New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-19
TIE DOUaHFACE ION DECK AGAIN"

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TIE DOUaHFACE 'ON DECK AGAIN."
Mr.. Scott Lord, set down in the Tribune
almanac as q New York Democrat, has
introduced certain resolutions to enforce
the fifteenth article Of the constitution
s'by appropriate legislation. 1t has been
passed by Democratic House, and in con-
sequence of its terms has been made the
basis of an executive order, which has
been published in our dailies. This DEM
ocratic concession seems to have para
lyzed the Times and Picayune with aston
ishment. Not one Of the three ant;-Repub-
Hcan papers publishes the resolutions as the
preamble to the executive order. Each of
these anti-Republican journals attacks
General Grants order"
The Picdyune says:
We have more than once alluded edi-
torially to the undisg uised pur pose of the
Republican party and the administration
at Washington to interfere by force and
srms in Southern elections. The order OF
President Grant to General Sherman.
which is published in our telegraphic
columns, will be recognized as another note
of preparation.
It also says:
The certain, condign and effective pun
ishment" which General Grant threatens is
somewhat indefinite.
And then speculates thus:
Whether these words n can the shooting
down of defenseless citizens, or their trial
and execution by military cOurtsm atrial on
the trumpet up charges of Radical prose-
cutors will perhaps be developed hereafter.
The Times, under the caption Rule o.
the Bayonet," assumes
At laet the President has fairly shown
his hand. From our morning dispatches 1t
will be perceived that notice ia served upon
the country that the elections are to be car
ried By force, if necessary.
As matter of course
This course has not been unexpected by
the Times.
The Bulletin is little more bold and
little more logical. 1t publishes an edi-
torial on the Lord resolutions, and pro-
ceeds to show that the order of the exec
utive is in exact acc ordance with them.
The apparent theory of these resolu-
tions is this: The whole North and West
have accepted the doctrine of national
supremacy. For the doughface Democracy
to deny this doctrine would be certain
and sudden political death. The whole
nation is aroused to believe that the
Southern Democracy mean to repeal the
war, so soon as they can get control Of
the government. To save themselves
from natural execration the doughfAce
Democracy storm the crisis, assert the
national supremacy and require the ex'
ecutive to employ the full force of the
nation to execute the laws. To make it's
sincerity more conspicuous the doughface
Democracy gave the executive sufficient
force to chastise the outside savages with
out impairing his ability to maintain order
within the States.
The doughface Democracy seem to
have convinced their Southern allies that
unless the triumphant chant, ''The Gray's
on Deck Again, shall be checked, the
fear of another war and the danger of the
Union will array the whole North and
West against the whole South, and the
election must result as the war did-in
Democratic capitulation.
This strategy will be obvious upon the
perusal of the debate on Mr. Lords reso-
luton. It will be found to have been
passed under the previous question moved
by Democrat. The proposition to open
debate was opposed by Democrat.
That the resolution was not sprung upon
the Democratic party is shown by the
declaration of its mover, Mr.. Lord:
This proposition has been submitted to
great many gentlemen from the South,
among them the distinguished gentleman
from Virginia, Mr.. Tucker, who, though he
thought no resolution necessary, suggested
the first part as to the fifteenth amendment.
The whole preamble was added, save one
clause, to satisfy Southern members.
From this it will be seen that the pre-
amble and resolutions met with the appro-
bration of some Southern membef4
though many of them did not vote on the
question at all. We may as well specify
few of them: Blackburn, Blount,
Brown, Buckner, Culbertson, Douglas,
Ellis, Gibson, Goode, Harris, Hatcher,
Hill, Knott, Lamar, Milliken, Money,
O'Brien, Swami, Throckmorton and Wells.
Besides these eminent absentees may be
numbered Mr.. Sayler, Speaker Of the
House, Randall and Fernando Wood.
These Southern State rights members
were absent and consenting without re-
sistance to the strongest assertion of ma
tional supremacy ever made by the Con-
gress of the United States. This settles
the question. ''The doughfaces" have
saved the Union, and their Southern
allies have again taken or lodged the
oath Of national allegiance.
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