The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-27
REVOLUTIONARY TENDENCIES OF
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.

lib hbfUbLlUAN PAhlI,
Tho sudden change OF front by Mr.. Bayard
on The amendments TO the appropriation bill
repeating the jury test oath and certain SEQ
tions 1T the election law is very significant.
The distinguished Senator from Delaware
has become so impregnated with Eastern
ideas and identified with Eastern interests
that he Ia becoming, we fear. more a repre-
sentative Of the money power than Of
Democratic principles. and hence, he looks
with apprehension upon any movement
designed to change the existing order of
things or calculated to agltate the public
mind He took strong grounds against the
proposition of the Democratic caucus TO force
the repeal of the odlous acts referred to by
attaching the repeal bills as amendments to
the appropriation bill, not because no was
opposed to the repeal, but because he re-
garded the proposed means Of doing It as rev
dictionary In their character and likely, If in
sisted upon, ID force an extra session and
rufle tho temper Of political parties.
How then Is his sudden change OF front men
toned in our dispatches to be accounted for3
Without doubt upon grounds consistent with
his pacific policy.
So little resentment has been manifested by
our people and press at the soandalous
and brutal proceedings against hundreds Of
our fellow-oitizens IN tho North Louisiana
parishes by the Federal court and officials
and their stocked grand jury in this city,
that we really doubt II the full measure
Of tho damnahle iniquity has been I'M
derstood throughout the country The
DEMOCRAT. however. and our interchangeable
Representatives In Congress, vita Black
burn Of Kentucky, Herbert Of Alabama.
and Senator Thurman, have at length
aroused the public to the Nervousness OF this
judicial crime against civil liberty, and
| opened the eyes Of the Democratic party TO
| It's real obieot-the forcible remission Or
| Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida TO the
control of Radical thieves and ignorant
| negroes, as part OF the great programme Of
Capitalization and the establishment Of an
| 81 garohy Of banks. bondholders aud Federal
officials.
| The little speck OF Federal wrong In these
three Southern States. which Senator Bayard
scarcely noticed at first, has widened aud
darkened into portentous cloud which
| threatens the utter subversion Of our oonstitu-
tional system or furious tempest Of revolu-
| tion; and the Democratic leaders. North and
West as well as South. are now beginning to
comprehend the necessity of taking prompt
and aggressive steps 10 avert the Threatened
| wrong. When Mt first only few men were
arrested In Tensas, and then few In
| Natehitoches and Caddo. many Democrats
whose constituencies were not directly out
| ragged preferred to walt the slower plan Of re-
pealing the obnoxious laws by regular legsa-
| tlon. But where the Federal Judges and the
district attorney piled a stocked grand Jury.
| composed chiefly Of Custom House employees
and hangers on Of that institution. with the
perjured testimony of ignorant negroes, and
abandoned white rascals; where indictments
were found by the cart load, and the
United States marshal flooding the country
with deputies selected fJr th5 qualities Of the
blood hound, which God In creating the meaner
order Of humanity endowed them with, half
iepopulated several parishes Of white men,
and dragged them from their homes and
families for trial in this city the outrage as
sumed such proportions and became 80 glar-
Ing that oven the most conservative Demo
crats even the peace at any price Demo-
Gratis. could no longer shut their eyes to Il or
It's meaning.
When the country, begging, praying and
crnging for peace, permitted revolutionary
tribunal to be created TO cover up tho daring
and INSCRIPTIONS conspiracy of the leaders
of tho Republican party to seize the Pres
| idency and to give some sort OF legal
| semblance to revolutionary government.
and then allowed Mr. Hayes to assume
the high place to which he was never
elected, the DEMOCRAT was one OF the few
journals which protested against the wrong
threatened by the Republican chiefs and the
cowardice manifested by the Democratic
leaders. We warned the "peace party
then that one usurpation would beget IN.
other that one successful conspiracy against
the constitution would be soon fol-
lowed by another and another. until fraud
and violence would take the place OF Lawful
methods and be 10 time suppanted themselves
by military dispotism. We warned the coun
try then that the only sure way Of securing
the supremacy Of the constitution and tn,
laws. with their blessings Of peace, security
and prosperity, was by defending and main
tanning the laws against fraud and violence
If necessary by violence itself. II Is aston
ishing that Senator's Representatives ant
journalists, acquainted with history. politics
and government, should have expected b
pacify the country and preserve the constitu
tion by submission to conspiracy and TIL
legitimation Of fraud; that should have ex
pected the men who seized the Presidency II
1876 to abandon the Congress in 1879, or T.
t,,n - IxNFt b,,
The daring conspiracy OF the Republicans
recently exposed, to seize the organization o
the next House and TO demoralize and destro,
the Democratic party In the Southern State
through the Federal prosecutions ID the logica
, outcome OF submission to similar means o
maintaining political supremacy In 1871