The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-04-26
RESOLUTIONS TO THE POINT.

At n large meeting Of the people of
st. Helena, presided over by Judge
Muse and addressed by Gov. Nc Emery,
Messrs. Waggaman, Ellis and others,
the following resolutions, reported by
Judge Carter, were unanimously adopt
ed amid cheers:
Resolred, That in strict loyalty to
the government of the United States,
in all its departments, and claiming its
protection while yielding obedience to
its authority, we, the people Of this
parish, withhold solcmnly and deter
minedly our recognition of the kellogg
government until it shall have been
finally recognized by the sovereign
authority of the United States.
,. That in our Judgment and solemn
conviction the said Kellogg govern
| ment can exercise no riglitfll or consti-
| tutional authority over tho citizens of
the State, and that we will continue to
! regard it as Il usurpation until the SOW
| ereign authority of the United States
shall have pronounced otherwise.
3. That we will yield it no voluntary
support, nor countenancc or respect its
authority any further than compelled
so to do by the military authority of
the United States.
! 1. That we owe it to our country, to
her laws and liberties and her Consti-
tuition, to our children, and all who
shall follow us, to resist the lawless
usurpation by all the means in our
power.
3. That inasnuch as it must depend
upon the final recognition Of the SO.
called Kellogg government, whether
the payment of taxes to said govern
| M ant Il 1>n
citizens or Taxpayers against u second
payment in the event of the constitu-
tional government of Louisiana being
finally recognized, and the payment
would be in the meantime Il voluntary
support of the ustlrpation, we, the citi-
| zenS of this parish, arc resolved to pay
| none, at whatever cost, peril or sacrifice
| the resistance may be made, so long as
| the authority Of the so-callcd kellogg
! government ia alone invoked to enforce
! the payment.
6. That we regard with repugnance
and unqualified condemnation all at
tempts to obtain authority under the
Kellogg usurpation to fill and exercise
| the functions of the various civil Offices
| in the State, and that the attempt to do
so must be regarded by every good
citizen as an attempt to trample under
| A'ct tHS *At<ti t14tAttt'i&"o ci IL ftS ana
Constitutional government.
7. That we regard the act of the kel-
! logg government which has organized
the Metropolitan Police of New Orleans
| into three brigades, under the command
| Of the Governor and officers appointed
| by him, With full authority to order
| them for duty to any part of the State,
as no more nor less than an overt act i,
and Il tlagrant attempt to establish Il
standing army in the State of Louisi-
ana, in n time Of profound peace, and
thus bring the people of the State into
subjugation to an armed dcspotism in
open and palpablc violation of the Con-
stitution of the United States, section
| 10, article l, which declares that no
State shall without the consent of Con-
gress ''kccp troops or ships of war in
time of pcacc.' Regarding the above
named military organization as utterly
subvCrsivc of tho rights and liberties of
the people, we are resolved that while
we do not propose to offer any rcsis-
| tancc to the military authority OF the
| United States, we arc firmly resolved
to resist with all our energies as free
men the armed janisaricS of this foul
usurpation.
II. That having called him in part
by our will to the Chief Masistracy of
the State; recognizing in him the tried
and gallant soldier in war; the true
and devoted citizen in peace; the hon
est man always, and mpathising with
the noble struggle he has made and is
still making to secure for us the gov
ernment of our choice, we pledge our
lives and our fortunes to sustain Gov.
McEncry, and that we endorse his past
and his present; and we do hereby in
struct our Senator and Representative
to sustain him with all their power and
influence, and to reject with scorn any
effort of the wcak-knced men of policy
who are ciamoring for n compromise
with infamous and lawlcss usurpatiOn.
ROMANCE OF EARITHMATIC.