New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-26
TkEASON IN LOUISIANA.

Gov. Kellogg Is of course not to be blamed
for doing his best to sustain the authority
with which the President has invested him..
So long as he pretends to be the Governor OF
Louisiana, it is his duty to use whatever
means are at his command for suppresslng
violence and preventing repetition OF such
horrible scenes as were recently witnessed IN
Grant Parish. The fotilla which he has or
gained "to run up the rivers and bayous,"
consisting, as it would appear from the tele-
graphic reports, of a steamboat tweye-pound
howtzer, and a troop of cavalry, Is a neces-
sary equipment of the State Government III
the existing temper of the population, and we
dare say it will find abundant occupation. lie
has done well also to offer reward for the
conviction of the COlfax asSassins. Those VINO
condemn most severely the measures by which
he intruded himself into Office will most cor
daily approve his vigorous prosecution OF the
authors of this terrible massacre.
But Kelloggs attempt to throw the odlum
of the Colfax affair upon Mr.. McEnery is the
trick of n demagogue. In his letter to the
Acknowledgement of the State he assumes that
the riot in New-Oreans on the 9th OF March
and the slaughter on the banks of Red River
on Easter Sunday were connected incidents OF
an armed conspiracy by McEnery and his sup
porters to overthrow the Government and he
directs prosecution to be instituted against
McEnery for treason, or "levylng war against
"the commonwealth" Anywhere but in LOUIS
lana threat of this kind would be ridiculous T;
but Mr.. Kellogg has already done such ex-
traordinary and unexampled wrongs through
the medium of his courts that we cannot pro-
nouDce any perversion of justice too gross to
he nossible in those tribunals The behavior
of Gov. McEnery, under the usurpation whlch
depriyes him of his office, has commanded
general sympathy throughout the country.
He has lost no proper occasion of asserting
his rights, in a peaceable way, but no has
always urged his followers to refrain from
violence and although the origin of the riot
ON the 9th of March is not known, we may
say that it was so directly at variance with
McEnery's policy that the probability of his
connection with it is extremely remote. As
for the Grant massacre, there is probably no
man. North or South, who imagines that
McEnery had anything to do with it. Mr.
Kellogg himself does not believe his own ac-
cusations. He speaks of it as "the resulp of
McEnery's REASONABLE acts against the
Estate Government" We know on the
contrary that it was the result 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 OF without it, with votes or without
them, it is their privilege to rule the con-
quered 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 he has set mp an igno-
rant minority in power, intruded them into all
the offices, given them full liberty to tax and
to steal and the educated majority he has
kept down with the bayonet. A bitter antag-
onism between the two classes whom he has
thus arrayed in hostility was the inevitable
consequence. The spirit of disorder is evil
IDENTIFY spreading throughout the State, and
we have not yet seen the full measure eff the
wicked work which Kellogg and the President
have ACCOMPLISHED between them.