National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-11-07

from Louisiana regarding the manner in
which arrests have been made in that State
for violations of the law of Congress known
as the Enforcement Act The idea that
any officer of the regular army, inspired as
they all are with an esprit dU corps, which
elevates them above the plane of politics,
should point to his sword as the emblem of
his authority for making civil arrest
is simply preposterous. The "bloody
shirt to which he refers must have
been an amusing spectacle to him, as it was
to the White Leaguers and to the Ku-KluX
when they spilled the blood to color it, but
to the loyal people of the country the spec
tacle of United States Senator holdingthe
suferings of their fellow citizens up before
a crowd of New York roughs in derision is
far more amusing. 1t may be true that
after the 4th Of March next the Govern
ment will belong to the Democrats, as he
says, but We doubt II. The Senate andthe
Executive will have almost as much to say
about the ''puGlic purse" as the House of
Representatives. Measures originated in
the latter body, after the Democrats get
control of it, will be required to pass ex-
traordinary scrutiny before they become
the laws of the land, and if any one of
them should be of character not in &C.
cordance with the impulses of the people
at large-we mean that if the appropriations
to sustain the Government and maintain
the integrity of the principles established
by the result of the war as a part of our
Government pohcy-the effect will be to
raise such a storm of obloquy as will dOubly
insure Republican victory at the ensuing
election. All the time, however, the De-
mocracy, according to Mr.. Eaton, will be
"as wise as serpents' -copperheads, of
course-''and not quite so harmless as
doves" Certainly not quite so harmless
as doves, because long ere they get their
seats they will have become so ''enthused'
with the pure spirit of Bourbon
malice as to turn themselves into hawks,
before the final transition in which the
people will recognize them to be the filthy
buzzards they are and drive them from the
rOosts they will certainly befoul.
But what we desire to call particular at
tention to is Mr. Eaton S boast that the public
debt will be paid in twenty years. For
this and another assertion that ''eveTy step
"Of the Democratic party must be toward
specie payment" as we'll as that ''the
"annual expenses of the Government must
"be redSced 800, 600, 600 per annum," he
pledges his personal responsibility. Let US
watch him closely after he takes his seat.
Not one jot or title of his predictions will
be verified. If he dares to repeat them
then it will be because he is inspired to do
so by the existence of great moneyed in
terests in his State, and the fact that many
of his constituents are holders of the bonds
of the General Government. But he will
find himself in antagonism to the imitation
lists and repudiationists of his own party;
such men as Senator Merrimon, from
North Carolina, for example, and will be
compelled either to haul in his horns or
join the active and working majority of
the Administration 10 preserve the integ-
rity of the Government and the inviola-
bility of the financial pledges of the country.