New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-23

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strange that % lesrned . lsWyep % the Sen.
ator from Delaware shoald be afflicted with
!! 90 short . memory. Every Attorney Gen.
ersl of the Uaitsd States TO whose attention
this matter hes been called from the begin.
ming of the government has given an 0pin.
ion adverse to the Senator, invariably
concluding that the call Of. the United
States marshal upon troops to aid him in
euch cases, as part Of the posse of the
State or county in which they are, 10 legal
and justi6sble. and one which they are
bound to obey.
. The presidents for such calls are not q
few. Nay. United States troops have been
called upon by the sheriff of . county to act
ae posse In the county where they were,
in matters wherein the State was alone in.
terested. 1t, perhaps, may be in the memory
of some of y0u that many years ago, whom
there was m insurrsction among the pris-
oners of the Charlestown State Prison, the
sheriff of the county and the warden of the
rines to aid them in suppressiDg the out
break, and no one doubted at that day the
legality OF the procedure; but then it was
not necessary to give an opinion - to the
gropriety Of such action in order to elect
Tilden President.
Again, we remember how Governor Wise,
OF Virginia, when John Brown, with his
army Of nineteen men only, held Harper's
Ferry, having failed to dislodge him by the
use Of the Virginia militia. called on Presi-
dent Buchanan for the United States ma
riues who were strong enough to capture
him and his little band Why 1t that time,
Mr.. Senator, were mot the State rights Of
Virginia overthr0wn by the action of tho
United States troops within her borders,
under the order of the President, without
even the formality of process from the
United Ststes court in the hands of .
United States uaarshali And the Cover
nor of Virginis receiving John Brown,
whom apparently he could not get hold IN
States marshal, hanged him for his alleged
crime.
Do We not remembee seeing Anthony
Burns escorted By United States troops
through the streets Of Boston to the prison
ship that was- to oonsign him back to
slsvery9 Where then wae the learned Sem
ator from Delaware, With his opinion that
United States troops could not be used in
States, at the cali Of the United States
marshali That must be legal In the opinion
of the learned Senator, beoaaDe it was done
in the interests Of slavery. Nov Grants
order is in the interests of freedom, FREQ
and fair elections unswed by bloodshed and
mnrdetp, and that in Q slave State-poli.
tician's mind make the difference.
Again, some five years ago, when the il
licit vhisky distilleFs Of Bsooklyn opposed
the execution OF process in the hands Of the
United States marshal, directing him to
destroy their unlsWful stills, he called the
Federal trO0ps from Governors island, .
portion of tho regular armv, with the ma
rines from Brooklyn navy yard, to aid him
in the execution OF his duty, and they cap.
tured the stills and destroyed them.
No protest ever went up that heard of
from any source sgainst the action of
Unite d Ststes troops; and 70 not the proser-
walton of the purity of the ballot box, the
right of an elector to vote in choosing q
President Of the United States and mem
bers of Congress of the United States,
of greater moment than the destruc-
ton of many whisky stills9 No. no;
this opinion Of Senator Bsyard's is
one Of the overt acts of the great
conspiracy by which the COnfederates of
the late rebellious States propose to seize
ballot box, and to carry ont the designs
which they failed to accomplish by the re-
bellion and war of 1861. In my Judgment,
and speak with due feeling of the solem.
nifty OF the crisis in which We are placed,
unless the people Of the North come to-
gether ss one man, as We did in 1861, and
settle these great questions at the ballot
box in November next, and thus avert .
terrible war, which We delayed to do until
Sumter was fred upon, and war was upon
US, we shall find war upon us once more
with new burdens Of debt and taxation,
new slaughter of our sons. and brothers,
new Gettysburgs, Vicksburgs ane Peters
burgs, but NO peW surrender such as was
lad ut Appomattox, Whea southern honor
was pledged to pesce and good behavior,
and Southern mon were allowed to 20 homo
and 60 unscsthed of justiee, even for the
great crimes of Libby and Andersonville.
Gentlemen Of the convention, you will
pardon me for not speaking. to You now
upon other questions involved in this cleo
tioD, because to mo they seem % frivolous,
% puerile In comparison with the great
issue to which We sre again brought face to
face. that to talk of them seems scarcely
moro appropriate, and quite - inconse-
qaentiAl, by Cempasison, - the cry of .
newsboy which once heard when my
soldiers stood in line of battle ready to re-
ceive the charge Of tho rebel foe, como
sQueskiDg up from the ROAR amid the roar
Of the artillery, Here's the New York
Herald and Erpress, only ten cents apiece!Y
In view Of tho threatening dangers OF the
present political crisis, moro grave than any
since the election of 1864, when the last
great battle of the rebellion was fought at
the ballot box in the North, tho duty of
every true hearted lover of his country is
plain.
Laying aside all preiudices. burying all
local and personal differences, and over
looking mere questions as to administrative
measures which may with safety be post
poned, let loyal men of the North settle
now and forever, by such overwhelming
m jority as has been done in Maine this
new, and, if VS. do our duty, this last phase
of the rebellion. Insure peace and prOtec-
tion to all men under the law full enjoy
ment of all their rights by American citi-
zens at home and abroad, SO that the cOun-
try may from this, an epoch in her history,
enter anew upon her career of prosperity,
glory and power, opening her broad lands
to the poor and oppressed of all nations of
the earth, whitening the seas by her COM
merce, and supplying the world with the
necessaries of lite by her productive indus
tries.
Renewing to each one Of you, gentlemen,
my assurances of profound aud earnest
gratitude for your cordial support. l
pledge to you that what can do shall be
zone to take Massachusetts principles,
Massachusetts ideas and Massachusetts
civilization and progress from the rear,
where they of late have been tagging,
again to the front, in the national Congress.
Personal.
Deputy Marshal Stockton states that the
recent New York Herald report of con-
vereation between himself and reporter
of that journal is incorrect in several par.
ticulsrs. The report appeared and was
doubtless written over three weeks after