New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-17

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and son. who have equal claims to the di
tipction.r
! Every Northern and Western drummer
whose politics are like his wares, at CON
mercial rates, dates do no less than join il
I the chorus upon demand. This explain
their recent Geographic echo of the mel
! chants, who at three different hours of tn
same day, denied first as Cotton En-
change, then as Nfchants Exchange
and then as Chamber Of Commerce, tn
Sheridan dispatches concerning the mutin
bank, told the committee, 1--WE invite al
strangers to come here" True, and {,
pawn their political conscience on arrival
personally know that several leading
merchants commend Sheridan's terms, bu
] dare not hazard their business BY announc
] ing as much. One member of the Cotton
Exchange, and as well of tho Boston and
! Pickwick Clubs (Democratic) says that fol-
$4,000 he would not have il known to The
two latter associations that he had con
I sclen tiouslv avoided joining the Exchange
! in belying Sheridan. Oglesby, president OF
| bank, and until recently of the Chamber
OF Commerce. has been sorely visited with
Democratic wrath because he dared honor
his oath as witnesA Still Mr.. Phelps will
persist, doubtless, in gainsaying tho lash in
society as well as the bullet in politics. He
must wade in blood to his aostrils before he
detects it.
Mari. the chief stoker az our League fur.
mace. recently denounced in New York
Manhattan Club the terms ascribed to the
President in reference to our disorders,
Somebody will be hurt" as atrOciOus. So
thought South Carolina when, in 1882,
jackson warned her, ION the head of the
instigatOrs be the dreadful consequences"
Whether Grant so expressed himself mat.
ters little, but he had full warrant for 1t,
yet the sentiment, so shocking to Mari, is
the one to which his League holds as
dogma against all Republicans, from the
Governor shot at in 1873 to the negro who
still falls week after week. 1t is condensed
in the bullets that, in the words Of Senator
Morton, have made Louisiana vast slaugh.
terhOuse.
At whatevera League rifle may be pointed.
negro or the constituted authorities, the
target is esteemed legitimate one. The
League take up arms as familiar resource
and stand a military body. Indifferent to all
methods OF appeal that the law assures. to
compel by violence that to which they have
and know they have no claim OF right.
"All security usually afforded by law
will be Overridde4H' says Sheridan.
1t is military challenge outside of
courts and legislatures, and as in 1861,
must be accepted by the general govern.
ment, that holds in ward its citizens in
Louisiana, her form of government and till
Congress shall have acted, the admins
tratiop under Executive recognition. Cal.
houn always insisted that The military
attitude of his State az to qualification had
lntlmidated the national government; and
J Jackson never ceased to regret that tor the
future safety OF the republic, he had not
brought Calhoun and others to q strict
account. So says the historian Draper.
Sheridan in urging trial and punishment of |
ring leaders here, after having fought !
rebellion. which the compromise of |
1883, rendered possible, evidently thinks q |
,retion of at least, a burnt child. That he
should displease the League and it's friends
leed excite no surprise. His are two IN. |
sins: he helped materially to |
escue the South from the grasp of treason |
md has told the truth concerning Louisi. 1
ma; suspicious of which Mr.. Phelps is
doubtless to be acquitted.
l do not deny that the Republican party
!ere has too often given sanctuary rather
han the pillory to scoundrels, but the Dem.
cracy will not demonstrate Alright. 1t knows
o law save its passionate within. We apollo.
lied through a premature amnesty for
avlng nioknamed rebels traitors: they
hrust the pardon into one pocket, and !
tralghtway drew a pistol from the other,
We won the battles and surrendered their I
l0rale. The rebel insists the account is |
alanced, and Opens new roster for q new
9bellion. In 1861 the nation said treason
lust down, and puEctuated the sentence
very time with a cannon ball. The White
eague rifle now retorts that treason will
OF down, and holds lMpaled on its bayonet |
our Ferce bills full of bullet holes. Who
lall be master of the field! The man who
ands behind this new gun-~the embodi.
ent OF the passion of rebellion. whom we
Osolved and admitted anew to tho ballot
Ok and the jury box! If we be not vigilant. ;
10 peremptory Union principle we vindi. !
tied On the last battle field will be as bat.
red and worthless as the old musket he
tt there. AS rebel hostility interInits its
olence only upon the appearance Of Ma.
onal troops, we see that a martial DONNA I
IN w0uid have been the best means after
9 war OF sitting the unsubdued military
stlnct OF the insurgent e!ement-and of :
restalling the thousand scandals of local | {
But the errors Of South. :
a Republicans are the pretexts, .
It the reasons for the violence of the
smOcracy.. 1t does not rebuke its own q
rtisans who share those errors: nay, it :
rrows and harbors Republican kaave a
zen 1t wants his service: witness its /
iliati0n with Warmoth il 1872, after p
it in convention as ''infamy.' a
great grievance is its lack Of power to u
'ert its political intolerance. The Ku.
uS bandit long professed In his unholy p
;sade that be represented the sentiment Is
his section. Ha was not interdicted by | c,
Democracy. certainly. but he is now a.
tinctly accredited and recruited into a
bs for assault upon commemorative.
{, when he ostentatiously exchanges with !
fellows certificates of good character g.
ore a congressional! committee. Mr.. III
clips would have Congress believe him =,
superior policeman ir the interests Of II
and order. and that the pools of blood IL
which. since 1906, the veins Of $500 re
lisiana Republicans have been tribu. st
7, are a mere mirage. w
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