Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-19
The Louisiana Compromise.

The opposition of the Democrats to
the resolution recognizing Mr.. Kellogg
as Governor of Louisiana shows their
desire to keep open the difficulties in
that State. The resolution does not de-
clare that Mr.. Kellogg was elected be-
yond question, but that, upon the whole,
and as the election of McEnery is quite
as much tainted with irregularity and
fraud, the person who has held the office
for two years, and whom the President
has recognized, shall he declared Gov
ernor de fdcto. Whatever we may have
thought, there seems to be no alterna-
tive. To order a new election raises
constitutional and practical questions
not easy to settle. To recognize Mem
cry is to overturn the existing order with
out any more reason than that order
offers for itself. To do nothing is to
prolong the evident mischief of uncer.
tainty. To abandon the State to violent
revolution is a violation of plain duty.
To recognize Mr.. Kellogg and to con-
demn the Board of Registrations is appar-
emily the only practicable course.
The weightiest reason for adopting it
is that it is the substance of the Wheeler
compromise, which has been approved
by majority of the caucus of McEnery's
partisans. This fact should be conclu-
sive with all good citizens, even If they
have doubted whether, under any cir
cumstances, the Kellogg administration
should be acknowledged. 1t is this ap-
proval also which makes the Democratic
action in the House more significant
That action was determined by the pro-
testing White League minority of the
caucus. Thus once more the Democratic
party in the Northern States, by the
virtually unanimous action of its repre-
sentatives in Congress, shows all its old
servility to the extreme fire-eatIng
Southern sentiment. And this is the
point which all intelligent men should
ponder. 1t is not Gov. Tilden and such
Democrats as Mr.. Thompson, who sue
ceeds Gen. Butler, who represent the
spirit and tendency of the Democratic
party. 1t is the White League and gen.
tlemen like Mr.. John Young Brown who
show what may be expected of Demo
cratic ascendency. 1t was not the
Girondists, the mild, honorable, judi
cious men of the French Revolution,
who controlled it, but Robespierre, Dan
ton and Marat.
This country has seen something of the
Democratic party when its Cabinet in
the White House was nest of traitor
GUS conspiracy; when its ex-President,
Pierce, wrote that the blood of the war
would flow in Northern streets; when
its Mayor of New \ ork, Fernando Wood,
tried 10 smuggle arms to rebels; when
its Governor of New York, Horatio Sey-
mour, in the midst of war, denounced
the Administration, and warned it that
the doctrine of public necessity could be
proclaimed by mob as well as by a
governmental direct Indictment, under
the circumstances, of the mob that nine
days afterward ravagod the city, the
country, we say, has seen something of
the Democratic party and knows that it
has been always controlled by its most
reckless and desperate element. And
now it is with the White League, with
the determination that in the unfortunate
exigency in Louisiana no kind of COM
promise or settlement shall be made
save that of a revolutionary overthrow
of the existing authorities, that the
Democrats in the House ally themselves.
This they DO when they are upon their
good behavior, when their policy is to
| play the part of Christian conciliation
The tendency is irresistible; and when
they control the House the same servili
| ty to the violence of their party will be-
tray itself still more.
The danger to the repose and prosperi
ty Of the country in the ascendency of q
| party whose most vital and resolute ele
Inent is composed of those who most re-
lentlessly hate the settlements of the
war, needs no emphasis. II is not neces
sary to suppose that they will take VI
arms. Should they acquire control o
the Government that would be needless
We have but to ask the man of any party
who sincerely wishes the honest observ
ance of the amendments what he think
the condition of the colored citiZen
would be in the Southern States with {
Democratic Administration in Washing
ton, coerced by the White League senti
ment that rejects the Wheeler compro
mise and dictates the policy to whicl
the Democratic members even now bow
down.-HGper's Weekly.