The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-11
THE NEW YORK HERALD AND Ma
TIONAL CONVENTION.

STdili luea Oi u -NdttOnW cDHteHttOH q pea
a and reconstruction. In the gloom which SUI
rounds the South to-day-a gloom which
deeper and more alarming than any we es
, perienced during the war-the position Of thi
great leader Of public opinion and mora
engine is the one encouraging and hopefu
sign that greets US,
The President whose duty it is to see tn
laws enforced and the Constitution Of tn
country respected, deliberately issues order
turning over the army Of the United States t.
the partisan head of the Judiciary Depart
ment, who in turn virtually makes Major Gen
erals out of the Chairren of the Radica
State Executive Committees. The Congress
of the United States has ignored the usurpa
ton and turned deaf ear to the complaints
and petitions Of our people. The Radical
party taunts US with cowardice when we re-
frain from asserting our rights by violence, and
cries murder ''rebellion.' when we attempt
to overthrow Government which never ema-
mated from the people, which we do not rec
ogniZe, and which we never will recognize a.
| legitimate. Either Louisiana is State en-
titled to the rights of every other State, or she
is subjngated province. If the first, the
General Government must not interfere in it.
local affairs; if the latter. then we demand q
military government.
The erection Of a 1surpation and the in stall
lation in the gubernatorial office of a charac-
terless adventurer, who has no possible claim
TO =, ,1o>
but TO the people of the whole country, and
blow at Republican government, the effects of
which are not dreamed of by the great mass Of
busy and unthinking people in more fortunate
States.
The Herald fortunately realizes the momen
Gus issues involved, and with sagacity and
wisdom which we cannot too greatly admire
makes proposition which should meet the
appreciation of every patriot in the land.
If the President be, as he is fond of assert
ing, the President of the whole people and not
the mere tool of a faction he will endorse the
HeralTs plan, affording the easiest and
most satisfactory way out Of a trouble that he
may temporarily assuage by his armed legions,
cept by conciliatory measures.
The above reflections have been called forth
by the leading editorial in the n. Y. Uerala
OF the 7th inst, OF which the following is all
extract
We have conquered the armies of the South,
we have dissolved the once mighty COnfederacy |
We have driven its flag from the la ed and the |
ocean, there is but authority in this land |
the authority Of the constitution we have sent !
into retirement and exile the leaders OF seces- |
sion but there still is no peace, only trouble, |
sorrow crime, disturbance, murder everywhere. |
Anarchy in Arkansas, Reputation i'll Louisiana.
contiscation in South Carolina! Wherever We
look there is chaos.
We do not overdraw this picture. The tele-
graph sadly enough gives newer and darker
tints from hour to hour. Our correspondents
confirm the news i'll painful, gloomy letters.
Nothing is clearer to every patriotic mind than
that the problem should be solved Every day it
seems as if We were about to solve it, when the
memory OF some fear rises and atfrights us.
THERE'S no feeling towards the South i'll the inner
most Northern heart but one ofkindness. The bit
erness Of the war no longer remains Nothing
would more crafty New York than to see Virginia
gain the Old Dominion a nd NewOrleans once more
he metropolis Of the Gulf OF Mexico. But now
s it to be done? Some Southern men tell us that
here can be reconstruction that does not as
ert the dominance of the white over the black.
ablish such dominance-that it must come
rom superior energy, enterprise nd thrift.
ome tell us that civil rights to the negro means
war OF races. The answer is that to deny tn
egro civil rights, which are inherent in the
PROCLAMATION of emancipation, is to declare
UGH a war. Yet all this time, while we lin
Ter between two opinions, the Southern coun-
ry drifts into that strife which history
ever records without shuddering-a strife of
ace with race. The doctrine Of repudiation
a # nj nd |
q policy IN many sovereign Southern States.
tates like Massachusetts and New York, whose
redit Is untainted and whose honor is dear to
very citizen, find themselves bound to other
ta'es who declare that they will not only repndi- !
tie their own debts, but do what hes IN their
over toward the reputation of the national
ebt. The integrity of the Union, therefore, ]
nee assalled by secession Is now more seriously I
by reputation and st. Domingo war | {
etween men Of different blood ,
There is surely "a remedy for all this, but our ,
latesmen are not brave enough to grasp IT, We
honld either regard the South az a military con-
Ilest and govern it by proconsuls, or as a SOW Y
reign element Of the Union and worth Of frater-
al sovereign rights II cannot trust the (
Duthern States let lis restore the military de- e
artments and send orr generals down to COM /,
and them Such a change would be welcome -
some respects, for there would certainly be no i,
ar between races. no legislative reputation. IT, .
! the contrary we can trust the Southern States
i sister sovereign cOmmOnwealths, then We \
INST show a frate nal and courageous feeling. n
will not do to say that reconstruction began :,
pom the theory that the utmost mercy u
Town to the rebels when we did not hang them n
hat did well enough IN war ballads. but we want
'methng else than ballad chorus now. We
.gln reconstruction when we ask the South Sc k
Dusly what the war has imposed upon its !,
sope, and how can we help them to meet and
nuve its burdens. We recognize two tvlta-
facts direct fruits of the war; the integrity of
e Union and the emancipation OF the slaves We .
gard slavery a crime. and erin e happily Il
oned and condoned. But how far are We re-
'onsible for this crime and in justly declaring It
be a crime waive our share Of lts re- D.
possibility and throw it on the South? We have n
garaed IT as crime for ten years, bnt for !,
70 hundred years we sustained it as an lllsltl- =
III. Our armies protected 1t, statesmen
Tended it, our laws halowed it, our free North
II soil made the hunting ground Of the
ave catcher. We shared in It's wealth, and "
en- now many Of rs rich with the earnings "
the bondman. We abolished slavery a war II
easurc. No regr.t Is that act. But III
aling with reconstruction we are bouud TO ask o.
e question, Did abolish it in manly way n
he abolition of slavery was virtually imp sing
,on the Southern States a war indemnity twice. g
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