New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-12
UNDERSTOOD.
THE NORTHERN LOYAL PRESS
Comments on the Situation in Louisiana

Comments on the Situation in Louisiana
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We continue this morning the publication
Of extracts from our Northern exchanges
relating to the attempted larceny of the
State government by the White Leaguers.
and corrollary events. 1t will be seen that
the situation here is well understood at the
North; and notwithstanding the strenuous
efforts Of the Democrats and the dissatisfied
Republicans to manipulate the events in the
interest Of reactionary politicians. but little
progress has been made to that end. The
loyal press stands as firmly by President
Grant to-day as it DID by President Lincoln
in 1861. in meeting the issue rebellion forced
upon him:
,Fgom the New York Commercial Advertiser.
CIVIL. WAR IN LOUISIANA.
With the keen judgment Of h practical
man. General Sheridan has cut the knot at
New Orleans, and made it apparent that
the country is again threatened with civil
war by the people who opened the rebellion
of 1861. He is no stranger to the South, as
he is no partisan. Personally, his pre-.
JUDGES are Democratic by birth and train.
ing; officially. he knows neither section nor
party. Such q man is most competent to
form correct judgment in case where
popular passion on both sides have been
carried to an extreme. What does he say!
That he finds in Louisiana "a spirit of
defiance to all lawful authority. and An
insecurity of life hardly realized by
the general government" In later
dispatch he speaks OF the action Of
the White Leaguers as d terrorism, ;"
and declares that the leaders OF in.
surrection against the government and
the prompters of negro assassination de-
serve only to be treated as '.bauditti !"
There are harsh words. it is true. but they
come from an unprejudiced source. None
can deny that the time for polite palaver
has passed. The law must be Obeyed in
New Orleans. or it will be trampled under
foot with its representatives. 1t must be
remembered by our readers that all the
dispa tches coming from New Orleans are
written by !, surgent hands. and come from
opposition sources. Only from such official
papers as the telegram Of General Sheridan
can the exact truth be learned. The men
who, fourteen years ago, seized the United
States forts, arsenals, State Houses and
public buildings by force OF arms and held
them for four years by the bayonet are not
those best qualified tO instruct the govern.
ment now as to its duty. 1t i'll becomes
them to prate about ''Outrages' while they
are tanning the embers Of civil war. ODE.
dience to law is the only path to safety and
prosperity.
from the Cleveland 1eader.j
The wires running out of New Orleans
dened with a number OF yer bose remOn.
strances against the name applied by Gen.
eral Sheridan to the White League X. H.
Mari. chairman of the Committee of Seventy,
the Board of Underwriters, a number Of
bishops. rectOrs and curates, headed by an
archbishop, sOlemnly protested against ap.
plying the term ''banditti" to the people of
Louisiana. When negroes were slaughtered
at Coushatts. Grant parish, in the streets Of
New Orleans. and all over the South, these
people had no protests to utter. When the
Shreveport Times advised the assassination
of all Republicans declared elected by the
Returning Board they were silent. They
are unmOved by the recommendation, and
the practice Of murder and obbery in their
midst, but when the crimes of Southern
fre-eaters are pointed out by Union Gen.
eral they are filed with Indignation. Their
protests will exert but little effect upon the
people of the North who have been familiar
with their bOmbast since the palmy days Of
Toombs. Wigfall and Davis.
From the St. Louis Democrat
'CuCAdA CACAuuA . AduSudSo w as Aulss
defiance to the laws, and murder of indi.
yiduals, seem to be looked upon by the
community here from a standpoint which
gives impnnity all who choose to indulge in
either" This is hotly denounced as false
by certain underwriters. sundry clergymen
and sundry bankers OF New Orleans. Now.
We are bound to say that admitted facts
prove beyond question that General Sheri.
dan stated the truth. Men were massacred
by the score at Colfax. Not one Of the
slayers has been punished. Prominent citi.
zens testified only last week before the
committee that the massacre
was justified, not by them only. but by 1.-THE
people generally" in that part of the State.
On the fourteenth of September men were
shot down by the score in the streets of
New Orleans. Not one of the murderers
has been, or can be, punished. Those who
led the slaughtering forces ara 10: only
granted immunity by the community. but
peculiarly honored. Shortly after. similar
lawless bands forced a change OF officials in
many of the parishes throughout the State,
sometimes with bloodshed and sometimes
with terror only, as detailed statements in
all the papers Of that time showed fully.
No man has been punished for these violent
and revolutionary deeds.
Now, is it not the height of ;mpudence for
men who ought to have some respect tor
the truth. to come forward and assert that
it is false that defiance to the laws and the
murder Of individuals seem to BE- looked
upon by the community from a standpoint
which gives impunity to all who wish to
indulge in either.' AS long as the persons
remain not only unpublished, but acknOwl.
edged and hOnored leaders OF the cOmmu.
nifty, who participated in the TRANSACTIONS
named, is it not shameless for any man to
state that Sheridan's statement is not truel
Only last Saturday Bishop Wilmer test.
Fed that 'juries are partial in their judg.
ments and unjust il their decisions. The
guilty are never punished for crime.
Persons are cent to The Peniten.
,iary. and when they return, there ia no
stain attached to their good name Now
The same Bishop Wilmer signs paper stat.
ng that Sheridan's charge Of general law.
essness is ''unmerited, unfounded and
The moral sense prevailing in
be Sss::ate OF Louisiana :n'st DC Of . peca.
lar variety.
From the Philadelphia i,ul!e..n.l
DIsPAssIONATE VIEW.
4 futfian who il detected in the &C: et
attempting to stab an unsuspecting man.
md who, upon being knocked down, cries !
ut that his rights have suffered unwar.
antable invasion, is the type Of the Louis. |
ana Democracy in its present attitude. |
The air is filled to day with the shrieks OF
urious partisans who perceive in the nn.
lappy occurrences in New Orleans chance |
o make political capital. and who are de.
ermined to brand the Presiden: and his |
party with the commission of an Infamous |
rime against a sovereign State. But we |
propose to discuss this subject coolly, and |
We ask the patriotic people of this com.
nunitv to consider the actual facts of the |
ase without passion. and to form their |
Judgment upon them. rather than upon the
distortions of truth presented by what |
General Butler calls 1.-THE lying kilograms I
II the Associated Press
It is to be remembered, in tie first place.
hat the Democrats attempted to seize the |
legislative department of the government |