New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-14
my MARYLAND"

A recent voice from ''My Maryland
has thrown the New York World and kin
dred papers into ecstacies over the wha
they no doubt desire to regard, and would
have the people believe, is genuin'
Frightening of the Democratic prospec
in the Presidential campaign. The voic,
that has proved SO musical and given 81
much consola ton at time when the De
mocracy stands SO sadly in need of con
dolement, Gomez from of Maryland's- 81
! we can believe the World-most gifted
| sons, Mr.. S. T. Wallis, who was sud
denly, and Unexpectedly, of course, called
upon to address Louisiana indignation
meeting" held in B altimore on the fif
teenth of last January. This Mr.. Wallis,
whom, it is possible, may be descendent
of the brave and eloque MT Sir William
Wallace, though our N odern hero spells
his name differently from the great
Scotch hero, is a man of far more than
ordinary parts, if the public can fairly
judge him by what he says Of him.
self. In the opening Of his address
upon the occasion referred to
this oily-tongued gentleman said he was
particularly unfit at that time to do the
little justice that he might ordinarily be
able to do to the question before the
meeting; for, he said, it was but an hour
or two since he had returned from two
days absence from Baltimore, during
which time he had been engaged i'll severe
professional labor. Therefore, he had
neither voice nor strength to speak to the
Democrats of Baltimore as he could de-
sire Yet in this weak and exhausted con-
estimation of the World, a giant effort,
that made him worthy to take rank with
the great men of the world And, strange
to say, this Democratic prodigy, in de-
Tending the outrages of men in the South
allied to the Democratic party, presumed
to plant himself upon the constitution
and laws Of the country. He actually
spoke as if the Democratic party in the
South was the upholder of the con-
stitution and laws, and all who
opposed that party were opposed
to them, ard were endeavoring to
overturn the free institutions Of the coun
try; spoke, il his weak and exhausted
condition, a very long and narrowing
speech to prove that the intention of the
founders of the great American Union was
to give ia government of law, and not
government of force" This declaration
may have driven the World to the conclu-
sion that what Mr.. Wallis said was said
80 scholarly, so simple, yet so earnest
ly'' that it deserved something more than
passing notice: and if Mr.. Wallis
is really so simple as to think, after what
has transpired in the Old and New World,
that there can be a government of law
without government Of force, he is far
more simple-or crazy-than the widest
Plug-ugly that ever disordered Baltimore
society, or the most bloodthirsty White
Lacquer in Louisiana who has raised his
arm to strike down both constitution and
laws. This simple-minded Wallis would
teach the people to believe that somebody
is endeavoring to make the civil authority
in this country subordinate to the mill
tary. If there be any truth in this asser-
ton it will be found to be confined to the
efforts Of the Southern Democracy, since
1861, to break down, by military force,