The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-13
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH

! EXECUTIVE interference IN the affairs OF a
State" saws the President in his message, is
rcpugnant to pubic opinion to the feeling OF
those who. from their official capacity, must be
used i'll such interpostiOn and to him OF those
who must direct. Unless most clearly on the
| side of law. such interference becomes crime
1t is gratifying to know that the shafts of
public opinion" have at last penetrated one
whom VIC had learned to believe insensible to
every beneficent influence that should control the
Chief Executive Of free country but it is late
day, indeed. for him to declare that such inter-
ference is repugnant to his own feelings when he
at one time eagerly avaied himself OF the slight
est pretext that could be invoked to justify it.
The country will hardly forget how The Presi-
dent early put his meddling and smutching fin
gers in the Louisiana trouble; how he allowed
the Attorney General to send an insulting dis
patch to the most respectable citizens of the
state telling them that their visit to Washing
I ton was not desirable, and would exercise no in
Huence and how he has since coolly handed
over the entire South. with all its delicate and
painful ADVERTISEMENTS, to the most ignorant,
| the most corrupt and malignant member of his
Cabinet; man who Is devoid alike OF brains
| and princip e, and who has all the venom of
| rattlesnake, without either its maSnanimity or
| its courage.
| 1t may be necessary, however. to review a few
of the facts relating to the Presidents first inter-
ference wi Ii the affairs # Lou s;ana The plain
| law, from which he derived his authority, war
rants such inference only ION application OF the
Legislature, or OF the Executive. when the Leg
isature cannot be convened. 1t also requires
that he shall first issue his proclamation and
allow the insurgents time to dispense before in
| vOking the military arm of the Government. 1t is
clear that neither the Constitution of the United
States nor the act Of 1885 = by which Congress.
delegated certain powers conferred upon that
body by the Constitution to the President
authorize the President to act in such cases unit!
his assistance is regularly applied for by the
proper State authorities.
The louisiana Legislature was in session at the
gave his order without any application from that
body. In acting without it, therefore, he acted
without the pale of the law, and "such interior.
cnce becomes crime In the next place, he
failed to issue his proclamation, as the act cx.
pressly requires No tine was given to the
so-calicd insurgents to dispense. No warning
was given OF the contemplated interference, and
that warning is what the trainers of the law
clearly had i'll view when it was passed.
This is sufficient to indicate that it was not
with SO much - reluctance > that lac commenced
his impairment intermeadling in behalf OF his |
pilfering allies; but it is well worth while to OBJ
serve how Democratic President acted under |
exigcncies which were far more Urgent and az
gravating than any which have yet been present. |
ed to Gen. Grant. it will be remembered that |
during Mr. Tylers administration the Dorr re bel |
lion broke ont I'D Rhode Island. The people of
that State had long remained under a constitu-
tlon which restrlctt the right Of suffrage and |
kept the State i'll the hand, OF few influential |
planters
The people, FESTIVE under a system which they |
regarded as illiberal. narrow and unrepublican,
held mass meetings framed q new constitution,
appointed day for taking the vote upon it, allow
ing all males over twenty-one tho right To exer-
clse that privilege. and the new instrument was
adopted by 4 ajority of the male whites of the
state. rival State Government was in this way
established by Gov. Dorr ana othet State officers
elected and force was used to establish them in
office. 1t was under these circumstances that
l'resdent Tyler was appealed to ny King, the
Governor under the old Constitution, yet SO re-
uctant was Tyler to interfere that he allowed
three months to pass before taking decisive &C.
ion.
He eventually sent Cabinet officer to the scene
Df the disturbances. and endeavored by every
possible way to reconcile the differences between
The conflicting authorities. In a message to
Congress on the subject he said ''The desire
u the Executive was, from the beginning, to
ring the dispute to . termination without the
OF the military power OF the United
that this leading object of policy
vas finally accomplished. The Executive resisted
III entreatics, however urgent, to depart from
his line of conduct In another part OF the
message he also refers to the clause of the law
.equirins him to issue proclamation and evil
iently recognizes it as an essential requirement
With which it was necessary for him to comply $
before allowing the use Of troops.
Gen. Grant. on the contrary, acted before he
lad been legally called or. and did not issue his
reclamation until after he had destroyed the
egal Government and substituted miserable {
rsud in its place. This does not evince much :
reluctance. and the pretcnse he puts forth il
imply piece OF shallow hypocrisy which will
leceive no one. The truth Is. the President has
t last discovered that the entire country feels
outraged at the disgrace he and his party have
,r,nsht on it, and in the general wreck Of Radi-
alism is trying to find some shelter for himself.
ii"c Il idc|,s'ynR. -LonisrMe Courier Joui'ud,
VARIETIES THEATER. = hot = John Peeai-
.iaJe-Dear old Caleb Palmer and his beautiful
iauShtet Bertha. and thousand pleasant rem.
niscenses. will be recalled tomorrow, Monday. +
hight.
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