New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-06
THE oLD FIGHT ON A NEW FIELD.

upon Judge DuTeu ny VIC oAAAoo1AioS va
Fusion, as in fact real attack on the Re
publican party. The gravamen Of his Of
tense in the eyes of his prosecutors con-
sists in the fact that on a notable occasion
he dared to perform his judicial duty in
the face of threats from powerful enemies.
He disregarded their menaces, admins
| tered the law as he understood 1t (and we
believe there are none who better under
stand it, and by his just action. uncon-
| sciously, perhaps, saved the Republican
party from overthrow Governor Kellogg
owes his position to the nerve of just man
who would do right, even at the peril ofper-
sonal danger.
! Generals Sheldon, Syphers Repre-
sentatives Darrall, Morey and Smith
Lieutenant Governor Antoine, Auditor
Clinton, Superintendent Brown, Secretary
Of State Deslonde. Senator Pinchback,
Speaker Lowell, Judge Hawkins, all the
Republican members of both houses who
were elected in 1872, in short all the Re
publican officers, appointees and em'
ployes to-day owe their places to the firm,
infexible, learned, just man who now
seems to be turned over to receive the
buffets of the combined hosts OF. Dee
mocracys The Democratic papers were
right in ascribing to Judge Durell all the
credit of having thrown himself timely IN
the breach and stayed the tide Of disaster
which treachery and cunning had wrought
for the defeat of Republicans The
boosted hope of our enemies was to send
Northern Republicans "back to their dens
and SHOWS" remit the colored people
to the tender mercies of cotton and
cane field ovefseers, elevate the tolo
lowers Of the tattered flag of the rebellion
to the high places on cushioned chairs,
and produce condition as nearly similar
to that existing before the war as malice
could devise and the amendments to the
constitution would admit. Judge Durell
is to be arraigned before Congress for de-
Gliding a case in which the paid attorneys
Of the Committee of Seventy have said he
had no jurisdictiors There is, no doubt,
an honest difference of opinion among
lawyerssupon this question. Counselors
Beckwith, Hunt, Billings and many other
lawyers of great eminence contend he
had full jurisdiction. We do not know Of
any three jurists in the United States
who San be better trusted on such a
question than those named abovee The
chances are, then, four to one
that the Supreme Court of the
United States would, upon full hearing,
affirm the judgment Of Judge Durell.
But it is this very judgment whose force is
sought to be impaired and which, the
Fusion SITS are now straining every nerve
to destroy. They wish to be able to argue
in this wisea The present State govern
ment is beholden to a judgment Of the
United States Circuit Court for its exist
ence. That Judgment led to the i'm
parchment of the judge who rendered its
This condemnation of the judge con-
dennis also the judgment which stirred up
the wrath of those who lost by it, and
brands the whole proceeding as illegal.
The judgment being void, Kellogg is not
Governor nor any other Republican ofie
cial what he claims to bee Chaos has
come again, and Congress, So the custo-
dian Of defaulting States, must step in
and provide by election or otherwise to
supply the want created by the failure
The Impeachment of Judge Durell is the
thing on which it is expected will be hung
the decision of the whole question: The
crusade against him is a cunningly de-
vised plan to effect by indirection what
could not be effected in open fghto The
enemies Of Republicanism have met us on
the field Of battle and fell at Appomattoxs
They rallied at the ballot-boxs with our
Lord Stanley to lead his followers over to
the enemy On the battlefield of 1872. They
brought their disconnected schemes be-
fore every court that could by any posi-
bility listen to them, and finally losing
there, have determined to renew the fight
by impeaching the honest judge who could
not be intimidated by their threats
In case like this, what is the duty
of Republican? Does it become him
to do all he can to assist the enemies of
the man who stood by US all in the time
of trial, under the silly pretext that his fall
will create another Office to scramble for?
Or is it not rather his duty to do every
thing he can consistently with honor to
protect an assailed member of the party
who has placed himself in the breach at o
time when we needed a powerful friend.
1t Is party, not a personal fight The |
very existence Of our political friends |
depends upon this issuez We ask,
therefore, that gentlemen who de-
pend upon the success Of the Re
publican party for living, who have
no other resource for future prefer
ment except through its being able to |
defeat its enemies as well at the ballot |
box and in the forum, as on the field of |
Mars, shall contribute, by every honora-
bic meass in their power, to establish the |
innocence of judge who has been
guilty OF no fault except that OF con-
STRUNG law which is not pleasing to the
Ku-klux assassin, nor the
much planning Fusion politician. We
have heard it said that some of orr Re-
publican friends are willing witnesses
for the prosecution in this case. We