The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
Minority Report On the Louisiana
Troubles.

| Minority Report GA the s-ouiSiana
| Troubles.
The full and valuable report made
by Messrs Hoar, Wheeler and Fry, of
the state of things which led to the
interference of the United States Gov
! eminent in the Legislature of Lou
isiana. is to be welcomed as afording
a positive and stable basis for public
opinion and private judgment.
Whatever may be the Hypothetical
views of the South INDUCED 10, how
ever people may gloss and theorize
about it. here is its condition made
plain and patent. Murder of the ne
| gro and his friends is not a recognized
! crime. Law and custom combine to
deprive the negro of every personal
right secured to him by the bloody
war which Freedom and Slavery Were
| forced to wage over her living body.
It did seem to US probable that the
President of the United States would
have taken some pains to ascertain, In
so painful an emergency, the powers
and duties of the central government
It did not seem within the logic Of
any ones policy that he should take
upon himself the o6ious task of de-
feating civic liberty by military vio-
lence. The evidence aduced by the
Committee of the propriety and ne
cessity of General Sheridan's action
does net therefore surprise US. But
it does relieve us from most painful
suspense. Convinced as we were that
the truth of the situation lay where
it is now seen to lie, We were yet
doubtful whether a Congressional
Committee would be able to reach and
make manifest this truth. All hail to
the earnest and honest men who have
not feared to probe this malignant
ulcer to the quick, and 10 show that
it's gangrene will poison the. whole
body polite of our country, unless the
plague be healed!-W oman journal.
The last number of Harper's Week
ly contains an admirable cartoon by
Mast, illustrating the hollowness OF the
louisiana. The main figure is that of
despairing woman, representing the
State, reduced to captivity, her hands
bound with takes, debt and
''misrule" She is confronted by two
bandits, one standing on a scroll con-
tanning the proposed compromise, and
grasping her throat with his left hand.
and with his right hand presenting
pistol. The other bandit is in the act
of placing the hangman's rope about
her neck Underneath appear the
following Inscriptions! "A republi-
can form of government and no do
mestic violence. "Bandittl. The
Northern and Southern Democratic
party command you to suffer. as 1T will
place the United States Government
in our hands So what are you going
to do about it?' In the distance, to
the right, stands General Sheridan
powerless to interfere, surrounded by
other bandits, who point to the figure
representing the State as if exclaim-
ing: "See to what condition you
have brought our beloved louisiana
At the top, on the left, appears the in-
cendiary proclamat ion of the McEnery
clique to the people of New Orleans,
calling upon them to assemble at the
Clay statue and resist the proposed
compromise. immediately above the
heads OF the bandits in the foreground
is a huge placard, with the following
inscription: 1.-The last Ditcher's cry
to Compromises" Hang them!
Shoot theml! Down with them!l.
This is republican form Of govern
ment, and not domestic violence.
But the most significant feature of the
cartoon, as showing the responsibility
of the Democratic party North for the
whole bloody business. is the follow
ing extract. conspicuously displayed,
from the New York Tribune: An
unwise compromise.
Louisiana must exercise yet little
more patience" The cartoon is
very strong one. portraying clearly
and vigorously the artists idea that
the Southern Democracy are bound
to have turmoil and strife. hold SUI
preme sway in Louisiana as means
of partisan advantage; that the North
ern Democracy propose to force the
sacrifice of peace IN Louisiana to at
tain the same end, and that the New
York Tribune is the unscrupulous
organ of both wings of the Democrat
ic party in this murderous coalition
FOR the ruin of State as the means
for the accomplishment of a national
partisan triumph.