Wilmington journal., 1872-12-27
The Louisiana Troubles

Committee Of one hundred Louisianiaus,
head, gives evidence Of the Importance in
which the troubles in the State are held by
the good people of that State.
1t is essential to popular liberty and to
the constitutional rights Of the State, that
this Louisiana trouble should be thoroughly
understood. The appeal has been made
to the President, and it will probably be
made also to Congress for protection
against an usurpatiOn which is trampliLg
underfoot the rights of the people. Not
only the form, but the spirit of the law has
been openly and ruthlesssly violated, by a
Federal judge, sustained by the Federal
Administration at the point ofthe bayonet.
The patriotic Louisianians are attempt
ing to preserve the forms of free govern
ment, even at the foot of the American
throne. They at least are not willing to
despair Of the Republic.
We give below, from the New Orleans
Times, the most succinct and intelligent
statement of the true situation. 1t ought
to be read and pondered by every law
abiding citizen of the United States
CARTHAGE EST DELESDA.
alt is impossible that the American peo-
pie can be kept long ignorant of the facts
or indifferent to the wretched condition to
which this State and people are reduced by
the recent outrages perpetrated on them by
a corrupt ring of political Adventures,
aided by judicial confederate and the
arms of the United States.
We repel, as an undeserved reproach,
| the suspicion and imputation of utter cold
hearted insensibility on the part Of the
great mass of our fellow-citizens at the
North. What has appeared to us in tLat
light is ascribable to a supreme ignorance
OF the facts. Justice to them, as we'll as to
our cause, requires that these facts should
! be kept before them, distinct and separate
from the false and foreign matter and
issues by which they have been loaded and
confoun ed.
Let, therefore, the admitted, undisputed
and indisputable facts Of this controversy
be put and kept before the people i'll such
longer ali excuse for misconception, indif
terence, or lukew almness towaid a cause
which involves the most serious results to
Republican liberty that has ever arisen in
the history Of the Republic.
These are the facts:
|. That all election was held fol State
officers in this State on the 4th of \ oycm-
bcr last, under the laws Of the State, and
with the universal admission by all parties
Of its fairness and reacefulncss; that at
such election there were twcnty-onc thou
sand eight hundred and sixty more votes
received than We're ever pollcd before.
;. That no, word was uttered i'll
reference to the fairness Cf this election
until the result was proclaimed as in favor
Of the Conservative party in the State; that
then Il plot was batchcd in the Custom
House of this city TO have this election set
aside and tho returns 50 suppressed as to
fOist into the offices Of the State all the
Radical candidates, and especially an over
whclmiu~ negro majority in the Log1sla-
ture.
District Attorney concocts III a caucus Of
Federal office holders bill in clanccry in
the name of Kellogg, alleging that lac has
been deprived OF ten Thousand votes,
which, if they had been cast, would have
been in his favor, and would have given
him the majority. In support Of his ale
gatious he files some three thousand five
hundred aftidavits, printed, and with the
cross malks attached, Of negroes in the
remote country parishes.
4. Before any sitting or inquiry into the
these mere allegations and affidavits could
be made-before any trial could be had,
the United States Judge issues an interlo-
cutory order, directing the United States
Marshal TO seize the State House, to expel
the regular officers of the State, and to
proceed to recognize and install as the real
government the beaten Radical negro can
didates, who are proclaimed by bogus or
fraudulent Board.
>. The returns of this Board, created by
Durell's interlocutory order, were tiagrantly
false and fictitious, based on no other facts
or figures than the mere calculations OF
partisan committee, and the exclusion OF
all returns of votes actually received by the
Conservative candidates.
There is no man of their own patty with
a spark of decency who does not laugh to
scorn this miserable botch and fiction,