New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-27

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1.-the DILEMMA OF OUR DEMOCRATIC REP.
y 1EsEHfATIvEs.
/ Before our Democratic Representatives
had departed for Washington they were
] Understood to have proclaimed determi.
nation to demand Of Congress the redress
Of grievances. It was therefore expected
i that they would move to lay all pending
| questions upon the table and proceed
with the Same Violent declaration against
i the federal government and in favor Of
the armed rule Of the best marksrnen
which has. re-echoed through our balls
and reverberated through the public
squares of our city. To the as
constituent Of their followers scarcely
word has been heard from these
heroic Representa- lives demanding
atonement for the unprecedented
oppression by the majority of voters. It
WAS not surprising that the followers of
these Representatives should have become
impatient It would nothave been won
derful it they had even suspected these
Representatives of having, through timid-
i.y or cupidity, gone back on their princi-
pies, nor. amid. the perversities which
have marked our political history, would
it sstonish Us to see the Coushatta De-
mocracy oppose the denomination Of these
dumb dogs, as the Scotch Covspanters
used to call those ministers who did not,
upon all occasions, proclaim ''the sword
of the Lord and Gideon"
Fearing greatly the domination of Cou-
shatta, and unwilling to incur the expense
Of educating another batch Of Democratic
representatives as to the power Of the
United States. we, tho political antagonist
of these delegates, hasten to acquit them of
any such unworthy imputation. They
have been confronted with the vast power |
and predominant interests Of the Anieri- |
can people. They have contrasted the
respectable insignifcance of the political
power which they represent with this
great Union from New York across to
California. It has had the same effect
upon our Representatives that the visit OF
Spotted Tail may have had upon the
naughty supremacy Of that autocratic
chieftain. At home and arrayed in paint,
breech cloth and feathers, admiring
braves obeyed him. In New York people
looked at him a. upon the tobacco sign at
the door Of . cigar shop.
Senator Edmupds, Republican, pro-
our whole. election of 1872 Q
fraud. Senator Bayard, Democrat, avoved
the same conviction. The Senate made
these admitted abuses the ground for an
attempt to protect the presidential cleo {
lion from the vice of doublereturns.
The equal right of all constituencies to +
command the attention Of Congress, &C.
,ording to the numerical force of their :
respective or allied representation, has
Iuashed the quarrels of Louisiana The
superior national importance of the finan-
ial, or transpo rtation, OF tariff, or naviga- :
ion questions, has left our Pacific rail. !;
DAD and levees and outlet works com. +
,letely in the shade, so that the repre- Z
entative services of our members have :
'een confined to applying for some COM y
nercial facilities, and the presentation of h
editions for some large appropriations I
7hich it does not suit the issues Of 1876
o permit. a
Delegate Gibson was twitted with q
aving said nothing during the SEES .
ion. This induced us to do him the y
ommon justice of publishing his speech o
, favor of the sugar interest Of y
is constituents. He has since vindi. f.
tied himself alike from the impu- y
'tion Of japaciiic course and of Repub- t.
can approval by resol ution to hold a II
inquest over possible abuses In h,
10 federal officers Of this city. Even in Il
lis his Democratic superiors have not in
lowed him full sway. and his motion to .,
spend the rules failed of the requisite Dr.
tie. There is, however, decisive cause
ny our Democratic Representatives have II
It redeemed their own pledges Of pro-
'unced agitation, nor met the sanguine
pectations Of their violent partisans. -
10 national Democracy has suffered nc
eatly from the attempt of Mr.. Tucker ca
d others to reinstate the issues Of Ou
60 S., and prepare anew for further Pr
al Of decided question. The violent Oh
d sectional speeches of Messrs. Hill, an
,gleton and others, awakened appre- re-
nsion that the spirit of resistance to the
leral laws had been scotched but not tri
led, and the public must have been dr.
uck with the fact that no such speeches fiv
We been made since the elections of New Or
mpshire and Connecticut. CHI
The Louisiana Democrats have been av'
d ''that little people should be seen ma
not heard" They have been forbid Col
l to use the same language in Congress the
1. they utter with applause in Louisi- Ac
J, under the penalty Of party displeas- cal
. The disappointment Of the unin- cat
ted Democracy at the sudden SUBJ the
ence of their chosen orators has rem pae
ed necessary an explanation referring Ian
) sudden silence to its true causes. The tlo'
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