New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-07

There is very much suggestive truth il
these words from the Cincinnati Gazette;
THE Democrats thought they woult
make a great deal Of capital out of tina
Louisiana business. Instead, they have
walked up slumbering Republicans and wa,
Democrats all over the country. and in
snred the election Of Republican Pres
dent In 1876 Nothing like clear showing
of rebel hands in these DAYS. There was 3
corresponding exhibition in 1862, and the
following year Brough carried Ohio BY
GOO majority. aud Lincoln walked over
| the course in 1864"
The Gazette has struck the mai! On the
head. 1t is our firm conviction that, if
Congress will wisely dispose of what re.
mains OF the Louisiana question, the Re-
publican party will profit and the Demo.
cratic party will suffer from the events of
the past three weeks. Why? Because these
events have brought ont the maiign spirit
OF the rebel Democracy as it has not been
| exposed before since the close of the war
and because it has thus reused the country
to new sense OF the danger involved in
| placing this rebel Democracy in power
There have been transactions in Loui-
sana which right minded men have de.
plOred. The Republican party and its re.
cogDized representatives have met the
subject IN just. temperate and honorable
spirit. They have shown the reasonable
determination, first to learn the facts, and
then to pronounce such discriminating
Judgment as truth and sound principle
required. They have been careful to defend
no wrong and to assert no position which
is in violation of our correct American
doctrine. While demanding protection for
the rights of all. and denouncing the malig.
nant spirit of the White League assassins, ,
and reprobating the revolutionary proceed
ings of the White League usurpers,
they have not justified military interior
ence with legislative independence or
approved any violent and unconstitu.
tional methods of procedure The Pres-
dents message has wisely laid down
the impregnabie position of the ad-
mlnistration, and those blatant rebel SYM
patbizers-who, fresh FROM their efforts to
destroy the country, have the brazen
ettrontery to assail this saviour of the
country as ''tyrant" and ''despot"-
have yet been unable to make a single
breach in that well fortified paper Have
the people thought of it ! no critic any
where has yet succeeded in breaking down
the Presidents message at any point Some
have thought it should have been more
positive and unqualified in one or TWO par
ticular expressions but nobody has shown
that 1t asserted wrong position or justified |
wrong action or that it did not indicate
the Presidents true patriotism and honest |
UN'ceiOA " eaC IA VIC duu CO4iSliIuIiOI. ALI |
this furnishes new evidence that the Re- |
publicpn party may safely be entrusted |
with the rights and interests of the whole |
country.
But how did the Democracy meet the |
subject! From the very first. they started in |
with the old rebel yell Without waiting
tor trustworthy statement of the facts,
they seized upon the first garbled reports,
and undertook to force the country into a
conclusion before the truth was known.
instead OF fairy discriminating and con
uemning the wrongs on both sides, they
applauded everything the White League
did and assailed everything the other side
nd. They justified the introduction of
federal troops by the Democratic side of
me Legislature, but denounced it on the
Republican side. They sustained the White
League revolutionary usurpation of the
Legislature, but denounced the proceeding
which restored it where the law placed
{. They vituperated Sheridan's wish
20 protect all citizens, but had no
word of censure for the White League
,ssasslns. They went 80 far in their rebel
ury as to stlgmatize Sheridan's otfense as a
nousand times worse than that of jeff
Jaws. In a word they have thrown OFF the
mask and shown out their real spirit as thew
rave not done before since Grant crushed
heir hopes at Appomattox Courthouse. If
ne country was being iullfd into the dem
non that the questions of the war were
ettled, and that there was no longer apy
LANCER from this source, it has been rudely
oused from its well nigh fatal mistake.
ne Union spirit OF the country is rising az
did in 1861. in 1864, in 1865, in 1868 and ia
81 and IT Congress will wisely meet the
uestlon OF the government of Louisiana II
VII De found shat this Showing of rebel
ands' during the past three weeks has
zen of incaiculable public and political
dvantage AlLany Journal.