New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-30

dollars sent away is the result Of accom-
modating the people.
NOT MAPPING, THIS TINE.
We have seen the Democratic party and
press so much excited against the imperial
designs Of President Grant as to assert
that his concentration Of troops" at
Washington was intended to inaugurate
an autocracy. The rather natural ex-
PLANTATION was that in case Of sudden
seizure of the capital, or the. capture of q
President elect by the Democratic con-
spirators, there may be some preparation
made for the reception Of the revolution
lists. In like manner Last Ditch organ,
in commenting upon an ordinary ship
ment of money by express to Washington
by the United States assistant treasurer
asks, "What means this?"'
As this question was, we suppose, put
for response, We may offer another theory
than that intimated in this paragraph.
Mr.. Holt the Secretary of War, reported,
February 10, 1861, to President Lincoln,
under . resolution Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, as follows:
shall make NO comment upon the origin
of the revolution which for the last three
months has been In progress in some of the
Southern States. That revolution has been
distinguished by b0ldness and complete
ness Of success rarely equaled in the history
OF civil commotion. Its history is history
United States have been captured and garri-
soned, and hostile fsgs unfuIled upon their
rsmparts. The srsensls have been seized,
and the vast amount of public arms which
they contained appropriated to the use of the
captOrs, while more than half q million dol
lars found in the Mint at New Orleans have
been unscrupulously applied to replenish the
golfers of Louisiana.
The unchecked prevalence Of the revolu.
umDhs inspired, naturally suggested wilder
and more desperate enterprises than the
capture Of ungarrisoned forts or the plum
der of an unguarded mint.
At what time the armed occupation of
Washington City became q part of the rev.
OlutiOnary programme is not certainly
known. More than six weeks ago the i'm.
preston had alre ady extensively prevailed
that q conspiracy tor the accomplishment
Of this guilty purpose was in process of
formation. if not fully matured. etc.
Such was the testimony of Kentuckian.
He says to President Lincoln:
Earnestly impressed by these circum-
sought you to slow the concentration in
this city of 9 sufficient military force. To
those who desire the destruction Of the re-
public the presence of these trcops is natu-
rally Off-nslve, but those who sincerely love
our institutions can not fail to rejoice that
BY this timely precsution they have
possibly escaped the deep dish0nor which
capital, like the forts and arenals Of the
South, fallen into the hands of the revolc-
tionists, who have found the general govern.
ment weak, only because, in the exhaust
less beneficence of its spirit, it has refrained
to strike, even in It's own defense, lest it
should wound the sggressor.
But the bringing Of troops to the city was
not accom- Ll.shed, says the historian, with
out opposition. A member from South Caro-
lima offered q resolution that the quarter
ing of troops in the District of Columbia
and around the capital, when not necessary
for their protection from . foreign enemy,
s imp0litic and offensive, and if permitted
may be destructive Of civil liberty, and, in
the opinion of this House, the regular troops
now in this city ought forthwith to be re-
moved therefrom.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, Senator from
introduced in the Senate,
Jenuary 2, 1861, resolution expressing
he opinion that upon the application Of
/ State either through convention or the
Legislature thereof, asking that the Fed
sral forces of tire army and navy may be
withdrawn from its limits, the President
# the United States shall order the with
travail of the Federal garrisons and take
he needful security for the safety of the
public property which may remain in said
States.
This resolution even went further to
ay that when State convention "should
nact that the safety Of State requires
t to keep troops and ships Of war, the
President be directed to recognize the ex-
rcise of that force by the State" and |
make proclamation of the fact.
These are historical circumstances 60 |
ng to show what has been necessary to |
be safety of the capital and the security
f the revenues of this government We
ave the respectable authority Of Eccles-
asties that "the thing that has been is the
hing that shall be, and We presume that
is the purpose of those intrusted with
he law lest the republic receive detri-
aent," will not let the same danger oc-
RI to the republic if it may be prevented
y guarding the Federal capital and tax
ng timely care Of the Federal revenues.
he PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT PARA
MOUNT.
The Picayune now speaks Of the Re-
ublican party as the opposition" AS
1is is the term invariably applied to
hose who are out Of Office by those who
re- in Office, the inference is that the
'emocratic Central Committee consti-
ties the lawful government Of the State,
nd that Governor Kellogg heads usur-
alton, striving to wrest authority from
le lawful rulers, whose organization has
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