The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-09
TEE LOUISIANA TROUBLES.

For what extraordinary merit could the
last congress have charged its extra million
dollars? Virtually il set itself up as better
than any predecessor, as it charged more
for its services. Yet with two contcnding
factions in Louisiana threatening blood
to avert calamities; but voted itself mil
lion dollars and calmly went home. Now
we are having the bitter results.
A special to the Boston Jou1aal, from
Washington, says Gov. Kellogg was shot
in the neck, on Wednesday, while sitting
in his carriage at the landing, by Il con-
cealed person.
Louisiana has been prey to fraud and
violence long time. While Yarmouth
was a bold, bad politician, ready TO use
any, means to advance McEnery's cause,
proved before congressional investigating
committee that frauds, open, unblushing,
rampant, were resorted to upou the Kcl-
logg side. AS to which of the two parties
was originally most in the wrong, perhaps
no man out of Louisiana, or in it either,
can do better than make the toughest
guess.
The course of President Grant, however,
in sustaining Kellogg, was the only course
he could take, because the district Judge,
Durrell had decided for Kellogg, and it
was the presidents duty, not to construe
the law, but to execute the law as construed
by the courts. Congress, finding the dan
gerous working of the law and its construc-
ton, should have enacted laws to meet the
case, and might have done 50 in the time
that was occupied in lining members peck
cts with greenbacks.
AS consequence, now, we have riots,
massacres, skirmishes, with no alternative
left the president but to suppress the
McEnery INSTRUMENTATION by military force.
In reading the dispatches from Louisiana,
has been recently with us II subject of To-
cal discussion-the liability of telegraph
reporters to color their accounts. The
state troops ordered to st. Martnsville to
suppress McEnery rioters there are called
"Metropolitans :" members of the McEncry
party are termed 'citizens," and, as they
refuse shelter to troops, the latter have to
lodge in ''small negro cabins, the sable
occupants of the latter not being classed by
the prejudiccd reporter as citizens. Coy.
kellogg is only kellogg" but McEnery
is Governor McEncry."
1t is to be observed that all the bitterness
is between races and parties. The malcon-
tents arc polite and yielding to United
States troops. Being mostly eX-rebcls, the
'rcsisters, as the telegraph reporter calls
the rioters, have had enough of resisting
United States troops. For this reason one
state party should not be left to put down
another. 1t is useless to preach peace
United States troops had better he sent in
sufficient force to command the peace
The news is very warlikc Cannonading
is reported. There is picketing, and a citi-
zens camp, and metropolitan camp, and
reported engagement. At ST. Martins
Vile the metropolitan police fired shot and
shell ON the McEnery forces under Col.
Doblants
There is enough to show that McEnery
and Yarmouth have seized upon the occa-
sion to fan the smouldering fires of insub-
ordination in the rebel heart, and to rouse
their followers to frcnzied deeds.