The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-04-17
LOuisiana's Appeal.
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WV "CIlcTy tUl Inc lIcB'eIaIui'
OF Louisiana issue q temperate, digni'
fled and judicious appeal to the people
Of hat State in the present crisis, and
likewise invoke the serious attention
Of the people Of the Whole Union to
the grave condition Of its affairs. No
such appeal has eve before been made
in our history. 1t is not impatient or
innammatory it makes a perfectly lis
passionate statement Of the facts Of thr
situation; it convicts the Presidcn: and
his personal supporters Of the grossest
usurpation out Of their W mouths:
and while calling for help from those
who alone can contribute it now, II
reasonably raises warnings that soon
or or later must sound their way
around the Union. The President has
no case at all. The Sen te Committee
took ii away from him. That Com
Mite, with Morton at its head, re.
ported, IN its own language, that 1.-THE
whole interference by the United States
Court in the organization Of the Leg
I~slature is II gross usurpatIon; the Con
stitulion expressly gives to each State
the organization Of It's own Legislature,
and a member has no right to contest
for his seat before a Court Of the
United States" or the action OF
Judge Durcll the Committee sal that
ga proceeding so manifestly illegal
has never come before Congress for
it's consideration in connection with u
Court Of the United States, and the
Committee fail to find words with
which TO express their abhorcnce OF
the action of Durell." 1t is also re-.
ported that "thc testimony does not
show that voters were DISTINGUISHED in
many instances on account Of race,
color. or previous condition of scrvl
tide, aud therefore the law Of the
General Government was not violated
sufficiently to authorize the interior
rncc of Durcll."
The language Of q committee Of in
vestivation could not he more plain or
conclusive. Nothing can well 90 he
hind it. Yet when it came to a vote,
the Senate denounced the bastard Kci
I0gg Government which the President
had set up with Federal bayoncts
through this same Durrll. but still left
It undisturbcd. though the President
had JnSt before notified them of his in
t@enlinn to support it if not displaced.
The Senate simply obcvcd his i'm
prrious suggestion, it followed the
pointing Of his finger in the re estab-
lislimcnt of Casey, whom a previous
committee had declared unworthy OF
his place. The Louisiana wrong has
been stated and rcstated, but 1t can.
not he made too familiar to the public
mind. The price Of public liberty is
at the expenditure of vigilance
This plot was perfected before
the election of November 4th It's de
tails were as well understood in Wash
AS in New Orleans. DureII eelt
he strength Of bis position before he
n.cllcrcd. The voting was over, and
.hc citizens Of Louisiana without lie
'pcct to race or party, or color, had
,wcpt away every vcsti2e Of plunder
ny carpet hagism as represented ny
.mrmnth and kellogg After such
waiting, they bad at last taken
heir affairs ialO their " hands,
which they had IL sovereign right to do
| they were n free people. Judge
Durell is at the critic Il moment prompt
ii from Washing to issue his injunc
ion restraining all other returnin. Of
hut those recognized and desig,
rated 10y him from returning the vote.
Il was a power entirely apart from and
the scope of any aulh"rit,
with which he was or could he clothed.
He calls o. Federal troops, who are
MI read, for the work, To take rorcible
possession of the State House. He
~lirects who shall compose the Legs.
allure; in fact, he creates the Lcg'sla
ure, n thina unhcarl Of in republican
With the assembling OF TIL"
legislature the work Of u%Surpation is
complete. or tins Judge Durrll's ac.
Senator Morton said IN debate,
hat he grossly exceeded his juris.
aud assumed the exercise OF
to which he could lay no
To show that the President was be.
mind AMI hrntalh it all, as a plot to
throw down local government aud i'm.
pose partisan tyranny with the bayo
pct, he answered the immense body Of
citizens of New Orleans, who had dis
in,ellIgcncc Of their coming to
Washington To protest through a com.
o! one hundred, "YouI visit
will be unavailing, so lar as the Prcsl
lent is concerned. His decision is
made, and wN not be chonged Geo.
ii. Williams, Attorney Grnrral." The
showed IN that pcrempt0ry dis.
patch. 1t was the same spirit, couchel
1 little differently. that was to be seen
n the special message to the Senate.
With IA Legislature in power Tor which
he people never Iotc,l. the programme
is to collect not only the taxes Of
he current but for the past year. and
indeed OF previous ones and the cit.
zeDs of Louisiana are consequently
allied upon by a Bayonet Legislature
o pay over into the hands OF this
laundering ring twelve millions 10 tax.
5. which, added to the unc0lleclel
of New Orleans, will aggregate
Or that city more than twenty per cent
I the assessed value OF its property!
his is the rich prize the Ring has
aiming at. Its tiuyrrs are impa.