The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-14


A world wide difference divides The two
positions. That man Is no patriot. and
the people know it. He cares not,
and never did care. for the true
interests Of the country. and the people
know It, He defies public opinion. de-
rides oil traditional presidents, respects
no other law but his own logged obsti-
macy. and the people know it MS we'll
He has made himself the centre Of all
power in the country, because he has
usnrped supreme power over his own
department, as he has over the two
others. Most Of his favorites are public
swinllers notorious leaders Of corrupt
rings-and he. knowing it. screens and
protects them nevertheless. and threat
ems to crush whoever attempts to mete
out to them their cbndign punishment.
Selfish, covetolls. ambitious and cruel,
as are all tyrants, every act and every
thought of his bears upon his persotel
interests only. or upon those OF his
chosen minions. The people. however,
have ut last carefully studied his ad-
ministration, and have, as alnatter OF
course, irrevocably condemned it. For
no consideration will they support it
longer. and they arc ready now
to express their determination to that
effect. If their leaders will stand by them.
This being the case, and the House Of
Representatives in Congress being still
in session, with more than an ordinary
working majority in favor Of honesty
and reform. and the Radical
Senate having Just rcbuked the
usurpatory intervention OF the Fed
eral Executive i'm the affairs of
Louisiana, there can be no plausible
reason, with such leaders us Randall
Lamar, Cox, Ellis. Gibson and Levy, to
longer ignore the memorial and address
of the Louisiana Democratic Convention
Of January last. as to the grievances OF
our people.
Should the House Of Representatives
| in Congress remain Inactive, able rs 1t
| is now to assist us. it will. in our opinion,
act as timorously and az tamely-to say
| the least-as did Our Louisiana House OF
Representatives, at the end of its own
session, with regard to the Kellogg i'm.
parchment. If our House verify feared
| Federal interference in case 1t should
act vigorously-and all such apprehen-
sion was futile. and would have eventu-
ally benefited the Democratic party
certainly, the popular branch OF the
| United States Congress can plead no
such excuse to justify non action on
It's part. It, therefore. ilnperatively be-
| hooves its members to come to u 1inal
settlement Of the Louisiana question:
They cannot avoid the issue.
| And why should we stand STILL" ns
some OF our friends-0ov. Hendricks
among them-so coolly, and, we think.
seltishly advised us to do? What rea-
sons had we-what reasons have we now
for allowing Kellogg and his piratical
crew to remain in power, II only for hall
q year IL only for two months for three
weeks-for u single day when we could
politically destroy them with but a
blow? Why show them mercy ? How
can they deserve any at our hands, they
who have so long squandered our for
tunes and throttled our liberties
| Our duty, first OF Ill, is to vindicate
our rights to freedom, rs guaranteed to
own self respect, and the respect we
owe TO the honor and dignity Of the
State Of Louisiana. prompt us to such q
course. We must light for liberty to
the very end. regardless of time or CON
sequences and having now, by the will
Of the people, n decisive Democratic
majority in tho Lower House Of Con-
gress, we must not allow Mr.. Blaine and
| his followers to act as though their
party was still In the ascendancy. with
All the backing OF public pressure work
| circumstances alter the tide OF parties
ms well as OF public opinion. Let Mr..
Blaine learn that lesson at his cost, and
| let him be wiser man for II. But we
say most emphatically that oil further
hesitancy on the subject on the part Of
our Democratic friends at Washington
would no longer be justified. Now must
tho end come, one way or the other
And II. as the United States Senate has
Just established that kellogg is a
fraud" then. as logical sequence. Nc
Emery is certainly not one.
Lot the Democratic House willingly
do, as to us, what the Radical Senate SO
unwillingly did the other day, and Lou
isiana will be herself again and she
will need no Federal intervention to pro-
tect her rights. Scalawags and carpet
baggers. like the lost spirits OF Gehenna.
might weep and lament; but. assuredly,
they would be the only ones to evince
such feelings Of sorrow ut the result.
The House must act at once. 1t errs
fatally by longer delaying. Its imme-
diate action. calm and energetic. will
not only save Louisiana, but, by thus
restoring equal liberty to every State OF
the Union. will allow the American Cen
tennial. that national hobby OF the day.
to proceed on its way without eventually
being the laughing stock OF tho civilized
world CY.