The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-16
Ths SaiIg Arsns.
Monday, June le, 1873.
GOV. KELLOGG TELLS THE TRUTH.

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Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, has been pass
ing thteugh the hands Of an interviewing
newspaper reporter, and, like other often.
ders who submit to that ordeal, has told
some things which do hts cause no good.
lie has admitted substantially to the New
York 7ri6ane's New Orleans correspou-
dent, that there was no sufficient cause for
the residents interference in the domes-
TIC affairs Of Louisiana, and that the Pres
ident's employment Of troops there was
nothing more than a piece of political
maneuvring suggested by the federal Off
Gals in New Orleans. Says the cores
-pOpdent
Referring 10 the Presidents proclama-
iton, l told Mr.. Kellogg that l bad seen
NO evidences of disturbance anywhere 10
the State, and had not heard that any had
occurred for several weeks before the pro-
clamati0n was issued, and asked him on
what ground he made his requisition upon
the President. He said that it was not
his idea at all, but the people of the North
thought that there was civil war down
here. The associated press dispatches
from here exaggerated every little occur.
ence great posters were stuck up about
the streets during the St Martinsville af.
tair, exciting the people with reports that
the citizens were being murdered, and the
reports sent North were Of the same char
acter. his friends IN Washington urged
him 10 call upon the President for help ;
NJ. Packard toGs IN fdgOr Of IL. The use
of United States troops as posse comita-
tUs was a slow and awkward way. The
law under which they were used was sure
10 be abused that had been the history
OF IL in North and South Carolina and
everywhere else that II was resorted to-
In the desire 10 get the troops men teere
likely 70 strain point IN making tie aHf-
dGUit, and when the case came 10 trial il
generally turned out as at the trial of DR..
Blame the other day-that there was no
case. All these things, and the constant
reports sent North OF disorder were used
TO iniure the President and so he finally
consented 10 gre tie President an 0ppor-
tuHHg TO place tie troops directly at MS dis
posai, and stop all IF this hue aud cry."
This is an extraordinary confession, and
1t places both Gov. Kellogg and the Presi-
dent in an attitude not to be envied. 1t
amounts TO this that there was no cause
Tor federal Interference there was good
deal Of excitement at the North about
Louisiana, but very little trouble, really, in
the State the exaggerated reports and
the excitement at the North which they
created were used to injure the Presi
dent and Kellogg finally consented, at the
solicitation Of Marshal Packard and his
friends in Washington" to give the
President an opportunity 10 place the
troops directly ut his disposal and stop all
this hue and cry - The army was sent
to Louisiana, then, not for Kelloggs bene-
fit but for the benefit of President Grant
not to sustain the lawful State govern.
ment, but to stop hue and cry not
because Kellogg needed it, but because
his friends at Washington" and Marshal
Packard wanted it done
1t appears, then, that the army, which
costs the people some $50, 600 600 year, !
is employed in very triAing sort of tasks,
and that certain political friends of Kel |
logg at Washington have more to do with |
the government of Louisiana than the PEG
pie Of Louisiana themselves are permitted |
to have.