New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-21

lations which are necessary to thought
and knowledge is much better than their
exhibition of that statesmanship neces-
sary for the development and mainten-
ance Of good government. Their meta
physics may be fine drawn or refined as
subtle reasoning can make it, or it may
be Of that lower order which is more
subtle-sly in design and full of art aud
| deception. If admitted that it is of the
first order it only follows that they are
gifted with an intellect that can spin the
finest thread of thought and follow out q
subject in its most complicated re-
lations-even to condition that
may lead to chaos in society.
And to this condition would Louis
lana have long since been reduced
had it not been for the more practical
craftsmanship OF President Grant, and
such men in Congress as Senator Morton
and others who have aided him in main
tanning government here.
Senator Christiancy, taking the report
of Senator Carpenter in regard to Louisi-
ana affairs as his guide, admits that he
can see nothing but "a formless chaos of
plots and counterplots, of seething pas
sion, of inconsistencies, incongruities,
and absolute utilities, with nothing real,
nothing tangible, but fraud and force"
This is because he only sees and recog-
nizes the action Of the Democratic party
to overcome the will of the ma
jority in Louisiana, and will not
consent to see that the efforts of
the Republicans have been made in
support of lawful government, based upon
the great principles of free government
the rule of the majority. Being we'll
satisfied that there was Republican ma
jority in this State of at least twenty
thousand votes. The Democrats under
took to carry the State in 1872 by fraud,
and in pursuit of this unholy purpose in
reality sought to reduce the State to
formless chaos by their plots and coun-
terplots, their seething passions, and their
acts OF violence; and were finally pre-
vented accomplishing the violent revolt
ton by the enforcement of United States
law made to aid in the maintenance of
government Here was some
thing tangible, exerted in the cause of free
government and against chaos and rebel
lious violence, that Senator Christiancy |
could have seen without putting on his
spectacles if he had been in
clined to see things down here as they
really exist. And with correct know.
ledge of events that transpired
after the installation of the Kellogg
government up to the election last fall in
Louisiana, he must have been driven to
very different conclusions as to the condi-
ion Of affairs down here from those ex-
pressed in his recent arguments to the Sem
tie. In that event he would have known that
he Democrats again and again attempted
o gain possession of the State government
~ violent means and were frustrated in
heir efforts each time by the timely en-
orcement of the laws by the President.
t requires other physic than the meta
'hysics Of Senator Christiancy to cleanse
nd purify the Democratic tendency to
btain political power through violent
means, and if he desires to maintain the
rue principles of Republican government
e must cease giving aid to the party in
louisiana that is opposed to the rule of
be majority.