Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-05-24
os1r1o1sx W. ADVICE.

The New York Nation, In referring
to the Louisians situation, says that
cit Is a National disgrace to have the
United States troops used to sustain q
State Government which .. committee
of the United States Senats has de-
clarcd to be utterly unauthorized and
fraudulent" While there Is no doubt
that the Nation is exactly right In the
above expression, that tho Government
Is Inundated BY the spectacle, and the
people OF Louisiana wrongsd, It fails
to point any way out Of the difficulty.
1t Is easy enough to describe the pos
turs Of affairs unhappy As they are,
but not so to indicate the remedy.
Had Congress. instead Of paying go
much attention to robbing the Treas
ury, performed Its plain duty, and or
dered anew election In that State after
Its COMMITTEES had made the above re-
port the afflicted people Of Louisiana
would ere this have had q Governor
whom the intelligence and wealth OF
the State supported, and peace and
prosperity would have occupied the
places now held by anarchy and busi-
ness prostration. But failing In this
duty, they adjourned with pockets dis
tended by national greenbacks, leaving
a State groaning under usurpatlon
hateful and utterly unwarranted. to
spend their ill-gotten gains In Euro.
pean travel, or to deadhead through
tho Summer at tho resorts Of fashion
and dissipation In u own country.
In this situation no course, 1t seems 70
US. remained to be pursued, save that
which has just been announced oy the
President. That Is, to enforce the de-
cision of Judge Durell, uphold the kel-
loyg administration and put down In
s~urrection. Granted that the kellogg
government Is a fraud, a usurpation
repuguant to the wishes of n minority
Of tho people, and based upon gross
frauds, and an outrageous decision by
a corrupt judge; granted that it pre-
sents a spectacle which IL a disgrace to
the whole country and a reproach to
its rulers. whereas the present remedy?
Tho President Of the United States
Is not the Supreme Court. 1t Is not
his province to inquire into the merits
Of the decisions made by the US Dis
trict Judges, certainly not to override
them. On the contrary, he has SOL
emily sworn to enforce their DEGREES
with the whole power Of tho Govern
ment. As chief Executive he can do
nothing less without violating his high
trust. 10 do otherwise would be to
set the Executive above the Judiciary,
to subordinate one branch Of the Gov
eminent to another when both are by
the Constitution made coordinate, in
fact to make himself Dictator instead
of President. Every thoughtful, can
did man, much as he may deprecate
the use Of Government power to en-
force so clear a fraud as the Kellogg
usurpatlon, must agree that IN this
case peace Is better than anarchy, even
If 1t be humiliating, and that the ac-
ton Of the President In carrying out
the laws 1, above censure. Any other
way out Of the muddle would be rero-
lutionary. Until Judge Durell's de-
cislon Is reversed by higher judicial
authority, or till Congress vacates the
last aud orders new election, the peo-
pie OF Louisiana must "posscss them
selves In patience" Meanwhile the
situation Of affairs Is a bitter cominen-
tary on the power for evil welded by
a corrupt and partisan judge.