Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-22
NEW ORLEANS.

A Letter from the Land of Usurps
tIOn-LOuisIana Under Kellogg
Understanding Army Of the state
UncOnstitutIOnaI TaxattOn-Trad
of Northern Texas-SenatOr McMiI
Ian's Exploration of LOulsiana Al
fairs at Washington.
Correspondence of the Union and American.
New ORLEANS, April 15.-It may be O
interest TO the citizens of Nashville and O
Tennessee TO receive intelligence of the
present condition of affairs OF Louisiana {.
UNDER KELLoGG's RULE,
q government created by drunken ant
interruptions Uni.ed States Judge, assisted
and maintained by Grant and bis bayonets
The prospects of the people are anyih hing
but favorable. Outside Of tax resistsnc,
other subjects l)om into iDsignifie4nce.
Business of all kinds is excessively dull
and high rents, caused by ruinous rates o
taxation, has not only discouraged, bu
driven away hundreds of our most energetic
merchants. Mechanics by the score have
been thIown cut OF employment, and theil
families actually in want, and IN many IN.
stances starvation has found foOthold where
want was never dreamed of before. Thi!
dullness is caused By Kellogg's government
none of the wealthy citizens having conf
dence in the same will invest money in en-
terprises of any kind, and thereby The
poorer classes suffer. This rule of Kellogs
Is sustained by
AsTANDING STATE ARMY,
compos, d OF The negro militia and the Ne
tropolitan police force, and as organized
embodies every element of regular army.
THIS standing army is subject to the abso-
lutte and exclusive control of the so-called
Goyerno-, and equal for this State in proper
ton to the army of the United States. The
police force, called metropolitan, though
paid for by the city for police duty, at a
rate five times greater than that of the pay
of the United States soldiers, and whose
arms are Winchester rifles, with COM
pany furnished and drilled in artillery drill,
with Gatlin guns and Napoleon cannon
can be moved from one to any part of the
State to overawe and aud shoot down inno-
cent AID inoffensive citizens. 1t is bitter
sarcasm upon the fulfllmens Of the pledge
ofthe Constitution, guaranteeing repub-
lican form of government to every State,
the federation Of the existence of these
armed janissaries in times Of pro-
found peace. This is done in pur-
suance of a law passed by the in
famous kellogg Legislature, and it fragrant
ly violates Article /, Section 10, of the Con-
stitution of the United S,ates, which says:
"No State shall, without tia consent of
Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, Keep
troops or ships of 1cGr in times Of peace"
Another beauty Of Grants governmental
creation is the
UNCONSTITUTIONAL TAXATION,
under the plea of 'school and charitable pur-
poses" and violates the State Constitution,
which says, in article lis: Taxation shall
be equal and uniform throughout the
State" The State Constitution prescr. bes
the levying of "a poll tax" upon ell the
male inhabitants twenty-one years of age
of one dollar and fifty cents per anuum,and
therefore the opinion of uncon
stitutionality is based upon these grounds:
/. That the poll tax prescribed in the
Constitution is al ordained and limited
fundamentally for school and charitable
purposes f; and must be resorted to eXclu-
sively for these purposes; and I'd. That
when this iDstrumentality is not exhausted,
the Legislature has no authority to resort to
other expedients of taxation; and Sd. That
whether exh susted or not, the Constitution
contempiates that school and charitable
purposes shall be supported by personal
taxation, and not by taxation on property.
The consequences ofan illegal government
will, in the
UPPER TEXAS TRADE
or Red river region trade, speak for itself.
OF course inactivity among New Orleans
merchants may, to a Ger tain extent, be the
cause of the dissertation of trade, but lille
gality is the chief source. A statement
compiled from the st. Louis cotton trade
for thirty days, from Feb. 2S 10 March 81,
shows the receipt of q ,305 bales against
7,745 some time last year. OF this, Il, 907
bales were sold in the st. Louis market
against 2,745 bales same time last year.
This is loss TO this city of over So, 10000
worth of cotton in single season, and there
is no doubt but that the above will be
doubled in the next cotton season. A
proportionate loss was sustained in the
return trade in Western produce,
groceries and manufacturing articles.
The cotton exported from Texas to St. Louis
market went via the Houston and Texas
Central and the International, the former,
which forms junction with the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad, making a
through line from ST. Louis TO the Gulf,
thereby isOlating New Orleans from the
rich trade of the Red river region, which,
by the laws of nature, belongs be e, but the
superior energy of St. Louis merchants
have carried away. This continuous line
Of railroad through Texas has also increased |
the receipts of cotton at Galveston so per |
cent over last year; up to March l, this |
year, Galveston has received 294 $50 bales, |
q ainst l66,930 last year. All this cotton |
received at Galveston, in former years was |
brought here, but it is now exported direct |
10 Liverpool by a splendid line Of steam |
ships aud sailing vessels. In regard to the |
Bed river, it can be truthfuly said |
that it is the most prosperous in the South, |
and the loss its trade is felt severely here. |
Its trade, already large and profitable, is |
rapidly, as emigration is pouring |
In a constant stream thither, from the
north, west, south, ard from Europe.
SENATOR MCMILLAN EXPLAINS THE Or
IGN OF THE LOUISIANA UsURPATIoN.
On the evening OF Monday, April IA, a
large and enthusiastic meeting Of citizens
was held at the Odd Fellows Hall to devise
means for self protection and successful
Of the kellogg government.
Among the list Of Vice Presidents will b.
found the wealthiest and most inhuend
merchants and prOperty-holders Of the city.
The meeting was largely attended, and the
audience was enthusiastic in the reception
Of the speeches delivered. Mr.. Mcmillan,
formerly . MajOr-General of volunteers of
The United States Army, also g son-in-law
Of Ex-Governor Dennison, of Ohio, Senator
elect OF the Fusion Legislature to the Uni.
Ted STATES Senate, contesLing bis seat with
The copper-colored Pinchcack, explains how
The Louisiana usurpation was concocted At
Washington long before the election. 1t is
Of interest to the people of all the States.
and should be read atten lively. The follow
ing is The extract:
snow let me say fey words in regard to
the case we made at Washington In the
examination before the Committee on Priv
ileges and elections of the United States
Senate, which lasted some four or five
weeks, We established the fact that the Kel.
ogg government, as recognized by the
President of the United States, was a pure
and simple usurpatiOn, the result of con-
spiracy entered into between The courts,
State aud Federal, of this city, Gov. KEEL
ogg AID several representatives of the Ma
ionsl Administration at Washington. The
evidence Of the conspiracy was abundant,
md the testimony that it was pure usur
'ation on the part Of Mr.. kellogg and his
was attested by six out of
be seven members of the Committee on