New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-23
TIE YOUNG INDIANS.

TIE YOUNG INDIANS.
Those wary old sachems who have
fought civilization in many hard battles,
and been worsted in all, have long since
come to the conclusion that it is much
better to eat the grass beef of the great
father, and wash it down with the
crooked whisky of the sutler, than to
make the prairies ring with the war
whoop, or excite themselves with the
grotesque orgies of the scalp dance. 1t is,
however, not the sentiment of the young
Indian bucks. These last listen to the
past exploits Of their fathers; they wish to
acquire in their day renown for stealing
on tho unwary, for Draining babes, drag
ging women captive, and tormenting at
the stake the unfortunate victims of their
treacherous prowess.
We find the exact analogy in the con-
duct of the Democratic leaders and of their
irrepressible followers. The Holnans and
Raudalls, the Tildens and Morrisseys, all
see the ruin to their political tribe, if the
braves murder and mutilate Republicans,
and slay and intimidate the negroes.
They implore the braves to be patient.
They adjure them not to afford proof, not
to be contradicted that they hate the gov
ment and will never submit to its laws.
They explain that with the one hundred
and twenty odd votes of the South the
Democracy can get control of the gov
eminent and all its political agencies
that the person who has the compact to
lead to this victory will not interfere with
the domestic policy of the South, and that
in few short months the braves may
plumber the Offices and slake their hatred
in the blood or exile of their enemies.
Why not then wait? Why not allow the
sachems to keep up this ambush for a
short time longer?
This effort of the sachems of Democ-
racy is as futile as was ever that of any
of the red skin aristocracy, that ever
gorged raw beef, or bartered land for the
gew-gaws of the Indian agency.
Even while Mr.. Lamar and Mr.. Ben
Hill sit with sealed lips, and Mr.. Sam
Cox protests the perfect peace and social
justice which prevail throughout the en-
tire South, the report of fire arms, the
prayers for mercy, and the death groan
of unarmed prisoners are heard, and the
false pledges Of the Quaker Democracy
are exposed in the hearing of the whole
American people.
These people with those of the South
can appreciate the bloody impotence of
these young braves. They will ask and
answer one decisive question. If, with q
Republican administration in power from
which may be expected compliance with
the constitutional obligation to furnish
aid for the preservation Of peace, these
violent men can not be controlled by their
friends, by the power Of the government,
or by respect for the law, what can the
PSOPAo OApCSI IL IAO 4OuCAdl tbuu CLhIo
governments should pass into Democratic
hands? In this last case Mr.. Tilden, a
States rights Democrat, will stand where
Mr.. Buchanan, States rights Democrat,
stood in 1861. Could he be expected to
send troops to protect Republican voters?
Would q Democratic State government
demand that he should do so? This out
break of the irrepressible braves will con-
vince the people of the United States that
war Sin the Union" for the restoration
Of Democratic construction is imminent,
is-with the success of Tilden-inevitable
1t may indeed have happened in the in
evitable result of causes, that the pre-
mature dash of the young Democratic
braves from the ambush to which their
leaders had consigned them, may put the
great army of Union voters upon their
guard by exposing the insidious treachery
of the Tildenites who have contracted
for the gift of salary to deliver the citadel
of American freedom into the hands of
the most inveterate enemies Of freedom
and equality.