The New York herald., 1872-12-07

body may perish but the wretched procc tors OF
this stupid business.
B rHB srRU0aLE NOW e
This letter IL already 30 long that I can
only say that after Kellogg. according to War
moths returns, had been declared defeated Tor
Governor OF the State, controversy arose as to
which was the proper Returning Board The law
named three personsas returning ofiicers and two
OF these were disqualified because they had been
candidates in, the election. One OF the remaining
officers was the Secretary OF state, and Warmoth
used his despotic power to remove this man as
thus became member or the Returning Board.
h SUMMARY PRooEEDIs0 IN COURT.
used q law passed by the previous Legislature,
which he had not. up to this time, signed, to get
fid OF ,ne STATE r Judges VINO nosnerea nim aoons
ms seat upon the bench, when about two hun
dred OF Warm0tlrs roughs took him up and
crowS Su into ' the street and s' the new Judges
Immediately began 70 deal Snt sucn justice ace
Kellogg party 'o Carried the case up to the Circuit
Court, this court tinkercd with 1t. while meantime
Warnoth has called the Legislature together
month before its regular session to ratify his acts
and send him to the Senate. In the Senate OF the
United States Warmoth would be no worse than
annoy society in the % state where lie has carpet.
bagged. AS Congress has been in the habit Of do
Ing everything that 1t chooses, ana decrceing that
no legal government exists in this state or that,
1t might be well il they would undertake
reconstruction over again from the beginning
and rest from pandeF. TO Jas ascertain S the relative
amount OF right in the present situation Is smply
to select among rotten eggs The republican party
In its motley character has made a constitution
ana laws obnoxious to freedom, and the accident
under these laws is Warmoth, who has Bourbon
iIcd hlmseif and is now supported by the respect
able clements which for years refused to let him
pass accr0ss their thresholds. This is the charac-
ter 0fSOuthern U4 aa1 - ta #a
DISCRETION AND DISCRIMINATION.
1t refused to throw good influences around the
Governor while he was still young. wistul, i'm
pressibie and, perhaps honest: but alter he has
been debauched by the excesses OF his own party
and the thrOes OF a revolution have thrown him
INTO the opposition, this apathetic element sud
denly rises, backs him up and makes him hero.
men who go to its State Legislature. There War
moth got his extraordinary powers. II the people
could turn out, under the motley condition or
Louisiana society, and
ELECT A GOOD LEGISLATURE,
the laws which now give Warmoth his bad supre-
macy would be repealed but, alas In all the
Southern States there is vast element OF society
taken up with the immediate wants or its new con-
dition, utterly unacquainted with the meaning OF
spirit and which votes some thing into its pocket and
the mouths or its family, while, meantime, the
great principles which should animate common
wealth are put aside to be sighed for by the fe W
who must stand afar or ana sufrer. 500 uo.
military officer ut the garrison told me that
himself and all his fellow officers were disgusted
with the work they had to do in Louisiana. Said
that order should be illegal at law, we are liable to
be tried lOr murder, and II we do not fire-even If
we question the authority-we may be court mar
tailed for disObedience OF orders" a..
Ii this subject Is OF sufficient interest have
pienty OF materials to resume It,