New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-01


is still ranking within them against the
prominent Union men of the nation, and
that nothing is wanting with great num-
bers of them but an available opportunity
to again assume An open hostility to the
power and authority of the nation. We
charge that the class We refer to as Demo-
cratic politicians by trade and office seek
ers by practice are in this State, as in
most of the Southern States, agitating,
if not always openly and above board,
still, .covertly and indirectly the dangerous
heresies which a few years ago brought
desolation and carnage and death and
destruction over the length and breadth
of the Southern States. We make good
these charges from facts seen before our
eyes every day; from language spoken
and written and printed. What means
the constant cry of State rights :?
usurpation of the general government?
centralized government, military usurpa-
ton and other stereotyped expressions
seen in the public prints and heard daily
on the streets? Not one act Of the
national government done in pursuance
of the constitution and laws Of the United
States in the execution of these laws,
where their enforcement have had the eff
feet or purpose to restrain the violence OF
offenders acting in the political interests
the Democratic party, but such act has
been publicly branded as an act of usur-
patton and Of military tyranny. Abusive
and vituperative expressions toward the
officers of the United States have been
lavishly bestowed upon every one Of
them who has served or made bona tide
efforts to serve process issuing from the
United States courts against the violators
Of law. A persistent effort is kept up by
pen, by press and by tongue to educate
the people Of this country to regard the
general government as a tyranny, and to
despise and hold in contempt every Re-
| publican administration of that govern
| ment. The theme has been, ever since
the reconstruction of the Southern States,
the usurpation Of the general government,
and the sslost rights" of the States which
that government is charged to have vlo-
lated and destroyed.
| To recover power and control OF the
general government, and thereby reor-
eanize and introduce afresh the princi'
pies of anarchy fostered by the so-called
league government, have ever been the
motives that prompted the agitators, and
this object and purpose lay at the tounda.
ton Of the Greeley move in 1872, SC
signally rebuked by the nation. "The
right to local self-government' is the
specious pretense under which the ku
Klux and White League bands assume t.
murder and assassinate every one opposed
to their purposes. They want ''the righ
of self-government." All they want ''L
to be let alone" They don't interfere
with the general government, and the!
don't want the general government to in
terfsre with them. The league doctrine
is that the State is sovereign, and that il
the name of the people lawless bands o
midnight raiders may lynch and hans
whomsoever they please, their victims de
priyed of all protection from the Stat
laws. They maintain that the nationa
power can not be invoked to protect tn
rights of citizen when the State law
can not be inforced for that purpose An
attempt to afford that protection whic
the constitution and laws Of the Unite
States extends to the down trodden an
the oppressed, when the State authorize
imprudently and shamelessly refuse to e,
tend their protection, is boldly terme
usurpation, tyranny, and is branded
bayonet rule Of centralized power.
The duty and course Of the Republic
F ans of the South under this state of thing
is simple and plain. It is to have til
? manliness to oppose by all peaceable an
, legal means in their power, anywhere an
9 under all circumstances, the perniciou
, and dangerous principles avowed an
j acted upon by the ultra Democracy
{ their section Of the country. To sustal
law and order: to promote concord an
, | good feeling among the law-abiding pei
pie of every race and color; to encourag
harmony, industry and the quiet pursu
t of those things which tend to peace an
, | civilization. Especially is it their duty
: sustain, by all legal measures, the RICH
q accorded to all our citizens by the const
!. tuition and laws of the United States;
maintain their supremacy, and to marc
g under no flag that does not wave over 10y
i men who keep step to the music OF Il
/ Union.
/. We have no threats to make, no war
|. ings to utter. We point to the past; v
|. refer to history. We say the people
!. this great nation are in earnest in the b
o lief that there is a nation; and that the
:, purpose is fixed to maintain this nation
it's integrity whatever wars may assail
from without, and whatever treason al
!, rebellion may assault it from within.
WHY LOUISIANA GETS NOTHING.
= The debate on the river and harbor b
:. has developed the fact that each Dem
cratic REPRESENTATIVE was allowed to p