New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-03
TREMBLING AND DESPAIR.


the Grant parish case against them. 1t i
proper that these great apostles of libert.
: should approach the highest tribunal o
the land with fear and trembling. W.
can hardly conceive of anything more ap
propr;ate. It will be remembered tina
the distinguished attorneys represented
clients who stand charged with having
struck fatal blow at the liberties of tn
people of this State. They appeared il
arms and maintained bloody action t.
deny the right of certain voters to parti
cipate il the franchise which has beer
conferred upon them by law These
clients are now prisoners, charged with
murder. They do not deny the facts, hut
like Tweed, they ask the Supreme Court,
"What are you going to do about it," Il
you punish our clients, what becomes Of
the sacred, heaven-born right of the South
ern ruffian to kill niggers when they refuse
to vote the Democratic ticket? If the right
to punish such crimes as are alleged
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United States, what is to become Of Mr..
Mars beloved State, whose government
he did his level best to overthrow last
fall? If the United States undertakes to
extend its protection to all its citizens,
whether at home or abroad, what is to
save Mr.. David Dudley Fields country
| onA r,1iy, .
Surely, nothing.
MIR. Field strives to be classical. He
draws his SMILES from the actors who
danced in the cradle Of civilization. When
Hannibal, victorious over the Roman
army at the disastrous battle of Canine,
found nothing to impede his march on
the Eternal City, all the people save one
"despaired of the Republic. For this
mark of confidence the hopeful old Roman
was suitably rewarded. We may go SC
far as to say that more fuss was made
over him than his obstinate refusal to be-
lieve the end had come really entitled him
to. All the other citizens, however, ''des-
paired of the Republic" and yet the
Republic was not destroyed. It lasted
some centuries after Hannibal threatened
it. It resolves itself, therefore. into a
mathematical problem: If Rome survived
two hundred years after all the citizens
save ore had given it up as lost, how long
will the United States survive in case Mr..
David Dudley Field is compelled to des-
pair of his country? The census tables
may be consulted with advantage to eluci-
date this highly important subject. AS
the answer in centuries will be in millions,
however, it is hardly necessary to wait
for it.
This fear and trembling business was
tried on Congress. That body ignored
the fears and disregarded the tears of all
the old slave drivers and their satellites,
and gave effect to the will of the people,
as embodied in the amendments, by de-
claring that in case State proved too
weak or too wicked to protect citizens of
the United States resident within its ter
ritory, the federal courts should take the
matter in hand A case has arisen which
presents all the features of one supposed.
Citizens have been killed in Louisiana be-
cause they were black and voted, and did
not vote the Democratic ticket. To pun
Ssh the murderers of innocent citizens
will, therefore, in the judgment of Mr..
Mari, upset all the State governments
more effectually than he did the govern
nent of his own State and send Mr..
David Dudley Fields country to everlast
ng perdition instanter.
We apprehend that Mr.. Marr's Estates"
S he understands the word, are already
s dead as a mummy, and Mr.. Fields
ountry SO completely changed from his
oyish impressions of it, as to be long
asst praying for.
Neither State nor country is worthy
f existence which can not or will not
rotect the lives, liberty and property of l
II its people. But neither of the pathetic
leaders before the Supreme Court want {
lch q government. They hold to the
Id Calvinistic doctrine that there are
,uls to be saved and souls to be damned. q
here are people "a few only, however, in t
very community to have all rights and t
rivileges and others to have none what q
yer. Their clients are people for whose
ghts they are contending. One of these b
ghts is to kill or Cypress the victims for a
hose murder they are arraigned. The \
tier were of course persons, not spec
e." They had no rights. To punish =
people" for killing persons" is, there
re, such an outrage on liberty as will il
oduce wreck of Mr.. Mars State gov 81
nments and a crush of Mr.. David Dudley W
eds country. g
We think it highly probable that such IL
II be the result in case the Supreme 81
urt of the United States shall decide II
is question according to the views en- al
tanned by Judge Woods and District p
torney Beckwith. The Supreme Court
II never have an opportunity to do OF
later or more needed work than to close OF
State governments as conceived by v6
} trembling Mari, or such country as d
, despairing David Dudley Field would til
Ike this to be if he can let his clients it.
urn in the enjoyment of the peculiar m
erty he claims for them. Such States as
d countries ought not to exist, and the pr
'ner they go the better. ra