Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-05-23
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ROCHvILLE,M MD.
Friday Morning" May %, 1878.

LoUsANA.-Thc New York Express, says :
The condition 10 which radical men and meas
ures have brought this unfortunate State can
hardly be better presented than by the state
ment that repeated usurpations have laid mp
on the State debt of $50, 600 900, and on the
city debt Of over $40, 900 900, and where
taxation virtually means confscaton. The
reinstatement of such a regime after it had
been fairly overthrown al the ballot-box makes
the sufferers desperate. 1.-THE order and in
functions made and granted by Judge Durell
in the Kellogg case, says the unanimous re-
port Of the committee Of the U. S. Senate,
"are most reprchensiblc, erroneous in point
OF law, and are wholly void for want Of juris-
dction, and your committee must express sor-
row that Judge of the United States Court
should have proceeded in such fragrant disre-
gard of his duty, aud have SO overstepped the
limits of Federal jurisdiction"
And yet in the face Of this fact this man
(Durell) is permitted to exercise arbitrary au-
thority over the people Of Louisiana. and no
effort is made TO call him 10 account. Verify,
it would seem as if the Federal Government
were determined that the South should remain
IN the Union only as an appendage, and for
the purpose of afording places of profit for
those who are unworthy 10 fill them, and not
as co equals in a common government This
has been the fate Of the South ever since the
passage of the reconstruction acts, and so it
will remain as long as the Government. winks
at the usurpatons of its officers. But the end
must comet cannot be that free and indie
pendent people are TO be made the slaves of
power, No excuse, bat ignorance, or spirit
of partanism, unworthy the Executive of this
great nation, can be offered for the President
in acknowledging the Kellogg faction, and
this the report of the committee; in the Ian
guage quoted above, has clearly demonstrated
Undoubtedly there are faults on both sides,
but enough is known, and the proof is incon-
trovertible, thnt the Kellogg faction precipita-
ted the affair at Colax. McEnery was elected
in some of the parishes and Kellogg men in
Others. Onicers,were appointed by both fac
tions, but the Kellogies failed to qualify &C
cording TO law, while those commissioned by
McEnery retained their positions. The stua-
ton was improving, and would, doubtless,
have SO continued, had not the Kellogg men
unsettled this state Of affairs in the matter of
Collax parish. These people are now depri-
we'd of their rights by Federal soldiers, and
what Louisiana is may be the fate ofany 9th
er Southern State. Let them take warning
The latest from Louisiana is that number
Of arrests had been made of citizens Of that
State, and list OF the grand jury had been
sent TO Washington. OF the twenty-five per-
Rons composing the grand inquest, sixteen are
black and every one is radical. These will
shew the mercy the wolf shows to the lamb
The people are determined to offer every ress-
iance 10 the Kellogg usurpation, without in
frnging the laws OF the United State, in the
hope-that Congress cannot refuse to give them
relief.