New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

step to the determination Of the interests
of the country ia commerce and in finance,
according to these every day interests, that
by the action Of the Republican party it
should be finally understood that the
armed intervention of the Federal govern
ment in the States was no longer neees-
sary and needed not TO be repealed except
upon some new occasion. Applause.
This has sometimes been spoken OF rs if
it was the policy" of the administration.
1t was nothing but a treatment by the adj
ministration, under constitutional duty,
of particular situation that was presented
for their action. The policy of the ad-
ministration, as the policy of the Repub-
hcan party, and, as hope, the policy of
all honest citizens of either party, is that
there shall be no hesitation and no doubt,
but that the whole constitutional weight
the whole legal authority of this country
in the hands of the executive of the nation,
shall be directed everywhere to the en-
forcement Of the laws and the security of
the privileges of the weakest of our cii-
zens. Great applause. It is the policy
of this party of ours; it is the policy of
this government of ours, in Massachusetts,
or in South Carolina, [spplause1; the
same duty and the same courage for that
duty in the great State of New York and
in the feeble State of Louisiana. It is not
affected by climate or by circumstances,
except as the occasions arise under dis
turbing influences of one kind and another
Sometimes it may be needed to protect
property against the rash councils and the
momentary excitement of citizens in null
titudes; sometimes to protect the poor and
ignorant freedmen against the wrath and
malice Of the whole surrounding COM
munity, [applause, and sometimes to up
hold the rights of commerce in its ships
and caTgoes, and sometimes of single
obscure citizen in his personal protection
in the remotest corner of the world. TAp-
plause. / challenge the least accusation
against the Republican party, or against
any administration of that party to the
present time, of any desertioI of that
duty, of any indifference to these appeals.
[ApplaUse.l
AN INToLERABLE CONDITION OF THINGS.
Now, you will observe that the one in
tolerable thing in this country, either in
the nation or any of the States, is anarchy.
A double government disputing each
others authority is anarchy. Communi-
ties always find some way to work them
selves out Of anarchy that is intolerable.
Sometimes they resort to the overthrow of
liberty, preferring even submission to
anarchy. Sometimes they assert both
government and liberty together, and
maintain the rights of both. By our
Constitution the Federal government is
jealously excluded from all interven-
ton by military power in the at
airs of State, except upon the
invitation of the authorities of the State,
and that intervention is strictly limited to
the one condition of existing domestic
violence too great for suppression by the
authorities of the State. Whatever be
the will, whatever the bias, whatever the
sympathy which is felt by party or felt
by any of its constituted agents to exercise
the public will, the Constitution, is the
limit and the authority. The Constitu-
ton, put in the Executive hand, is capa-
BILE of execution no further than the
legislation of Congress has given the
authority; and under that action there
was given an opportunity in every State
of this Union that by such methods, ju-
diclal, social, civil, as belong to it there
should be security of the rights of all
its citizens and peace throughout its bor-
ders. need not say to you that this
legal Constitution of rights necessarily
makes them actual. On the contrary,
submit to you that though the privilege of
the suffrage is by your Constitution and
your laws accorded to all residents of all
States, yet in some States large portion
of that people do not practically possess
or exercise those rights; and that is an
intolerable condition of things to every
free community. Applause. 1t is, how
ever, condition of things that is to be
met, adjusted, and overcome by the peace
full influences that belong to the anchor
alton and the correction of abuses, or to
the regular and orderly punishment by
process of law Of infractions of those
rights. But, nevertheless, the people OF
this country, / hope, without distinction
of party-I would fain hope without dis.
tinction of residence or of State citizen
ship-will always consider it an intoler.
able condition of things that great com.
munity, restored to all the privileges Of
the Constitution, and with an enlargement
OF their suffrage in the councils of the
nation, should insist upon maintaining
the voting power to themselves and sup.
press the voting privilege which was the
only occasion and consideration for its
being accorded. Against that, all the
forces of free society struggle, and will
continue to struggle, and all the moral,
all the social, all the legal, all the consti
tutional authority of the Republican
party in the government Of this country
shall always be thrown in favor of making
that practical and real which in the Con
stitution and in the rights of the popula,
ton Of these States Is accorded to the
a.
as there remains this discord in the har
mony of our restored allegiance, so long
the Republican party will have its dutieE
which it will not hesitate to perform
Applause ........
ECONOMY IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
Now, gentlemen, another great and
important interest which the people In
their original and primary capacity o
citizens have for many years shown {
considerable interest in, is in seeing tina
the public service was really brough
within the limits of the needs of thu
government, within the proper economies
for its administration, and that the chang,
of that service, either by the change o
party or the change of administration
should be as little in extent and as few il
instances as the public service would
permit. They have, think, also beer
quite unanimous in seeing that it wal
right that the executive authority o
which these numerous officers form
branch, and which is held responsible TO
| the conduct of these officers, SHOULD
really have the potential control, as i
| has the individual responsibility. agre
\ with that very lively writer, Mistress Gal
Hamilton, who, in series Of charming
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