New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-12
REPUBLICAN, DOCTRINE FIRMLY EsrAB

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LTHHED.
Step by step the amendments Of the
constitution advance to establishment IS
the undisputed doctrine Of the whole ma
/ ton. There was an affected reservation
Of sort of God save the sovereignty of
the States in the swaggerings of the De-
mocracy, but even that has been hidden
away with Confederate bonds and cur
rency for the very forlorn chances of flu
ture redemption. We must say, even in
the midst Of a commotion personally
perilous to the Republican officials, that
Louisiana is the banner corporation in the
abjectness of surrender.
A gentleman claiming to be the repre-
sentative of the sovereignty Of the State
of Louisiana summons his militia, organ
ICES and arms his army of State
soldiers, and proceeds to inaugurate his
official authority by expelling by storm or
siege an executive and Legislature which
he proclaims to be-in his opinion
Illegal Having, with this State army,
captured some police stations, some can
non and court or two, the State army is
on the march 70 the main object of its
expedition. On its martial way, it is met
by an orderly in blue uniform. He has
dispatch in the belt of his blouse.
This he presents to the comman-
der-in-chief 1t informs him that
Federal officer in command of small
force at this point countermands the order
to march on the State House. It orders
the gentleman claiming to be the Governor
of a sovereign Southern State TO desist
from his warlike purpose and disband his
mea. Wonderful to relate, this claimant
of executive power kisses the order, bows
his obedience to the frman Of the Federal
government, and obeys Not another step
is made on the march, not a shot is fred,
and the assumed representative of State
sovereignty abjectly obeys the order
Had such fact existed in the high days
of State sovereignty the Democracy at
the South would themselves have gro
nounced against the pretensions of any
one claiming to be State rights Demo-
crat who should have surrendered to q
Federal order at discretion. The decree
by which the State rights claim
ants endeavor to keep up standing
army in time Of peace by calling the SOL
diers ''police. is rather translucent. It
admits the supreme authority of the Fed
eral government, yet endeayors to achieve
its sovereign purposes by insurrection.
For years past we have heard the unani-
nous cry Of the State rights reformCrs
that six hundred policemen were more
than was necessary to execute the corpor-
alton laws and ordinances. What means,
then, the Times assertion, ''the new
Metropolitan police now numbers sixteen
hundred2" We would infer that the So
called militia, having been ordered to dis
band, have reappeared under the name of
''new Metropolitans. Nothing could be
more abject than the abstract abdi-
cation Of State sovereignty, except
perhaps, deceitful attempt to snake
in the sovereign army under an
other appsllation. It is clearly in
consistent to usurp the name and the law,
under which SO much condemnation has
been heaped on the Republican party, and
it is hoped that when the Metropolitan
force is established in undisputed author
ity we shall hear no further objection to
it. We have given this surrender of State
sovereignty and attempted evasion Of
Federal authority as a signal example Of
the general surrender of the doctrine.
The Northern Democracy have long
since abandoned all resistance to the Re
publican principles. They submitted to
military drafts, entered the Union army,
accepted contracts, purchased military
substituteo and contributed as much as
they could, with due regard to their per-
sonal safety and pecuniary profit, to the
subjugation Of the Southern soversigns
With this unconditional surrender OF
the sovereign banner Of Louisiana, there
seems no further open disanection; the
supremacy Of the Union is admitted.
If Sergeant Bates can make arrangements
TO redeem the pawn ticket BY which, it ID
stated, his NATIONAL banner has been ny
potheoated, he may Ensls The grand rounds
Of the Union. At his approach, every
State pennon and bannerst will be
dipped, in token Of submission, and none
lowlier than that upheld BY the so.callsd
representative Of the sovereignty Of Lou.
iaiana.