New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-30
REBELIIOUS LOUISIANA.

REBELLIOUS LOUISIANA.
When the Rebel representatives elected from
the Southern States come clamoring for admis'
sion into Congress, we trust Congress will con-
slider what the loyal people of those States have
To offer on the general issue. Louisiana, ior
instance, has elected. without one exception, 50
far as we know, disloyal men. Her State Gov
peDtant ScCe,sioniStS or of much meanor class
of men, who call themselves Democrats, and are
lust as hostile TO the Union, but less frank in
their opposition The admission of Louisiana
vita such a government, or the recognition ol
that government by Congress, would simply put
the loyalists OF the State--back and white alike
under the heel Of the Rebels, and perpetuate
in another form the power which has but just
ceased its armed effort to destroy the Republic.
! A letter from one of these Louisiana Unonis,s
to Judge Kelley Of Pennsylvania Las lately
been published. Its writer is described by
Judge Kelley as an old and eminent citizen oi
New Orleans, whose family aud fortunes are
identified with the city, ana who was never an
Aboiionist. lie is filled with alarm az TIE
thought that Louisiana under its newly elected
Rebel Government il TO be restored 20 it. place
| in the Union. The day that sees that scheme
accomplished will, in his judgment, be fatal
one to the unionisls of the State. Literally al
| fatal ole, for it ought TO be understood at he
/ North that IL is no ordinary political
contest wsging between Rebels and Unipnists
but "A contest in which the defeat Of the latter
leaves them only the alternative Of banlshnent
or determination. "Tho hatred" says this
writer, "in which they are held By their dls-
loyal opponents-and of this every day furnishes
| its indicitions--is Of character too savage aud
deadly not Ia authorize the most serious apprc-
tensions for the future. With The State in the
possession OF military forces, outngos and
murders on unof,snding negroes have been ~
, frequent occurrence, ard the whites who claim
| justice for this most uniortuuatc race are exc
Icraicd, threatened, and occasionally, as in the
recent cases of Messrs. Rongelot and Bennie,
prosecuted and lGwlessly imprisoned. When
the soldiery are Withdrawn, as ii is understood
they are about being &. and when, az at
present organized, the State has resumed her
former relations with the National Government,
present indications justify the belief that the
original Union men must remove hence If they
would avoid persecution or death"
} He goes OH 10 say that there is hardly lead
: ing Union man who has not.bcen threatened
with assassination, and quotes the declaration
of Mr.. g. w. Simpson, lately Captain in the
Rebel army now an editor of Tie Ne,e- Orleans
3 Star the organ Of the City and State Govern
ments, "that the agitation Of negro suffrage
would speedily result in the Wholesale massacre
= OF its supporters" The menace recalls similar
one by Mississippi paper, The Jackson Nsos,
We believe, which proposed to it, readers 10 tar
= and feather a Union officer for advising the
negroes 10 protect themselves against lswless
Outrage; and if that would not answer,
then to hang him. One spirit inspires
the same class in both States. The passions
which fred the Southern heart in the beginning
of the war have survived its close. Iu Louisi.
ana they have control Of the State at this
moment, if we admit, or il Congress admits,
the legality Of the Rebel Government which in
the name Of Louisiana expects to administer
the laws Of the Coniederacy.
The same men ara about to call another con-
vention to amend what now passes for State
Constitution, by striking out the clause which
auth rzes the Legislature to grant suffrage to
the blacks. In addition to that, they propose
TO enact code, similar, We presume, to the
code which South Carolina is adopting, for the
} reGnslayement of the negroes. Failing IA that,
they menace the blacks, as they do the white
Unionists, with eIpa,riation or DEATH Aud, a3
matters now stand, there is nothing that can
prevent the fufllment of this Internal purpose
except the interpositi0n Of the National Govern
ment. Upon the retention Of the troops in
Louisiana by the Executive, and upon the Itter
rejection OF the State Government AID H. rop-
: resentatives by Congress, depends the safety
Of the Unionists in Louisiana, and depends also
oil hope Of restoring that State on loyal
basis.
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