New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-30
DOMESTIC REVOLUTION.

The PsesVUsS N t4sxHtSd AAsvet0os@
trine. It IL that revelations, ike private
theatricals, may be conducted without
taking ont any license 1t proposes -
evads the authority Of the Federal gov
eminent by very ingenious but rather
metaphysical dsyies. -~1tisvas1s~sndss-
stand is that whereas the FedeFal govern.
ment may be allowed TO execute; it, own
laws upon . perfectly proper rrequia-
tion," and in case Of mese insuIfection,
yet inasmuch - . revolution Is not IN in
surrection-and. suppose the converse 10
be true-it viii be only necessary fox The
disaAsctsd population Of Stats topro-
claim itself in revelation" and 60, -
it were, into secret session. when tho
power Of the Federal government to enter
the State would be paralyzed, and ''the
dagger would drop from its paracidal
hands"
This metaphysical distinction is made
obvious by these words:
We here distinctly announce tho doc
trine that whom resistance to any State law
reaches the proportions of . rev0lution
without conflict with Federsl Institutions
OF interests, the general government has 20
right to interfere.
Thus, q revolution which resists and
utilities the laws of State, and which
may incidentally imperil the rights and
lives of citizens Of the United States, IL
sacred from that Law Of the United States.
We have never seen such Q remedial dis
covery as this since the historical notice
of that made by the late Nj 4cDufRA of
South Carolina. It was that ''we have
only to make our bayonets six inches
longer than theirs, and slay them before
they can possibly reach us. !" Before how
ever, accepting the new discovery that to
call an instruction . revolution win
take tho vlolation Of law entirely ont
Of the power Of the Federal government,
It is perAeps judicious 70 hsar what The
United States has to say upon the sub
jet During the Sivil,. var Congress
pasaed N extended and decisive oede Of
legislation in execution Of the doctrines
established BY Tho constitutional amsad-
mentx Among them sre thoss Two under
sections headed: civil rights citizen
ship-the elective fraAchise- the ftssd-
men-insurrection. We assure tha Psoa-
yuns that they declare powers inherent in
the Federai government and impose duties
upon it which were unknown, before that
period. Il viii be remembered that the
reform Democracy in the House Of Repre-
sentativss has not proposed the repeal Of
ono Of these Laws, nor any provision under
any one Of these sections. We call the
attention Of those Who think tho Federal
government has no right to know that
private revolution il going On within
State unless invited officially to b pres
emit to section 5299. Revised Statutes
Of the United States, title ''Insurrection. y"
Whenever instruction, domestic vio-
lenoe, unlswful combinations, or oonspirs-
cies in any State % obstruCts or binders the
laws thereof, and Of The United States as to
deprive any portion or clAss Of the people
of such State of tho rights, privileges or
immunities or protection, named In tho con-
stitution and secured by the laws for the
muuities, and the constituted authorities Of
such State are unable to protect, or from
any cause fail in or refuse protection Of the
people in such rights, such facts shall b
deemed OF denied by such State of the
equal protection of the laws to which
they are entitled under the constitution
OF the United States, and in al such oasee,
or wherever any such insurrecaon, .vio-
lence, unlawful cOmbln alton or C0nsutr1Cy
opposes or obstructs the laws Of the United
States, or tho execution thereof, or impedes
or obstructs the even course of jsBtice IN.
der the came, it shall be laWfal for the
President, and it ehall be his duty to take
such measures by the employment OF the
militia, or his land and naval forces Of the
United States, or Of either, or BY other
measures, - he may deem neCooeosy Tor
the suppression of such insurTectioD, do
mestic violence Or combinations. ...
The fancy that the State government is
a castle, within which the authority is
supreme, and that when it proclaims .
state of domestic revolution, the Federal
government has no right to intercede. is
shown by the section quoted above to DO
utterly fallacioua We tell the Picdyane
that it has stated the position, when, in
another column, it says: .':They lthe Re
publicansl have long ago determined that
Federal authority is supreme and when
it is asked
Of what use, then, 10 tho sovereignty Of
the Statess
Echo respectfully reverberates the in
quiry. The law to which we have sum-
marily referred efectually disposes Of
these discrowned sovereigns.
The Ptcayune confounds disobedience
to the laws with the sacred right Of revo-
luton. The REPUBLICAN values that right
as highly as any who live. It may mod
erately claim as American citizens as direct
connection with the grandest revolution
in human history as any others, be
they who they may, but we would not
degrade that immortal right to which we
recall. We would obey all the laws of the
republic, and of the States or none of the
one or the other. We would not SO de-
grade the inalienable right ofrevolution. as
to obey every law which might hurt our
interest or our ambition, and evade,
nullify or resist those which compound the
one or the other.
Such heated and inconsiderate theories
as those adduced by the Picaylne. tend to
expose the consequences Of Democratic
snccass This dnctrinA has been concealed