The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-05-10

q. ". N1eCRANIn, Editor.
FROM COLFAX TO St. MARTINSvILLE.
The plain simple proposition Mr..
Kellogg has started with is that a gross
usurpation in office in Louisiana is to be
perpetuated and to become the de facto
government against the proclaimed
wishes and voice Of majority of the peo-
pie. We have never met Republican
yet who was willing to affirm that
Kellogg was elected Governor. It is
not pretended that he was elected.
When, therefore, the right Of tho KEEL
logg government to rule the people, is
asserted, and when it is understood that
its ability to maintain this claim by
force Is to be the real test Of tho result
Of the November election before the
tribunal OF Congress, the majority of
newspaper readers will readily under
stand the main cause OF the existing
troubles in this State.
The other day we had the news of the
first conflict at ColMx. The Kellogg
claimant for the Office of Sheriff, as one
Of the leaders Of the Kellogg party, has
published his sworn statement substan- !
TALLY corroborating all the statements
Of outrages committed by the Kellogg
outlaws, and throwing the blame al
most entirely on them. The affidavit
OF this man, Mr.. Shaw, was published
In full in last Wednesdays Picayune.
The colored postmaster Quincy, and the
colored merchant Butler have added
their testimony to the side Of the Fus-
ionists. But Notwithstanding all the
wrongs perpetrated, according to these
witnesses, by the negroes, the effort Of
the whites to maintain their rights and
superiority has been characterized as
lawless, brutal and rebellious by the
Kellogg organs.
From Grant parish the conflict has
been moved by Kellogg to st. Martins
ville,-to that section Of our State des-
cribed by Senator Cameron as ssthe fit
abode of angels" Hired Metropoli-
tans were sent there, armed with
to install officials not elected at the
ballot box. The people Of st. Martins
parish under the lead Of gallant Col. De-
Blanc, organized to resist this encroach-
ment upon their rights and met the
Metropolitan mercenaries-the armed
policemen Of New Orleans-in their
aggressive warfare upon local self-gov-
eminent, and our latest advices are
that the invading party were hemmed
in and were calling for reinforcements.
The people of the Teche country seem
to have acted unitedly in resisting the
Kellogg party, and it is not improbable
that Mr.. Kellogg's army Of usurpation
and invasion has been already bagged.
However this last supposition may be,
it is our purpose to call attention to the
fact that the Kellogg government is
not, according to de .Eacto test, IL dc
.tucto government. 1t is not obeyed it
is not respected it is not in actual pos
session Of the State. Moreover, unless
it is supported by Federal bayonets, it
will never obtain control of tho State.
The march Of the Usurper has been a
failure. The true people Of Louisiana
repudiate his pretensions. The true and
permanent interests Of the Common
wealth are to compass tho overthrow of
this spurious black government. Moth
ing but Federal interference should give
1t dominion over the people. Nothing
but apOstacy to their own and their NOS
terity's welfare can induce tho rejecting
masses to yield this struggle between a
duly elected and an usurping State
government.
WHAT'S the MATTER WITH THE ARMY.
The statements given to the public