American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29

I stolen chair of the Executive until the
time came for Kellogg to seize 1t. BY
order of his Secretary of War, Col
Emory, in command of the troops at New
Orleans, took the DEGREES of Durell on
the point of his sword and forced them
| down the throats of the legitimate rulers
of the State.
| And why was this done? The con-
| spiracy to overthrow the regular Govern
ment of Louisiana originated in January,
1872. Governor Warmoth, a Republican,
through whose skill and energy the State
| had remained true to the Republican
party when other reconstructed States
lapsed into the arms of the Democracy,
was opposed to the denomination of Gen
| eral Grant. Warmoth had a large follow
| ing in the Southwest, and was regarded as
among the most adroit of the carpet-bag
| leaders. SO Warmoth must be put down;
| and Casey, Collector of New Orleans and
| brother law of the President, and
| Packard, the United States Marshal, and
Lowell, the Postmaster, were left to de
wise the ways and means for putting him
down. These carpet-bag plunderers came
very near overthrowing the State Gov
ernme Mt at that time; and the plot was
exploded chiefly through the tact of War
moth and the rebuke which Secretary
Boutwell, administered to Casey for join
ing in the scheme.
Not long after this Warmoth openly
broke with Grant and set up for himself.
He carried with him pretty large and
influential section of the Republican
party of Louisiana. The carpet-baggers
being thus divided, the Democracy took
advantage of the split, had the good sense
to conciliate the disaflected Republicans,
and tie result in November was the
purest election the State had seen since
its reconstruction, and the triumph of the
Democratic Liberal ticket headed by
McEnery, the candidate for Governor.
But this of course did not suit either
the plotters in Louisiana or the Admins
tration at Washington. So, armed with
Durell's DEGREES and Emory's bayonets,
they determined to make short work of
Warmoth and his legally chosen success
Warmoth by their bogus Legislature, and
put the corrupt Pinchback, whom War
moth had often bought in former
days, in his place; and in due time,
and without the shred of an election re-
turn in their possession, swore Kellogg
IN as Governor.
The Warmoth-McEnery party then ap-
pealed to Congress. The Senate Com
mittee, without dissenting voice, pro-
nounced Durell's DEGREES, on which the
Kellogg Government solely rested, judi
cia1 usurpations. The majority OF the
Committee, instead of sustaining the Nc
Emery Government, as the logic of the
case required, reported a bill ordering
new election. The Senate failed to pass
the bill, and Louisiana now drifts on the
current of events, no one knows whittier.
McEnery and his supporters are not
only the legal Government of the State,
but they reflect the opinions and the
wishes OF more than seven eighths of its
intelligence and honesty. Kellogg and
his following are shameless intruders,
and they represent nobody but a cabal of
officeholders, horde of carpet bag thieves,
and mass of ignorant negroes.
Gen Grant has already announced
which side of this bitter controversy he
will take. He informed Congress that if
they did nothing he should continue to
recognize and maintain the Kellogg Gov
eminent. And Congress did nothing.
Though clearly in the right, the Mem
cry Government will have to succumb to
the bayonets of the United States army.
But day of reckoning will yet come when
those who now outrage law and liberty
liberty will cover before the retribution
of an aroused people. -Veao York San.