The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-03-29
THE CRUCIAL TEST.

THE CRUCIAL TEST.
When the United States Senate de-
cid1ed, a few days ago and after Congress
had, in effect, agreed the President
should sustain the Kellogg government
in this State, that the claims of Pinch
back, as the Senator elected by the
Kellogg legislature, should not be de-
termined before next December-a de-
cision made by the unananimous con-
sent of all the Administration Senators
1T was then virtually decided to leave
to the action o. o,o people the final deter
mination of the question, ac1tich is the
Tightjiul government IN louisiana.
It is plain to our understanding that
the Radical Senators were unwilling
openly to sustain the Kellogg fraud,
but, DESTROYS of sustaining it, they took
the aroundabout" plan of leaving to
the slow process of cooling-down by
the people and the corrupt process of
buying up by official appointments, the
solution of our troubles by the action of
our own people themselves, who, thus
acquiescing in, or bought over to, the
support Of Kellogg, would furnish
these Senators the strong ground that
the people of Louisiana sustained the
claims of kellogg, and he was, not only
in fact, but by expressed choice, the
Governor of the State of louisiana
Such, undoubtedly, will be the argu-
mcnt which tho people of Louisiana
may expect in Congress next session,
if, knowing the Kellogg government
is n fraud and a lie-as they do-they
yet submit quietly to it's assumptions
of power and authority. Thus, practi-
cally, we are now going through Il second
election by the people,-the question at
issue being, Who was elected Governor
of the State in November, 1872?
We take the New Orleans Republi-
can for a safe guide in this matter, and
we have found that it seizes with avid
ity, and prominently parades In its
columns, every appointment, accep-
lance, item of news, or even sullen ac-
quiescence under protest, which goes
to show that the Fusion press or the
people, are submitting to Mr.. I<ellogg's
authority. The evident purpose is to
establish the fact that KeIIogg's gov
eminent is q governme nt of the people
and these alterations in sentiment are
to be used against us to prove in the
next Congress that Kellogg was fairly
chosen by the people over Col. Nc
Emery.
1t would be presuming upon any vo-
tcr's intelligence and honesty, who sup
ported the Fusion ticket in the last
campaign, to tell him that he is bound
by every sense of honor, patriotism,
and interest-the last, perhaps not the
least in the category Of moral forces
to stand by his acts and his friends,
and to help to show to the world, by
this second test, that the people OF
Louisiana have been outraged and
that free government has it's friends in
Louisiana who will not cowardly give
up their freedom.
The people Of New Orleans, the strong
and weak alike, arc organizing to de-
ment, and if there be weakness in
wrong and strength in virtue the move
ment is bound to succeed. Tho time
for action has come. We, tho people,
arc now to determine, for the next
Congress, what government can best
govern Louisiana, and for ourselves
whether, or not, we arc people worthy
of tho trust confided only to free poo
pie. Upon every mans head must rest
this grave responsibility, to he dis
charged as he is honest, or dishonest !;
courageous, or cowardfy; n freeman, or
contemptiblc slave to wrong and
villainy.
The first time an old Confederate has
presided over tho u. =. Senate was on
the 10Th, when Nicc President Wilson
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