The Van Buren press., 1875-02-23
New England Sentiment.

Inc boston A0YeTtlstr-lne oiu anu
reliable wheel horse of New England Re
publicanism-stll continues its plain
talk on the Louisiana question. Read
:he following:
1--WE have Republican executive and
a Republican congress. Whether the
one or the other is responsible, or they
share the responsibility, the Republican
party is responsible and cannot escape,
nor ought it to expect to escape, beng
called to account. One thing is plain
that either the president or congress
could at any time have corrected the
mistakes committed in Louisiana, and
neither has done it, Foisting the blame
from one to the other does not in the
least relieve the Republican party from
| its predicament The past negligence is
| shameful. Continued negligence will be
fatal The American people are not yet
so Indifferent to their heritage of constl-
tutiOnal liberty that they will stand by
unmoved while a state rs indepen Tent in
thirty six is repeatedly forced by the
army of the United States to submit to
the fraudulently imposed rule Of the mi
nority No excuse or apology for such
acts is Of any account when it is not &C.
componied by prompt correction Of the
wrong lone
I'VE know there are great perplexities
and embarrassments connected with this
question. The difficulties are vastly
greater now than they were two years
ago, but less nov than they VIII ever he
again. In our juAgment the simplest way
is the host. and NE simplest way would
appear TO be an instruction in some form
to the president that, in the Judgment of
congress, the use Of the army to sustain
in office men who were not elected, or to
keep out of Office men who were elected,
is repugnant to the principles OF republi
can government and to the sentiment of
the nation If it is necessary to designate
the particular cases, let it be done.
"The politics of these people have no
thing to do with the question. The Re
| publcans of Louisiana acquire no rights
on account Of their Republicanism, and
the Democrats lose no rights on account
of their Democracy. 1t is not for con-
gress to consider what stripe of politi-
C ans the people ought to have chosen for
| legislators, but who, in fact, were legally
chosen. We should have been glad if
the people of Louisiana had chosen a Re
| publican governor, and so we should
have been glad if the people of Massa-
chusetts had chosen a Republican COVER
nor. But we believe that in both in
stances they failed to do it, and we no
more approve the imposition Of COVER
nor not chosen in the one case than in the
other If such a thing has been done,
the sooner the work is undone the better.
| II the Republican party has ben guilty
of doing it, and sustaining it, no matter
by whose agency or under what provoca-
ton, every consideration of patriotism,
and of party policy as well, requires it to
take the back track. -
Those who think such seed as this
drilled into Yankee soil will not produce
bountiful harvest do not understand the
disposition OF the. Yankee race. The
truth is that the Louisiana business, com
ing as a sort Of supplement to the presi.
dents abuse Of Sumner and his support
of Butter, has broken the back Of thJ
RtAf H9lHt Hct people M fGr re- re election t TO
day, supposing a reasonably decent can
didate opposed him, we believe he would
lose every New England state and be
beaten in Massachusetts by majority OF
twenty thousand. Our Yankee brethren
have no more use for him or his st
Louis Republican.