The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-01-13
The New York Indignation Meeting
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The New YORK InOfSnnlOn MeetlnS.
It is hard to speak with patience
of the New York call for an indig
nation meeting over affairs in
Louisiana. The persons who sign
this call are prominent; some of
them are men of pronounced ability,
and at least of traditional patriot
ism. But their course now can
only be characterized as unpro
voked and wicked. If, by their
sympathy, they induce the blind
and reckless murderers of Louisi
ana to rise once more against law,
and perpetrate anew the crimes
which have deluged the streets of
New Orleans with blood, they will
be righteously chargeable before
the country with the murders
which their course has indicated
Yesterday peace reigned in New
Orleans. The prompt and ener-
getic action of General Sheridan,
supported by the President, had
the effect which the Inter Ocean
has plophesied, and the leaders of
the White League came forward
with offers to disband their forces
and submit to the law. It is not
probable that their course will be
materially changed by any empty
resolutions which Copperheads OF
the North may pass, for they know
pretty well their value; but if they
should be induced to rise, the
blood which will flow in conse-
quence must rest on the heads of
those who encourage them.
It is perhaps a significant fact
that among the names which we
find appended to this call not one,
though all are 50 prominent, lifted
a finger toward putting down the
late rebellion, The war cost them,
nothing. On the contrary, though
claiming to be friendly to the Union,
they coined money out of our
troubles, and came forth rich from
scenes whence others emerged
wounded, tattered, but with honor
able records. Let the humble
soldiers. who had no thought save
the salvation of the Union, and
who gained nothing from their
arduous service save patriotic
scars, mark this we'll It is not
they who speak in condemnation of
an act too long delayed 1t is not |
they who grow indignant at the
efforts of their old commanders to
rebuke the fiendish spirit which
they too well remember. It is the
sleek gentlemen, the comfortable |
men, who slept on beds of down
while Union soldiers rested upon
their knapsacks; who Jared sumpt |
uously while Union soldiers ate the
hard bread of military fare; who
grew rich, while Union soldiers
poured out their blood q free will
offering to the country they love
and the government they cherlihed
who are venting their Indignation
SO freely. Proud as these New
York gentlemen are; grand and
lofty as are their denunciations Of
the men of Donelson and Winches
ter, we would prefer hearing from
the rank and file upon This business
before rendering verdict. And
we tell the White Leaguers Of the
South that the men who talk SO
grandly in their favor, who pass
such heroic resolutions of aid and
comfort, cannot be relied on. They
are of those same choice spirits
who made sweet promises to
Southern ears in 1861 2, and
broke them to the hope. Their
words are worth no more now than
they were then, and when the
Southern whites conclude once
more to defy the government, they
may rest assured they will again
have to deal with those who speak
only through the messengers which
they heard too often on the battle
fields of the South.
This call might have been couch
ed in language that would only
have aroused the anger and not
excited the contempt of the people;
but it has not been done. It con-
.ains falsehood 50 glaring, so
as 10 create more scorn
than indignation. It says:
"a Legislative body of sister
State, peaceably assembled, has
been broken into and dispersed by :
Federal troops, acting under the {
orders of the President of the
United States" --..
And this plain, notorious, DELHI
crate lie is signed by men who have
heretofore held q share of the
popular respect and confidence. :
The falsehood is too palpable, too
we'll known. to need refutation
"A legislative body peaceably as
,embled," indeed, when every legal
'orln and rule were discarded, and 1
where pistols were fourished at :
he heads of protesting members, ;