New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-18


weaknesses, Congress can 20 to work NOR
intelligently than before, and with q rea
s0nable hope of accomplishing more salts
factory results Washington Chronicle.
The Situation I'm Louisiana.
A New Orleans correspondent Of III
Washington National Republican writes t.
that paper as follows:
New ORLEANS, October ,. 1874.
EMO federal bayonets ever yet prevented
Southern rebel from voting the Dem
Ocratic ticket"
This fact deserves to be italicised and re
peated until the Democrats admit it's trutl
or prove its falsity. The eternal howl abou
the use of federal troops for political pur
poses in the South only requires candle
ANALYSIS to reveal the enormity of its nature
and object. 1t is true "a Senator Schur,
charges, that Marshal Packard is chairman
of the Louisiana Republican State Commit
tee; that he is strong partisan OF the Re
publican party, and that he, as marshal
has virtual command of the federal troops
protecting the citizens of the United States
But it ia also true, as General Emory EN-
phatically declares, that be has not and car
not use a single soldier for political pur
poses" How can he do it7 What is meant
by the phrase political purpose" in this
connecticut
If the White League cut.thrsats of Cou
shatta organize and murder six Northern
men and intimidate the colored people from
voting the Republican ticket, is it ''usine
troops for political purposes" to send them
there for the protection Of those voters
while they exercise their sacred right Of
>ho;v hall IN "A A0fa ~
their choice9 Is it pretended that these
troops will prevent any Coushatta W hite
Lacquer, entitled to de so, from voting2 Ol
does anybody believe they will enable q
single negro to vote who is not entitled to
do 80! In fact, does not every man in the
whole country know that the "blue coated
marines of q despot1c power" will not
interfere with the election machinery in
any manner whatever. but will protect
those citizens. Democratic or Republican,
whose lives are endangered by disorderly
persons9 The White Leaguers Of Bay ou
Sara and Bayou Goula have already applied
for and received detachments of troops ia
protect them from alleged danger from the
negro mobs. Are not the colored people OF
Coushatta, on the other hand. entitled to
the same protection from White League
mObsY
And yet it is said by the Democrats that
the Republicans can't carry the Coushatta
region without federal bayonets." Do not
be appalled, when admit that this state
ment is perfectly true! l 60 further, and
frankly admit that if no federal bayonets
are sent into that region the election will
be perfectly peaceable; all applying to vote
will be allowed to do so, and the White
jority. This sounds queer, but it is only
part of the truth-the part which our enc
mice tell you. The rest of the story puts a
different lace upon the situation. In the
Coushatta region the cOlOred voters are
overwhelmingly in the majority. But If
they can get no troops they will not try to
vOte-they will not dare to leave the plan
tations on election day. Thus it is seen that
to keep the troops away is to let the White
Leagues carry the election foully, while to
send them there is to enable the Repub-
Leans to carry it fairly. The same facts
apply to the whole South. Just keep your
troops away" and they will fix things I'M
questiOnably.
The difference between Senator Schurz
and General Emory is only q different I'M
Outstanding of the meaning of two words,
viz: political purposes General Emory
considers that to interpose bayOnets between
men having the right to vote and the ballot
box is to use troops for political purposes,
and this. he says, has not been and can not
be DONE Senator Schurz considers protect
ing men from assassination, while they are
casting their ballots, as using troops for
political purposes" and he is right in say
ing that has been and is being done by
Marshal Packard. 1t has been done in
every Southern State ever since the war,
and otherwise not Republican vote would
have been cast. 1t was done even in Mis-
souri,, when the Republican Legislature
which sent Schurz to the Senate was elected.
The burglars Of New York complain bit
terly because they are taxed to maintain a
police force which they despise, aud which
blights their prosperity; but the protection
which the force affords honest people does
not deprive any burglar of his lawful
rights. So the White Leagues complain
loudly that they are taxed to maintain an
army which Expresses them. but the OPP
preston consists solely in preventing them
from expressing others.
But what does this objection to United
States marshal being q party leader imply
1t can not be proven that Mr.. Packard, in
o single instance, as United States marshal,
has done anything more than the laws and
his solemn oath required him to do. No
Democratic marshal in his present situa.
ton could do anything less than he is doing
without being guilty Of dereliction of duty
aud perjury. If. then, as marshal, he
does his duty to the government has
he not got a right, as a free American
citizen, to belong to the Republican party
Can President Grant be asked to deprive
q citizen of his dearest rights because that
citizen happens to hold an office! Can lie
be asked to remove an efficient officer be-
cause he belongs to the Republican, or,
what is the same thing, because he is elect
ed by that party as chairman of one of its
State cOmmitteess Has not United States
marshal, who. as such, performs his duty
within the strict letter Of the law, got
right to be a pariisanl Has he not got
right to do all he can in his capacity rs a
citizen for the success of his party2 If it
has come to pass where a man is not to
be allowed to hold an Office under Repub-
lean administration because he is good
and efficient Republican leader, it is time
for the friends Of liberty and elf-govern-
ment to ask themselves where such logic as
this will eventually land us. Ii marshal
can not be u Republican, no other Office
holder can be Republican. Therefore,
General Grant, being an Office holder, and
also Republican, should at once resign
and let Carl Schurz select somebody for
President who would be certain not to use
his office in the interests of the Republican
party. J.EL.
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