The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-25
100 Turns States Evidence.

4 :. mt know whether the bogus
i've .o uu ant of Louisiana has some new
alfelnmaso AGAINST President Grant, or
E sstb he is making a bld for o.? white
3pPs .. # e unculculating frankness, he
h. 2 old ni II the truth merely because it Is
y w' Be the motive what it may,
'I ~ made the astounding confession
/ Y Ii bis application for Fedora! troops
" ). t' down domestic violence in Lou
~ " vas "a made against his wishes and
9Da asnt and without and belief in its
s .,ity, He acknowledges that there
M domestic violence to justify
., an application, and that he was
aD lass,suaded to make it by President
lsnt and his friends. The purpose, as
! s a"ss explains it, was not to protect
| s ,siaua against domestic violence
pi ~ protect the President against
',,rinr criticism. The country will
'S ss Surprised to learn that this is
! !. " It will only be surprised that a
.ptb so disgraceful is confessed by one
,'iss1eading actors. 1t is as disgrace
1 ", Kellogg himself as to Grant, for
nal who lends himself to be a con-
! nas tool in violating the Constitu-
e"i i as bad as the officer who makes
Sp lad a. use of him. A New Orleans
| .ssnondent of the Tribune, fresh
s',, an interview with Kellogg, makes
ALLOWING report of his language OH
/, pOint in a letter dated juno 2:
| .ps,ereiug to the Presidents proclama-
I told MIR Kellogg that had seen no
!i.nces of disturbance anywhere in the
W. .s and had not heard that any had oc-
.~sd for several weeks before the proc
4 "st;on was issued, and asked him ON
tI D ground he made the requisition up
!. Ns President. He said that 1t ,cGs not
4 , il at all, but the people of the North
E,s,ht that there was civil war down
~ The Associated Press dispatches
l.,w here exaggerated every little occur
sres great posters were stuck up about
I. streets during the st Martinsville affair
,ritng the people with reports that the
. 4i we're being murdered. and the re-
,,+s sent North were Of the same charac-
/, His friends in Washington urged him to
Upon the President for help; Mr. Packard
,sis faror of The nse of United States
Mans as a posee comitatus was slow and
ward way. The law under which they
.rused was sure to be abused; that had
.,n tbe history of it in North and South
li,roliDs and everywhere else that it was
sorted to. In the desire to get the troops
lam we're apt to strain Il point in making
IA, af6dayit, and when the case came to
lral it generally turned out as ut the trial
iDs Blanc the other day-that there was
. case. AR these things, and the constant
morris sent North Of disorder, acre used to
ldws the President; and so he. finally consent
lilo qire the President az opportunity to
lac Tie troops directly at his disposal and
IgM Of this hue and cry"
l,thus appears from the testimony of
HE most competent and best-informed
ItDess the case admits of, that the ap-
lftation for Federal troops to support
|aKellogg government was as eyre
|5sas sham as Kellogg government
HELL. Grant, through his tool, DureIl,
ltg the author of the bogus govern
|n.nt; and Grant, through his tool;
Kellogg, was the author of the bogus
llplication for military force to put
lawn domestic violence, when there
lsre no facts to warrant such an ap-
tication.
President Grants Louisiana procla-
Eation was one of the absurdest farces
Igsr acted on an official stage. He
|Remaly commanded the insurgents to
|kperse and return to their homes
|'heu, in point Of fact, there was no
|ah body assembled in arms anywhere
|ithin the boundaries of the State
|Ehy did the President thus make him
III an 0b]ect OF derlsiong 1t was be-
|ae the law does not permit him to
|hpoy military force without such a
Exclamation. The language of the
|rtus is: "Whenever it may be ne
lssarry, 10 the Judgment OF the Pres
leat, to use the military force hereby
Erected to be called forth, the Presi-
lat shall forthwith, by proclamation,
f9nand such insurgents to dispense,
Saretlre peaceably to their respect
ieabodes, within a limited time"
Nothing can be clearer than the in
55n.on Of the law that such a procla-
fatlon shall not issue, and consequent
that the President shall not inter-
mat all, unless there be an actual
l9flslng of assembled insurgents.
ialnst an apprehended insurrection,
Ia prospective insnrrection, or a fc-
3lDl)S Incnrraofion lo 10, M ,,+b~r;