The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-17
GEN. EARLY.
A Stirring Letter-The Gallant Old Sol
der Refuses to Join New Party,
but Stands by the Democracy.
Sometime since, the telegraph furnished
the newspapers with the following:

Union Party, to the number of fifty, met {
their rooms this evening. letter was rea
from Col. T. R. Stockdale, of Mississippi, e.
pressing his cordial sympathy with the ne
party movement, and pledging hearty CT
operation. Also a long letter from Gen. .
A. Early, of Virginia, expressing the sam
sentiments.
When this paragraph met the eye OF Ger
Early, that infexible old patriot furnishe
the Lynchburg Virq;nian with the letter of in
vitation sent him from Boston, and the lette
he wrote in reply. We commend the COZ
respondence as first-rate Sunday reading
BOSTON, August 26, 1875.
Gen. Jubal Early:
Dear GeneraI-We very much desire you
presence at public meeting to be held il
Faneuil Hall, Boston, September 10, whel
Gen. Banks and others will speak. We CAT
pay your expenses and give you such recep
ton as will do the whole land good.
l inclose the basis of the movement as ex
pressed in q circular" Reconciliation an(
Honest Government is the issue.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours, in behalf of the State Central Com
mittse of National Party.
" RUSSELL Fl. CoNwELL.
LYNcHBURG, Va, Aug 80, 1875.
Dear Sir Il have the honor TO ackuo Wedge
the receipt of your favor OF the 26th inst, con
veying to me, on behalf of the Massachusetts,
State Central Committee of the National Party
an invitation to be present at public meet
ing in Faneuil Hail. Boston, on the 18th Of
September, and I return my sincere thanks
for the courtesy thus extended to me, and fol
the polite terms in which the invitation is
couched. am, however, compelled to de-
cline it, if for no other reason, business of q
professional nature will necessarily detain me
in Oinio ho uh 01 Of
TENDER; but there are other considerations
which, in my estimation, render it improper
for me to participate in the intended demon
Stration, even if it would be entirely con-
venient for me to visit Boston on that occa-
sion, and trust you will not misinterpret my
motives if undertake to state few OF them.
From previous notices which l have seen
in the papers, and from the statements in
your letter, understand that the object of
the movement in which you are engaged is to
inaugurate new party to supercede the two
parties at present prominent in the politics of
the country, and that the proposed new party
is to be based on the issue OF Reconciliation
and Honest Government" Now, both recon-
citation and honest government are very de-
sirable things in themselves and the latter
especially is much needed in the coutry at
large, and every part of it, at this time, but
they are rather vague terms and can be vari-
ously interpreted, according to the different
structure of mems minds.
Reconciliation, to be of permanent avail,
must be not only reconciliation of the peo-
pie Of the different sections 10 each other,
but reconciliation Of ali sections and States
to the forms, principles, and administration
of the governments in all its Departments.
II the Government of the United States is
to remain, as the party at present having
charge of its administration have sought to
make it, q consolidated central government,
with power to override the State Governments
and reconstruct them at will, whenever the
interests Of the dominant party may be SUBJ
served thereby, the people of the Southern
States can never be reconciled to il, though
from necessity they are compelled to &C.
quiesce: nor can they be reconciled to the
people who thus snbvert the principles of the
constitution as it was when assented to by
their ancestors
So, too, if the government IS to be con-
verified permanently into consolidated GEN.
traiized despotism, more honesty in the ad-
ministration Ct its offices and finances, if that
were possible under such a government,
would amount to very little-nay, such gov
eminent honestly administered, that is, adj
ministered with a rigid adherence to the prip-
ciples upon which it is founded, might be all
the more intolerable for that reason For in
stance, if the Government at Washington
were impartially and honestly to apply the
enforcement laws to all the States, and exer-
else the same supervision over the elections
and organizations of legislative bodies in the
States of the North and West, that has been
exercised in Louisiana and some other
Southern States, imagine that the Pc 'ple in
your section would begin TO realizs the fact
that they have aided in establishing q most
intolerable despotism.
e
States army were to make his appearance in |
the House of Representatives Of Massachu-
sets, with squad of soldiers, to arrest and |
drag the Speaker and other members from
their seats, there would be a commotion in
Boston far exceeding that caused by the ap-
pearance of Capt. Preston with guard, on his
way to protect the sentinel placed ever the
chest of the customs; and the advent of
Sheridan to overawe the citizens of Massa-
chusetts would cause Faneuil Hall to reverbe-
rate with tones of denunciation surprising
those hurled against the comparatively gentle
Gage-that is, if the spirit Of Warren, OF the
Adamses and Of Hancock still survives
The only true mode of effecting genuine re-
Cancellation is by restoration to all the
States of the control of their domestic affairs,
and by placing them all on basis of entire
equality, according to the original design of
the fathers of the Constitution, so that Loui-
siana and her sister States of the South shall
enjoy the same right Of unrestricted self-gov-
eminent that is enjoyed by Massachusetts, and
the other New England States. Until this is
done, it will be idle to look for genuine stable
reconciliation nor is honesty in its admins
tration to be exposed until the government
itself is confined strictly within the limits as
signed it by the Constitution. When the gov
eminent recklessly disregards the restrictions
imposed upon it by the charter under which
it was 'orgapized, honesty on the part of off
cials and agents is not to be expected.
Now, though before the late war between
the States / was a decided and consistent |
member of the Wing party, from the time |
was old enough to feel any interest IN public
affairs until its collapse, l am firmly con-
WINGED that the Democratic party, as at pres |
emit organized, is the only one whose princi- |
Piles and policy can give any hope of a resto-
ration of the rights Of the States and return |
of the Federal Government to its ancient
integrity; and, therefore, standing with the
nj "a raopla If my State T will uya my SIM.