The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-02-25

CIVILIZATION, Is humlnateo ahO gIleNOusiy
disappointed. Therefore, Grant turns
longingly to Arkansas and Texas. Gar
land is cool, cleaF-headed thinker. He is
not too eager to di1plaY courage or fear-
lessress. aWhether crowned with victory
or defeat crow he viii. crow he must. " IS
net the heraldic emblem emblazQned on
the oscutcheon of the Governor OF A1kan-
sas. Grant viii find there no pretext, that
Garland can remove, for Intervention. The
World properly translates Grants message
to mean II you do not upset the existing
government in Arkansas shall do so after
YOU have adjourned" Will the Republi-
can party acquiesce in this fresh usurpa-
tion, and again defend the President and
his crime Within the month that Con-
gress adjourns, without interference in the
affairs of Arkansas, Grants bayonets viii
thrust Garland out and invest Brooks with
Office. And, what next There is only
an imaginary line between Arkansas and
Texas. Garland was almost unanimously
chosen Governor; Coke's majority was
hardly fifty thousand.
The present Congress will adjourn with
out restoring self-government to Louisiana.
The Republican party will not instruct its
representatives at Washington to compel
Grant to take his heel off the neck of that
PROSTATE, suffering State. Under whose
orders the Federal troops moved when dis
persing the Legislature of Louisiana, no
body knows to-day. Grant is dumb, Sheri
dan shuffles, Emory is to be promoted and
put on the retired list-a bribe for, his
silence. The Republican party denies to
the American people this due knowledge of
the orders under which their army moved
in subverting the government of Louisiana.
Not one Republican Senator, not one Re
publican representative demands light on
the secret history of that usurpation.
The present Congress will probably ad
journ without protecting the self-goyern-
,ment of Arkansas against the execution of
the Presidents ominous, open, public
threat. viii the Republican party permit
its head to utter this bodeful threat, permit
its chosen representatives, in the case of
Arkansas, as before in the case of Louisiana,
to consent with their inaction to the Presi-
dents crime? Will the leaders of the Re
publican party throughout the Union, and
the Republican press everywhere, tolerate
with their consenting silence his threat, and
hereafter with their apologies and their ar
| 1afopoo mill fkha~y V1nolra
themselves accomplices in the crime of its
execution2 Win the present Congress,
though repudiated by popular majority of
half million at the polls, have the support
of the defeated Republican party in leaving
Louisiana and surrendering Arkansas to an
open published usurpation?
OF mans capacity for self-government,
these are the two highest marks: first, love
of liberty: second, faithful upholding of
the laws which guard that liberty against
popular passion on the one hand, and the
usurpation of rulers on the other hand. 1t
was absurd to hope that the blacks should
soon, if ever, rise to this great eminenee,
attained as yet by so few of the best races
of mankind, and by them attained with in
finite endeavor, and preserved only with
perpetual vigilance. But the hope was not
absurd that the white men comprised in
the Republican party should love the liber-
ties and defend the laws of American free
men against their first formidable assailant
when nothing tempts them to concur in the
Presidents treason except their vain expec-
tation of share in the power which they
consent to his usurping. That consent viii
mark with the brand of incapacity for self
government the white Republicans of the
North, as our Southern feIlow-citizens, the
blacks, are marked. Their refusal of con-
sent to the Presidents ongoing risurpations,
their indignant repudiation of him and his
acts, their rejection of him as political
.euteast, will vindicate themselves and theiI
party and secure future to the 4'great ex.
pertinent" which for one short century has
given to so many millions of men large
measure of prosperity and peace. But free
| institutions can hardly survive the incapac
Bity, both of Southern negroes and of North
ern Republicans, for self-government.
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