New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-10
ORLEANS WEDNESDAY, MARCH TO- 1875

their sovereignty, which has never, even to
this moment, been surrendered. the result
OF their secession was not only that the
Union OF the States was eundered, but the
government OverthrOwn, and the cOnstitu-
tion rendered imperative, and ceased to be
obligatory upon any OF the States. Congress
could no longer legally convene er.the
provisions OF that instrument; its war
making power, and all Its functions were
executive, legislative and judicial de-
partments OF government any longer
existed, against which treason, the offense
under consideration, could be committed.
"The truth is, the late war was a war be-
tween the masses vf people who composed
the Northern States on one side, acting with
out right and without the authority of a
legitimately organized government, and the
Confederate States, with q regular govern
ment, against which as sovereign power
treason could be committed on the other
side. The object of the war was to over
throw the sovereignty of the Southern
States and reduce them to the condition of
conquered provinces, which the assailants
we're able to accomplish against all prin-
ciples of American right by the force Of
overwhelming numbers. This was treason
to the Southern States and violation of
their rights as sovereign communities, nor
in consequence OF their defeat they were
unable to punish the treason"
Itis only to literary constituency wholly
morbid, and whose spleen ia its sole logic
and conscience. that such villainous sng.
gestions could be welcome; yet the serial is
a text book to the high toned Southron,
its editor, Whitaker, having assidupusly
apologized here tor his inadvertent birth in
Massachusetts,, until the SouthrOn con-
ia 10 t,n!.1 al I,
his minority at that period. l have eau
tiOusly restrained my pen thus far lest l
might be esteemed an alarmst with ears
pricked at any shadow; but when have
reason to believe that deep and deadly
mine, already laid in the South, has been
pushed northward, and that Tammany
lends her spades to the project; when the
mischievOus ennity here, though unable at
times to resist its instinct for violence, calms
to what it itself cOnceives to be a marvellous
show Ot patience, yet abates none of its pent
fury: when the Southern Democrat believes
rebellion right, not q crime, and sees he
must recruit his Northern partisan, who
was idle in the late war, and thus remove
the issue out of . section into Union.
when the Northern leader, gnawing his
knuckies in his hunger for power. consents
in the name Of Democracy to surrender
himself again as before 1850, and at this
Of a sham executive and Legislature in
Louisiana by the Southern element that
will seek to erect in 1877 a sham national
executive aud Congress, ia it not about
time that the souls Of loyal men through
the country were aroused to the new peril
of the republic, saved but ten years ago
from the same wanton handss In 1860
few at the North credited the menace of
the revolution; hence it cost four years and
ita 81 TO tho flo hot -,
and grew from the first camp fire, as if the
country were but wild prairie. Let not
our prescience willfully close it's lids now,
tor the danger is tar greater than in 1860.
The passion that leaped into armor then is
envenomed now with chagrin at it's fruitless
but has so disciplined its hate as
deliberately to husband every resource for
1t staked its all tor power in the
pomp Of war; 1t will next approach by
stealth SO as to wrest the power before
alarm can rally loyal men to save it; then
it will summon its impatient legions to suc-
cor the usur patton, imprOvised out of the
electoral vote, or through the failure 10
count it, The rebel Generals will first IL AXE
"a quiet reconnaissance as Congressman,
then whip out their uniforms from their
pOrtmanteaus and sonnd the peal of
double quick" to the Democracy north |
ward and southwark of the Capitol. The |
fact that the Southern Democracy will |
assume no longer to combat the general |
government, but to be especially charged |
with its maintenance, and that the Northern
which has slavishly declined to |
rebuke assaults upon Republican common
wealths and hourly flagrant violations Of |
law at the South. from mere peevishness |
toward the Republican party, will find an |
added motive in its longing for official |
largess to withhold dissent from, the usurpa.
ton, and ii need arise to Gefend it under its |
call for armed reserves to assist it's trained /!
leagues. The question arises, to whom is |
President Grant to resign his authority in |
March 1877, should the Democratic House |
the scheme recited. Is he to |
await the election of the Democratic Speak |
er Of the Forty.ffth House, and then va |
ate for him the executive CHAIR, or |
s he to continue its incumbent while the |
two houses stand for an indefinite period |
in antagOnism because one hOlse frahdu- |
ently persists in its objection to as many |
electoral votes as Illustrate its aim for |
powerl If he retire for the Speaker he re-
tires for the Democracy, which not only |
presents that Speaker IA the fruit of its de-
iberate fraud in the House upon the elec.
oral vote, but will persist in that fraud SO
hat no decision as to President elect may
De reached, and that the Democracy may
trike root in tho government beyond all |
,ope OF remedy or arrest The Speaker
would necessarily be a Southern Demo-
rat, in view of the overwhelming delega-
ion from that section, and al ex-rebel Off |
er, in view of tho weight attached to ser
ice in the rebellion. Richmond would be
moved north of the Potomac; q lieutenant
# jeff Davis would occupy the White
Ionst!