New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-12

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Legislature and they are entitled to the
supremacy. It is in their behalf that
the federal government interfered when
the Democrats endeavored to wrest the
| Legislature from them, and it is
about certain that they approve the act
| most heartily. We are too apt to forget
them in view Of the prominent position as
sumed by the Democratic agitators. But
! the federal authorities are bound to protect
| them, and this obligation becomes more
! sacred in view Of the fact that because most
of them belong to a weaker race, the Dem.
! Ocrats have trampled upon their rights,
| subjected them to iendish persecution. and
! in some cases made their friends the vic.
Tins Of inhuman butchery. General Sher.
idan perceives these facts; he recognizes
| the existence of the great masses who are
silent in this desperate struggle, and he
sympathizes with them in their sufferings.
The body Of loyal American people can not
afford at this day to withdraw their sym.
pathy and support from these persons, and
to give approval to the outlaws who assail
them. And to promote the cause Of Justice
only one thing can be done by the people:
that is to give their hearty Endorsement to
the policy OF the President and to the law.
full acts done IN Louisiana under his author.
;ty.
iFrom the Chicago Tribune.i
BEAT THEMSELVES
The attempted organization of the Louis.
lana House OF Representatives by the Dem.
ocrats is striking instance Of how fraud
sometimes Overreaches itself.
The simple fact OF the case is, that the
Democrats had ali the advantages of the
first organization. and threw them away in
their greed and precipitancy. When the
Legislature assembled there were only lO4
members present. There were five vacan.
cies left undetermined by the Returning
Board; two Republican members were un.
accountably absent. Had the Den ocrats
proceeded in the form of law they would
could have elected their Speaker. and
could then have seated the five Demo-
Gratis in the vacant places, thus secur.
ing a majority of seven. Instead of
| doing this, they proceeded to organize
with a rush and yell. Mr.. Wilt sprang
to the chair and seized the gavel, as
though moments delay would lose it.
Then came another yell, and five more
Democrats, without any evidence of cleo.
vacant seats. There was no law nor pre-.
cedent for such mob-proceedings. The
Democrats knew it, and called in General
De Trobriand to employ United States
troops 70 protect them from loyal interior.
erce. Had the Democrats beel deliberate
and lawful in their proceedings, the mill.
tsry aid which they first invoked could not
have been turned against them. Indeed,
had they proceeded lawfully they would
not have felt under the necessity Of calling
in the military at all.
This is the actual case. upon which the
Democrats throughout the country have
based their wholesale denunciation of Pres.
ldent Grant and General Sheridan. There
has been a perfectrus among the ambitious
partisans as to priority in this pell-mell
abuse. Mr.. Beck. who wants.to lead the
Democrats in the House, jumped at rash
conclusions, and had resolution at hand.
Some Of the patriots Of New York city.
whose names always head calls for mass
meetings. have demanded popular demon.
stration. The Democratic State Central
Committee OF this State have sounded the
tocsln." Memphis wanto to fire the heart
of the people. Various Democratic Legis.
latures have gone off at half-cock. The
Governor of Ohio. with the og-horn voice.
has sent special message to the Legisla.
ture of that State. The Bourbon press
throughout the country are bristlins with
the Suills of the tretful porcupine. And now.
when the clouds of excitement clear away,
the Democrats must make the humiliatinp
admission that the fault is all their own.
To briefly recapitulate the whole story, it
must be confessed that, first, the Democrats
IN the Legislature proceeded unlawfully:
second, they called in the soldiers to pro-
tect them in their unlawful proceedings;
third. the military, having been called by
them, was subsequently used under the
Governors orders to defeat their illegal
purpose: fourth. Governor Kellogg only did
what Speaker Wilt had done; and fifth,
neither President Grant nor General Sheri.
dan had anything to do with the matter.
For all the rest. the hot French and Creole
blood in Louisiana and the eagerness of
Northern Bourbons for political sensation
must be held to account.
From the Cincinnati Times:
THE REAL ISSUE N LOUISIANA.
We desire to address few solemn, sin.
cere words of warning TO that portion OF
the Democratic press which is vOciferating
now as it did in iS6G-Gl. agains. the use Of
the executive arm in REFRESHING rebellion
against the constituted authority in a
Southern State. The trouble, pregnant
with the gravesc peril. Is .his-that they
will no: face the issue that is involved. 1t
is our purpose now, as it has been so many
times before. to face it honestly and clear.
~ before them.
They make mol pretext that the course Of
the rebellious element at the South-they
call them conservatives" we 'White
Leaguers"-is pro .Formd according 70 law.
revoiutionary-the use Of force to 0verturn
a de facto government. They ''confess and
avoid" upon the plea that the local govern.
ment is oppressive. destructive of the best
interest Ut the State and seated through
fraud.
Avoiding entirely the PLAIN requirements
of the constitution tina: the federal govern.
ment shall come to the support of State
government that is unable to execute the
laws in its own domain. they demand that
the people of the State shall be left to settle
their own affairs, and cry out with tho old
rage at federal interference.
Now the constitutional amendments which
resulted from our late war created in Louis.
lana a body Of voters tcolOred) who out.
numbered the white voters by from $4,000
TO 1900. To :hesa were added the white
Republicans Of the State and those who
have imnigrated to j: since. and upon the
other side were arrayed the Democratic
element. These figures. not to be gainsayed.
dissipate a: once the pre:ext OF fraud in the
election of the Republican government: in
Louisiana. There's no fact mora clearly
established in :hsDpolitics Of our country
than that that government has in its sup.
port very large majority OF the presen:
voters of the State.
Into the other claim-that the Republican
rule in Louisiana has been oppressive and
in)urlous~Wo 90 NOT propose TO enter.
Much of the evil has been exaggerated.
much attributed to the present government
which was the work of the last, whose lead.
ers are now made henchmen of the "Con.
sentative" party, much the direct result of
the violence that the ''Conservatives'' re.
sorted to. But granting-the more clearly
to present the issue-au the damage that is
claimed, it, if it exists, is the natural and
inevitable consequence Of the vast chsnge