New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-03-20

1kc New 1 ok indepshden! u DIttetS up
posed to the kellogg government o! Louisi-
ana, taking the ground that 1t Is usurpation
ana not legally elected government, and
hut for the protection rendered By the Cen
erai Government, the people Of Louisiana
would trample out this Kellogg usuEpation.
We believe that the General Government
cannot do otherwise than stand by the hell
loQg government in view Of the fact alone
that the Supreme Court Of the State OF Louisl-
ana recognizes il as the legitimate govern
mept, We cannot see how the state OF al
fairs in Louisiana can be bettered by the
withdrawal of the protection afforded by the
General Government to the Kellogg govern
ment, nor can We see the reasonableness oil
the continued assaults upon President Grant
for performing what all but bitter partisans
and negotiating politicians will admit is
clearly his duty. If the United states troops
are withdrawn il is said the people oil Loulsi-
ana will settle tho difficulty in that State
themselves. II by settling the difficulty Is
meant the Selling Of the Offices Of the govern
ment now in the hands Of the Kelloggites
and placing them in the hands Of the McEn-
erv,tes, what assurance cnn that give that
the majority Of the people Of the State who
are undoubtedly opposed to the McEnery
government, will quietly acquiesce? The
majority Of the people of Louisiana, accord
Ing TO the census Of 1870, are colored, and
are in full sympathy with the party whose
standard bearer in the State of Louieiana is
Ea1lnur Those np0-
pie, excepting where intimidation and fraud
prevented, voted for Governor kellogg and
elected him, and a Legislature in sympathy
with him. The party antagonistic to the
rights Of the majority Of the people OF the
State are endeavoring, through what would
be the triumph Of fraud and intimidation, to
get control Of the State; this is well known
TO such Republican papers as the New York
Independent that endeavor to cover with ridi-
Guile and contempt the kellogg government.
1t Is the majority Of the people of the State
represented by the Kellogg government ;
though 1t may be that intimidation and fraud
have prevented the making of ii apparent ac-
coriing to form, it is really apparent to all
unprejudiced men.
What advice would those Republican pa
pers give who now seek to throw COR
serpt upon the General Government for pro
tect;Ag the Kellogg government, should the
President withdraw protection from the pres.
ent recognized State government and the
McE2erHtes il New Orleans should rise and
seize the archives Of the State, and in at
tempting to carry OF the State government
theT should be ne. with al armed oppoaition
coming from the State outside Of New Or
leans? Would these papers advise the in
teryention Of The President IN suppressing
the domestic violence in the interest Of Nc
EneryP To do this would be to recognize
a government not recognized by the highest
court Of the State, and one with no show OF
right save that obtained through fraud and
intimidation. 1t may be, however, that the
fact that the majority Of the people OF Louisi-
ana being colored, are, in consequence, left
OFT in estimating the wishes and feelings Of
the ps2p!e Of the State BY those Republicans
who can see only the rising Of the people in
such mobs as the McEneryitcs turned loose
the other day in New Orleans to seize the
police stations. To those Republicans, by
the phrase the people of Louisiana" is
meant the white people only, and it is their
prejudices and animosites such Republicans
would have the President Of the United
States support. Thus when the New York
Independent says 1.-THE truth is the kellogg
government Of Louisiana has not the support
Of the people, not having been elected by the
people," it can only mean that 1t has not the
support Of a class Of white people who have
always regarded the negroes as something
other than people, and rs having no rights
which white men were bound 10 respect.
Can 1t be that this position Of certaip Repnb-
Hcans and Republican journals toieshadows
the attitude the Republican party Is about to
assume towards its colored allies? Is the
Ku-kluxism that we have been led 10 be-
lieve had been overthroNn to obtain new life
and gain real victory through the assistance
Of the Republican party by its withdrawal of
protection from government in Difference to
a white minority because such government
was elected largely by colOred voters? If,
as the Independent! asserts, the protection Of
the Kellogg government is a misapplcation
VI bnC auluObltN VI HAtGu 'oldttS, Tic
proper thing TO be done is the withdrawal Of
that protection. Does the Independent. desire
this?
Louisiana tries the faith OF the Republi-
can party il the Senate and out Of the Sen
ate. 1t presents test by which the coiored
people of the country may learn 20 what ex-
tent the Government will go. under the con-
tro! Of the Republican party, in the matter Of
protecting them in their rights as citizens.
II the Government accepts and acts In ac-
eordance with the views Of such journals as
the New York hdspe'adsnf, and such states
msn as Senator Carpenter, it will be impos-
sible FOR the colored people to escape the con-
clusion that citizenship and the elective fran
chise are to them q mere mockery. We,
however, indulge the belief that the Republi-
can party, notwithstanding the advice Of a
few of its anti-negro members, viii stand by
the right il this louisiana matter, aud iEsis.
upon giving to the majority Of the people of
that State tie indulgence Of their wishes as
they undoubtedly expressed them at the bal
lot-box, however much those wishes may be