New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-03
AT HOME AND ABROAD.


/. | yell, dance, strike the tomabawk into tn
: war post, or circle around on horsebac
: firing their rifles at imaginary foes. Pei
haps there may be a prisoner from som
foreign band ready for torture. Blac
Hawk or Red Blanket looks with com
placency upon this scene. They com
! mand these braves. None dare oppos
their commands. They are big chief
and can whip the world. Black Hawl
and Red Blanket, by the accidents Of war
are compelled to go to the East. The.
are, within two or three days, trans
ported by steam through the farms
past the workshops and into the grea
cities Of the Union. To their aston
ishment they see passing thousands
/, awakened to the fact that there is Black
Hawk or Red Blanket, or that they owr
horses or command braves. These thou.
sands bestow glance Of curiosity on the
gentlemen in bucAslkin, and pass on, Ike
chiefs see an amount Of wealth, power
and mum bers which disturbs even their
stolid composure, and return home with
the impression that the band of Sacs or
Pottowattamies is a small affair, and that
! their great father has great deal Of
guns, blankets, money, whisky and young
men,
With respect for the Conservative am
bassadors to Washington good deal
enhanced by the cahdor Of their adj
missions, we compare the domestic conf
dence of the Democracy in Louisiana to
that of Black Hawk and Red Blanket in
the irresistible prowess Of their tribe.
Their young men are as combatlve,
their chiefs as vindictive, their hos
tility to any other tribe as intol-
Grant as those Of the frontier. The
Democratic conjrfors drink the fire and
medicine wafer, rattle those guns which
they wear on their shoulders and pro-
nounce the warriors invulnerable. The
women denounce every young man who
does not take the political warpath as a
woman and coward. SO these proud
ambassadors departed proud and con-
fident of success Alas! like their unfor-
tunate prototypes they were doomed to
similar discontinue. We are compelled
to see in the report of the ambassadors an
acknowledgment Of the power and indif-
ference of the American people analo-
gous to that with which the Sac chief
tain looks at a locomotive and train or
into the Springfield workshops and ar
mories.
But the am bassadors have experienced
painful conviction from which Black
Hawk and Red Blanket are at least free.
The ambassadors visited Washington with
the anticipation that they would find
friends and allies; that the whole Amer
lean public was boiling with suppressed
indignation at the oppression to which
Louisiana had been subjected. Like the
country servant girl who heard it ''was
all over London that she and John We're
going to marry" the ambassadors thought
Washington and New York cared for the
tattle or scandal of Louisiana. But tie
certainly had a right to ex-
pect the friendship of the Democrats in
Congress. Was not every opposition |
a Democrat? Messrs. Glib !
son and Ellis; were they not Democratic
gains? 1t would seem the Northern De-
will accept any aid, but can not
make common cause with the misfor-
;unes of their allies Messrs Zacharie and
Burke state that SO far from the Democ-
'acy running after them, they, the am
oassadors, were compelled to make the
most earnest overtures for an interview.
t must have been voted that the Democ-
acy were so much afraid to be seen in
heir company as to decline giving them
n audience, and actually sent their advice
trough General Gordon. Worse than
his. Senator Thurman whose election to
he Senate has been proclaimed as a
riumph of the States rights Democracy,
declined to commit the De-
aocracy to the defense Of Louisiana. If
he opposition had read and regarded the
they would have seen that Mr..
lien, the Democratic Governor of Ohio,
fered the President volunteer force to
ut down any resistance to the federal
NV which might grew out OF the eneute of
be fourteenth of September. Senator
thurman in like manner bids the ambas-
adors take notice that he can not take the
Of introducing or indors-
lg their grievances. These wary old
Official rats remember the fate of Vallan-
igham and will never be caught walking
n the same side of the street with an in
lrrectionary Democrat. The proof of
rr statement is found in the following O
xtracts from the testimony of the am 8
assadors: d,
|. The truth ia that, absorbed as we are in | I
lr political affairs and vitally interested
their result, We have greatly overes-
mated the Importance of the Louisiana 1
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. Messrs. Burke, Zacharie and Leonard
light probably have remained in Washing q
N for months unnoticed and unsought for. t
Il the interviews we had and all the in
rmation we acquired on the subject of
II political troubles resulted from our own t
lrnest and active efforts.
3. Whatever may be the solieitude of
emocratic members with regard to its fate,
ey manifested no special interest in dis S
lssing it with the House of Representa-
yes. and were particularly indisposed to
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