The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-13

OF 1876. Inc FACTS Will snow the.
presence. to an appredable extent,
Of all these causes Of delay and
hesitancy. The party in Congress
is seriously divided n its oounsals
on the financial question, that 80
distracts the country and is 20 vital.
to quiet and assured, growth. The
Finance Bill, passed BY the Con-
gress and representing the views Of
. majority Of the Republicans there
in, was somewhat unexpectedly
vetoed BY the President A new
currency bill, the result of patient
conference and much labor and
supposed to accord with the views
Of President Grant, appears now, #
it should pass, to be also destined
to defeat by q veto. Much oonfu-
sion and bitterness exist, and both
will be increased by the non-action
Of Congress in the passage Of a
currency bill, or by it's passage and
Subsequent defeat by the Executive.
Again the Civil Rights Bill, the
legacy left by the great Senator Of
Massachusetts, to his compesra and
a measure Of justice to Us and Of
peace to the whole country, though
passed by the Senate, by the fault
Of certain nominal Republicans
halts and fingers in the House.
Dilatory moves may compass its
delay, If not it's defeat, and it too,
is threatened, on the authority of
the quidnunos, with a veto, even if
it.should pasaL Again, the Louis
iana case, novel, grave, and affecting
the political rights Of = whole State
and involving ito peace and pros
perity, is by an ll-advised policy Of
non-action, miss called "masteEly
inactivity" still in allegiance and
unsettled. The State Government
is practically and forcibly
and sustained, and all the white
Federal Congressman seated; but
the colored Senator, with q larger
constituency than all combined, is
for some unrevealed reason, still
unrecognized, and the political
issue, involved, undetermined. Un-
der the ostenGble plea that the
Senate could not safely establish
the precedent involved in the
prompt seating, prima facie, Of
Governor Pinchback, = more dam
aging precedent has been set up
in that the President is forced and
authorized by Congress to sustain
a government the legal status Of
which, the same Congress is afraid
to determine, by seating the sena-
tor elect thereof; and the result is,
We fear, that the men, who have
given the present complexion to
the Louisiana question, have made
. case full Of trouble to the party
and to the country, and that viii
return to vex it's authors when they
least expect it. If We turn to the
elections lately held in some six or
eight States, We and that division
or the same causes, that obtain and
disturb the National Counsels, have
produced defeat and disaster: Our
own State, while presenting hopeful
elements for the future, in the
plainly manifested purpose OF the
people, to rid themselves Of the
mastership Of the ring demagogues,
who have heretofore IN too many
instances usurped their prerogatives
and outraged their rights, shows
the presence Of dissatisfaction and
in some cases disafeotion to such
an extent, ss to demand vigilance,
prudence, forbearance and frmness,
on the part Of every lover Of his
country and Of Republication.
This review of the field Of Na-
tional and State politics leads Us to
d conclasion, not sanguine but stin
hopeful; and crediting. all the ele-
Of danger that exist, with
the full strength TO- which they are
entitled, not only il the country
safe, Il remitted to the custodian
ship Of the honest masses who con-
it's glory and it's strength;
but the Republican party, il true to-
10 nrnnonnnod n~r;ncin1oa and ID.