| Show THAT LITTLE unpleasant NT NESS IT has hag come to something in this great republic public ie and in this land of liberty when the federal military march into a state legislative hall hali declare the members in session no legislature and disorganize and disperse them at the poin t of the bayonet no apology is necessary sary for such a proceeding as it is generally condemned as entirely beyond warrant and justification so far we have not learned that any public journal either justifies or excuses the act but all speak in unequivocal terms of censure and the best that we have been keen or heard said of it by partisans of the administration is that it is a blunder which is a very bad and hurtful thing foran for an administration to make especially when such blunder is of a nature to violate and nullify y th the great principles upon which thie thee government is based but such blunders are made with great facility by a party which arrogates to itself all the virtue in the country and thinks that after said party comes the deluge that the country cant be saved by any other party pirty just juat as if the country did not exve before that party came into ela eid existence stence and will not exist brner after that precious party is defunct der def pact the nation did exist and prosperously perou sly before the republican party lind and in the extreme event of the nation not surviving that party it would be pretty good evidence that the party had killed the nation nations instead of saved it the blame of the louisiana outrage on monday naturally falls upon the chief executive of the union as this interference with the legislature came of the use he made of his dhe dLe discretionary power he could have declined to intermeddle if he had thought proper to do so but he apparently lias has a mania for executing the laws with vigor which leads him into these excesses forgetting that there is a material ad ti essential difference between military and civil government and that the federal government is a government of limited and not of unlimited power powers that its authority lay ity is supreme in some things but not in all the kind of republican government manifested in this louisiana blunder blunders is a curious kind to pay one man a year for and suggests bUgg hugg ests the old frankiln frankiin ian inquiry whether the nation is na not t paying unconscionably dear for its whistle general sheridan appears to be as unwise as his master lil in in the exercise of discretionary power and his proposition to congress to declare certain organizations in the south or at least their thein leaders and to leave theato him to deal with by military lalif anything surpasses the cool and lul ini prudence imprudence of our military president himself which is saying a good deal |
