot-box or before the
courts. The White Leaguers refuse to
adopt or admit this doctrine. They argue
that they are the supreme judges of
political right and wrong. that the
voters qualified by the constitution
and Congress should be kept or driven
from the polls by intimidation or
violence. Some consequences OF this
! conspiracy against law are now
apparent. The federal government has
! sent military force to protect the voters
from the men Of blood The officers of
| federal law move through the State and
arrest or stampede those who but lately
hec:ored over those weaker than them.
selves and set the State and federal laws
alike at defiance. Neither armed assaults
on political opponents. or assassination as
a means Of vacatinS an Office, are Ameri-
can remedies. Such things are done no.
where else except in Louisiana, and We
always feel shame for the departure from
the principles OF open and manly con:ro-
versy when We see paper printed il the
American language advocate openly OF
covertly tn e practice of slaves.