The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-07
The Louisiana Tr0ubles-Armcd Resist
nncc Against the Kellogg Govern

The Louisiana VrOubles-Armcd Resist
nncc Against the Kellogg Govern
ment.
In various parts of Louisiana, if not gen.
orally throughout the State, the citizens OPP
posed to the Kellogg usurpation appear to
have resolved among themselves to pay no
taxes to this Kellogg government. At ST. Mar
tinsville, the county town of the parish or
county of ST. Martinsville, this opposition to
the Metropolitan revenue posse has assumed the
form Of an armed organization, and fears are
still entertained of bloody collision between
these belligerent forces, which may throw the
whole State into confusion. Our dispatches
of yesterday from st. Martinsville (which
lies hundred miles or more west of New
Orleans) represent that the Metropolitans
(the Kellogg government posse) took quiet
possession Of the village on Sunday at noon !;
that during the night two Metropolitan scouts
were dangerously wounded in the suburbs,
one of whom had since died; that
skirmishing has since been constantly
going on; that in conference between the
contending parties the Metropolitans desired
to know who Of the officers they were about
to install were Objectionable to the citizens?
and that the answer was that the men were
McEnery, and the citizens only wanted the
Metropolitans to leave and not interfere in
their local affairs. The citizens armed force
is estimated at from two to four hundred men,
with two pieces of artillery. Meantime,
although the women and children still re-
manned in the town, report that the Kel-
loggites are organizing the negroes to help
them had put the whole population on the
watch, all business, of course, being sus-
pended except the business of this .sirre-
pressible'' conflict between the Kellogg State
authorities and the hostile citizens of st.
Martinsville A severe storm had prevailed
there since Sunday, which, doubtless, operated
to cool the excitement on both sides for the
time; but the dangers Of fierce engagement
appeared to be, nevertheless, increasing.
Such is the latest phase of the Louisiana
State government complications. The con-
flict has extended from the contending fac
tons in New Orleans to q conflict in the
interior parishes between the citizens thereof
and the Kellogg government What next
In our Judgment these Louisiana disturbances
are assuming q most serious and alarming
shape. Compared with them and the issues,
the dangers and the possible consequences in
volved, all the disafections and reported war;
like movements among our Western Indians
are mere trifes. The President recognizes
the Kellogg government as the rightful gov
eminent of the State, but very large portion
Of the citizens Of the State are evidently OBJ
posed to this government to the extremity
of armed resistance to its tax collectors
and to other Kellogg officers of local
character. The militia and the police of
Governor Kellogg against this opposition may
be insufficient in some places (such as st.
Martinsville) to enforce his authority. What
then? In this extremity he may be sufli-
GENTLY foolish to call in a posse comaat,.s from
the blacks, and then we may have repetition
of the late bloody drama of Colfax, and not
only in one or two other localities, but
throughout the State this disgracefu political
sauabble may be intensified to a sancuinary
and merciess war between the whites and
blacks. If these reports from ST. Martins
vile may be credited this is the extreme
peril towards which Governor Kellogg is
blindly drifting.
The terrible affair at Colfax ought to be
sufficient to warn him Of the criminal follv
Of fomenting in any way war of races in
Louisiana, where the black citizens, although
in the majority, would be as powerless as
so many hocks of sheep against a general
warlike evaporation Of the whites. If Gov
ernor Kellogg can do nothing to enforce
his authority without military assistance. let
him not appeal TO the blacks, but to the Presi-
dent; for It win be far better on the part of
Governor kellogg to turn over the State to
the government Of the United States Army
than to attempt to enforce the recognition of
his State goYernment by the desperate alter