The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03
Somebody Hurt.

General Grant lie determined to get up
war. If he can't succeed in Louisiana he
will try it with Cuba or Mexico or even
England. He thinks that all his shortcom
ings will be overlooked in the enthusiasm
of grand conflict. Northera feeling is
working up toward boiling heat at the
sight of his tyranny and Of the shameless
violation by his party of all the dearest
principles of self government. That feel
ing must fnd vent in the clash of arms
and rage of battle, or it will sweep out of
sight the evil duers who aroused it and
who would be its more legitimate victims.
We are truly glad to find that be'friend-
ly and paterna! snlicitude of our good
President in our behalf is well understood
here, as well as at the North. We all know
that the presence of thousands of soldiers
in our streets is a threat. that standing
army is a standing insult to the people
whom it ia intended to bully, and that the
climax of insolent badgering is reached by
sending into our midst an agent so univer-
sally abhorred, 30 utterly devoid of all re-
spect in the community, as General P.
Sheridan. All this is well understood, too,
at the North. The game is 80 evident to
our friends there, that they are trembling
lest we should fail to see it.
We know that there are some misan-
thropes who deny that we have any friends
there. They come back from Northern
tours and report that the sympathy of
Conservatives whom they have seen
is only in words, while in reality they,
like the Radicals, are pleased to see the
South oppressed. These critics are of the
They can see nothing good in human
nature at the North, and, if they lived
there, they could see nothing good in the
South. But the great body Of our popula-
ton cannot be converted to any such
belief. 1t is a piece of small egotism to
think that no other people but ourselves are
susceptible of the finer emotions, of the
nobler impulses that picture of fraud,
theft, plunder and oppression by band OF
organized felons and of ruin and desola-
ton on the part of their victims will not
arouse in any but ourselves feelings of in
dignation and compassion. Human nature
bad as it j., is always affected, in greater
or less degree, by the sight of those objects
which 10y it's constitution are calculated to
excite it's various appetites or emotions
Prejudice often prevents men from seeing
things as they are, but we know that the
North has at last opened its eyes to our rea
condition, and that we now enjoy its
sympathies.
The fears of our friends ought, then, tc
weigh with US in arousing spirit Of wary
caution against being betrayed into any col
lision with the general government in the
persous of its agents. We, on the spot
have, however, but little fears Of the
kind With such men as Mr.. Marr aud Gen
Ogden in controlling positions, civil ant
military, we can rely on the absence of al
indiscretion. The character of these gen
tlemen is o guaranty that prudence will
control and that what is impossible tt
force will be left to the slower but unfail
ing redress of time.
With this confidence, we can join in the
prediction of the New York Herald tha
the "somebody hurt" will be at Washing
4 ton.