New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-25
| 0AsE OF DOMESTIC vi0IEHcE.

A CAsE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
President Grant has treated the Louisi.
ana question as n purely of domestic
violence against legal authority. Fo,
doing so, he has been censured in un.
measured terms by the whole Democratic
party. North andkSouth. Some Repub.
licans of the milder type have also fallen
into the old ruts made by the wheels Of
the State carriage which was driven in oul
grandfathers' days, and came very near to
taking sides in the contest with the tur.
bulent and White League element. The
whole matter has been thoroughly dis.
cussed by the people of the nation, and
was finally taken up reluctantly by Con-
gress. That high source of authority has
formally ratified and approved the Presi-
dents course, thus establishing the fact
that q clear case of instruction was pre-
sented in Louisiana, and the President
has done no more nor less than his duty
required in enforcing the laws by employ
ing the army and navy. This will go
down in u history as a precedent, and
afford a guide for future Presidents in
similar cases.
The whole policy of the Democracy has
been condemned, and their efforts to
upset this State government virtually
proclaimed revolutionary and illegal. We
do not apprehend there Will be any I'M
pleasant consequences to the persons en-
gagged in the rebellion, for the American
policy is to prevent rather than punish
crime. Doubtless the people who have
passively submitted to the protracted po-
litical upheaval have suffered severely
enough. With them should be left the
business of calling their weak and wicked
advisers to account. The results of bad
advice may be summed up.
1. The loss of SO, 900, 900 for repairing
our levees.
2. The failure of the canal bill and the
substitution of an expensive experiment,
controlled by the avowed enemies of this
port.
g.. Such an unfavo1able insight into the
character of the people Of Louisiana, as
will for some time to come discourage i'm
migration, capital and intelligent business
men from being sent here.
4. Antagonistic relations between the
employers and laborers of this State,
which are injurious to the interests of
both.
S. The fearful decentralization of the
young men, who have been withdrawn
rom industrial occupations and brigaded
n clubs, leagues, and similar organiza-
ions sustained by forced contributions
evied upon the mercantile classes.
Diminished crops of cotton, sugar, rice
to-, will surely mark the failure of the
leeded aid to the levees. Already thou
ards of acres of the best lands have
'een abandoned to the waste of waters.
and suffering, of which the
verage political professional man knows
title and cares less, sit upon the homeless
ictims of the irresistible tide hat rushes
own from the hills and valleys of the |
forth. Senators who were grieved to the
cry soul to hear certain political Grim
nails characterized as bandits refused to
ote al appropriation to save their fields
Tho Ao01 thar boroc f.o,o Joo4vro |
ION and their families from starving.
A decaying commerce has long called
oudly for improvements at the mouth of
ae river sufficient to admit the ships OF
II nations. The response is given in the
emission Of Mr.. Eads to trifle at the
expense with his %jetties, thus
utting off indefinitely the application of
plan approved by science and common
The other evils entailed upon us by the
at instruction extend to every
n%ancial, social and educational interest
l the State. We are hopeful hat many
f them will be cured by time. That the
lanter and the laborer will gradually
ome to a better understanding, and the
oung men be recalled from the streets,
to throw away their cigarettes
i'd revolvers, and provided with honest
And above all, let us hope
at the miserable chickering's between
asses shall cease. That the old citizen
az learn something from the energy Of
le new conner, whom he now disdainfully
CARDS as a carpet-bagger; the white man
Try his foolish antipathies to the negro,
i'd all resolve to live honestly and indie
EVIDENTLY, and let others do likewise.