The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-05-15
S a war of Races Impending?
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the following article from the New
York Sun. The subject demands all
the editor says:
The people Of the North have q
pretty clear appreciation Of the po!iti'
cal situation in Louisiana, resulting
from the usurpation of the State Gov
eminent by the carpet-b0gger Kellogg
and Li. confederates His outrages
upon the rights Of the people could
never have been consummated without
the completely Of President Grant
who gave the conspirator5 the support
| Of United States troops to aid them III
their plot to o'ertuIn the Legally coli
sti,uted Government, That the act
of Kellogg and his rascaiIy crew in
creating a revolution in Louisiana was
without a shadow OF right has been
demonstrated in the report of the Sen,
ate Committce-compoaed mainly OF
the Presidents friends-which inyestI
gated the facts Of the case.
1t is not so fully understood, how.
ever, that there is q social as well as a
political question involved in the
Louisiana usurpation, and that in fact
the contest now going on there IS a
struggle for supremacy between the
white and black races. On the one
side are Kellogg, Casey, and a few
white politicians belonging to the in
famous class who for the past four
years have been robbing the people OF
Louisiana and other Southern States,
together with nearly the whole negro
population on the other are a few
conservative colored men and almost
all the intelligent white men in the
State. Upon one side are ignorance
and knayery consplring to plumber on
the other intelligence and respectable
ty conspiring for sclE-prcseryation.
The negroes in Louisiana have been
led to believe that it is their right to
be the ruling power, 1t was publicly
said in many of their meetings before
the last election that they had a ma
jority Of all the legal votes in the State
and that if the whites who were actlhe
with them did not do as they dcsire,:
they would cut loose from the carpet
baggcrs and assume the entire cOntrc.
Of the government. They have been
instructed that it is in their power tc
assume and maintain authority ovcl
the whites, and that the Federal Gov
eminent will aid them in their effort,
to this end, II is not at all strange
that such a belief should exist among
these ignorant people, a great MAORI
" Of whom can neither read nor write
since it has been the constant effort o
the carpet. baggcgs in all the Southern
States to instii into their minds senti
mcnts of jealousy and hatred TOWARD
the whites in order to contro! thel
votes.
OF course the negroes OF Louisiana
know nothing about the principles o
=. republican institutions aud they have
been told in the United States Circui'
Court by District Attorney Bcckwitl
that the whole form Of this Govern
ment is changed, and that where indie
pendent States seem to exist there art
ONLY departments. 1t is bht natura
that they should look upon presiden
Grant as a ruler as absolute in hi:
power as the Gar Of Russia when they
see him overthrow at the point Of the
bayonet a regularly constituted State
Government, and put in its place a sc.
Of scouudrcl5 who have never ever
pretended that they were legally elect
ed; and they take it for granted thai
in following the advice of the Federal
onlcchollcrs in Louisiana they art
supporting the Government Of the
United States, So they all stand NJ
for the Kellogg party, believing tina
by so doing they will be able to achieve
that supremacy over the whites OF
which they have fixed their hearts.
II the spurious Kellogg Governme EN-
should be permitted to remain IN pow
err the suhjugation of the white race il
Louisiana would be complete. Hat
the Republican party remained com
pact in that State the election of Nc
Emery would never have taken place
for the vote would have been so ma
nipulatcd rs to show a majority FOL
Kellogg. The split in the party pre-
vious to the election and the detection
Of WarmOth led to a fairCr count thar
has been made in Louisiana since tho
war, and the result was the election OF
McEncry and his legal inauguration
into Office. With the Kellogg crew il
power anything like a fair election is
out Of the question, and the white pco-
PIE Of Louisiana fully understand
that the acknowledgment of the KEEL.
logg usurpation means their continued
subsection 20 negro rule. The results
of negro rule they have learned through
their sorrowful experience of the past
-four years.
When these facts are taken into con
siicration the indomitable resolution
with which the white people of Louis.
lana resist the Kellogg usurpation will
be more clearly understood. "If we
are not permitted to elect IL own
Government, like the people of other
States, give us martial law they say,
" and we will submit to that But
they will not submit TO nor acknowl
edge the authority ofthe uSurper Kel-
logg and his coniedcrates in any man
ncT whatever. except as they are com
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