New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-24
ANOTHER ADDRESS FROM THE COMMIT
TEE OF SEVENTY.

ANOTHER ADDRESS FROM THE COMMIT
TEE OF SEVENTY.
Were the people of the United States
less intelligent and patriotic, and not law
abiding, they might be misled by the self
constituted Committee of Seventy"
which has been endeavoring for the last
three or four years to direct the political
affairs of this State. In the past the ap-
peals of this famous junta have been con-
fined to Louisiana, and have. served to
keep alive the elements of discomfort in
the bosoms of large portion of that
class of white people who formerly wor-
shipped at the shrine of relic of barbar.
ism When the military and civil leaders
of the ''Lost Cause" were compelled to
abandon their attempt to establish a
Southern Confederacy in portion Of the
territory embraced within the United
States Of America, it is almost certain
that the gentlemen who compose the
Committee Of Seventy, or large major
ity of them, were quietly pursuing che
paths of peace. The soldiers life had no
charms for them. They were content in
time Of actual war 10 keep down their
combative propensities, and deemed their
duty well performed in sympathizing with.
those who were undergoing the hardships
of soldiers days spent in their behalf
When the way was over che non-com-
bative Southern sympathizer- who had
remained quiet and peaceable in his coy
home when she conflict vas raging
fiercess-became sulle1 and refused TO
recognize the results Of the contest, while
on the other hand many soldiers Who had
done gallant service in the cause of the
rebellion stepped forward and rendered
their support TO the government and the
measures inaugurated by Congress for the
reconstrUc ton Of the South.
These men. and thousands like them
who were killed on battlefelds, had Of
fered their lives in defense OF the cause
they had espcused; but when that cause
was lost, and they had Laid down their
AIMS, they, with comparatively few ex.
ceptons, accepted the results of che war
with an honest intent Of again becoming
good and useful ci&izeas Of the American
Union
But unfortunately this was not the case
with che great majority Of the non-com-
bative Southern sympathzers the men
who remained at home in time OF war.
They have been making what they would
doubtless call valiant political fight
against the results Of the var. Such men
deem il an outrage 70 be compelled to
submit 20 the authority Of che United
States government, and would ae any
moment invoke foreign interference in
their behalf if by doing SO there was
possibility Of gaining it. We do not mean
to say that che gentlemen composing the
Committee Of Seventy are seeking
foreign interference now. unless,
indeed, they consider they are doing
SO in calling, in their last address, ''the
attention of the people Of the United !
States TO the additional wrongs and in
dignit;es under which the once free people |
Of Louisiana are now suffering"
Our object now is to cali attention 20 !
the fact that the Committee Of Seventy, ]
whose representative character should be !
well known to the country. sre actually
engaged in small rebellion. not only
against the majority III this State, but
against the State government and the !
government at Washington. (
In proof Of what is here said We quote
the following extract from the committees
last address:
For two years we have been in vain .ao.
pealing to the President and to Congress
tor relief from the injustice, the expressions
and the robbery Of usurping State govern I
ment, placed over US by the private order !
Of drunken United States Judge, written
in his chamber, and sustained by the United
States army, brought here beforehand for
the purpose.
By the above il will be seen tina. the
committee makes a direct attack on the
government Of this State, and the execu-
i've, legislative and judicial departments
If the government Of the United States.
Now. we can not say what the committee
means by this, but it must mean some.
hing Its object in thus attaching .
State and federal administration may be
o create political capital for the Presi.
lential campaign Of 1876. II that is all,
he conduct of the committee may be ex-
used; but if the committee intends 10
tir up rebellion all over the country,
S it has in this State. its conduct
Though it may fail in its purpose must
e regarded as very reprehensible. That
may have some such object We are in
lined to think from che fact that in its !
ddress il speaks glowingly Of the ''bril-
ant victory achieved by the White ,
league on the fourteenth of September
.st. This the Republicans of this State,
no constitute large majority of its
oters, regard as one OF the greatest out.