New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-08
VERY PERPLEXING.

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ers perplexes us by its equivocal utter
ances. Having discussed the chances Of
procuring suicides enough to assassinate
the Republican officers, it finds no other
recourse, and it says:
Dismiesine, then, this view Of the sub
| ject, We are compelled to look abroad for
relief.
It is the ambiguity Of this relief which
perplexes us
Should the Democratic majority in the
House of Representatives MAINTAIN q firm
attitude, either Mr.. Tllden will be seated
| or the country will be precipitated into
revolution.
This Democratic majority consists of
Southern Democratic members. If they
stand firm, then either Mr.. Tilden will be
seated or revolution will follow. On the
eve of an important combat, it behooves
the commanders to maintain all the
ground upon which the battle is to be
delivered.
The REPUBLICAN has stated the COM
psrative military strength Of the two
parties. The preponderance in favor Of
the Republicans at the North and West
renders too great the undertaking to JUS
tify q Democratic resort to revolution.
The press and people of the North would
not regard the election of Hayes as an overt
act per Sc which would justify revolution.
The Democratic party at the South,
which has once avowed this doctrine, has
barely the military force and resources to
bulldoze and intimidate the negroes, and
should not, in common prudence, COM
NIT itself to civil war. We can not, then,
anticipate revolution. Mr.. Tilden SUBJ
mitted to the government in 1861, not
withstanding the declaration of his South
ern friends that it was an outrage. While
Southern men died on the field Of battle
for their conception of right, Northern
States rights men took contracts and COM
missions under Republican President to
compel obedience to the Union. While
Southern State rights men lost their
property by the ravages of war, emancipa-
ton and confscation, Mr.. Tilden amassed
large fortune in the speculative profits
of military expenditures.
Our inference from the foregoing re-
marks of the White League organ is that
the country will not be precipitated into
revolution, because there will be no one
to precipitate it further than the lawful
authorities of the Federal government
can arrest its progress. The White League
organ seems, itself, to be perplexed with
the situation. It says:
The question still remains to perplex ne,
"What are we to do with it!' For our part,
we regret that we are not atlo to furnish
definite answer.
Yet, Notwithstanding this inability to
furnish a definite solution, it subse-
quently expresses the conviction that if
one branch of the national Legislature
shall declare for Hayes aud the other for
Tilden, we may hope for civil war, and
that then "the people of Louisiana will be
left to determine for themselves whether
it is better to endure than to strike"
This perplexity involves several contin-
gencies. The country may be precipi-
tated into revolution. The Northern De-
mocracy may inaugurate civil war. Then,
again, they may not. In case the revoiu-
ton shall be precipitated, we have no as
surance that the Southern Democracy
will participate in the war. In case it
shall not be precipitated the people of
Louisiana will determine for themselves
whether they participate or not. We
may say for numerical majority of these
people that they will not take large stock
in another civil war. If, then, the organ
speaks advisedly, it leaves us in ore cular
uncertainty as to what is to be the result
of the presidential middle. To us who
have for so many weeks looked to the
declaration Of the White League organs
for light upon current and coming events,