Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-03-27
DespOiIed Louisiana.

be thrown over the bar by the KEEL
logg Courts, for having acted as the
attorney for the committee of two
hundred citizens which proceeded to
Washington from Louisiana, to pro-
test against the Federal spoliation Of
the State at the hands ofDurell, Pack
ard and Casey. 1t is the punishment
be is to receive for exercising his plain
rights as a lawyer, in the performance
of a service of the highest Importance
for his fellow-citizens. The telegraph
reports, it, that he acted with "the
Warmoth- McEnery conspiracy The
Administration could not make the
telegraph more supservient to its own
purposes if it already owned it, as Mr..
Creswell desires. Instead of a con
spiracy between McEnery and War
moth, the McEnery Government was
the fusion of the people of Louisiana
to overthrow and set aside both War
moth and Kellogg. They were de-
termined to be rid forever of all fac
tons and parties that had been preying
Oh the State, eating out its revenues
and running its industry, and to take
their affairs into their own hands.
And the fusion ticket succeeded. AT
any rate, not even Senator Morton
could report that the Kellogg Govern
ment could prove its first claim
Nothing but the bayonets of Grant set
up Kellogg as Governor. The plot
was set on foot before Durell was
summoned to play the part which the
Senate Investigating Committee I'M
animously condemned. 1t is perfectly
notorious that Grants interference
took place before any Government had
been established. He was thus be-
forehand with the business for the ex-
press purpose Of establishing the Gov
eminent he wanted. 1t was not until
after he had set up his Government
by the bayonet that he excused his
act by the pretence that the Supreme
Court of the State had decided it to
be the legal one.
For merely acting rs the attorney
of a committee of citizens who went
to the President with a very proper
protest against this invasion of local
rights, DR. Campbell is to be punished
by the Kellogg, that is, the Grant
Courts, by expulsion from the bar of
the State This is to be the penalty
of a free citizen for interesting himself
in the security of free government.
And it is at Washington that the
enemy of free government is entrench-
ed in power. 1t is impossible to con
ceive of a more complete overthrow of
republicanism, though it were attempt
ed by foreign State. Gov. Kellogg
is issuing his warnings to the tax
payers against anything like combina-
tons to resist the payment of their
taxes. He has serious reasons to APP
preherd this sort of resistance, for it
is the last the citizens can make The
taxes in arrears are set dow at nearly
two and one-half millions of dollars,
New Orleans owing nearly one mill
ion and half. The fruit of Federal
interference is published in this single
statement. What is left to citizens
but to refuse to pay for Government
that has been imposed upon them from
a power without by the bayonet?
True, the same power may seize and
sell their property, but what sort of
citizens are those who are to purchase
and supplant them7 How can others
pay these swindling taxes to foreign
oppression any better than they' 9th
er States have been robbed of their
population by force before now, but
no one ever suspected that such a
course led to prosperity. 1t is party
sentiment, rancorously strong, that
allows Grant to have his will in Louis
lana, and his purpose in it is to benefit
a personal ring. The people of Louis.
lana protest. The President shakes
his head in warning. The country is
silent under it. What is done to-day
in Louisiana can be done in any other
State tomorrow, and in his inaugural
the President said he should not hest
tate to do it.-Boston Post.
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