The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-05
THE POLITICAL QUESTIONS.

The great political questions which have
agtated the country and divided congress,
since the first of January, have been the
affairs of Louisiana, growing out of the ac-
ton of the returning board and of General
de Tiobrland Arkansas affairs, arising
from the action of the people of that state
in adopting new constitution, and as pre-
scented by the report of Judge Poland and
the remarkable message of the president
and the force bill, placing it in the power
of the president to suspend the privileges
of the writ of habeas corpus in Ibis dscre-
ton The views of the administration
have been well understood. 1t sustained
the action of the returning board, eXercis-
ed, if 1t did not justify, the acts of General
de Trobriand, recommended the recogn-
ton Of Brooks as governor of Arkansas,
and the overthrow of the new constitution
and the government elected and established
Hereunder, and favored the enactment of
force bill even more stringent in its provi
sions than the one that passed the house.
We have not left our readers unaware Of
our opinions upon these questions. We
have not hesitated to oppose the one and
all, or take issue with the administration
thereon. We have not hesitated to de-
nounce these acts, or proposed acts, as un-
necessary, unwise and Illegal if not uncon-
stitutional and revolutionary We have
opposed these acts, or proposed acts, for
these reasons, and because we believed
them to be dangerous to the peace of the
country. We haye advocated a counter
course in the interest of peace, reconcilia-
ton and good government. We have based
our opposition on these reasons and have,
also, argued the selfish motives Of party in
terest, of party success and of party sal
walton. Although believing, as every one
shonld, that country should be placed be
fore party, yet we have been anxious for
the rebuilding of the republican party, be.
lieving as we do, that, under the existing
state of affairs. the hopes of the country
rest upon that partys success. Wrong ac'
ton could not save it, could not restore il
to full power. could not commend it to the
confidence of the country. Handicapped
as it would have been with advocacy Oh
adoption of these measures, what hopes wert
there that it would win the great race O
1876? Small indeed, and they wer
growing smaller by degrees and beautiful,
less. We could not accept the dogma tina
the administration was the republican par
ty, any more than we could that othe
dogma that the administration was tn
country, and we have not hesilated to sa
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Now we wish to ask our readers, espeC
tally our republican readers, whether W
were right or wrong in this course Di
we become any the less republican by s
doing? Did we not, the rather, show oul
self the better republican ? We ask thes
questions, not because we have any doul
on the subject, but because we are awar
any honest opposition to measures pre-
posed by the administration, or even {
measures supported by Ben Butler, with
out straightway discovering that the part
ia assaied, and that such opposition show
weakness of party ties and in fact,a lea
ing of the party. All such we respect {
men, but we have no confidence in the
opinions To all such We commend IL
letter of Henry Wilson. To all such "
would say that congress, or the country
has indicated our repubicanism, if Wind
cation was needed, and we refer them |
the facts. How is it with Louisiana
What has become Of Logan's 'mob'
How is the action OF the returning boai
disposed of? Where are the legislator
whom de Trobriand elected from the ha
of the Louisiana house of representatives
Let congress answer. The national houi
of representatives have unanimously n
solved that the action of the returnin
board was illegal and have, with like unal
unity, "recommended"-wh was all
could do-that the ''mob" the unseatcd an
dispersed legislators be restored to or give
seats in the Louisiana legislature, and d
clared that they were legally elected men
bers of that body, and illegally and unjus
ly deprived of their seats. AS matter (