New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-15
UsURPATI0H, NEGLECT OF DUTY AND
OPPRESSION.

OPPRESSION.
, The Democratic House Of Represent
tives at Washington can respond whe
! each of the above named offenses .,
called by the people. It has proved i
self to be quite as great fraud as on
own lower House did last winter. Th
only difference is, the Washington usurT
ers, not being limited by the constitution
to sixty days wherein they may vex th
country, have kept it up longer than on
local nuisances were permitted to exist
The principal business of the averag
Democratic Congressman, as shown b
the reports, has been to attend caucus
consort with thieves who want to turn in
formers, invent accus atoms against Re
publicans which he does not dare to brin,
to trial. and draw his pay. One woul
suppose that after fourteen years o
Republican law making there would b.
need for instant action on reform bill
embodying the Democratic policy, or a
any rate some attempt made to vindicat'
the necessity for a change in the politica
complexion of the Representatives. Blu
such does not appear to be the case. The
Democrats appare ntly find the laws good
enough, as they have made no effort tc
change them. Fearing to face the coun.
try on the direct issue Of law making. and
yet anxious to make show of doing
something, they have taken upon them
selves the powers and duties of police
justices, constables, shyster prosecuting
attorneys and jailors. People have been
restrained Of their freedom, deprived of
liberty without due process of law, mere
ly because some old Copperhead like
Clymer is anxious to accuse his way to
the White House, and wants the credit of
having secured q credible witness to prove
his charges.
All this fuss has resulted in the formal
accusation of one man-and he Demo-
crat-upon test imony which Duluth"
Knott fears is insufficient to convict. In
thus encroaching upon the prerogatives of
the judiciary, the House has taken forci-
BILE possession of witness and locked
him up. The sub-judiciary committee
has just concluded to return q respect
full answer" to writ of habeas corpus is
sued from the Supreme Court of the dis
trict. and inform the judges that the
House possesses supreme judicial power
in all criminal cases in which Republicans
are accused. The committee might have
added, criminals under the Ku-Klux act
can be released by the ordinary tribunals
as usual, as even q Confederate mob could
not discharge this duty with greater satis-
faction to the Democracy than the United |
States courts are now doing it.
''The judicial power of the United |
States shall be vested in Supreme Court |
and such inferior courts as Congress |
shall establish" The House has yio-
ated this provision of the constitution
BY setting itself up as complete court
If judicature, includin 6 the right to try,
convict and punish, as we'll as accuse.
This sort of arrogance will be kept up
lust so long as it amuses the idle and
vulgar. Of course nothing can come of
t. The House can not punish anybody,
Unless it be one of its own strikers, whom
can deprive of a situat ion. Even the
Thole Congress, including the Senate,
an only dismiss from Office and dis
ualify from being elected or appointed
4 the future. In the meantime the le-
itimate business of Congress will be
lighted. People who are so much occu-
led with the concerns of others never
ave time to attend to their own, and the
Iouse will adjourn after having accom- +
ished nothing, with the specious excuse ,
at they had SO much detective and DO ,
'e duty to perform that they were really I
liable to do anything toward brushing q
the 'sancient traditions" There has s
zen an unimportant amendment tackled '
! to an appropriation bill to allow the t
cretary Of the Treasury to pay out some p
elve millions of silver coin, which has e
n like dead weight in the treasury for a
my years, in exchange for greenbacks. g
It as nobody is in particular need of fl
yer, there is no undue excitement or re- it
cling over this effort. The old barbaric G.
'tom of Juggling about several pounds p'
metal to pay expenses has been discon- sc
ued, and people care very little what I
Of stuff bankers and money dealers W
ept as currency SO long as it maintains Ell
power and is put in con-
lent shape. As so on, therefore, as the
nocratic House disc overed that nobody 6.
ats specie, they order it to be paid out, ~
the names of Old Bullion are ap- ~
sed. W
We fear the Democr attic element in the -
Use is tride revolutionary. They liz
sue individuals rather than principles, t;o
Union Republicans rather than Con- lie
rate Democrats. By the time they tis
Q dragged the House down to thorough me-
tempt, the const itutional limit of ex- tio
nee will have been reached, and they evi
probably retire about as they did in off
|, before storm of popular indig- ]
on. ~,
VERY ADROTT L.