| Show the louisiana affair nothing that has happened happ bapp ened in this country since tho the rebels fired upon Fort Sumter is better betten calculated to create consternation than the rash act of general do in new now orleans on monday rhe rho now new york papers that have the courage to speak out on the subject all denounce deno onee unee it as a great outrage and not oven the times which has for fon years been a close supporter of the administration dares to approve it its the only authority conferred on the president for kr interference in matters of tills this sort is deri derl derived veti from the fourth sec uton tuon atthe dt we ite ile lle ot of thu tha cen ution it reads the united states slates shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion and on the application of the legislature or of the executive when the legislature cannot be convened against domestic violence in this case the state of louisiana has not been treated according to the requirements of this section there can be no question that the form of government of louisiana Is I 1 republican was such a minute before geral do de broke up tile tiie legislature by an armed force there can hardly be any question I 1 that it was not le ie publican in form after this act there could be no authority for the interference it was the tiie prerogative of af the legislature to call for interference renco rence when in session and it wai wal in session by a quorum of its members when it was broken into and driven out of doors in all respects as cromwell used the parliament of england and napoleon Napole ozi the council of five hundred the bod body was orderly and progressing with wit K its business the organization may pot have been and alid we shalla shall mume assume was not perfectly regul arbut many D y a state legislature has been organized with greater irregularity and aud without suggesting a thought of military interference if ev every ery cry such occasion were to introduce bayonets into the tile house honse or senate nate pate we should be a republic like lika t 11 to of rome under tinder sulla sulia marius marlus or cam caesar ar a republic in name ony in tact laet a military despot despotism lm every overy herstin lu s p 1 rint ring hate challenging and irig frig pop popular la r resistance the madness of the act is intensified by the fact that congress is now in session f fand is conducting an investigation of the louisana louis louls ana govern government merit we are not disposed to put the clity of this act upon the general who executed it with bad grace nor upon the secretary of war nor upon the president dehL WO we incline to the opinion that it will lii bo be traced to the man who heads headd the department oft otT ot justice ustice only to the shame and disgrace 0 of fj justice u 8 t ae e ho he has been giving orders to the military milia I 1 of I 1 gle ule a te wil wit with h a bibera lland iland and au d indecent interference once oneo with the duties of the secretary of war ho he has bas of late given out the opinion that the kellogg govern government should hould bo be maintained adall at all ali hazards it was he who inspired the fraudulent interference of judge Z Du durel durell rell reil which has been the source of all ali alithe the political ev evils i uis that have havo since ensued d to Louisiana and we think the ul ti dimate mate wate responsibility for tile the order to general de Tro brUnd will be traced to the band and brain of attorney general williams head of the department of justice and the supporter of some of the most infamous public plunder plunders vs t who go if this act is to receive recognition as public law and a piece precedent dent for the future regulation el of the relations lations 3 between the federal government and the state govern f r ments then we may anticipate with much confidence the nearness of the years when the sovereign states will bo be treated as utterly dependent dependents 00 no not t upon cupon the dillof will of congress but the whim of the man who may happen to be president and at the tirl till time under the influence of some at the head orn ofa of a department the country can only aff ord to submit to such a rule of law and such a precedent after arter it shall have concluded that liberty and the republic ought to make room for imperial despotism we know this is grave language an but the subject is grave enough to justify it the sufferings of the state of louisiana never can weigh in the scales with the calamities such an action as this if not resented by all the force of law and the constitution is certain to entail upon the whole people of the U 8 st and if congress fails to investigate and to severely punch u i sh order toDe to de pr ro b rian dit it will not escape the severest execrations exee emee rations of history comat no matter how high the head bead is located the higher the worse for the country it should be made to fall politically and this is as sire to be thu popular verdict as the people of tills thib country surely have the strongest attachment to the principle that the civil is superior to the military power the law and the constitution to the men charged with their administration tho the conduct of Charlesin charles in seizing the persons of eliot hampden pym and sydney the conduct or of cromwell in breaking up a parliament the conduct of napoleon i n in diss dissolving tite cronvell ot df eine eive bivs hunree Hun ret rea VY by tary forc ewas less reprehensible than this latest act of military in ter ference for all these preceding usurpers usurp ers there was at least the plausible excuse that what they did id was not positively inhibited by law that the law was involved in doutt bount that the country had no established confidence in the system of government overthrown but not one of these excuses can be summoned in palliation of the new orleans outrage the military interference ln in this his case is without a shadow of justice right or popular approval on its side union jan 6 |
