Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-09

poraries intimates that the whole diff
Guilty, as to the usurpation of the gov
ernment of Louisiana, will be settled by
some committee of the Congress of the
United States arranging system of
compromises. Webeg leave to say that,
in our opinion, there can be no comprO-
mise as to the government Of Louisiana.
This viii be, on the part of Congress,
an attempt to repeat the error
of President Grant. The people Of
Louisiana are not responsible for
their government either to the execu-
tive or legislative departments of the
government of the United States.
Neither have one particle Of power to
alter, change or modify single feature
OF the government of a State. We, the
officials, executive, legislative, and ju-
dicial, who We're elected at the late cleo
ton the rulers of Louisiana, are her rul-
ers, or we are not That is the one SIN
gle matter for the consideration of the
Congress of the United States and they
now will institute inquiries into the
government of Louisiana, solely to gov
ern themselves inssrelation TO the Gener-
al Government, which has undertaken
to set up a government for Louisiana.
Has it done so? Has it the right to do
so? If it has, then all the States in the
United States may be practically, at
any time, suppressed. If it has not,
then the usurpation must be killed
and it can only be killed by
letting the State of Louisiana alone,
free to rule herself and establish her own
Government. This is all Congressional
Intervention can do. It can no more
make or alter the government OF a
State than that of the United States.
Both are beyond the legisla ton Of Con-
gress. They are secured by constitu-
tiOns. A committee of Congress, in the
Congress of the United States or in
Louisiana, can do nothing but direct the
course of the Government of the United
States. 1t has inteTfered, by its military
power, to set up government in Louis
lana. 1t can determine whether the
Government of the United States has
done right or wrong. If it has done
right the committee can say so, and
recommend a continuance of its policy.
If it has done wrong let it say so, and
undo the wrong by Withdrawing the
troops of the United States. That is the
simple alternative.-Ne1C Orleans Pea
ylole Of Tuesday.
MONEY sUSTAINs GOVERNMENT.
When Warmoth usurped the Guber-
material reins in Louisiana, four years
ago for it was literally an usurpation
under the loosest forms of law), this
people had it in their power to paralyze
his arm by refusing him the pecuniary
assistance necessary to carry on his in
famous government. But they were
untrue TO themselves; bankers and bro
kers were found TO sustain him and his
Infamous Legislatures by dealing in the
bonds and warrants issued in absolute
robbery of the people. So-called " best
citizens entered into the infamous leg
islative rings called corporations, or
companies of various kinds and he sue
ceeded, as otherwise it was impossible
for him TO do. This is history; il is use
less to deny or shield it; and we now
point to the rock and the wreck for
wholesome warning. The bayonet gov
ernment installed at Mechanics Insti-
tute by Judge y Durell, is a fraud and
usurpatiOn of the most fragrant charac-
ter, and every white man, and every in
telligent colored man in Louisiana
knows it; aye, even the prejudiced peo-
pie of the far-off North know it and say
1t. The man then who will lend any
pecuniary aid, direct or indirect, to the
mob at Mechanics Institute, the man
who will not, on the contrary, lend all
such aid to the Legislature we know to
have been legitimately elected by the
people, is false to liberty and civiliza-
ton. The time has passed when such
men can infest and rot down society and
pass unnamed. We have right to
know wh0 is for, and who against, the
real interests of the whole people. Men
and corporations must define themselves
as strictly for, or against the people
NeW Orleans PGcGylGle Of Tuesday.