Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-24
NIPLORLNG GRANT TO SUSTAIN
USURPATEON

OSGE6EAIAUNs
The Pbiladelphia Press (Col. Forney's
paper) usually fair journal of late, has
this to say of the Louisiana troubles:
"The national government will of course
interfere at this juucLure. With the pres
ent state of feeling in Louisiana, the scenes
at Colfax on Sunday may be repeated in
every town In the State. As our readers
will remember, We have never enter. aimed
a very high respect for the Kellogg faction,
but the time has coma to support it, and
with al the power Of the nation. The pas
sions that inspired that hellish agency of
murder and persecution, the Ku-klux, are
still alive"
1t is wonderful how men will allow pre-
JUDGE to warp their judgment. This
louisiana affair wss simply an outbreak of
a lawless mob against the officers elected
by the people Of Grant parish and commits
stoned by Gov. Kellogg. It is true, the
mob was composed almost wholly of ne
groes. They took possession of the court
house, under thu leadership of white
member ofthe Kellogg Legislature, aud re-
AtA-C0 W oAAOH AAO CACNVCA oAiA NNAAAliS9ASA-
cd officers to take possession of their Of
fees. The sheriff, who owes his Office to
an election by the people of the parish and
q commission from Kellogg, summoned
posses to dislodge the mob and pla e the
officers in possession Of their offices. Here
was the beginning of the riot, which
proved so disastrous to the negro
mob. And yet the Press
attributes it to the Ku-Klpx-that tails
manic but mythical horror upon which
Northern passion and fansticism are fed.
The Press ought to have known better.
1t could have learned better had it desired
to do the people of Louisiana simple Justice.
Bat it seizes upon the lawless resistance on
the part of negro mob 10 the officers
elected by the people Of Grant parish and
commissioned by GOV. Kellogg, to call upon
the Federal Government to sustain "the
Kellogg faction"-for which it confesses it
has "never entertained a very high respect"
-''wiih all the power Of the uasioD." Now
let US see something Of tie character, &C
cording to undoubted Republican testimo-
ny, of this ''Kellogg faction" which the
Press implores Grant to sustain. We ex-
tract from a report Of the proceedings of
the United States Senate on the 9th of
March, as follows:
"Mr. Carpenter having described both |
Il Louisiana governments as fraudulent, |
Morton remarked that he Senator from |
Wisconsin (Carpenter) seemed to prefer |
The Yarmouth fraud to the kellogg fraud. |
"Mr. Carpenter--I do, because it is a
smaller one. In some things l like great
ness, but when it comes to choose between |
two evils CT frauds prefer the smaller. In
that knOlU mg honorable friend does not
agree 1Citb me. (Laughter.) My friend is
an original and sc;ive politician. Let me
tell him that zoe Republicans hare reached
q point oCheTe zoe must be honest tchetter
1ce are inclined to be or not. II is Of no
importance TO Us whether Louisiana is
Republican or whether it is Democratic,
but it Is of the utmost Importance
that 1t shall be either the one or
the other IN accordance 1oith law.
WOULD LIKE TO SEE ANYBODY STUMP
THROUGH WISCONSIN IN THE NEXT CAM
yAss IF WE STANDBY THIS KELLOGG GOV
EMINENT. If this is to be done by the
Republican party in the Senate this year,
want TO let the job of stumping Wisconsin
next fall to the honorable Senator from In
diana. DaUehter.) l DO NOT WANT TO |.
FACE THE BONEST PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN
WITH SUCH A RECORD. do not want to
face those people with the testimo-
ny Of these Louisiana Repubi-
cans, themselves admitting their frauds
in setting up this kellogg govern
ment, and WITH OUR VOTES HERE sUs-
THIS ACKNOWLEDGED FRAUD
AND UsURPATIoN-A USURPATIoN FL
NALLY EXECUTED AND ACCOMPLISHED
BY MILITARY FORCE OF THE GOVERN
MEYT OF THE UNITED STATES. l cannot
answer for the people Of Indiana under
these circumstances. l will leave them to
be managed by the Honorable Senator from
Indiana, and if he succeeds well with them,
beg him 10 come over and help us in Wis
.onsin. We shall need his powerful aid TO
sdfiSfy our lnSOphiSticGted people that such
Z thing is honest. (Laugbter)" |
Our recollection is that The Press con-
lemned the Kellogg usurpation at the time
.he matter YES being discussed in Congress.
Now it has given way to prejudice-sees a
,hance to make little capital for its party
With such of the Northern people as are be-
coming somewha. liberslised, and it bawls
,ut with assumed gravity, "that hellish
4gency of murder and persecution, the Ku-
zlux, are still alive" and appeals to Grant
o sustain snd more firmly fix on the PEG
lie of Louisiana the Kellogg usurpation,
which it condemned when it could suffi-
iently lay aside its preiudices to speak its
lonest sentiments. How are we ever 10
,ecoms some people" while these things
continue to be don't?
The New York World is .tgrievously
with suspicion that the grand
lstional centennial exhibtio of 1876 is
'ut little better than grab" and it cites
hese facs in support of its suspicion:
"The Philadelphia City Council appro- 5
rated $4,000 ON the 4th of November
lst to defray the expenses of the Centen-
ial Commission, and on the lst instant
of the amount had been spent. In
ONE cases centennial officials had as much :
S $500 salary per week. The PennsylVa-
ia legislature having added $250,OOO to p
he municipal donation the Commission :
as S3(b0 ono cash 10 start on. but at the .