The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-20
EXTREME MEASURES OPPOSED
BY THE RADICALS.
"Mean" Course is Preferred to Boil.
ster UP the Carpet.Bag Policy.
Grant an Object of Distrust.
lFrom the New York Uerald.l

From the New York Herald
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The opposition to ez
IRENE measures has considerably Increased in ths
House since the Arkansas message appeared
There are Republican members who favor strone
legislation, who yet are shocked at the Preel
dents tone and do not any longer lik to tru q
great and unlimited pow rs in his hands
The Arkansas and Louisiana Committees wher
their reports discussed, will give occasion
for the utterance OF feelings which have been
long pent up. and an ATTEMPT will be made IL
rescue the Republican party from the position
in which the President has placed it. Il for one,
said republican yesterday, in conversation,
am not content to see my party used a. tail to
the Presidents kite We cannot afford to 60 the
way be IS steering. The count will not stand
it." Another said, "bad as Andy johnson WIS.
he, at least, regarded constitutional methods.
He was a tiresome creature, with bis consti-
tuition, but he safe
This man goes the other way and it is not q
safe way. We have gone far enough and we
ought to tie up before the boat goes farther. for
his drift is danScrous.' s. don't mind diving
but don't want to die like a dog in ditch, .
said Life long and Jealous Republican,. eff the
party has done Its work and must die, all right ::
| but don't ike to see it 20 down dishonored and
stained There Is great deal Of private talk of
! this kind aud the opportunity is near at hand
when ii Will be heard openly On the floor of the
House.
1t needs only fair opportunity If the carpet
bag Republicans were out Of the way it is even
possible that an attempt wGuldbe made to repeal
the Enforcement acts, and it is certain that many
Republicans would vote for such a repeal rather
thsn trust the President in the absence of Con.
gress and with the temper he has recently shown
with such powers as the caucus bill proposes and
as the Arkansas message shows that he would
use without stint.
The Revolutionary Caucus Measure De-
Eounced.
The revolutionary scheme connected by the Re
publican House caucus is not unlikely to STIR up a
breeze. The moderate Republicans, who have
been deeply alarmed at the tone of the Presi-
dents Arkansas messa6 sc, and at the avowed plans
OF the Brooks faction to drive out Garland when
Congress adjourns, and their confidence that
the President will help them. are not inclined to
trust greater powers in the Executives hands. |
1t has become generally known that the President
did call t. him the Republican members of the
Arkansas Committee and that he tried to impose |
upon them his views, which he expressed in vehe |
ment language, declaring that unless Brooks was
made Governor OF Afkai sas the whole of the |
Southern States would be lost to the Republican |
party III the next election. This attemp to Iuhu-
ence the verdict OF d committee of Congress sent
to investigate facts and report upon them and to
influence them to make partisan report for par
tlsan purposes, has aroused ndgnation and
alarm. Many Republicans feel that it is not safe
TO leave the Arkansas matter open. They fear
that unless Congress positively recognizes the
present government the President will, under
the lead of bad men who surround him not hest.
tate to act, even without warrant of law
Ten years after the surrender Of ADponattox-
ten years after the close Of the great war-the
party which has been uninterru otedly in power
since 1861 proposes this monstrous and uncon.
legislation Is 1t not startling? Is it
lot shameful?
The Republican party i'll Congress has among
ts members many Of the ablest statesmen OF the
and; Does any one pretend that the PROPOSE
ion has their approval? No; it is proposed, it
5 urged, it is pressed by the bummers the
langers-on of the party, by Southern members
Who have no constituency, by Northern mem
oers whose political career ends on the 4th of
,iarcll, by the adTenturer element which remains
o us from the war
But Is it not time for the decent members of !
he Republican party 10 assert themselves and to
ut down the camp followers who speak in their
lame II any Eep-bcan Is attached to hs party .
nd hopes for 1t an honorable future or any '
nture at all, it is h Oh time for him to speak.
[ this wild scheme is brought before the House
Is not tor the Democrats to oppose It, Let them d
ut the responsibility where it Belongs 1t is for |
be Republican leaders-the BlaiHes the Halqs |
he Daweses the Wizards the rhepees-t rise in !
heir places and declare that they are the Repu5 |
can party, and that they not concerned in II
us conspiracy against the public lib rtes and Il
ne pubic safety. 1t belongs to them to de- d
ounce H. not as lndivlduais but in the name of {
he Republican party. They have been silent s
'nS enough; u5t as long as the country will II
ear. If they are not bold ard outsloken they V
Jay as well die, for their political careers will be )
nded IN disgrace. G
The country will not forgive the carpet -baeeers b
nd adventurers who have concOcted ana who q
Vor tins shameful proposition; but it will for
we sui less those men OF honorable fame who ?
l3n no" pass II by III silence, or with a timid ~
ld falterbS opposition. Ii these men are wise |!
ley Will not suffer the infamous caucus bill
icy Will meet It in the House, and condemn it d.
the name Of the party whose leaders they a.
plre to be. W
The object Of this extraordinary measure is not =
correct an existing condition of disorder, but "
tenslbly to provide for disorders which may az
open hereafter. II IL Intended to give the oI
'esldent supreme power dur ng the vacation of u
'nsTess and virtually to place at his feet the sA
'Slslatures and the Governors of sll the States I"
other words, it is created for political pur- III
ses, and not to NEST any practical necessities ~
the country VI
We have said that the country will not forgive fly
c men who have concoctcd it in CAUCUS and a.
may now ada that it will not forgive the man 81
10 inspired that caucus. There is good reason
believe that this scheme for establishing mar
Jaw throughout the country IL time OF peace
s proposed to the Republicans by the Presi- th
Mt hIm5el', and that his influence will be ey
ed to carry 1t through Congress. This is va
de Probable by the fact that he al jne is to EOS, Va
IS and exercise the unconstitutional authority at
BID proposes to confer. III
t this belief be true then the peon'e VIII ho an
ced to receive the attempt as new Step in the Ide
rlgue for third term. The Preside t is con- sci
ucting ladder upon which he expects to wa
unit to imperial heights of power. and Louis mt
a, Nicksburg, Arkansas, and martial law in no
South, are but some Of the ruins on which sel
feet are placed. The people of the United lot
tes, however, may say, Hichelieu said of tht
radas, g But | hold the ladder. and wien I co.
Ike he falls. y J. Ha'ald, 18Th inst
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HEAP, CHEAP Beautiful bows, TWENTY-FIVE He
It's each, at Leighton's, 100 Canal street tho
Psi
lessrs. Pierson ( Hews, 10 and l. Camn sol
st, are selling off their stock of heavy o ca,