Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-03-28

lature, aud proceeded TO perform various
acts annoying and obstructive to its op'
ponents. IL next. as was most proper,
appealed TO the President and to Con.
gress The President had no power to
interfere, but Congress, perhaps, might
have determined the controversy. IL
would seem, however, rather n question
| for the Supreme Court; and even Con-
gress would scarcely care to reverse the
decision of the New Orleans judges. But
however this may be, the plain duty of
the McEnery party, If they found them.
selves aggrieved, was to commence such
legal proceedings as might expose the
errors of their opponents an3 obtain jus
tice for themselves. They should have
awaited the operation of the law. In.
stead OF this they armed themselves pre-.
pared large military force, and made an
attack upon their opponents, which end
ed in the loss of several lives ard the
wounding of fifteen or twenty persons.
Their object, IL seems, was to seize the
| court. houses and reinstate their own
judges; they might thus gain show of
legality on their side, which Is now
wholly wanting. The rebels fought with
courage; but their plans had been reveal.
ed to the Kellogg officials, and General
| Longstreet, by his prudent disposition of
the armed police, saved the court-houses.
| General Emory, the United States officer
in command, next ordered the rioters to
| disperse, and, obeying the Instructions of
| President Grant, aided in restoring order
| in New Orleans. For this the President
has been assailed with extraordinary bit
terness by the friends of Warmoth and
McEnery, by the opposition press of the
| North, and the enemies of the public
peace. The people of the whole country,
however, will probably approve of his
conduct, and show the rebellious portion
of the Southern population that they are
resolved to check at once their constant
tendency toward bloodshed and crime,
The chief sufferers from the violence
of Warmoth and McEuery, next to the
dead and the wounded, to whose fate they
have been accessory, will be the mer-
chants, mechanics and farmers of Louisi
ana. Business has long been inactive al
New Orleans, owing to the fear of riots
and the political disturbances. Republi
cans and the colored citizens are naturally
alarmed for their lives when they see
their enemies armed parading in the
streets, and when they remember the long
series of outrages which have been in
titcted upon them by small but desper
ate faction of the opposition. Louisiana
rich in natural advantages, requires cap
ital to repair its levees, drain its swamps
renew its productiveness, ard New Or
leans must insure good order among it'
citizens before it can hope for the reviva
of its trade.
Let, therefore, the intelligent people o.
Louisiana of all parties unite to repair
the evils that have been inf icted upOr
them Let them discourage every at
tempt to violate the law; let them selec
for office moderate, honest men, who arr
willing to do justice to ali: let them pun
ish with Imprisonment and hard labor tht
desperate politicians, who are the enemies
of industry and progress; and New Or
leans will once more assume the appear
ance of commercial city. Nor will th,
| whole South ever recover its prosperity
until it has pursued a similar course-ha
proved to the world that the rule o
rapine and disorder, which has so Ions
Impoverished many of its fairest districts
has passed away forever, and that tn
life and property of the Migrant, tn
Republican voter, and the foreign capital
ist are as safe in North Carolina ant
Georgia az they are in Minnesota or Ne
braska, -HaaPer's Weekly.