New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-07

The friends of civil liberty and equa
! ! rights before the law in and out OF Congress
must not close their eyes to passing events
, nor their ears to the notes of preparation
, for another conflict between the secession
} element and the friends Of the Union. Thu
undertOnes of organized bodies, the bugl'
| notes OF the secession press aud the har
argues of the old leaders all over the lately
} insurrectionary States give no uncertain
sound. In these We have a repetition Of
the preludes to the conflict witnessed in
the summer, autumn and winter of 1861
and 1861. The enemies Of the Union at that
time engaged in whetting their swords and
furnishing their arms for the meditated
| struggle assumed the manners OF injured
innocence, uttered the outcry of oppressed
virtue, and, in the name of outraged
liberty. melted the masses of their
immediate fellow. citizens to assail their
country's flag. The occupation of United
States forts by United States troops was
denounced as an Invasion" of their terri
tories; the navigation of American waters
| by the United States navy, as an act of in.
timidation; the suppression of instruction
by the army. as Dissertation of the sacred
soil; the collection of the public revenue
and the sale of public property, as public
plumber; the administration of justice by
the United States courts, as UNDESIRABLE
| tyranny. In their opinion an assault on the
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high crime; and the President, Oh account
| of his efforts to enforce the laws through.
out the country, was denounced as tvrant,
and the generals OF the Union armies, for
| obeying orders, were called cut-thrOats and
murderers.
Now, as then, mutterings of disloyalty
| are borne on every breeze; now, as then.
the presence of the United States troops
is denounced; now, as then, the presence
in Southern ports of armed United States
vessels occasions an Outcry OF discomfort;
now, as then, the execution Of civil and
criminal process in the enforcement of
the laws is proclaimed as an outrage; now,
as then, the dispersion of an armed mob
engaged in an attempt to overthrow q
State government calls forth the bitterest
utterances of rebuke; now, as then, the
President is reviled as q tyrant; now, as
then, the generals of the Union army
are branded as the vilest of the vile; now,
as then, these desperate assailants Of
civil liberty and equality before the law
assume the position of injured innocence;
now. as then, bodies of men with arms
in their hands, for the avowed purpose
of Overthrowing the civil authorities in
counties and States under the control of
Union men, put On the airs of oppressed
patriots; now, as then. the leaders Of these |
banditti have the audacity to proclaim !
themselves as the devoted friends of the |
constitution and the Union.
We might fill columns with citations |
from speeches, press editorials. and legis- |
lative resolutions directly in point. Take |
the following from speech recently de- |
ivered in the pretended Legislature of |
Arkansas, q body of usurpers, composed |
chiefly OF ex-COnfederates, by an exon.
federate of the name of Collins, who boasts
OF qaving worn the Confederate gray for
four bloody years. This youthful patriot
from a usurped .seat recorded his opinion
OF the dispersion of an armed mob in Lou
isiana engaged in a similar attempt to over
throw the civil authorities Of that State in
the following words:
Here, and now, l desire to record my
protest against this GROWING outrage upon
the liberties Of. the American people. 4
was born as free as this Caesar who, at
last. throws aside even the flimsy disguise
be has worn. and assuming the role of
Bonaparte, tramples under the hoOfs of
his war.horse our dearest, blood bought
rights. Though born myself in Virginia,
my ancestors fled from the despOtisms of
The East, established popular selfgoyern-
ment upon Plymouth Rock, bought our lib
critics by centuries of toll and bloodshed,
md transmitted them to us as noble heri.
age As kinsman l invoke their aid in !
landing down that common heritage to nv
innocent children. Through them admon-
SD the people of the North that this outrage
md the usurpations preceding it are but the
Prelude to vast conspiracy, which means
bject submission to those they have already
ondemned at the ballot box, or an absolute
mplre in which their own local govern
lens will be tOppled over by the scepter of {
be dictator, themselves declared banditti | J
Or presumlng to entertain political views
their own; and at the muzzle of shotted Z
un, and at the poiat OF the bayonet, alien
overnment planted over them, fashioned q
nf hn <rair |
After this gush Of patriotism from a =
lember OF the late Confederate army, L
enouncing the President and General =
herldan as ''arch traitors" for simply I
xertng themselves to preserve the peace :"
Louisiana, we print the feeling remarks U
the Memphis appeal on the same sub. y
Ct 1t delivers itself as follows respecting y
heridan, after commenting upon the ap. u
'Oval of his official acts: II
"Ihey may share his infamy, but thew
IN neither lessen nor blot it out. The "
oundrel is pilloried for all time. He has j
8 place IN history. Hereafter he will be ~
1own as Superserviceable Liar Sheridan,
De continued in the army until Demo p
attic Congress shall order him before a ~
mmlttee presided over by Senator Cor ~
n, to whom he shall surrender his com. 81
lsslon as a disgraced soldier, with the y
brand of liar" burned to his u
ry heart" 81
nese are specimens OF this class of | vi
trot utterances with which the Southern &C
ess is now teeming. No one can fail to at
ark its similarity in tone, temper and as
pocritical pretense of love of liberty and N
. Union, with the utterances which pre. Tn
ded the recent conflict of arms. The
nth is againlreverberating with the notes
violence and rebellion. and again thew
m their eyes to the Democracy of the
nth for sympathy and support; and we nj
,ret to add, listen not in vain for eucour. gil
I words from the Democratic leaders, to
We do not doubt that the patriotism of tn
, people will be equal to the occasion. tn
d that before the close of another wear ms
8 avalanche of rebel sentiment viii he OF
.ested in course and many of its We
tnors and J6ttors hurled from place and Ell
wer by their fiat at the polls. But in the gu
antime it behooves the Republicans in la
ngress to discharge their duty firmly and tin
lvely, and thus set an example worthy lal
limitation by the lovers of the Union in CHI
the otates.-W Washington Chronicle. sm
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