Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-12-11
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

mass OF generallt1eS tt2aCeu III coMiuoh
place way, contains nevertheless, some
salient points we'll worthy of the serious ,
and deliberntive attention of American
freemep. That the President has, SOTO
voCE as it were, approached two sn' jeets
which have underlain tn" Republican
party as its base ana ground work since {
: he day of its inception, there can be no
doubt in the mind of any one W no gives
the paragraphs in question his attentive
perusal The principle of CENTRALlzA.
TioN Is pers;iciconsly forcshadowed
while the l-aven of hatred to the South
pervades tho roc:l,rent in several para
graphs too distinctly to be mistaken.
We have s.i,l principles which formed
the foundation of the party! The pub
lican party was &C ncciveh in the inlqu'-
ty of treason to the Cons: inttion and
laws when its organization was compile
ted for the avowed purpose of fighting
an institution guaranteed under the laws
of the country and the several States
where the workings Of the system were |
found advantageous and profitable. 1t
was nurtrrch in the animosity Of envy |
and rode into power VI EFT ARMIES over
the PROSTATE bottles of n brave and chiv-
alous foe. That its animns remains after
the question of slavery has been settled
in E'vor of its peculiar ideas, if doubted
hecetofor is its own chosen Spokesman
in the following words: Continued OPP
position to the full and FREQ enjoyment
of the rights of citizenship conferred up.
OH the colored people by the recent
amendment to the constitution Still pro-
walls in several of the late slave-holding
States.
Ithas perhaps not been manifested in
the recent election to any large extent in
acts of violence or Intimidation, It has,
however, by fraudulent practices in cor
nectiou " it'll the ballots, with regulations
I to places and me nner sf voting and with
counting, returning, and canvassing the
votes cast, been successful in defeating
the exercise Of the right preservative o
= all rights, the right ofsuffra2e, which the
Constitution expressly confers upon our
enfranchised citizens.
= 1T will he the duty of tho executive,
with sufficient appropriations for the
purpose, to prosecute unsparingy all who
have been engaged in depriving citizens
| of the rights guaranteed to them by the
!, Co lstitution.'
HcIe is an open, fragrant and most uil-
d, warrantable attempt on the part of the
= executive te fan alive the sleeping embers
, of sectional hatred and Ill will, stopping
not even at q wilful perversion of facts
! to Willy with his parting words at leav-
/ ing the position to which no was eleva
ted through the very fraud and corrup,
ton which he effects to deplo1e, to heap
abuse and calumny upon the people of the
l South, in order to intlame the passions Of
q unprincipled partizans in his own section
for the obvious purpose Of precipltating
q condition of affairs to meet the recon-
= mendations of the following paragraphs
which are in truth but a context OF those
: quoted above: -
81 comn!enf' 10 .,t.itentiou OF con rress
= the great services of the conmanter-in
f chief of our armies during the war for the
Union, whose wise, firm, and patriotic
conduct did so much to bring that mo
4 mentous conflict to close.
f. An act of congress authorizing the ap.
- polntmeut of a captain general of the ar
. my, with suitable provisions relat ing tc
L compensation, retirement, and other de
f tails would, in my Judgment, be alto
! gether fitting and proper, and would bt
warmly approved by the country
u A fitting and proper recognition of Grea
y services indeed! Grants principal occu
y patton since the surrender at Apromat
tox, has been the accepting of fitting
or uniting, Git mat:ered not TO him 81
: he was the bencftcary,,) testimonials
{, and the Office of Lieutenant General wa
ed expressly for his benefit by al
over appreciative if not over scinpulou
J. Congress. The Presidents peculiar style
: of broaching the point is simply blind
q thin. gauzy coyering-to break the
4 news softly.
O The whole gist of tho thing is tina
= tho republican party it slowly, cautious
= iy but surely advancing its steps towards
4 tie goal of its ambition-a centralized
e government under a dictator, alias Cap
G tain General. Hayes says it will b'
"warmly approved by the country"-sait
country being constituted within TIN
n narrow limits visible through his parti
n san spectrum.
They are we'll worthy of the earnes
consideration of the good men of all sec
L tions of our common country, the pres
ent signs in the political zodiac, LIE
good men! The Glib eral progressive par
u ty' with which it is proposed to superced
|. the Democratic party in the South is bu
q q hellish device and snare ofthe enemy
1t means a recurrence of the trying time
VI Of rooopstruc ion and he returu of Garnet
: bagery with its long train of damnabl
@ evils. With an intelligent investigation
of the manouvres of the enemy and th