New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-17
STABILITY OF THE UNION.

tional parties now struggling for SUI
premaey,
l. There has been general determine
ton to protect the emancipated from the
lawless designs of the Ku-hlux. Thi!
, made the reconstruction acts and the
Carolina State trials and convictions
under those acts.
2. We have heard a general sentiment
of sympathy for the Carolinas and
Georgia plunged into ruinous debt by q
dishonest political combination.
3. The lawless violence Of Co!fax
Coushatta and the like, sustained the
administration in preserving the Peace
during the recess of Congress and led to
the committees and the louisiana COM
promise.
1. The appeals of those who claimed a
right to violate the law because they said
the law did not do them justice, received
a certain aid from the Northern Democ-
racy, but the abuse Of that higher law
and notification theory in Mississippi and
Georgia has occasioned a reaction. Under
this the higher law men Of Mississippi are
taking test mony to prove that they are in
state of entire obedience and order.
/ 5. The eclectic or latter-dayy Democracy
started an uncommonly popular schedule.
They dead-headed the most opposite par
tisans, and bestowed upon each, in addi-
ton to free ride, ticket i'll
the grand gift enterprise of one hun
dred thousand offices, priced from
the pay Of the President down to the per-
quisites of lobby porter. They put up
the uncle of my nephew, loaded and COW
cred head and ears with greenbacl,s in
| bundles. This, like so much fodder, he
was scattering to the sheep who followed.
The nephew of my uncle, on the other
hand, was lecturing to another crowd
upon transparency OF the old hero jack
son. He was depicted as Pumping down
solid stack Of gold eagles and pointing
derisively to a flight OF rag phantoms
swept away by the breeze Of panic.
The New York Herald is a sort of po-
litical Old Probabilities. 1t has no po-
litical principles, perhaps little sincere
sympathy with OF confidence in the form
of government, but it notes the GIRO
c,uutH of the clouds, and tests the cleo
trical currents of our political atmosphere
and so makes an average accuracy of pre-
diction. No partisan can be prophet.
This Old Probabilities is out in series
of admonitions to the Southern Democ-
racy, tor which it has always shown as
much regard as it could afford 1t COM
pares the recent conduct of Mississippi
with that of Georgia; cites the violence
in Coushatta as specimen of disregard
of law and commends ''the substantial
and law-abiding citizens who kept the
control OF affairs in their own hands,"
while in Mississippi these sit still and
suffer the lawless class to do its murderous
will"
And then comes the moral of this
admonition;
This is a bad thing Just now in several
ways. Ia the first place it is easy 10 see
that such brutality as this Clinton outrage
Is OF the greatest use TO Northern dema-
gogues who want to ''hoist the bloody
shirt" The white people of Mississippi
ought to understand that the Northern
people are very impatient under such
things. They do not wish the Leaf t harm
here to say that the war is over, and to
let bygones be bygones. But such out.
RACES as that of the fourth of July at
Vicksburg, and at Clinton on Saturday
arouse bad blood here in the North
We remarked the other day that the folly
of the Ohio Democrats was soaring the
people back int the Republican party, and
was putting that party into the hands of its
least scrupulOus men, But these Mississippi
brutalities do even more than Allen and
PendletOn to this end. Again, the whites of
Mississippi would do we'll to remember that
1t is not prudent to gOad even long subject
and naturally mild race to extremes. By
such wanton attacks on peaceable colored
people as are but too trequeh there they are
arousing devil that some day may rise
upon them in fury. They can not go on for
ever permitting injustice and outrage to-
ward weaker race. Already in this Gin
ton affair We see the marks of bad blood
among the blacks.
The general intimation is that the people
ooW be obeyed, For the first time, per-
haps, in our history it can fearlessly en-
force itsprinciple of popular justice. The
republic is respected abroad. The people
are supreme at home, They have no need
of favorites, and do not care to be both
cred with pets, and still less with political
pensioners. The Democratic and Repub-
lican parties have each in their day rend-
cred great service to the people, but they
have been very we'll paid for it by the ap-
proval of the people. The services of the
Republican party have been the most
recent, and no doubt the most lasting,
but the brave Republican will scorn to
presume on that, and the bogus Repub-
lican need not.
The Democratic party comes up like old
Falstaff to King Henry and is rebuked for
its audacious iniquity.
We make no further application of this
national attitude than to remind all con-
cerned, without regard to their political
antecedents and accidents, that the
American people intend to inaugurate
their second century with honesty, order
and obedience to law. When this great
event shall occur those will be very foolish
people who have not filled their lamps
With tho oil IF iptoor;fxy opI xl,,r ...o