The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-08-01

rrom tie St Louis hepubl.ean.
The discussion Of TIE third term
and The Southern problem are
bringing President Grant face to
face With d crisis which viii de-
mand all the address he is sup-
posed 70 be endowed with, With
IL Clio ast ear ie has gained the
reputation of q skilful political
ssraieeist, and certainly The brill
liant man@uvres by which he an.
h0rsed Gre most formidable West
eTn Republican candidate for the
presidency, Senator Morton, tends
to show that bis new reputation IS
not undeseyed. But be IS APP
preaching a point where q prompt
aud proper decision win be ex-
sremely difficult, and yet where
nothing bnt q prompt and proper
decision viii answer. We 10 not
know as vet what are the Pres
dents designs about d third term,
Or whether he has any designs at
all about q third term; but we do
know that Is has permitted the
discussion of that subject without
any effort to discourage it; and we
know TINT in connection with it be
has permitted tile idea to 20 ont
that he desires a change Of affairs
in the South. The point where
these two subjects touch each 9TH
er presents The critical stage in the
anomalous course which he has
apparently marked ont for himself,
II he commits himself TO q change
of policy in the South, il will have
to be q complete, not q partial,
change; for 10 pursue one policy
in one Southern State, and DIFF
ferent one III another, would be
contradiction which his champions
could not defend nor explain. He
has recently expressed himself as
being hostile 70 the Moses rule il
South Caroline. This ID highly
hoRorable To him, and every hon
est citizen i'll Tie land will applaud
him for it. But ii he is unfriendly
to the Moses government ia South
Carolina, how can lie be friendly
to the Kellogg government III
Iouisiana9 How con he Rdopt
one policy III Louisiana and an
other IN South Carolina? If one
is right, tbe other is wrong, and
either viii furnish q REPUTATION OF
the Argument III The other. What
ever Southern policy he may adopt
viii have to be general I'd be con-
sistont; and Yet d general benign
policy iii The South involves the
danger Of arraying All the Repub-
lican leaders against him, for it
would overthrow the Republican
party iii all those States.
The true policy for all the South
ern States is presented Id the
Arkansas and Texas decisions.
Bnt can tie President afford to
apply II to the whole South? III
destroyed the Republican despot-
ism III Arkansas and Texas, and
it would probably have the same
effect ii Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama aud Florida, and perhaps
even Ill South Carolina. Whether
the Republican majority in the
present Congress, already half
estraneed from lhe President,
would submit q this or not Il one
delicate question; whether the OPP
pressed people Of the Southern
States would accept anything less
as the condition If supporting
third term Is another Ill The
President and Congress together
were % unite III d benign policy.
Ia Get RIA Of Tie robbers and
thieves \ tile Southern States and
aecurh tie governments 81 these
States 10 their honest people, II
would ha i masteriy piece of tac
tics and 90 admirable act Of justice
hesidas But there IS 40 reason
lo believe iae Republican leaders
are capable 81 this The Arkan-
aaa decision WAS extremely dis
tasteful G. chem and they would
not relish y rannfitigon IN ff What