The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23
HERALD AND MAIL.
friday morning, April as, 1875.
LOnisinna.

At last Louisiana has given up-has
been forced by Grant to agree to a con
cession of all her rights, in consideration
Of the expelled members being allowed
their seats. The compromise is such as
the robber makes with his victim. He
gives the victim his life on condition that
the victim pledges himself that he will
not prosecute the robber, and will public
" declare that cit is all right We
see no compromise in this Louisiana az
fair. The Conservatives in consideration
of having their seats-tO which they had
been unquestionably elected by the peo-
pie, but from which they had been vio-
lently expelled by Federal bsyonets-re-
stored to seven members, pledge them
selves not 10 impeach or prosecute the
robber kellogg and his fellow-thieves, but
will allow them to enjoy their offices and
plumber to the end of their terms. Thus
they are given another opportunity of ma
nipulating the returns, and casting the
vote of the State for Grant in 1876. By
compromise we understand mutual con-
eession. What have Grant and his ser
Want Kellogg conceded? A Republican in
vestigating committee find these mem
bers justly entitled to their seats, and are
forced to acknowledge that the act of the
military was an outrage subversive of
freeinstitutions. Is it any concession that
these members are aIl0tCed-mark the
word dlIoJoed-to take their seats? But
this il not GllOl0ed, except on conditions
that stultify them, tie their hands and
make them no longer representa-
tiVes ofthe people who sent them there;
and by the pledges made to gain their
seats, they have in fact forfeited them,
and are nor worthy of expulsion. What
have the oppressed people of Louisiana
gained by the Wheeler COMPROMISED
They have sold their birth-right of liberty
for less than a mess of postage. They
said to the world, I'VE were not so badly
treated as we made out. This was only
. fight between the ms and outs for Of
fee, and we compromised by taking a
share"
Far better would it have been for Lou
isiana had she yet while endured. Her
wrongs cried out trumpet-tongued to the
American people, and did more than all
else to awake them to a sense of their
danger-calIed to their notice the@trides
despotism was making in this country.
In another year Louisiana would have
been taken from the condition of a
Province and restored to her position as q
State in the Union; and Kellogg AID his
gang of thieves would have been forced
TO fly from justice, as Bullock from Geor-
gia. If not from principle then from pol
icy we should hold fast to the right. Make
no concessions to wrong. Wrong must
be opposed, not treated with
The Radicals were anxious to coB1pro-
mise and hush up this Louisiana affair.
1t carried for the Democrats the fall cleo
ton. 1t carried Connecticut by an in
creased Democratic majority. What
skillful management on the part of the
Radicals, not only to get it hushed up, but
on terms which seemed to confess wrong
on the part of the Conservatives The ad-
ministration is indebted to Wheeler for
his diplomacy. He should be given E
foreign mission, and if in it he be as true
90 his country as he has been to his par
~, and as skilIful in management, We
will have one minister of note.