Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-12-16
DAILY GAZETTE.
From the N. Y. Sun.
USURPATIoN IN LOUISIANA.

In spite Of all the dust and cIamor raised by
tnc contending factions in Louisiana. il is clearly
sPp.Ie' that the War'nothitcs elected their Gov
ernor and other State officers and a majority of
tnc Legislature in November last At ali events.
u ls absolutely certain that the regular Rcturnirg
Doaid' winch represents Warmoth has in its cx-
elusive possession and always has had, the on
S,ai reports OF the election in every parish in the
o'"te' ana t!lat the bogus Returning Board, which
represents Kellogg, has not seen one of these re-
ports ana that all its statements in regard TO the
iaic election are either wilful lies or worthless
giiesscs.
-. This rs the true standpoint from which to view
inc pending conflict between Warmoth and
rincnback in regard to who is now Governor OF
the State, and which is its legal Legislature.
without an election return from single parish
~ Louisiana In their possession, the board which
Durell, the drunken carpet-bag United States
Judge, created, have proclaimed Kellogg to be
tnc new Governor, and the motley crowd sitting
az the Mechanics Institute, a very large share OF
wnom are negroes who can neither read nor
write, to be the Legislature On the other hand
tne regular board, appointed according to law
VINO have all the returns in their hands, declare
that McEnery was duly elected Governor, and
that the body sitting at Lyceum Hall is the real
Legislature.
In his message to the Legislature, Gov. War
moth, with the official returns before him, points
OUT lew OF the many gross errors into which
the Durell board have fallen either through sheer
ignorance or shameless rascality-probaby n
compound OF both-specifying parish after par
!sn where thc votes had been changed in the in
terest OF kellogg Il Co., and naming many par
ishes where McEnery, the Democratic candidate
LOT governor, received hundreds and in some in
stances thousands of votes, hut was not allowed
even single one.
There Is not q pair Of lungs in the North 50
Draxen as to deny this. Now, it is upon thes,
paipablc, fragrant frauds and usurpations that tho
national government has based its recognition o
tne validity Of the bogus body calling itself ;
Legislature, and Of its void impeachment of War
m0th, and OF his consequent suspension from
once ana the temporary installment of Pinch
DECK In his place, who is to hold the Executive
chair until the lst of January, when Kellogg vii
come in.
This action of the national Executive, through
lts courts and Its army, is the overthrow of tn,
regular state Government of Louisiana. 1t is a.
clearly an act of usurpation by force of arms a.
was the overthrow of the Parliamentary Govern
ment OF England by Cromwell, backed 10y his in
vlncible soldicry, and of the French Council o
rive Hundred BY Bonapartc, surrounded by hi
tail grenadiers. To charge that Warmoth is cor
ruPt dOcs not touch the merits of the case Ad
init It to be true; but pray who and what ar
finchback and Kellogg? Beyond all cavi War
moth Is the regular Governor of the State, an,
has discharged the duties of the office withou
question for four years. The proper board ha
declared that the body sitting at Lyeeum Hall
the new Legislature of the State. If Warmot
can be legally impeached it must be by this body
II persons contest the seats of any members g
this body It is the body itself which is to decid
between tbGm Thesu u)aiu prc,s.~itiee- arg
part Of En- common knowledge Of the America
people. Nevertheless, the Government Mt Wasl
ington disregards them and first decides tn
whole case at the point of the bayonct, and the
tells the usurpeis whom it has placed in power
the back of fraud and rascality that it will stan
by them.