New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-12

which resulted from the war, and of the
course which the CONSERVATIVES" saw
tit to pursue. Look At it clearly. A
State has been conducted through all lts ex-
istence by body of men whose sole political
aim was the preservation of slavery. In
the twlnkling of an eye slavery is abolished,
and another body of citizens created, from
those slaves, who outnumber the old rulers
by several thousand. Is any one 90 blind
as not to see that the natural tendency of
their political course is to conflict with
the interests which their former rulers held
most sacredl There was but one way in
which this tendency could be checked; it
was that the "Conservative"-the former
s!avehOlding-element should accept the
new situation, should enter among this
vast body of newly created citizens, should
control them, and, finally, should make
their interests identical with their own.
Such a course would have been followed
by speedy and peaceful reconstruction
upon the new basis
1t was, unfortunately, not pursued. In
stead OF endeavoring to identify the con-
flctlng interests, everything possible was
done to render them still more antagonistic.
Instead of endeavoring to govern with and
through the negroes-as their greater eX-
perience and brains would readily have
enabled them to do-the white element OF
Louisiana attempted to govern over them
by force and intimidation. The inevitable
result was a sharp division upon 1.-THE color
line," and war to the knife between the
two factions.
But the White League-for league it now
became-knew how to fight, and the black
did not. 1t was this which led them into
their suicidal course, and it was this which
rendered federal interference necessary.
The Republican government, though sup
ported by much tho greater numerical
strength, had no physical force with which
to restore peace and execute the laws. Its
rank and file, j st released from servitude
of body and soul, could not stand for q
moment against the organized force of
those accustomed all their lives to the
pistol and bowie. 1t was powerless for its
own protection and entitled, under the
constitution. to tho protection of the
federal government.
Such was the course Of action which led
TO the present condition OF affairs, and we
| mus: face the issue that it presents. We
are not called upon. here, to consider
many thousands Of citizens, and the cOnse.
quent handing over OF States from the
stakeholder to the slave was far seeing
and wise policy. The people of the United
States settled that in a bloody argument Of
four years-they made it part of their
highest written law. and the party through
which they worked now stands upon that
law, irrevocablv fixed. 1t is the law that
the White League OF Louisiana is warning
against; and it is against the enforcement
of this. law that the Democratic press is
crying out. Can not they see that they are
calling up again an issue that has already
cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and
thousands of millions of money! 1t is the
fact, whether they see it or not and it will
not much longer be possible to overlook it.
From the Philadelphia Pressl
sHER1DAN's RECOMMENDATION THE ONLY
SOLUTION.
When at this moment we are involved in
grave special trouble, let us thank God
that we have President in the chair who
does not finch from meeting responsibility
in behalf of his country. To thOse who are
doubling and dismayed we say: LET US treat
Grant as we treated Lincoln in similar
moments. Let us trust him" He may
make a temporary mistake. He may err,
90 all men do, but, tried in many critical
emergencies, he has never proved faithless
every impulse, every act has always been
that Of loyal and devoted soldier. We
can surely afford-awaiting the supreme
and sovereign action of Congress now in
session-to trust in him, and believe
IN him, and rely on him, in preference
to any Legislature in Louisiana, call
it Conservative. Democratic. rebel,
or what you. will: Frowning down,
then, all sensational demagogueism, avoid.
ing all Incorporate discussion. let us as
good citizens stand by the government at a
time when it perhaps requires clearer
head and cooler Judgment to do SO than it
did when Sumter was fired on. These
troubles have reached stage which admits
Of only one remedy. Reconstruction has
been a failure. because it made such a con.
dition OF affairs possible. 1t lifted up the
Its authors took it for granted that the heat
and force of the passions Of the South had
been destroyed by the war, and that their
acceptance of the changed order Of things
was sincere. They have been previously
disappointed. Their work must be supple.
mented, and in the short, sharp and decisive
manner recommended by Phil Sheridan.
The whole nation must rescue the South
from utter ruin by it's violent classes,
otherwise the whole nation ia in danger.
from the Pttsburg Dispatch.I
The House fell into an odd furry over the
Louisiana troubles yesterday. Some of the
patriotic Democrats, the two Samuels prin-
cipally, Randall and Cox, were dreadfully
exercised about Sheridan's "high handed
proceedings" They wanted HIM removed
forthwith, and in the meantime literally
covered him with abuse. But abuse don't
hurt. Little Phil can afford to laugh ut
these idle explosions, and meanwhile go on
attending to his orders in Louisiana. The
administration also will not exercise itself.
We are having now some of the vigor in
putting down Southern mob law that we
ought to have had last summer. When the
excited Southern Democrats choose to
present thei, grievances, feigned or real, in
proper. and respectable shape to the
properly constituted authorities. we trust
they will receive prompt. fall and fair
consideration. But until they cultivate a
peaceful and orderly mood. Sheridan is just
tine IMAM to deal with them.