Year: 1874

4


For the Dela,oare Ga=ette.


When the portentious cloud of nation


al rain and social disorganization is seen


approaching, 1t becomes necessary for


every one who values his national pros


perity or social purity to endeayor to


prevent the fearful power of that storm.


or at least lessen its disastrous and ruin.


GUS effects. The gigantic and so far sue


cessrui efforts OF great political party


to use the negro as q political engine to


MAINTAIN power necessarily leads to the


granting of privileges and positions to


that degraded, ignorant and depraved


race that Will inevitably lead in all cases


TO Just such results as now shakes the
government from centre to circumfer-
| ence by the scenes enacting in Louisiana.


In this unparalleled outbreak of an in


dignant,, down-trodden and shamefully


outraged people. We see the inevitable
consequences OF violation of pledged
honor and integrity, and it becomes the
| thinking portion of the people to throw


aside all party bias and consider calmly.
| dlspassionately and intelligently the sit


uation OF affairs as they effect us morally


as well Us politically. and our organiza-
ton as government. The pledges of
the party in power have been violated in
almost every instance where given, and
the result is now upon us. They pledg-
ed at the termination of the war a re-
construction of the Southern States up-
| ON the basis of Republican institutions.
How have they kept the pledges? In
| stead OF Republicanism it is tyranny.
despotlsm and military coercion. When
LOUISIANA complained Of those violated
piedges-when she prescribed the claims
OF her people for Justice-when she show
ed the shameful and outrageous viola


ton OF all law by drunken and corrupt
Judge, and the usurpation of power by
miserable Vermont carpet Dagger she
was denounced as rebellious, as present.
ing false claims and making false re-
ports and false representations. When
at last Congress was compelled by the
demands Of the whole country to invec-
tigate the situation, and their committee
reported the outrageous course that had
been pursued by that miscreant-Kel-
logg, and his coadjutors in crime and in
fanny, the corrupt, drunken Durel, what
did they do? Did they correct the err
ror? Did they remove the glaring cause
OF offence? No; but kept in power a
man as Governor that they knew and
acknowledged was not elected by the
people; and a Judge who is the most cor
rupt and worthless creature that ever
disgraced bench-a man whom every
one knows has been proven to be guilty



ton OF his office that ever disgraced n
civilized community. For two years
have the patient, down-trodden citizens
OF Louisiana bore the shameful robbing
and tyranny of her usurpers. They have
presented their remonstrances. They
have submitted to wrong and oppression
rather than show an opposition to the
proper constituted authority of the gem
eral government: They have been as
sured OF redress, but none came. They
have borne until forbeararce ceases to
be virtue-their appeals have been
treated with contempt when they ap-
preached the tyrant Mt Washington-in
the INSCRIPTIONS Congress. They APP
pealed to law, but tho courts were eau
toned by a drunken, corrupt Judge in
collusion with the usurpers that they
could respect no justice. What was lett
them but to appeal to the principles of a
higher law-and that law sustains the
course they have pur,ued. That higher
Ia, law was the law of nature, or civil war.
What does it say The injured indi-
viduals should apply to the magistrates
for redress, and if they do not obtain
justice fIom that quarter, they may lay
their complaints at the foot of the
throne. Every citizen should even pa
tiently endure evils which are not insup-
portable rather than disturb the public
peace They have borne it over two
years. "A denial Of justice o.. the part OF
the sorereiga. or affected delays, cda alone
recetre the furious transport OF people
justify u the evtlS be tntolerabte, and the
oppression great and manifest. But
what conduct shall the sovereign observe
toward the insurgents? | answer. i'll
general, such conduct as shall at the same
time be the most consoadnt to justice and
the most Sdlutdry to the State Tdtters
Ldw OF Nutions-pdge ADD. Gen. Grant
should read carefully the law that ought
to govern him and his Cabinet and not
be led by an ignorant Attorney General
who is no more than second-rate law
yer. and even what he does know is per-
verted to crafty his malignity against a
people suffering the greatest injustice
Let the people read in the same page of
Nattel, but tyrants alone will treat as
seditious those brave and resolute citi-
zens who exhort the people to preserve
themselves from oppression and to vim
dicate their rights and privileges-a good
prince will commend such virtuous pa
triots, provided their zeal be tempered
with moderation and prudence. If he
has Justice and his duty at hearth he
aspires to that immortal and unsullied
glory of being the father of his people,
let him mistrust the selfish suggestions
of that minister who represents to him
as rebels all those citizens who do not
stick out their necks to the yoke of sld-
rery-who refuse tamely to crouch under
the rod of arbitrary power" Allow ME
to continue further to present to the
consideration of the President the great
precepts of the learned ezpounder of In
ternational law, and l will close for the
present Vattel goes on to say, on page
423. "in many cases the safest and at the
same time the most lust method of ap-
peasing seditions is to give the people
satisfaction, and if there existed no rea-
sons to justify the insurrection IA cir
cumstance which perhaps never hap
pens even in such cases it becomes he
cessary, as we have above observed, TO
grant an amnesty where the offenders
are numerous. When the amnesty is once
published and accepted, al the past must be
buried in oblirion, nor must any one be held


to account for ichdt has been done during


the disturbances; and in general, the sorer-


eiqn, tchose cord ought to be sacred. as bound
| to the faithful otssrrGstce OF epery promise
he has made, eren to rebels. In my next L
| will show how Fish holds the same opin-