Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-15
Order VS.. Liberty.

The best defence we have seen of the
course of Grant and Sheridan in Louisiana
we find in the wicked democratic Chicago
Times. The republican newspapers, even
those which stand nearest to the administra-
ton, have scarcely presented doc ent argu-
ment. The Times takes the ground that or
der is the first requisite TO any settlement OF
the vexed questions in Louisiana; that the
Kellogg party is apparently the orderly par
ty; and that the White Leagues, however
just ;heir complaints may bn, have appeared
rs disturbers of the peace. The Kellogg
government has shown itself incapl BILE of
preserving the peace. The White Leagues
say to the carpet baggers; Step down and
out, and we will make u Governm ent and
keep the peace" But this state of things
implies that only the form ofrepublican gov
erment exists, and the form without the cs-
sence is sham. One party is in possession
of the government, and can only he put out
of possession in regular and orderly way.
The other party has enleavored TO put it ont
IN disorderly way. This, we take, is the
strongest statement of Grant and Sheridan's
defence, in q few words But the Times log
ically argues that the true way is to set up II
military government in Louisiana, suppressed
ing both of the civil claimants We now see
where the Times would lead us. 1t makes
no account of constitutions and laws and the
right of local self-governmcnt 1t wants
declaration that republican reconstruction
and self-government are failures IN Louisi-
ana, and that the military despot must step
in and keep order. Are we prepared for thatP
Are we prepared to apply the same remedy
to every southern state, where there is oppo-
sition to the local government? Has recon-
struction been proved a failure? That argu-
ment may he made by wicked democrat
but do republicans agree TO 1t? And do Amer
lean citizens of any party agree that their
rights of local self-governmcnt are ut the
mercy of the army, without regard to the
safeguards Of the constitution? Gen. Buffers
| bill providing for Il new election in Louisiana
seems to us equally Objectionable w hat
right has Congress to order new election9
| What assurance has it that it will be con-
Quoted fairly while Grant still keeps Casey,
Packard & Co. in the federal offices in that
| SIllCF HOW WOlllu u lOuh iol NNiSiNao WV
der II new election after having willfully neg
| lected last year to decide whether the last
election was u valid one, though its attention
was twice urgently called to the subject We
recognize the right and duty of the preside mt
| to preserve order in Louisiana by proper
means. and when called upon in the proper
manner, but we do not recognize the right to
use federal troops to decide the organization
and composition of Il state legislature, while
there is u proper tribunal to decide all ques'
tons of that character. We do not believe
that Grant wants to be dictator, or anything
ofthe sort, but we do believe that his ignor-
aucc of constitutional principle has led him
into great blunder. In his desire to pre-
serve the peace he has forgotten liberty. Tho
order he and his Lieutenant would secure is
the order that reigned in Warsaw .-BOSton
| Herald