New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-17

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1t was to be remarked during the inque
& violence, Mr.. Potter. of the sub COMMITTEE
was usually prompt to object and that n
Phelps fatally reinforced the exception.
= Among the other witnesses, Distrit
Attorney Beckwith, who prosecuted til
rntfians of the Colfax massacre, sought, bu
was forbidden to relate what had falle
under his official cognizsnce. Wherefer
| insecurity Of Life and property hero tina
!, | before the war. II have been for years il
constant receipt of information as to in
! timidatiOn and abuse of the colOred people,
said Mr.. Beckwith. 1.-THE people of Alex
andria approved the Colfax massacre 80 ia
as it was a measure Of necessity" says tn
Democrat Luckett. ut might possibl,
have been imprudent for . Republican
| during the excitement Immediately follow
ing September IA to express dissatisfaction
I at the turn of matters" says the League
chief Ogden, with grim significance sou,
people are more prone than others o. sud
den acts OF violence" confessed BishoK
Wilmer. * would resist any kind OF
tyranny, and the general policy Of my pape,
7 the Shreveport Tines is to make radical
change in our government, even if it does
cost human life said the White League
scribe, Leonard. Yet despite such acknOwl
Judgements from the party Mr.. Phelps
seeks to befriend, despite the corroborative
evidence, which he strOve to exclude on the
/ Republican side, as to massacres, assassina.
tons, officials driven alike from their posts
and their parishes, and voters from the
polls and as to Statewide intimidation, he
concludes there is no greater insecurity
OF life and property than before the war.
"Call what intend to do
murder which thought q aacrifce
but in willfully saying too little he says BY
accident too much, since he gainsays the
lOudest pretext of the Democracy for its
| wrath; to wit, that the taxation wastes
property. One Of the most melancholy
tokens OF that party's wantoness appears in
its invoking the clergy to pronounce re.
mission Of its sins. whenever those sins be.
come notorious. Such an office several
compliant members of the cloth have re-
Gently attempted in a formal denial of
Sheridan's dispatches rejecting upon their
turbulent laity. One of the number, Will.
mer, an Episcopal bishop, went further and
declared full dissolution in the committee
room as well. The white Democrats are
not only inculpable but are in person in.
secure! Harmless lambs, with no jot of
w0lfish nature. During the few days in
which was in the city. prior to the fourth
Of January, l repeatedly heard threats of
assassinating the Governor, and regrets OK.
pressed that he was not killed on the four.
teenth of September; also threats of assass.
nation Of the Republican members Of the
House in order to secure the election of
Democratic Speaker" says Sheridan. 1t
might be snrmised that such threats, mt.
tered IN the unsupported presence of
General in civilians dress.
would falter on the lip in the presence of
bishop, and that therefore the latter might
be ignorant of the thirst for blood: but
Governor Kellogg was shot at last year,
the Colfax, Coushatta and New Orleans
episodes are bloody indelible facts Hang
kellogg-we'll. fight" were tho cries, as
the Picay'tne relates, of the September |
mob that made New Orleans q hell. Even |
sist with his sacerdOtal functions to raise |
his hands against the authors of such mis-
chief rather than in political benediction, !
and exclaim with the good friar:
Peace no for shame, confusou's cure lives not
In these Commissions.
Thy fault the law calls death.
He takes it for granted white man SUI.
fers disgrace for killing negro, and if for
political reasons, can imagine no greater 1
,rime," yet few months ago this same
bishop, at the head Of large number of
Democrats, rebuked such crime by person
My urging United States circuit Judge in
chambers to admit to bail the fourteen men
indicted as some of the inhuman butchers
III the COlfax massacre. The day after he
tood before the committee as witness. he
!onned his gown and cOnsecrated as priest
man who, on The fourteenth of September.
vas one of the armed mob that wrought |
uin. shame and death. 1T is esteemed less
crime to kill negro than a white man."
avs the prosecutor, Mr.. Beckwith, to the
and he might have cited the |
relates mediation in evidence of the fact.
nyylI rnIl -. |
Or more cOmplacent bishop! Queen Mary
ad priest that preached DOUBTS of he'll |
oiely to aliay her maiestys conscience But
ne bishop says 1.-THE condition of affairs
lay be corrected by more rigid admins
'atlon OF justice, by dealing with such ,
rlnes according to law, and showing that ;
acre is no hope of escape" True, but {
'arcely orthodox as a League tenet. and it 8
not singular therefore that as soon az !
heridan declares law should assert itself p.
pom the criminals. the bishop demonstrates I
telegraph against what he himself com. ,
ends. Nor does he fail to pronounce | !
+ the political dogma that sancti. :
IS massacre as defense, murder Is a
rtue, and intimidation as moral persua- .
IN; .! am opposed to universal suffrage 7
black man has no right to be man. I a
though the bishops God made him, he T
an attront that society may under per. r
anent dispensation, resent with the rife. .
q the League chiefs conduct their RI
onsor from the committee room as ! 4
loster led off his pair of bishops. ~
Come. let US to our holy work again - ~
r Mr.. Phelps to deny what witnesses on | hi
tn sides established and is so grievous a | b.
It that Sheridan feels compelled to | p
clare 1.-The insecurity OF life is hardly !
llized by the general government or the la
lntry at large argues an amazing solici. to
10 Tor the League which he might soon L.
We need to husband for himself were he | ia
a resident within it's brutal Jurisdiction
profess the Republicansm, it acclaims
for having surrendered. Its organ-the |
'ayune-remarks that his contribution in
iginal manuscript fOreshadOws a re-. to
ke, which the Republican party is 70,
nut to administer to the President.
len that party wants rebvke framed
such spirit. it will doubtless seek 1t a, TIL
t hand and from the League chiefs
mselves who could inform is with a at
sionate fervor that Mr.. Phelps, being WI
best scarcely more than honorary ito
m Der OF the League, does not exhibit. Tn
tut II the League holds his judicial see
per IN light esteem while glad OF his ser. tai
,se wrongs he Is so Indifferent and for act
I'M Sheridan has so nobly spoken, admit 70.
title to better respect than the League the
cedes. He is at least az good as are i.s off
nbers, though, as Mr.. Logan remarked reg
he Senate on the fifth instant, '.Those in
stand by these murderers are no better mil
1 the murderers Themselves The &C.
ID exult over his apology from the jury fro
in advance of his verdict. Sheridan are
ggerates not whit in his telegram TO
ee to the Secretary Of War to the effect | fin,