The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-02-10
Grant and Louisiana.

t New ORLEANS, January 1G.-The lie
slers who participated in the 14th
September massacre in this city will !
} called as witnesses before the Congre
sional Committee by Republicans, al
if they admit that they fired shot, the
l will be arrested on their own admi
sions and tried. If this is done, I'll
$500 participants will raise storm, fc
such arrest would not be quietly e,
dured. "These men are guilty of mu
der, and the Republicans will take tn
offensive and try to have them punisl
ed."-[Special Dispatch to the Chicag
Inter-Ocean.
This dispatch is not the first, no
the second, but it is the most distinc
intimation we have had of the length
to which the President of the United
States is prepared to go in the pros
ecution Of his scheme of sustainin.
his brother-in-law and his brother
in-law's party in Louisiana. Here i.
a purpose plainly avowed of goadins
the people Of Louisiana into resis
lance, and then using their resistance
to most damhable tyranny as
pretext for submitting them to fresh
outrages.
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We pray our readers not to under.
estimate the significance of this
The Chicago Inter Ocean is the most
thoroughly going advocate of Grant
ism in the Western States. 1t is not
necessary to suppose that this partic-
ular dispatch was inspired by the
President or any one Of his bad and
trusted advisers. 1t is sufficient to
remember the position of the paper
in which it appears, and the relations
OF that paper to the Administration.
This is what one of Mr.. Grants chief
partisans thinks will be pleasing to
him. That gives it significance
enough. just as we know that the
advocacy of Grants third term pro-
ject by that little ridiculous paper,
except for its relation with the White
House Of no account whatever, is
pleasing to Grant or it would be dis
continued, bv the same token we know
that what is said in the paper from
which we quote would not be said if
it were once found unpleasing to
Grant.
Nevertheless there are people who
will receive such an announcement as
this with incredulity, finding it as
impossible as it ought to be to disbe-
lieye it. What reason have they for
their incredulity? Wherein is this
proposition more atrocious than that
made by the Northumberland, and
thoroughly approved" by the Presi-
dent, to declare these same men s'ban-
litti." Is it not in the same line
and to the same effect? Does it not
explain the suggestion made by one
Of the non-political organizations of
the men Of New Orleans, in their pro-
test against the reckless ISLANDERS of
Sheridan, that those ISLANDERS were
orearranged between himself and the
President, to be repeated by him as
IF his own observation?
We have said, and we say again, |
hat there is no reason except the
lopelessness of resistance why the
nen Of Louisiana should not resist
o the death the foul and sordid ty-
amy which is put upon them. The
dispatch we quote only enforces what
las all along been evident, that if
here is method in the madness of
Grant, his design is to put new out
ages upon them until he has goaded
hem beyond forbearance. Has any
Republican voice been raised in Con-
,ress against this odious scheme and
he odious measures by which Sheri-
AN has striven to enforce it? Not
ne. Even the Republicans in the
ress whose generous indignation for
he first few days after Sheridan's
lander made itself heard in behalf
f law and liberty, have mostly train
d themselves since to stlfe their
lmericanism in behalf of their par
and to swallow their dis f,
ust.
There is only one effective remedy.
he troops which, ever since the .
FETCHED fraud by which the Kellogg .
abal obtained power in Louisiana, ,
ave been kept in that State to over
We the righteous indignation of its
aople, must be withdrawn, and the :,
aople of Louisiana be left to govern
lemselves. Of course this will not
lit the President. The "King's +,
lends" are strong in Louisiana on
in impudence and INSCRIPTIONS !,
ess. If Federal bayonets were
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