The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-06
NECESSITY OF AN AGGRESSIVE
PJLIOY.

anu pOltlctb quiet OF this state Hepena upon
the adoptir N Of vigorously aggressive policy
toward fne horde of rascals who for eight
years p asst. In the control of our politics and
| the az ADMINISTRATION of our public affairs, have
plur .dered the people and stepped and satu-
! rat ed themselves with perjury, forgery, en-
| b excitement and common theft. The elements
! through the organization Of which these po-
litieal sehemel's and unconvicted robbers held
their power, oppressed the people, prostrated
our commerce and emasculated our indus
tries, still exist among u.s. and under favora.
BILE circumstances may be reorgani7ed, II not TO
again completely dominate the State at least
to corrupt and debase our government and
give to u,r politics many of the most oblee-
tionable characteristics of free pegroism.
We are not sounding an idle alarm. The
lpublie sentiment throughout the North ana
West which sustained carpetbaggery and
free negreism in Louisiana, stills retains
viruent and fanatical energy, and threatens
to reinstate the power OF the Returning
Board. even If TO do so 1t be necessary to de-
strov the Federal Administration 1t created.
lJas g. Blaine the boldest and most auda-
cie1s of the leaders of this sentiment, at a
public dinner given on the 2nd inst. at Trer-
ton. N. J., to OK Secretary Robeson, one Of the
most corrupt Of its leaders, defended Repub-
llicanEm as IL was administered by Grant;
THAT is, as exhibited in the rule of the bayonet
1.-THE political thief and the ignorant negro
I In Louisiana. In Iowa the Republicans in
convention repudiated the Presidents South
ern policy. and announced the reorganization
Of the crusade Of sectional hate and the legiti-
macy of carpetbaggery. Packard Is peram-
bulating the States to fire the Radical heart,
and from every quarter we hear the note of
preparation for the revival of Grantism and
It's restoration in the South through the or
ganzation Of the color line and the reinstate-
ment Of Returning Boards
Is 1t then wisdom, or policy or patri-
otism on the part of the authorities of
Louisiana to grant any indulgence, tolera-
ton or mercy to the crimes Of the able
ands experienced managers Of the Radi-
cal party in our midstP Will the people
Justify their officials in permitting criminals
like Matt Wells, Tom Anderson. Geo. b.
johnson and w. F. Kellogg to enjoy immu-
nifty for their offences, and reeking with crime
to stalk in our midst. living evidences of tile
impotency OF justice and the cowardice of the
law In Louisiana ? Will the people tolerate
a feeble and mistaken policy which leaves
these able and INSCRIPTIONS men free to re-
organize the ignorant and facle negroes and
the corrupt elements of the whites into new
and disturbing party organization to again
agftate society and disturb and unsettle all our
private and public interests and industries
IF there be any persons in our midst who are
disposed TO advocate the exemption of these
notorious criminals from prosecution, let
| them read the political news from every
Northern and Western State. II they do
this. they will find q tremendous movement
going on to reinstate the supremacy of these
rascals in tho politics of Louisiana and they
may then realize that the only safe and states
manlilse policy. indeed, the only honest and
manly policy for the authorities of Louisiana
to pursue is to enforce the law regardless of
persons, and thus sweep from our political
and social systems and into the Penitentary
the maefactors of all grades. whether they
be pickpockets, embezzlcrs of the public
funds or ex-oflicials. who have committed
perjury and forgery in the exercise of high
and sacred public duties
But we are told that in the political COM
promises of last spring, which resulted in the
establishment of the present governmental
situations. State and Federal, it was stipulated
that none of the Radical leaders and ex officials
should be prosecuted. We know of no such
agreement or stipulation. II any such ex-
lists the people have been kept in ignorance of
it, and il can have no binding power because
1t s an immoral and criminal contract, con-
trary to the policy of the law and to the genius
of civilization. There is no power in the State
that is authorized to grant "indulgences' to
public criminals, because any such power
would be destructive of all government and
morality
But granting for the sake Of argument that
| the authorities of Louisiana entered into a
contract with Mr.. Hayes and his friends to the
effect that, in consideration of the establish
ment of the legal government of Louisiana the
whole horde Of Radical malefactors should go
| FREE how can the authorities of Louisiana now
| be held by that bargain2 Have the men now
| threatened with prosecution, and who are
seeking immunity under the terms of this
bargain, become peaceful and law-abiding
citizens of the State, and are they yielding
| that obedience to the constituted authorities
which is essential to civil order?
BY no means. Tho administration of public
| affairs Is seriously interrupted and embar-
raised by the criminal and revolutionary ac-
ton of these men holding and concealing
State records and books of the very greatest
Importance. But a few days ago they disputed
the legality of the State government in a
Federal court, and they now treat our State
courts with insult and contempt, and refuse
to obey their mandates Kellogg has not
abided the contract, and Is now Il claimant for
n seat in the United States Senate on the au-
| thority of anelection by the Legislature of the
| usurping government, and Packard marches
through the land denouncing and disputing
the authority of the Nichols government
If there was compact of the nature
claimed which we dispute then the criminals
| were the first to break it, and the authorities
of Louisiana are no longer bound by it.
| But, as we have said, no such immoral and
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