Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-29
A Northern Defense Of Rioters.

WE referred some time ago to the fact
that the riOtous and disconnected 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 a 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 a specimen of the advice
that was given by the remnant of North
ern 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
these men about the existing government
r =. hnr nn1
shameless fraud" says the World. "The
government is, in fact, q satrapv. The
miserable minority which it alone repre-
scnts comprises all the worst, as the ma
iorty, which goes unrepresented, com
pri8es 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 IOrton his able lieutenant
But what is the pleasure Of the World in
this matter? VIII it have the etfrontery
to assert that McEnery and his associates
on the ticket received a majority of the
votes at the last election? Does it 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
an 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 o.
the East who do not believe that Governor
Dix received a majority of the legal votes
but he has been installed as Governor
and represents the authority O
the State. Whatever the frauds in thu
Louisiana election, Governor Kellogg has
been declared Governor by five times TIT
weight of authority that so pronounced il
favor of Governor Dix. Parish, district
State and Federal Courts unite in declar
ing him the duly elected Executive TIL,
remedy, if it is insisted that all these tri
bunals were corrupted, is to carry the cas-,
to a still higher Court But after beinl
beaten on their own ground, these men
encouraged by such papers as the W0rld
threaten to resort to arms. We say threat
en, for appearances indicate that the rev
olutlonn there is more prolific in threats
than in deeds. a coward can mngle in
crowd and attempt the life of the Cover
nor, and two or three hundred rutianS car
assemble and massacre a score or two o.
helpless negroes, but when a bakers
dozen of determined men, carpet-baggers
though they be, advance upon these
"brave and respectable" gentlemen, Fal
staff and his companions never ran NOR,
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 art
endeavoring to attend to their business
leaving the roughs of the cOtfee-house>
and the idle young men about town tc
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
well to remind that paper that kellogg has
not yet called upon the Government fol
aid, and that troops have only been EN-
ployed so far To execute the writs of tho
United States Marshal. Indeed, we fine
the following editorial paragraph in tn,
World itself, which proves that this alega
ton is no more reliable than its other as
sertion. Says the World, in the para grapl
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 ust
the nations troops until he is ordered sc
to do, except 10 secure the service of pro
cess issued by the United States Courts
To all appearances order has been wei
nigh restored i'll Louisiana by the State
authorities, and other outbreaks will occur
only when the people are no longer able tC
reconcile their quiet obedience to the law.
with the turbulent advice of the "Indepen
dent press. "-Chicago Inter- ocean,