National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13
LOUISIANA.

The Voice of the German Republicans.
| Translated from the New York Deutches YoIks-
blatt.l
The latest events In Louisiana demonstrate suf
fcientIy the spirit of rebellion still prevailing in
| all the Southern States. The returning board
| consisting Of impartial, unobjectionable mem.
bers selected by both political psrties,) was the
final authority for the competence Of the elected
| Assembly. In our State, this duty is performed
| by board Of canvassers. Its decision must be
| promptly obeyed at all hazards, otherwise an
archy takes the place of law and order. After
the Legislature is organized In lawful form, con-
tests for membership in order and referabIe to
proper committees, upon whose report these mat
tiers Of controversy are decided. But this lawful
order of things did not suit the gentlemen of the
White League, and they attempted by an act Of
usurpation, to seize upon the majority of the
Louisiana Legislature, by smuggling i've Demo
Gratis into the seatsof five lawfully elected Repub-
4 licans.
This meditated act of fraud and by force was
frustrated by the United States military author
tiles upon the request Of the de dctO and de jure
Governor Kellogg, by simply ejecting the 1--WE
spurious pretenders from the seats they had seized
by fraud. To accomplish this without blOodshed,
# was necessary 70 demonstrate the power pres.
emit" Of the Republic to the White Leaguers, and
about 500 troops were placed in position In the
immediate neighborhood Of the State-house to
prevent any outbreak or resistance.
The Democrats, or rather the White Leaguers,
| thereupOn raised a tremendous howl; but they
submitted to the inevitable, and the immediate
for power and place on the soil Of sO-called re-
constructed State, that threatens to fan into
flames the lingering ashes OF the civil war.
The same journals that contested, thirteen years
ago, the right of the people 10 chose Republican
President are now the first in cOndemnIng this
act Of our National Government. Many ofthem
openly espouse the cause Of the spurious pretend
and justify the violent usurpatiOn of the White
Leaguers. They simply take 1t for granted that
the TetuFninU nnard which Wa al nit
ably from both political parties, consisted of none
but rsscals, and that its final adiudcations were
existence of the authority OF this board and at
tack the National Government because it dared
| to maintain that lawful authority with the power
Of the military.
In this IL is easy to see the analogy existing
between the pretended right of a State to secede
at its will and pleasure and the nou-observance Of
| the final decision of a competent authority. 1t
amounts TO one and the same thing and is called
in plain English, "DisObedence OF all law and
order, entailing nothing but violence and rebel
! lion in arms"
Had the administration Of Buchanan. thirteen
years ago, showed bold front to the incipient re-
bellion, we would never have had to undergo the
trials and perils Of the civil war, and the heresy
OF secession would have been snuffed out in It's
very hour OF birth.
After the lapse Of thirteen years the programme
OF secession is repeated in varied form, and we
discover now, as we did then, that these commu-
mites will not submit to the decision of the ballot
box If an election results against them. That is
the whole story after dissecting the collateral
and we cannot do otherwise than praise and in
dorse the bearing Of the Administration with re-
| gard to these cutthroats and outlaws.
Ben. Butler hit the nail on the head when he
| expressed q wish last Tuesday TO create law and
order in New Orleans anew.
Gen. Sheridan represents the Government in
| its executive power. Ben. Butler, however, ex-
| pressed the Wi Of the loyal people when he re-
| marked in Congress that he would like TO main
| tain and introduce order in Louisiana. Not only
| Louisiana, but the whole South needs q "Butler
| to give them law and order; and the sooner the
United States discover this truth the better and
| the cheaper" for them: and the very neWspa-
peTs that now cry out CRsarism and tyranny
| will soon enough admit 1t.
We cannot abstain from condemuing the
| cowardice Of such papers as the New York Times,
which prompts them to cry out against the timely
| Intervention Of the Government as an Hnauth0r-
| lied act Of usurpation. The times are pregnant
| with great events, and the storm just now &C.
| curing in Louisiana is only the precursor Of q
! tremendous hurricane that will break over our
heads in less than no time If not timely aud
effective precautions are at once taken to avert
| it and restore law and order in the rebellious
| South. And in this undertaking the Administra-
tion needs the earnest and faithful support Of all
known TO the New York Times and others as to
ourselves and, therefore, its "semi-loyal tone in
| the Louisiana matter is tho more contemplate
| and Objectionable.
| We ere convinced that faltering and fear can
| do no good in this crisis OF our Government, and
we therefore place ourselves fearlessly among
the frank and file" Of the supporters OF the com
petent authority and power Of President Grants
| administration,