New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-10


held lCi the highest Office in the State, has
reareklad family and lived in social respect
with his neighbors. He was Union man
wheu he was compelled to hide in the
swamAdps like runaway slave He has
said Y sn confidential letter opened in the
preseS Cnce of his accusers that mot with my
conse ut shall this oppressed people be
COVER fned by the parolsd prisoners and their
white livered friends of the North, and
yet ID lis man is persistently accused of per-
fdy T 10 his party and his people. He has
no deo5ubt worn arms to protect himself
from the violence Of men who have slain
and Hnnutilated Republicans for no other
ottensSre than standing in the way of DEM
ocracyid, and he 'thas had his pistols taken
away AtErom him, " leaving him without pro-
tectiofrT5 from the danger to which he has
been ssIuhjected. Such is the course pur-
sued lsty the Democracy before the impair
tial tlsfibunal now in session. The New
Orlearrts Times joins in the attempt to bias
and pTsejudge. 1t inadvertently avows its
NS@SS-O1 t4AO shAOuAhls
ThuaS the party men voted as they were
expedited to vote, and the atnapire uf,erpect-
eddy toqgk sides Nth the Republicans.
So ethis is tribunal organized in the
interesiit of party. Why does the umpire
'take f:ssides' with the Republican party I?
Is not 4 the decision just1 Then he sides
with rslo party. Why does he 'unex-
pectedlD ty" pronounce in favor of the Re-
publicatn candidate? We're his opinions
known ! or expected9 Was he chosen by
the Democracy because his opinions were
deemedq in their fayorH Such would ap-
pear toss be the inference.
While we regard the result of the UNI
pirage 3as dependent upon the impartial
construs ction of questions which can not
be fore seen, it is evident that the De-
mocracSy have been disappointed in the
superstition that all judges were but par
tisans Unfortunately for the Democ-
racy, THUS far some of those judges stand
by the principles of Democracy as they
were once taught Some of those judges
believe that the States have at least as
much rights as municipal corporation.
The State rights Democracy have de-
graded Louisiana below the level of the
lowest Corporation which she has ever
sanctioned. Not one Of those CORPORA
tons Which now exacts from reluctant
people the indirect and excessive tax upon
their daily wants or their hopes of chance
but woh ld defy the power which the
House OF Representatives now employs to
compel the State to do its bidding. It is
thus that some of those judges have more
respect for the doctrines of Calhoun than
his protested followers seem to have.
The judges may be shocked to see State,
like Samson, seized by treachery-
EyeleSs at GAIA. At the mill with slaves.
They may fear a desperate revenge.
Grasped by the desperate and outraged
captives, these columnsr pillars of the
federal Come may fall and the whole
theory Of the Federal Union may perish
forever. We're the great Republican COM
moner, Tpaddeus Stevens alive; were he
inspired " his outspoken hostility to the
sovereign pretensions of the States, he
might look to the imprisoned deputies of
Louisianaand, turning to some apostate
follower Q, Calhoun or Davis, exclaim with
Gratiano:
4 second D9iiel still say 4 A second Daniel, Jew
Now inndelI have thee on the hipl
Daniel 81 say II second Daniel
tAiHAA wv Jew, Tor teaching me that word.
We haV acquiescsd in the action ofthe
Republlcal members who have accepted
this act ofcompromise. In our opinion
they yieidd an impregnable position, and
marched OF to deliver an impartial bat
tie upon he plain of Judicial integrity.
We have 9und no truce on the part of
the democracy. They continue to direct
the batteris Of calumny and to under
mine pubhopinion. The shameful con.
spiracy obring before the tribunal the
fraudulent md futile schemes of venal
adventurer has proven the Democracy
faithless tcevery pledge We are not,
therefore, trprised that they should have
attempted pack the commission and
PREJUDICE y case, but we did not sup
pose them 10 indecent as to complain
that the un'ire of their tribunal had fun
ezpectedly AIKEN sides with the Repub-
licans." VIE provided With any amount
Of fraud an intimidation to swerve the
commission to their purpose, ''unex-
I pected" intrity seems 4 be more than
the Democry bargained Tor.