Year: 1875

uiOIAL L.


We rather admire the ia cit admission of
logical inequality in the average Demo-
cratic pea holder. The preparation for
an argument is such defamation of his
antag, mist as should place him without
the pale of reply. Having prepared for
argument by assuring the reader that the
pen holder is the sole representative of
virtue, and that other fellow unworthy of
credence, the proposition is stated, the
premises assumed as admitted, and the
deduction all that the Democratic logician
played for.


The REPUBLICAN found dispute be-
tween the Bulletin and Times in regard to
the White League. The Times affirmed
the original object of the organization to
have been the assurance of the right OF
suffrage to white and black. 1t asserts
that this purpose was modified by acces-
sion of numbers, and that it was placed
on military basis. 1t is upon this evi-
dence that we place our statement;





That the military organization described
by the New Orleans Times was formed for
the purpose of controlling the election of
1874.


Ii there be any want of proof of the
Times assertion, it may be found in an
armed and drilled military force certainly
not needed for the peaceful programme
now set forth by the B4Aetin.


We have said:


That the seizure of the Stat government
was illegal and revolutionary.


To this the Bulletin replies thatit was
sin no sense illegal" and adds, by way of
argument, we suppose:


Our rightful State officers had been. az
they still are, kept from their Offices by il,
legal means.


This is departure from this assertion !:


1t was universally understood that the
election as well as the registration of voters
we're TO be carried oa by the appointees of
the de facto Governor, and strictly in pur.
suancs Of the election law.


Then there was law. The people of
Louisiana had referred the question of who
was Governor to Congress. 1t was there
pending. There was by both and by all
admissions law. The courts were in
session. Commissions had issued under
the State. administration, There was law
in all its force and formality. Such being
the proven fact, it was an illegal act to de-
pose government and induct by arms an
administration whose rights were by their
own act under adjudication by the federal
government.


We do not understand any one advocat-
ing a constitutional government to claim
the right Of individuals assembled in any
number to supersede Congress and the
courts in the right to adjudicate legality,
and to claim the right to resist the law be-
cause individuals deem it unjust, or to
overthrow an administration because in
dividuals choose to think or say that it was
not properly elected.


1t would be useless for us to offer the
reasons obvious to all who prefer an elec-
tive republic to government of sharp
shooters We will give the opinion Of
Judge Herschel V. johnson, of Georgia,
upon the importance of abiding by the
law. .


It ID of the utmost Importance that we
adhere to the law-f0llow the law-conform
to the forms and principles of law. The
law 10 our sheet anchor. Its mission Ia To
protect property life and liberty. Itguards
with flaming sword the hovel as well as the
palace, and thro We its agis over the poor as
well ~ the rich and the mighty. Without
law anarchy and revelation must reign, and
society recede to the darkness and cruelty
of berbarism. kts supremacy must be re-
cognized and maintained; and this implies
not only the enforcement when violated.
bat also cheerful obedience to 1t by ali.
/ Voluntary obedience to wholesome laws is
the very essenoe Of liberty, and the most
distinguished characteristic OF good citi
zen, and their firm and impartial enforce
ment when violated by pun and intelli-
gent judiciary, 10 the very essecce OF good
government. Then, bowing before the ma.
iesty Of the law, let N hold the scales Of
jusrice with speady hand and unfaltering
purpose.


1t bodies no good to free government.
II shows little advance in the compre-
hsnsion Of its principles when on the evs
Of the centennial II Is foand necessary to
give the supremacy Of the law. = intss-
prstsd By - hrm and inesllieant Judi.