New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-10

OF Inc last Wb6Rs IL Will Do b6ou Luhb
opinions DIFFER considerably as to the
remedy for the ills of our body polite,
but they agree very generally as to the
revolutionary character Of the measures
taken by the Democrats last Monday to
obtain possession of the machinery of the
State government, and fail to express so
much indignation at the timely interior
ence of the military to prevent blOodshed
as would probably meet the wishes of our
Democratic friends:
From the Chicago Tribune.l
THE LOUISIANA CASE IN CONGRESS.
The question has now been brought
directly before Congress, and that body can
not afford to jeOpardize the peace OF the
country by any further postpOnement of a
| final settlement OF the whole question.
There seems to be necessity at this time
| for some measure such as was proposed by
Senator Carpenter two years ago, and that
| is the setting aside of the fraudulent cleo
ton of 1872, claimed by both factions,
and the holding of a new election
| throughout for Governor and State
officers, and for Legislature this cleo
| ton to be held under the supervision
| of such persons as may be designated for
that purpose by the act of Congress. free,
| fair election, with the returns canvassed and
| the result declared by a disinterested and in
| dependent officer, would give such a result as
would be accepted by the whole country as
| final, and would, of necessity, remove every
| pretext for disatfectiOn on both sides in
| Louisiana The country is tired of Louisiana
| civil war. The majority of the people
| there have the same right to rule as have
| the majority elsewhere, and when the
| State is in civil war, when there are two
| State governments each claiming to
| be the duly elected one. and when EACH
with great show of truth, charges the other
| with fraud, intimidation and corruption,
there is no solution of the difficulty 50
| reasonable and so appropriate as to have
| new election, free from control of either
faction and free of all suspicion of fraud,
and let the people of the State, who ought
to decide, choose their own officers Had
this been done in 1873, Immediately after
the shameful proceedings of December,
1872, there would have been peace in
Louisiana.
The only way to provide speedy and eff
fectual settlement of this Louisiana ques-
ton seems to us to be by holding a new
election, u der the official supervision of
| men in no v Sc connected with the present
difficulties, no will secure an honest and
tree express N of the public will. We are
glad to learr by the dispatches to-day that
| this opinioi, is shared both by President
Grant and by the Republican leaders in
Congress- Mr.. Hale, of Maine, actually
introduced in the House yesterday reso
luton instructing the Judiciary. Commit
tee to prepare a bill providing fol
a new election; and it is said that the
President will soon send to Congress a
special message, in which he will urgently
advise the passage OF such bill or thu
adoption of measures to sustain him in the
recognition and protection of the kellogi
government. By the result of an election
| I'll ha St1narvaiOn of COOurnsa al
parties will abide If, however, Congress
shall in 1875, as it did in 1873 adjourn with
out closing up this miserable and disgrace
full civil war, it will leave to the country
legacy of strife, discomfort and bloodshet
| which will extend to other States. Tn
| country demands peace, and has right Il
insist that Congress shall provide for tina
r peace in some legitimate manner consisten
] with the principles of free government.
From the st. Louis Democrat
AT JEFFERSON.
When the Legislature meets at Jefferso
CITY to-day, we hope that no Republica
i member will rise in his seat and nominal
g Mr.. Post for Speaker and declare hill
d elected. We hope that Mr.. Post will Nc
!, be at the Speakers desk, ready to seize tn
gavel and that he will not ObstlnateiY II
fuse to permit any roll call to decid
!. whether he has been fairly elected or no
9 We hope that the Republicans will not prt
l., | coed to decide, viva voee, and without a
instants investigation, every conteste
case, and thus vote into seats ten or
/ dozen men who have no legal right to then
T We sincerely hope, If the Republicans al
l. guilty of any such infamous behavior, thG
Sheridan or Sherman, or some other Gener;
of the United States army, will march u
h the hall with clanking sabre and put an en-
10 to the shameful farce.
- OF course, we do not refer to Louisiana
- We feel confident that the Republicans
this State, although much outraged, Wi
10 abide by the laws and preserve the peac
10 1t is true there are counties in which Den
- ocratic scamps have imposed upon the pc
10 pie taxes at least one-half higher than al
that have been levied by Republicans
l. any parish of Louisiana. But we trust K
publicans will obey the laws, and appeal
public opinion rather than to revolvers.
y Is true, there are threats of revolution
10 the air, and we are told that the constit
N tional convention will "make this State t.
n hot for any man who ever served in Il
{, Union army in Missouri" But let us n
g, begin as the Conservatives did in Lou
re iaHa-by insolent violation of law. Let G
s, lawfully elected and lawfully declar
4, members of the Legislature organize it
please themselves.
y, From the Chicago Post and MALL
Y sHERIDAN's POLICY.
N |
40 | the use of troops in behalf of order upon t
request of Governor Kellogg, was in {
cordance with the constitution and Law
but that it was a circumstance to be {
IN plored that such interference seemed to
d, necessary. Whoever made it neOessa
he ought to be punished. The cause of su
performances is more culpable than
M effect.
nc General Sheridan has, in our estimate
ed shown himself to be a statesman as well
Iii a soldier He advises such action on
part of the President or Congress as sh
put the criminals within the proper a
'n' normal condition of the military arm,
that arm must be used in all the politics
the South. He is right. Soldiers are pt
diplomatists, and are not at all adapted
either inaugurate or conduct political co
no promises. They are men to obey orde
iv- not TO reason why. Hence # a peoE
by through any cause, proves itself unable
~ maintain order, enforce law, and sec
as quiet, without the presence, and inter-
OF enee of tho army, it follows that that mi
the ference should be in a military way, Z
gu not in bastard, hypocrltieal, exasperati
of pseudo political way.
To- The false step at the South has been
attempt to use the bayonet as trowel "
Do which to spread the political mortar tina
CHI. TO cement the State. This is not the ust
,ro- the bayonst in q pre'millenntal state. |
made to stab men, and not to pin them
VIC gether like b0dkin. Therefore, If tro
are needed In Louisiana; II one OF tue an
and best generals Of the nation has Il
ordered from Chicago 10 New Orleans
direct their motions, it follows that ''sl
of peace" does not exist; that state 0
least constructive war does exist, and
the military force should be applied in
yyav 70 do the most good as an army,