Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-23
A Northern Defense Of Rioters.

A Northern Defense of Rioters.
WE referred some time ago to the fact
that the riotous and discontinued element
| in Louisiana was kept in active unrest by
the encouragement and sympathy of the
Liberal and Democratic press of the
North. As an illustration of this take an
article in the New York World of Satur-
day last.
"If Louisiana were tranquil under the
| treatment to which she has been subject"
says this organ of Law and Order, "the
tranquility would be worse reproach to
the character of her people than even the
condition of anarchy to which she is tend
ing" The article goes on to state that
whatever is bad in Louisiana belongs to the
| Kellogg party; whatever is good naturally
| belongs to the McEnery party. The for
mer is composed of all the ignorance and
the latter of all the wisdom in the State
| The noble men thus imposed upon would
be worse than slaves, according to the
| World, if they were to submit to such
things quietly.
And this is q specimen of the advice
| that was given by the remnant of North
eTn doughfaces to the misunderstanding
people of Louisiana, and is the patent
cause of half the troubles there a lot of
cowardly editors and political pariahs,
who would breathe naught but the sweet.
| est notes of submission were they placed
in the position of these men, write san
| culinary editorials and sound the tocsin of
war from their safe retreats, calling upon
all who would preserve their freedom to
arm for the fight against despotism.
| 1t would be amusing, were they not
wicked, to read the grave assertions of
oh
! in Louisiana. ut is a barefaced and
shameless fraud" says the World. "The
| government is in fact satrapv The
miserable minority which it alone repre-
sents comprises all the worst, as the ma
jority, which goes unrepresented, COM
prises all the best elements of society in
Louisiana" We suppose this is what
made the notorious Warmoth the leader
of the respectable" portion of the peo.
| pie, and Jack Horton his able lieutenant
| But what is the pleasure of the World in
this matter? viii it have the efirontery
TO assert that McEnery and his associates
on the ticket received a majority of the
votes at the last electiong Does il believe
that the election as conducted by this
respectable" faction was honest? In view
| of the overwhelming evidence of the most
shameless frauds on the part of Warmoth
and his friends who represented McEnery,
it will not hazard its reputation by such
al allegation. That there were frauds
on both sides we have no doubt Neither
have we any doubt but illegal voting took
| place in New York at the same election.
There may be men in the metropolis of
| the East who do not believe that Governor
Dix received majority of the legal votes,
| but he has been installed as Governor,
and represents the authority of
| the State. Whatever the frauds in the
| Louisiana election, Governor Kellogg has
been declared Governor by five times the
weight OF authority that so pronounced in
! favor of Governor Dix. Parish, district,
| State and Federal Courts unite in declar-
ing him the duly elected Executive The
remedy, if il is insisted that all these tri-
| bunals were corrupted, is to- carry the case
to still higher Court. But after being
beaten on their own ground, these men,
encouraged by such papers as the World,
| threaten to resort toaTnls. W e say threat
en-, for appearances indicate that the ''Tev-
olution'i there is more prolific in threats
| than in deeds. \ coward can mingle in a
crowd and attempt the life of the Cover
nor, and two or three hundred ruitianS can
assemble and massacre a score or two of
| helpless negroes, but when bakers
though they be, advance upon these
brave and respectable" gentlemen, Fal-
| staff and his companions never ran more
| quickly or beloved more ingloriOusly
than they. The reason is not that the re-
! spectacle citizens of louisiana lack cour-
age, but that the respectable" citizens are
fendeavoring To attend 10 their business,
leaving the roughs of the cofee-houses
and the idle young men about town TO
conduct this fight on the part of McEnery.
| The World declares that if the Kellogg
Government was mot upheld from with
out (that is, by the United States troops)
it would fall in day before the just wrath
Of the people of Louisiana 1t may be
we'll to remind that paper that Kellogg has
not yet called upon the Government foI
aid, and that troops have only been EN-
ployed so far to execute the Writs of the
United States Marshal Indeed, we find
the following editorial paragraph in the
! World itself, which proves that this allega
tion is no more reliable than its other as
sertion. Says the World, in the paragraph
alluded to: up to this time Governor
Kellogg has not called upon the Presi
dent of the United States in the way de
scribed by the Constitution for assistance
General Emory is not authorized to usC
the nations troops until he is ordered Sc
to do, except to secure the service of pro
cess issued by the United States Courts.
To all appearances order has been wei
nigh restored in Louisiana by the STATE
authorities, and other outbreaks will Occur
only when the people are no longer able t
reconcile their quiet obedience to the law
with the turbulent advice of the "Indepen
dent press. ."-Chicdgo Inter-Ocea1s, Nay IA