Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1875-03-18
To tho Editor or tho "Hunttngton
Commercial"
Communicated

10 md In It's c0iuiuus the Wisuohh
which "guideth Alright" and to re-
oeive the inspiration of assurance to
calm my perturbed spirit in these
troublous and perilous times. l have
been greatly relieved by your oft re-
peated story, that the political rascals,
thieves and demagogues of every hue
and shade shall receive no mercy at
your hands indeed | have occasion
allv thought you were unnecessarily
protuse in your denunciation of the
scamps. "Methinks the lady doth
protest too muchr-would be applied
to YOU by the wicked and censorious,
and possibly by the good and virtuous
who are ignorant OF your lofty pat
riotism. and sterling worth.
| therefore take the liberty Of warn
ing YOU against an error you are Ia
boring under, that democrats "have
not grain of common sense which
YOU assert in your last issue, and
eyince in a mastery manner III your
editorials of that number, for they
were intended on their face for read
ers OF that character, and no other,
and for proof, cite your labored
article without head or tail, in which
YOU made comparison between the
words of Hereford's speech, and a pub
lished letter of an acquaintance OF
yours, of the similarity Of their pur-
port about the Kansas outrage by
Buchanan and Davis, and the Loul-
siana outrage by Grant and Sheridan.
Bro. Gibson did you approve the
Kansas outrage, when DAVIS suppress
ed the Legislature If you did not,
how do YOU Justify the louisiana in
reference, they are so alike? But
YOU make yourself ridiculous in tnd>
ing a similarity in the two cases at all
Kansas was territory; her Govern
or was appointed by the President
and was a Federal officer; her legis-
lature was a Federal creation, and
subject to the will of its creator.
Louisiana was State, fully recog-
nized, with equal powers Of any, and
all other States, sovereign IN all the
reserved powers, protected by the
Constitution in the exercise OF every
power not forbidden by it; her leg
islature was sacred from Federal in.
reference, and under no possible con-
tingency, emergency, or exlgency
could the interference of troops,
state or national, be legally invoked
to determine the rights of contestants
to seats in her legislature.
Your alluSion to the use of the
marines in capturing John Brown Is
equally unfortunate. John Brown
by force of arms invaded the soil and
seized the public property OF the
United States; was barrlcaded in the
engine house built and owned by the
Federal Government from which he
was taken. lie was hung for MUIR
der by Virginia-he could have been
leg lly hung for treason against the
United States.
If any body of men take the Gus
tom House in New Orleans by force,
even if headed BY The Legislature,
the United States could lawfully eject
them hv force. II Wilt had had on
the 4th of January sufficient force he
could have la'guUy elected the troops
of De Trobriand and held them for
crimes against the State, because the
Legislature in its own capital was
mlawttlly coerced by Military force.
Il tie case of the Custom House, the
Federar government hes complete con-
troI Jv lar, fie:' and complete soreiga-
tg over it ; it has no pore? By tar at al
in the State Capitol.
But Grants interference prevent
ed blood she'd" that Justified the
interference. Order reigns in
Warsaw" said the Gar. The pro-
vince Is in perfect quiet said the
butcher "Alva."
But what brother Gibson states is
not a fact; there would have never
been any danger Of blood she'd" if
the Federal Government had not in
tertered, and attempted to build u
Government up on such foundation
az it did. The fraudulent and un
lawful interference i'll the elections
in 1872, in favor of Kellogg, Pack
ard, negroes and Carpet-baggers
made the successive blunders necessi-
ties.
The negroes OF Louisiana are about
as capable of sustaining a govern
ment according to the ideas that ull
der lie our system, as the babies OF
that State and not more so. What
DO they know of separate and divided
powers, serving as mutual checks on
each other.
On one occasion the King OF Daho-
mey, to exemplify his IDEAS Of per-
feet Government, cut of the heads Of
hundred dusky "republicaas," and
served their calcasses at royal ban
quet for the entertainment of his
visitors, and challenge any defender
OF negro capacity to show in any page
of the history of the past, where un-
controlled, unaided, and uninfuenced
by the intellect of superior races, the
negro has ever evinced higher ca
pacity for government than in the
instance cited of his majesty Of
Dahomey and the effort Of the Fed
eral Government, under the imbecile
maaipulationS of the Republican par
tv. to subordinate the proud A glo
Saxon to the brutal domination Of
the barbarou> African, will fail in
tellect, self reliance, prosperity. cour-
age, manhood, morality, religion, pub
L.. ,,.eol IL a.,- 90. AGAINST rho IN