The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-30
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.ltylIN NleENEIkY.

The true men Of Louisiana, without a
dissenting voice, will indorse the resou-
ton OF the Baton Rouge Convention,
recognizing the faithful and heroic de-
votion of Gov. McEnery, during the last
three years, to the cause Of his people.
The events OF those years have made
Jpo. McEnery historic figure, and the
unfaltering courage and generous de-
votion to the cause of liberty which he
has SO conspicuously displayed from the
beginning of an almost hopeless strug-
gle. must always command the admira-
ton Of honorable men.
At no period Of this struggle has
this man faltered. Friends fell
away from him; supercilious merce-
naries, In whose eyes a nickle is OF more
Importance than the maintenance of
the loftiest principle. reviled him the
venom OF Radical partisanism was
voided upon him; thousands Of his peo-
pie grew weary Of the fight and, eager
to abandon It, scoffed ut him. But, I'M
daunted, he held up the banner of his
people, and now, on the eve OF a cam
paign which every man feels Is to result
in glorious triumph. he surrenders 1t
into the hands Of the chosen leader of
the party as pure and stainless as it was
the day on which the people placed 1t i'm
his hands.
It has been common to speak OF the
cause which Gov. McEnery has repre-
sented and upheld as a failure, because
he failed TO obtain the Office to which
he was elected. This is indeed mar
row view to take of the " Louisiana
Case" Men may scott at the struggle
Gov. McEnery has made; they may see
nothing in the protests he and his fol-
lowers have sent out to the country;
their ears may have tired Of the unceas
ing denunciations of the foul wrong
that was done Louisiana in setting up
the Kellogg usurpation: they may have
preferred q peaceful acquiescence in, to
a desperate and unceasing opposition
to outrage aud wrong, and because this
struggle, these protests and denuncia-
they tell us that the Louisiana case
has been a failure. Net so, however.
No cause based upon the immutable
principle Of justice can ever be wholly
a failure until God shall have reversed
the order Of the Universe and decreed
that wrong shall be the predominating
force in it's governance. The Louisiana
case has not been failure. It has con-
tributed more than all things else to the
redemption from Radical misrule Of the
States Of Texas, Arkansas and Missis-
sippi. II John McEnery and his people
had been quiet; IL they had quietly
accepted the situation established by
the bayonet in 1872 and 1873; il they
had been mute and servile under the
outrage perpetrated by the Federal
Government and stood with bated
breath In the presence Of the fleets and
armies sent to trample out the honor
and liberty OF Louisiana. there would
have been no tempest-like voice from
the whole country to deter the Admins
tration from its lawless designs upon
Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi, and
those States would have been, like
Louisiana, crushed under the iron heel
OF. q military despotism. Nor did the in
tluences of the Louisiana case stop here.
The protests which went up from the
Last Ditchers; the ceaseless and cour
ageous denunciations of the wrongs OF
Louisiana by the Bourbons the esolute
hostility OF the Intractables to the
Kellogg usurpation, aroused the atten-
ton OF the American people to
the condition Of Louisiana; exposed
the infamous conduct of the Adj
toward this State, and
the result was political revolution
which swept over the North, East and
West, and gave the country Demo
cratic House which has exposed the cor
ruption OF the Grant administration
broken up the Indian ring, the Navy
ring, the Army ring, saved the people
forty millions Of dollars, and insured
the election Of reform administration
and Congress in the fall.
The Louisiana case" has not been a
failure. On the contrary, it has been
splendid success, and the people Of the
South owe lasting debt Of gratitude
to the man who so nobly and bravely
bore the stainless banner Of their
McEnery.