The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-05-31
The Louisiana shame.

"'''''' VI o"i ie"uers
THE CONQUERED PROVINCE.
w p. Kellogg bavonet ,4,ler If Tho
of Louisiana HAVING ccrtifed ~
President Grant that he i unable to nres
serve the peace in the TERRITORY tho gov
eminent of which be has us1rnod III
Imperial Hichness has issued /. nrocl,ma-
ton TO MI persons 10 obev tho autbpr;t;es
con stituted by the illepal midnioht order
issued by Durell This il ,be frst ~,
taken by the President within tho for,ns
of law. so far as the nresent trouble in
Louisiana il concerned Ue ;nteresreJ trs,
to establish Government and now re-.
spends 70 its rcouest 10 he maintained
lie illegally uaye il existence bnt Il l.
unable to maintain itself n mower w;thont
Federal aid, and so the bavonets which
were unlawfully employed to install n Leo.
stature are now 10 be used 10 sustain Z
Without the slightest authority IN law tho
Federal soldiery forced a Government into
existence. and now nre IN no nsedto comnoI
acquiescence in the despotic act Tbev
cleared Legislative halls. and now intend 10
clear the State, of all who have the man.
illness to deny the illeality of the Durell-
Kellogg coup detat. And vet there Is no
more question that Kellogg was foisted
into the chair BY a "gross ns1,rnatiopu than
there is doubt as TO the occurrence of an
election in that State
Grant may consummate the tyrappical
act he initiated He held Kellogp in his
seat, by unconstitutional means lone
enough for him to make formal call eor
Federal support. He used arbitrary power
in defiance Of the Constitution IN order
that he might get into position 10 nrocoed
constitutionally. He first uses the mill
tary power uniawfully TO disperse the law
full Government of the State and got
up an usurpation. and then responds IN tbo
call of that usurpinr Government To main
tain its power
The eonstitutionality of his course can
not be tested BY considering isolated facts
1t must be considered as a whole. and
sustained or censured in its ineeption. The
question is, how came the present Gov.
crnment in being? In his proclamation
the usurper who occupies the Presidential
chair does not allude to that pivotal cues
ton, but seeks to place himself upon local
judicial decision. He cannot do this No
judicial decision can Justify his course, or
palliate in the slightest degree the worse
than Napoleonic usurpation by which he
destroyed free government in State
Senator Carpenter, in recent speech
in New Orleans, said that Kellogg was
never elected Governor. And vet the
usurper is to be maintained in position
TO which he was not chosen by all the
power of Federal authority! And this
against the protest of the intelligence the
culture, the wealth aud worth of the State.
without exception
Warmoth, the lawful Governor of the
State was driven from the Executive chair
at the point of the Federal bayonet before
his term expired, in order that a shrewd
and INSCRIPTIONS mulatto might be placed
in his seat Had the forms of law been
observed in the State, and no illegal inter
ference been had, McEnery would have
succeeded Warmoth at the close of the
term of the latter, and the legally elected
members Of the Legislature would have
taken their seats.
The only act which prevented this result
was the unparalleled infamy perpetrated
by Durell, to enforce which Grant had
ordered troops from Florida DAYS before
Durell, with the troops at his disposal,
made Kellogg Governor, and gave him a
Legislature obedient to his will. And it
is admitted that the result of the election
was overturned by the act
The only justification for this infamy
is the expressed belief that McEnery was
elected by frand If he was, what had
Durell to do with il? Can Federal Off
cials be justified in reversing the result of
q State election merely by alleging Franc?
The suspicion of fraud iustiies inquiry.
but II does not Justify revolution.
The State Of Louisiana was revolution
lied by Federal power, and the KELLOGG
crew placed in possession. No one pre-
tends that there is shadow of authority
or warrant for this act. No one dares
meet this question. The brirands who.
led by the President, overturned the State
Government as il existed ON the LIST of
December last, dare not meet the naked
issue as presented in this act of Durell
And vet it is the sole foundation of the
Government. 1t has no other vitality nor
validity than that given to it by Durell.
1t could not have been brought into being
in any other way. Every other State
Government can point to the credentials Of
a popular election, properly certified on
the basis of bona.fde returns. as the evil
dence of a right to exist. 1t is universally
admitted that this Louisiana abortion
cannot do this. It has no other credential
than an unlawful chancery decree.
When the thieves came before the
courts of the State with the stolen insignia
of authority. a judicial decision was rem.