The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-13
THE LOUISIANA CASE IN WASHINGTON
A Washington special to the Times {

A Washington special to the Times OF
yesterday morning says:
The Democrats here express them
selves much disappointed at the action
of the Convention i'm asking Congress
to reopen the Louisiana case. A lead.
ing Democrat and possible Presidential
candidate remarked to-day: 1.-THE last
ditchers will get no aid and comfort
here. The party cannot carry any
Bourbon weight just now.
The Picdyune also has a Washington
special in reference to Mr.. Hills bril-
liant reply to Blaine, which tells us
that Northern Democrats fear that 1t
Hills speech, will impair the party
prospects at the North" We shall not
pause to consider whether these dis
patches truthfu1ly represent the opin-
ions OF Northern Democrats In relation
to the matters to which they relate, or
are to be interpreted by an additional
paragraph Of the Times special, which
says Packard is here to attend q
meeting OF the Republican National
Convention" And yet we think 1t no
harm to note the remarkable similarity
in the views expressed In the specials OF
our two Conservative contemporaries,
and those on the impolicy OF the action
of the atic-Conservative Con
vention, repeatedly Illuminated by the
New Orleans Republican.
The people Of Louisiana do not pro-
pose TO shape their thoughts and actions
by any patterns cut for them in the
North or by politicians in Washington.
They fully comprehend their constitu-
tional rights as American citizens they
have been trained up as freemen and
are jealous of their liberties, and they
think and act from their own stand
point. Their constitutional rights they
know have been violated, their liberties
have been curtailed and they demand
redress; and they will continue to de-
mand it, however much 1t may displease
gentlemen in Washington or elsewhere.
Gentlemen may think as they please on
the Louisiana question; but this thing
Of issuing admonitions to us from
Washington to keep quiet, whenever
we venture to protest against an in
famous despotism which has been set
over us, is extremely impertinent and
will exercise little influence upon people
who respect their own manhood. The
protest against the Kellogg usurpation
is male by this people for no mere
partisan purpose, but because that
usurpation is great wrong to Louisi-
ana; because it exists in violation Of the
constitution; because 1t is q blight
upon the prosperity of the State, and
because it.is foul and loathsome mon
strosity.
If there are Democrats in Washing
ton who dispute the propriety of the
people OF Louisiana protesting, to the
end, against this infamy, then must
they be Of breed Of Democrats differ
ent from those who were in other times
the defenders OF the Constitution and
the staunchest and boldest champions
Of American liberty. If there are Dem
ocrats anywhere who condemn Louisi-
anians for protesting against the abso-
lutte overthrow OF republican govern
ment and the establishment OF a lawless
despotism in their State, then has con-
stitutional liberty, in them, most un-
certain hope. If the Democratic party
OF this time has mission in American
politics to fulfill, that mission is the
extirpation OF Grantism, root and
branch, and the establishment OF
the Republic in its original integrity.
II this is not its aim, it is simply a
fraud; and If this is its aim, why should
any Democrat shrink from laying hands
upon the Kellogg usurpation, the vilest,
most hideous and oppressive creature Of
Grantism? Ii Democratic ears are to be
shocked by protests against violations
OF democratic and constitutional prin-
ciples; II the Democratic party is, as
is suggested by the Times special, to be
disintegrated il the maiptenance of
democratic and constitutional princi-
pies is forced upon it, what virtue,
or potency. or hope, we ask, is
there for the country in the
Democratic party2 The people OF
Louisiana have only protested against
wrongs which, II perpetratcd upon the
people Of New York, or Massachusetts,
or Pennsylvania, or any other Northern
State, would have provoked violence
land bloodshed they have only demand