New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-01

any expectation that it would be carried
out in good faith.
A WESTERN DEMOCRAT ON STATES
RIGHTS.
It would have been impossible that 8
statesman so long and SO intimately con.
nected with party politics and so perma
nently before the country as possible can
didate for its highest honors as Governo,
Hendricks, to ignore entirely the sectiona
question presented in Louisiana at present
In his speech at the State fair he dis
cussed this question with great prudence
and with his ear cautiously cooked to thai
universal eavesdropper, the telegraph
We believe he belonged to that curious
political variety, the Estates rights wal
Democrat. In that capacity he aided thu
government to suppress the rebellion O.
his Democratic States rights brethren al
the South. How professors of that schoo
can reconcile the avowal of this principle
with their opposition to the only mode II
which the rights Of State can be asserted
We have never been able to understand
The cordial support Of States rights Dem
ocrats to the ticket of war Democrats
Seymour, General Mcclellan and Genera,
Blair, can only be explained by some
secret and satisfactory adjustment. We
really think it requires a good deal Of
confidence even in this mode Of solution
to inspire such generality as the follow
ing:
hope and l believe that the people OF
this whole land will ere long pronounce q
solemn and irrevocable judgment that the
constitutional authority OF the United States
shall everywhere be respected and Obeyed,
aud the rights and prerogatives of the
Sta ties preserved and maintained in accord
anoe with the constitution and Union.
We had thought that in the constitution
as amended and Endorsed by all Of the
States, and in the suppression of all mill
tary opposition to the federal government,
this ''solemn and irrevocable judgment
has been pronounced: The rights of
the States are to be maintained. How?
Does not Mr.. Hendricks know that the
rights Of the States were deliberately and
logically asserted by the States which be-
lieve in them? Why was not Mr.. Hen
bricks found alongside Of those who as
serted the only right which could be en-
forced at the will of the State-the right
to withdraw from the Union? Does not
Mr.. Hendricks know that those men who
really periled life upon that right, have
accepted the decision to which they APP
pealed? Does he not know that the right
of State is but right Of petition to
Congress, and that the right Of the State
must be passed on by the whole people Of
the United States? Now, when thousands
of these Southern people conscien-
tiously, and under arms, asserted this
right, the constituents Of Mr.. Hendricks
sent hundred thousand men to defeat
their doctrines. Others sold their provi-
sions and other supplies to the Union and
took evidence Of its Indebtedness, which
the secessionists are now exhorted to make
more cotton to redeem. Every Union
man rejoiced at the concentration and dis
patch of men and provisions from Indian
apolis to Donaldson and Chattanooga,
and for the march to the sea. Every
Southern States rights Democrat knows
That the power of the West precipitated
1pon the Confederacy terminated the war.
When those States rights men who
really fought the war Of secession have ac-
,epted the decision, we ask if it be candid
o SOW anew in their minds the seeds of
aith which has been once so rudely eradi-
lated. Is it kind 10 encourage the vague
1ope that those rights which Mr.. Hen
tricks aided to whip them out CT shall be
established anew by ''the people of the
whole land?" We really think this is
mixing politics with the other industries
Il an unwarrantabie manner. AS for
what Mr.. Hendricks means by the 'spre-
negatives" of tie States, we can not pre-
Tend to understand. No constitutional
government can have G. prerogative. The
people concede ill the powers necessary
o the administration Of a republic. What
re called the underlined and voluntary
powers are reserved under our institutions
o the people, or to the States respectively.
We apprehend that Mr.. Hendricks has
lever found that royal discretion at
llbuted to republican State in the works
f Mr.. Calhoun.
We had really expected some allusion
o the commerce Of New Orleans in an
ddress dedicated to the moneyed indus
ries. Mr.. Hendricks still continues in a
LeIusion that the commerce Of the Missis-
ippi valley is conducted by the river and
Is tributary waters. It can not be news
0 him that the great interior West, and
specially his own great State, sends the
lass of production, Of travel, of mer-
handise and Of manufactures direct by rail
nd canal to. New York, Philadelphia,
Iontreal and Baltimore, and not to New
orleans as formerly. There is large
nd common market for the production
f Western provisions and manufactures,
nd for the supply OF tropical production
0 Indiana and the whole West. 1t is the
ommerce Of the American continent; it
My requires such notifications of our
commercial relations with the continent
nd its islands as has been recommended