New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-21
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
Stirring Words from the Old Cham.
piOn Of Liberty.

| Boston press as his opinion on the situation
is entirely characteristic of that advanced
and vigorous thinker. Considering his mis-
sion ended when the abolition of slavery
was accomplished, Mr.. Garrison some years
since dissolved the old anti slavery society
OF which he was the head, and since the
war has done but little public work. He
sees now an endeavOr to subvert the work
Of an administration which stands by the
rights OF the colored men, and he comes
manfully to the front with ali OF his old
strength and fervor. He is not an Office
holder, nor is he what can be called a
! Grant man. nor an admirer of General
Sheridan. but he is an honest man, and
speaks up promptly for what is right be-
| cause it is right, and against what is wrong
because it is wrong:
| To the Editor Of the Boston Journal
1t is to be expected that, let President
Grant do what he may in the discharge of
his Official duties to uphold the recognized
State government OF Louisiana against
armed sedition, he will be basely vilitied
and ferociously assailed by the great body
| OF conspirators who rose in rebellion for
the dismemberment of the Union under
IAO CoAInAoUA alAOA VI 1lCSIOcuU 1lUCOIU.
for, though they we're put down by the
strong arm of national power, in
spirit tdcny it who will they are still
as perhdious, as brutal, as law -despising,
as dislOyal as before their reasonable
revolt. In any issue as to the en- iOy-
ment of equal rights with those whom they
once owned as mere chattels, it is as i'm
possible for them to speak tho truth or to
deal justly, as it ia for wolves to abhOr
blood and become docile by the interposi-
ton of the shepherd for the safety of the
sheepfold. As OF old, they still devise
wicked devices to destroy the poor with
lying words. As Of old, their feet run to
evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood. As OF old, they hate him that re-
buketh in the gale, and they abhor him
that speaketh uprightly. As of old, they
in their gOings, and the way of peace they
know not.
1t can not be otherwise. unless human
nature among them is wholly unlike what
it is in every other portion OF the globe.
The curse OF negro slavery clings to them
like leprosy, though the foul "institution" is
abolished. 1t continues to feed their
naughty pride. perpetuate their contempt
Of the lowly and helpless, disorder their
reason, obscure their vision, bias their iudg:
ment, shade their policy, stimulate their
love of dominion, nOurish their disloyalty,
poison their blood. 1t is true they have
ceased to be shareholders and traffickers in
human flesh, but by no will or consent of
their own; and tomorrow, if it were
in their power, they would, with one
accord, restore the slave system, with
all its hideOus accomplishments of slave
drivers, slave hunters, slave speculators-
yokes, fetters, thumbscrews, CORY whips
baying blOOdhOunds-the marriage institu
ton overthrown, indiscriminate and force.
ful amalgamation universal, the sacred ties
Of relationship trampled upon, cradles
plundered, slave auction blocks crowded |
with victims from infancy to old age to be !
sold in lots to the highest bidder, the Bible |
prohibited volume, teaching q slave the |
alphabet at the risk of imprisonment or |!
death, the very soil stained with the tears |
and blood OF unrequited labor, fugitive |
slave law in active operation, a slave repre-.
sentatiOn in Congress, and slave code |
more bloody than that of Dracos.
Fortunately, to re-enslave the millions set |
free IS task they can never accomplish
Another st. Domingo tragedy. on a far
more awful scale, would follow the attempt.
1t IS the consciousness of this fact, and that
their former chattels are now constitution
ally enfranchised American citizens, that |
makes them writhe in agony, gnaw their
tongues ior pain, and, in their madness,
resolve that the ballot IN the hands of the
negro shall be unavailng for his protection,
and be reduced as near as possible to
state oi serfdom; al loyal white men
aspousing his cause to be regarded and
treated AS having no rights that rebels at
heart are bound to respect. At this
hour the blood of thousands of unoffending
,olored persons, shot down like wild beasts,
8 upon their souls, crying to heaven for
hat Divine retributiOn from which the
guilty may not hope to escape. Abject sub
mission to their usurping sway is essential
% personal safety, reciprocal social con- |
liberation. political preferment, official re-
pect, business success and religious inter-
course. With them the end sancti1ies the |
means, however desperate and bloody; and
hat end is first, midst, last and always "a |
White mans government --tantamOunt to |
he old slaveholding, oligarchic supremacy.
Il their lawless and defiant White League
organizations they are accurately described |
y General Sheridan (hmselt no sentiment.
list. and without any sympathetic leaning .
lther toward negroes or lndians) as "a
,anditti."
This faithful but repuls;ve portraiture is |
rawn solely in the interest of liberty and
Gual rights, though painful the task not
D crafty personal, partisan or sectional
Twill. 1t no more implies an unkind or
n uncharitable spirit, on the part Of the
INNER than when the ancient prophet de-
Jared, This people hath d revolving and a
ebellious heart; they are revOlted and
one. They lay wait, as he that setteth
mares; they set trap, they catch men. AS
cage is full of birds, SO are their houses
lll OF deceit; they Overpass the deeds of ,,
he wicked. foolish people, and without ,,
which have eyes, and see
OF: which have ears, aud hear not. Woe
me now. tor my soul is wearied because =
murderers!'
That from such a class the widest out =,
ries and the iercest threats should be !
card against President Grant and General
heridan for what they have done to main
AIN order in Louisiana and to make it pos. I
bile for Legitimate republican form Of I
Overnment to exist on its soil, is as inevita- .
lie sequence as was the demOniacal CRY of
Id. why hast thou come to torment us
efore the time e. As if the time had not 7
Ally come for the torment. Surely, that
hich instigates to mischief is to be | .
eld accountable for breach of the peace; | ,
nd not the power which seeks to preserve =
rder. .
Nor is it surprising that the Democratic | I
rgans and leaders at the North should re. | '
,ho the wrathtui reproaches aud detam D. |
'ry accusations flung by their old Southern | il
lies against Grant and Sheridan in this | L
latter OF Louisiana. To The extent of their 9
airing they have always been the servile | O
'ols of 'the lords of the lash" ready to | t
inction all theit vile Vaccinations for the 5
erpetuation of negro slavery, and to 90 C
ith them to the verge of rebellion Nav, =
when that outbreak came, Democratic t
ADMINISTRATION had been in power, Jefferson b
avis and his myrmidOns would have been d
lowed to succeed in their reasonable aims | 81
orthern Democracy was never known to n
Joce in any loyal victsly; it opposed every "
easure essential to tho preservation of the d
deral and the overthrow of the rebel gov
nment; it contemplated the massacre at r
,rt Pillow and the horrors of Anderson