The sun., 1873-09-01
What il Expected.

II is evident that the Administration is
determined to continue its support of the
spurious KELLOGG Government in Louisi-
ana after Congress meets and that its
most prominent adherents are preparing
20 acquiesce in the outrage. senator Nor
ToN. in the speech he recently delivered at
Athens, declared that the Supreme Court
Of Louisiana in at least dozen decisions
has held that the KELLOGG Government is
legal aud valid. and that il has also been
recognized a. valid by the United states
courts IN Louisiana. In making these
declarations Senator MORTON shows that
he has received new light ON this impor-
tant subject, and IT i not unreasonable 60
suppose that his mind has been Illumined
through suggestions received from the
brothcr-n-law of the distinguished Col
lector Of New Orleans. who was AZ the bot
tom of the revolutionary conspiracy or
gnnized TO overthrow the legal State Gov
ernment.
Last winter the Louisiana case was be-
fore Congress for consideration, and
Senate committee OF which Mr.. MORTON
was Chairman, examined the evidence re-
specting all the proceedings leading to the
I suppression Of the State Government. That
I evidence showed that in the election OF
ls72 an unusually full vote was polled, and
that Mr.. MCESERY was elected Governor
by over G,OOO majority. Yet notwithstand-
ing this fact Mr. MoRToS's committee re-
poried-not that the KELLOGG Government
was vald-but that there is no state
Government al present existing In LOUISE
ana
The same committee reported that the
decisions of the Louisiana supreme Court
! on the questions involving the validity Of
| the KELLOGG Government We're absolutely
void, because rendered in one instance in a
case where the court had no jurisdiction,
| aud in another instance because the ques-
| tious passed upon were not properly before
! the court. Further, the committee report
| ed that but for the interference Of Judge
| DUREIL in the matter Of the state election
which they ray was matter wholly be-
/ yond his jurisdictiOn-"the MCESERY Gov
eminent would to-day have been the
| dc tQctO Government Of the State" And
| in regard to the Interference of DURELL
Senator MORTON himself said; The con-
! duct of Judge DURELL sitting in the Cir
/ cult Court of the United States cannot be
his jurisdiction, and assumed the exercise
Of powers 30 which he could lay no
claim"
Thus we see II has been decided by an
! Administration Senate committee that the
I MoENERY Government would be the de
fncto Government Of Louisiana If il had not
been for the Interference OF DURELI- who
Senator MORTON last winter declared had
no jurisdiction In the matteratall And yet
this same senator MORTON now turns
around and asserts that the KELLOGG Gov
crnment is valid! Surely the Senator
would never have SO stultihed himself un-
lesshe had been subjected TO pressure of
some very high power,
President GRANT probably thinks that as
the citizens of Louisiana have quietly eu-
dured the subveTsion of their liberties
for some months, the people Of the whole
country have become sufficiently familiar
lied with the spectacle to look with indlf-
ference upon their continued subjection
10 the rule of the usurpers The result OF
that usurpation has been the decline OF
property in the city of New Orleans 10 the
amount of fifty per cent, a lawlcss aud
eXtravagant administration of affairs, and
the reduction of the people Of the state to
such a miserable condition that they are
imploring to be placed under the rigors OF
martial law in order to escape the extor-
tions of the plundcrers who have been
forced upon them.
The history of the Louisiana usurpation
ought to furnish instruction and warning
for Us all. The people of that State elected
| q Governments headed hy a man of un-
questioned integrity, which fully possessed
their confidence This Government was
overthrown by band OF revolutionists
who did not even pretend that they had
been elected to the offices they claimed
'fhe only pretence to the possession OF
authority which the KELLOGG copspTatoIl