The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

1rnder this head, the New York Herald
e rocent date contains a brilliant and
oea,thinc article on the infamous Kellogg
s%'sanrnatiou and the policy of the adminis-
t.af;on toward this State, which we quote
At length: s,,
.orerpment of Louisiana, through the aid
sffederal bayonete. is producing its legiti-
VIE results in disorder, riots and blood
ahad throughout the State.
When the administration at Washington
,rostituted the United States army to the
Pp,ork of driving from power the legitimate
sntborities of Louisiana and installing the
nminoritv candidates in their place, the
neople of New Orleans, compelled to choose
Estween massacre and submission, yielded
their liberties to preserve their lives.
Their city was in the hands of federal sol
d;ors: halls of legislation were filed with
ormed men and surrounded by artillery;
.beir courts were broken up at the point
II the bayonet; their public officers were
sa;zed and confined on the authority of Or
I issued by debauched United States
Irdce and executed by an unscrupulous
Trnfed States Marshal. The President
odyised by partisan Acknowledgement.
"nnroved and endorsed the acts of the
n s recognized the Kellogg gang as
the regular State government and refused
m allow any appeal from his arbitrary de-
Jision. If the people of New Orleans had
then executed the law on the revolution
its and melted out to them the punishment
tbev deserved the streets Of the city would
lave been swept by United States artillery
and men, women and children would have
been the victims of a general massacre.
The citizens weighed the cost of asserting
tbeir rights and declined to pay so heavy a
nice. They trusted that time and the
peaceful but strong expression of indigna-
tioD that arose from all parts of the State
wonld secure their liberties from further
outrare and would at last restore TO them
those constitutional rights OF which they
had been robbed
The forbearance of the people of New
Orleans was applauded by their fellow
eOuntrymen throughout the Union. The
rebellion of the South had lett behind it
wounds too deep and memories too painful
10 suffer or citizens to look calmly npon n
renewal of civil strife. The South general
IL felt that the past needed atonement-
and knew that any resistance, even to fed
eal tyranny, wonld be cruelty used to the
injury of the Southern States. But the
events of the past few weeks in Louisiana
render it doubtful whether the patient en-
durance of the people of New Orleans will
suffice to avert from the State the evils of
civil connection. The Kellogg usurpation,
emboldened by the success Of its first crime
against the laws and the constitutions
seeking to render its power absolute all
over the State. The ignorant negroes, ren-
dered brave by the discovery that the Uni
ted States army is at their back, are pre-
pared to aid in any outrages the kellogg
sBeiates have therefore resolved to override
the popular will in every parish, and to
place creatures of their own in every pub
lie office. Appointments are made with
ont any pretence of authority and the
hired rutfians known as the "Metropoli-
tans,' an armed force created in New Or
leans in violation of law, aud composed 0
all the thieves and cut-throats whose
knives are at the service OF any one who
can pay for them, are sent from parish to
parish, to make war upon the people, f
necessary, to drive ont the legal anthori-
ties and install the Kellogg appointees.
With characteristic cowardice the white
rufians prompt the negroes To take a
prominent part in the fighting, and hence
the trouble is fast assuming the terrible
aspect of a war of races. Already one fear
full massacre has occurred and the unfor-
funata tlnpl-S houa pH.,raI I,o
verely, their white prompters leaving them
to their fate. In the parish of st. Martin
state OF civil war actually exists, and Il
regular battle between New Orleans cut
tbroatS and the negroes on one side and
the citizens of st. Martin on the other side
is imminent. ST. Martinsyille is in a state
ofselge. We read of the throwing ont of
piekets. of the arrival of recruits and rein
iorcements, of the blockade of the conrt-
house and of other military movements,
just as if state of war actually existed.
Do the American people pause to reflect
upon the fatal consequences of this condi-
ton OF society in one of the sovereign
States of the Union Do they persuade
themselves that the liberties of the people
of Louisiana can be stripped from them
that the legally elected officers of the Lou
lsana State government can be driven
from power at the point of the bayonet
and the liberties and rights of other COM
munlties and other States be yet preserv-
edI DO they picture to themselves the
horrors of IL war of races, or imagine that
IN the event of q conflict between the
whites and blacks Of Louisiana le scene
that would follow, conld be confined to one
State of the Union The occurrences in
Louisiana to-day are fraught with danger
10 the peace of the Union and to the lives
oihundreds of thousands of innocent per-
Snno