The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-01
The Republican Programme in Louis
lana.
The following Washington special TO the


New York Tribune is decidedly significant:
seen, T. Morris Chester, a leading colored Repub-
lcan politician Of Louisiana, called on the pres-
dent this morning and received from him assurances
that the Administration Will furnish all the nee
essary aid to Mr.. PACKARD aud the Republican man
ayers Of Louisiana 20 carry The state next
November The president IL reported a. having
said. We shall carry Louisiana; we carry only
three OF the southern states; the other two are
North and south carolina, The President sis so
select good man for his successor In the marshas
ofice, and assuring him that the means for making
a most vigorous campaign in the state will be
furnished lie said there will be no lack of money,
aud thst u troops are needed they also VIII be
furnished"
There is no installing the programme
thus laid down. The president has put
himself in the hands of the Republican
managers, Chandler, Morton, and the
rest; and will use the whole power of the
government, regardless Of the conse-
quences, for the benefit of the Republican
ticket in the southern states. All the
money and all the soldiers needed will be
promptly furnished, and majorities will be
secured by the joint influence of corruption
and compulsion Arms and munitions Of
war have already been shipped from Rock
Island Arsenal for this purpose, at several
times within the past two weeks, as our
columns have shown.
This is pleasant exhibit for the cen.
tennial year, and delightful commentary
upon the professions o! the party which
assumes for itself the credit Of all the
moral and.political virtues. Continually
crying, ''let us have, peace that party is
doing all it can to render genuine and
permanent peace impossible Conticually
Boosting of its share in Saving the union, y
that party deliberately adopts policy
which makes the union miserable
mockery. Continually denouncing the
southern people on account Of alleged in
sufficient affection for the federal govern
ment, it is giving that people ample cause
TO hate the government with bitter aud in.
extinguishable hatred Suppose the ad.
ministration we're to undertake TO play the
same desperate aud dirty game 10 Missouri
or Massachusetts, that it proposes to play
in Louisiana-what would be the result
Would the people Of Missouri and Massa
chusetts patiently endure the iufamou,
tyranny? Not day, not an hour. AL
the bayoncts and all the money Grant
could muster would be swallowed up in tht
gulf Of instruction. Rather than thus b.
ridden down and ridden over, the people
of Missouri and Massachusetts would rise
and fight. Why does Republican admin
istration do in the south what it would no
dare to even think of doing in the north
Simply because ;he south has neither tn,
disposition nor the ability to resist; be
cause the Republican party has diligently
cultivated public sentiment in the nortl
which repudiates all rights in the south
except the right to vote the Republican
ticket, because it relies upon "thc bloody
shirt enthusiasm to excuse and justit!
any and all wrongs deemed necessary 4
perpetuate Republican rule.
There Is no escape, that we can sec, 70
the people O. Louisiana. They must DO,
beneath the yoke which the Republican
leaders are forging tor them, but unes
human nature has reversed itself and n
history is lie, the time will come whe
that yoke will be broken, and broken fol
ever. 1t is an insult to the America
name and character to suppose that such
despotism can always exist on America
soil. Sooner or later it will perish utterly
and with il will perish the party which la
inaugurated and enforced the vilest poll
zeal system that eyer polIutet the air Of
free Country