Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-30

decided to postpone their decision upon the
application to them In the cause of Kellogg
vs.. Warmoth ct al, to allow an appeal from
the decision of Judge Durell. The people
Of Louisiana are to wait indefinitely fer an
appeal, the Supreme Court lodging the is
sue in their usual style. They were busy
io-day announcing number of decisions
on cases between individuals; but have no
time TO dispose Of one affecting the ruin of
State"
Il is remarkable with what facility the
Supreme Court lodges every case tearing
upon Radical rule in the South. The dodge
Of the Louisiana case is simply disgraceful.
Il is encouraging the lawlessness by which
the lawful governments of State is over
thrown and IFS authority exercised by
usurper. If there ever was case presented
to the Supreme Court which it should have
taken prompt action upon, it was that from
Louisiana. Kellogg, who claims to be Gov
.ernor, and who is sustained by Grant under
the decision of Judge Durell-notwith-
United States Judge had no jurisdic-
ton whatever-is taking steps to pro-
woke such action on the part of those
who do not recognize him as the Governor
of Louisiana, as will enable him to claim
the protection of the Federal authorities.
If the citizens of Louisiana were not pa
tient people, they would not have submit
ted to the outrages which Kellogg and his
partisans have already committed. And
DOW their fo1bearance is to be put to fuf-
ther and perhaps severer test. But there
is another and very important reason why
the Supreme Court should have taken up
and decided the Louisiana case before ad-
journing. Kellogg has ordered the arrest
of Gov. McEnery onsthe charge oFtreason.
"Kellogg's attempt to throw tie odium Of
the Colfax affair upon MIR. McEnery," says
The New York Tribune, ''is the trick of a
demogague. In bis letter to the Attorney
General of the State he assumes that
the riot in New Orleans on the 9Th of
March and the slaughter on the banks Of
Red River on Easter Sunday were connect
ed incidents Of an armed conspiracy by
McEnery and his supporters to overthrow
the government; and he directs prosecu-
ton 20 be instituted against McEnery for
treason, or ''levying war against the Com
monwealth." Anywhere but in Louisiana
threat of this kind would be ridiculous;
but Mr.. Kellogg has already done such ex-
traordinary and unexampled wrongs
through the medium of his courts, that we
cannot pronounce any perversion ofjustice
too gross to be possible in those tribunals.
The behavior of Gov. McEnery, under the
usurpAtion which deprives him Of his Office,
has commanded general sympathy through
out the country. He has lost
no proper occasion or asserting
his rights, in a peaceable way, but he has
always urged his followers TO refrain from
violence; and although the origin of the
riot n,the 9Th of March is not known, we
may say that it was so directly at variance
with McEnery's policy that the probability
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mote. As for the Grant massacre, there is
probably no man, North or South, who i'm
AGNES that McEnery had anything to do
with it. Mr.. Kellogg himself does pot be-
lieve his own accusations. He speaks CT 1t
as the result of McEnery's Unreasonable
acts against the State Government We
know, on the contrary, that it was the re-
suit of Kellogg's own usurpations, the
direct fruit of that antipathy of
race which he has done more
to foster than any other man
in the South. He has taught the blacks
that with law or without it, with votes or
without them, it is their privilege to rule
the conquered and Inundated State. He
has taught the whites that for them the
ballot box is no protection, and the courts
are closed. By an act of pure despotism
be has set up an ignorant minority inpower,
intruded them into all The offices, given
them full liberty to tax and to steal; and
the educated majority he has Kept down
with tie bayonet. A bitter antagonism
between the two classes whom he has thus
arrayed in hostility was the inevitable con.
sequence. The spirit of disorder is evil
IDENTIFY spreading throughout the State,
and we have not yet seen the full meas
ure of the wicked work which Kellogg
ard the President have accomplished
between them" Gov. McEnery's course
has. been peaceful throughout. He has
simply tried to secure a solution of the diff
ficulties environing bis people through
properly constituted legal channels. But
this has been denied by disgraceful dodge
of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The decision of that body would have set
tied the question, so far as Gov. McEnery
is concerned. Had it been against bin, be
would have yielded the trust which ma
jority of the legal voters of the State CON-
mitted into his hands. But now the farce
of the usurper is to. be made serious mat
ter, and he is to be firmly established as the
Chief Executive of the State by the aid of
Federal bayonets, and his rule thus forced
upon an unwilling people, simply because
the Supreme Court did not possess the
morll courage TO Go its duty.
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