New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-19
Ia Ann1her ReheIIion RrewinR.


ginia Senate on the ninth instant, and made
the special order for to-day, calling on the
Governors of the States to convene the sew
eral State Legislatures to concert means for
the support of the action Of the White
Ieaguers in Louisiana, will remind our
readers of the preludes to the recent rebel
lion. L. is in it's very nature revolutionary.
To convene the Legislatures of the several
States to confer with each other for the pur-
pose Of preventing the officers of the gov
ernment of the United States doing some
thing which, in the opinion of said Legisla-
lures, ought not to be done, is unsupported
by any provision of the constitution, and is a
fragrant threat of usurpatiOn of national
authority by said Legislatures. Even if
the President had willfully violated the
constitution, the constitution itself pro-
vides an adequate remedy. In that case it
would be the duty of the Representatives
in Congress to prepare articles OF lmpeach-
ment, compelling the President to answer
the charges at the bar of the United States
Senate, which, if found to be true, could
remove him from office. The proposed
trial of the head of the nation at the bar of
the Legislatures of the several States is not
only illegal and unconstitutional, but if at
tempted in any other country on earth
would constitute the crime of high treason
against the government the members have
sworn to support.
It is ominous of evil, being in the precise
line of conduct adopted by the Southern
States to lnaugurate the rebellion during
the last year of the administration Of Presi-
dent Buchanan, and on this account ought
not to be treated lightly.
In that case State Legislature invited
consultation with the authorities of other
States to confer in reference to the "com-
mon danger" as they then styled it. Am
bassadors we're sent to and from the State
capitals, and received with all the pOmp
o,,fs
ry and ENJOYS extraordinary from indie
pendent nations. 1t all looked ridiculous
enough in the eyes of disinterested Observ-
ers. But it had its purpose, which it served
only too well, Of enthusing proud and
hadghty people with the same spirit of
rebellion which inspired the leaders.
1t is true all compacts between States are
directly prohibited. The language used by
the constitution is as follows:
ssAfe State shall enter into any treaty, al
liadBee, or confederation = no State SHALL
without the consent of Congress enter
into any agreement or compact with any
other State, or with foreign power"
"a call on the Legislatures to confer with
each other With view to concert measures
presuppOses that some agreement or com
pact will follow, and yet the constitution as
above cited directly prohibits all agreements
between the several States, and moreover
the members of the State Legislatures are
sworn 20 support tnaJ provision as tne su-
preme law of the land.
1t is not, therefore, too much to say that
all such propositions are reasonable, and
contemplate an appeal to the base fears of
the loyal people Of this country, such as lie
being practised by the Democrats of the
South on their colored Ifellow-citizens,
or it means q new rebellion.
Being thus admOnished, the present Con-
Rress should see to it that the government
should not beleft in defenseless condition.
This movement Is probably well understood
by the leaders of the Democracy all over the
country. That the enemy have well organ
lied army, differed, armed and equipped,
permeating all the Southern States, several
,fimes larger than the standing army of the
United States, is now fully known to Con-
gress and to the public at large. These
States are IN q better condition to commence
q war on the national government than they
were in 1861. That in such a movement
they would have the sympathy and. sup
port Of the leaders Of the Democracy in
the Northern States now, IS they had then,
Is not open TO . doubt. The speeches deliv-
cred By Democratic Senators and Repre-
aentatives, the messages Of Democratic
Governors, the resolutions adopted by
Democratic conventions and introduced
into Democratic Legislatures within the
past week make this as plain as the sun
&C hfeh meridian And unfortunately the 4
LGlCAt EA1AtAoAA1 u GGNEA@- ~ b4o EAgoA
States Of the North, through the apathy
and folly of the Republican party,
have put 1t in the power Of the Democracy
of the North TO greatly embarrasg any well
directed efforts to put down this second
rebellion, which appears now to be clearly
contemplated BY the former supporters Of
the one crushed in 1865. Their movements
are far too serious to be tFeeted as political
farce. The tone Of the Democratic press of
the North and South Is the echo Of that OF
1860. We might fill our columns clipped
from our Democratic exchanges Of the char
aeter Of the following from the Atlanta
Consultation:
They viii yet know, to use the words Of
ax-President johnson, that the eanse Of
the South was 9 just cause, and that pos
feritY will rank the names Of Lee and
jackson alongside those of Hampden and
Sydney. A confession Of this sort will be
hard for many men at the North to make;
but fhsv must either make and take action
upen L, o. else prepare to have their liber-
ties destroyed Is ours have BEEN Wash
snql0ll Ctr6Nielc.