The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-12-21

a. ". lGeURAIG1B. 1aditor.
CONGRESSIONAL INTERVENTION IN
LOUISIANA.
Congress adjourned yesterday Tor the
holidays, to re-convene on the 6th
proximo., It is not probable that Lou Z
isiana affairs will receive attention,
although committee Of thirty-seven
citizens Of the State are in Washington,
before the middle OF next month, or q
possibly the ssmiddle of next year." I
BY strict party vote, the House refus-
ed, on the 18th, to pass resolution,
properly framed, asking the President
for information relative to affairs in
this State, the Radical majority not
relishing the independent tone of the
resolution. Subsequently, Mr.. Steven
son, Of Ohio, moved tho adoption Of a
resolution of inquiry of a milder form
aud more truculent in spirit, and the
House adopted it.
We do not share to the least degree
any confidence had by others in the re-
media1 temper of Congress. There is a
very common belief TO the effect that
Congress may feel a slight interest in
behalf Of popular government in Louis
lana. Neither house Of Congress feels
any such interest, but, ON the contrary,
will exert its reconstructive powers to
prolong and perpetuate the domination
Of the Grant-Kellogg party in Louisi-
ana. Whoever has had an opportunity
to consult the views and feelings of
Northern Radicals toward Southern
"rebels," as they call Our people, has
had painful proof Of the one blighting
fact that underlying the truth and
force Of all complaints our people may
make, is, the assumption that the
Southern people have forfeited their
rights, are dangerous enemies to Ma
tionai existence--i1 est, Capitalization
and in any petition for right or JUS
tice, must appear with a default entered
against them. We would as confidently
and cheerfuliy appeal to Judge Dureli,
inebriated, to reverse his late decision
dethroning popular government in this
State, as to petition Congress to annul
the results Of that decision, or to set of
in 4 policy counter to that pronounced
In the late edict of President Grant. II
Congress elects not to interfere, Gas we
suppose it will, its agents being active
enough,) it will simply decide to leave
the matter with the courts; but if Con-
gress does interfere, it will be to fasten
upon us, beyond the control of the
courts, the present usurping govern
ment Of Louisiana. For this latter
course, we ought to be prepared, since
the recollection of the decisions Of the
House upon the Louisiana election o.
1868 Is still fresh In our minds, ant
since we have seen the Federal Con
Eress, by solemn act, take from TIN
Federal courts a case then pending be
foro them and leave them without ju
risdiction.
The Battle Of the States was no
fought out ut Appomattox, but sin,pl
transferred to the halls of Congress
where, likened to the efnasculated an
impoverished Confederacy, the State
are now feebly resisting tho encroaci
ments of Federal power, growing weak
or with every succeeding struggle IN
losing support in every contest.
would be but poor reception the con
plants Of q State like New; Y DIRK, undo
conflict between Federal and Sta
authority, would receive at tho hant
ofthe jubilant creatures OF consolidatir
power whose all depends upon the nc
and will of President Grant; and VIII
then can We expect for the outIyir
province of Louisiana whose people q
so much condemned as to be told the
are unfit to choose their own reprcse
tativcs?
The fact is, we believe, the control
Ing spirits Of Congress were fully a
prised of the Kol]c~G tactics even befo
the election. The visit OF John \ Bin
ham to Louisiana, ostensibly to nal
siagie speech in New Orleans, w
coupled with a much deeper purpos
The relations of Senator Kellogg wi
the leading conspirators against State
rights aud in behalf OF aruspiuy aiiro