Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-23

clcS tnaI nave combined to bring the COM
monwealth into its present predicament
Notably, it unites in eondemning the fail
ure OF Congress to settle this question, and
cQlls formoderatiOn, forbearance and the
| Observance of order by the McFnery party.
On the other hand, the Democratic press
| everywhere with few exceptions, takes up
| the hue and cry of those New Orleans eX-
extremists who clamor for an armed re.
sistance to the State administration. The
| worst-that the bittercst Bourbon element OF
| Louisiana can do to call back the demon
OF bloody discord is applauded to the echo
| Dy the Democratic journals of the North.
How the Missouri RepuJJtcan, for instance,
tells the mischief-makers that their cause
is holy, and urges them to go TO the direst
eXtremities, appears by the following ex-
tract from that paper of yesterday:
What is 1t that the people Of Louisiana wantH
| They are not hostile 20 the Federal Government;
they have no desire to override Federal laws or set
aside the provisions Of the Federal Constitution (;
they are entirely willing 70 remain part and parcel
OF the Federal Union, and contribute to lis support
but they cannot and will not submit quietly to the
| Infamous usurpaton Of Kellogg and his crew. In
exchange for this usurpaion they would gladly ac-
| cept a military Governor and martial law; they
| prefer the stern code Of the sword, administered
with equity, to the miserable tyranny OF carpet
bag Executive and the black and white adventur-
ers with whom he is surrounded. II Kellogg had
| been fairly elected he would be bad enough; but
when his election Is confescdly farce and fraud
then to be asked to recognize IL is adding insult to
injury The citizens Of Missouri or Massachusetts,,
II placed in the same circumstances as the citizens
| OF Louisiana, would do precisely what they are
dOlng-resist To the bitter end. In such case
| quiet submission can only be expected of slaves
and whatever may be the faults Of Lousianans they
| are not and cannot be made saves--because they
/ are Americans.
A few facts will expose the gross exag-
geration and essential falsehood upon
which ia
The census of 1870 stated the popula-
| tion of Louisiana at $4,000 whites and
| 364 900 blacks. Does the Repubytcan
deign to include the latter when it talks of
the people of Louisianag OF course not.
| Whom does it mean by "they" when it
says they cannot and will not submit to
the infamous usurpation of Kellogg and
his crew.? Not the people of Louisiana,
but the McEnery party, known as the
| Fusionists And yet, taken with this very
material modification, the statement is
| false. The Fusionists themselves are very
| far from including all the white voters. It
is untrue that even the Fusionists, whom
alone the Missouri Republican recognizes
as "the citizens of louisiana" are, as a
party, "resisting the Kellogg Government
to the bitter end" And if, as the Republi-
can intimates, the failure to make such re-
sistance "can only be expected of the
slaves" then the mass of the very class
| whom our neighbor designates as exclus.
| lively "the citizens of louisiana" are no
better in this respect than slaves. The
| fire-eating BOurbons of New Orleans are
already telling them as much, and can now
! quote the Missouri Republican as proof
AT public meeting of the Fusionists in
| New Orleans, on the 9TH instant, speech
was made by one of the leaders, Mr.
Campbell, whom the Herald, a Fusion or
gan, reports to this effect:
Mr. Campbell, being called upon, arose and was
received with shouts. He started out boldly by
telling the people Of New Orleans that they had
not kept their promses that they promised to
stand By Governor McEnery; that all the parishes
had done the same sill, what had been the re-
suty The people of New Orleans had failed in
their promises and 50 had nearly all the parishes
But one remained true 10 their promises, IL was
st. Martin. lie blamed the people severely for
their want Of trmness and resolution especially in
allowing these armed police forces, paid by our
selves, 10 90 to st. Martin and kill and burn the
properties of those the ground Of whose offending
was keeping their word like men.
In answer 10 the cry Give a leader" he fatly
told them that it in themselves the fault lay
and not ON the part of leader.
Here is conclusive evidence that the
policy of resistance TO the bitter end"
drags heavily, even among those whom
Mr.. Campbell and his st. Louis cOadiutor
The truth clearly is that the violent resist
ance is not spontaneous popular move
ment, but the ebulitiOn of few desperate
men, who are trying ito fire the Southern
heart" and whom the Democratic press is
as insanely ready to help in the work,
| reckless of consequences, as it ever was.
The same sulphurous organ which reports
| lMr. Campbell as above says, editorially ::
Many Of our thrifty and peace-loviug citizens
have been deceived and mised by reports that fair
and Just compromises. 10 settle the political tur-
mol IN this STATE, have been made and sanctioned
by Kellogg but defeated by the peryersty and i'm
practicabii,y Of our own people.
All say, Give us compromise; let not the state
perish for mere political squabb!e Let Us yield 10
| a cert ain amount OF plundcring, and accept the
situation provided we can save something how
| This Is the pet notion Of many citizens, who are
thoroughly disgusied with the constanttroube, ex-
element and vast injury 70 every interest Of the
State from our present political chaos.
These "many citizens" are right. Their
spirit is that Of common sense. 1t is eX-
eessiveIy foolish and unutterably wicked
to initiate or encourage a civil war in
Louisiana. The only possible outcome of
! 1t would be business and financial ruin,
devastation of property, massacres of citi-
Zens, and the call upon the United States
Government to interfere, resulting in max
ing the so-called "infamous usurpation"
| supreme and more powerful than ever.
incidentally, it is possible that the flames
of race conflict might extend to other
| States, with like precious blessings and
not a dissimilar result. If all this shall
not happen, it will not be because
| the Democratic leaders. North and
| South, are not Zealously doing their part
toward it, but because rejecting Southern
| Democrats, having once been bitterly de-
ceived by such counselors as the Missouri
Republican, have had quite enough of their
| advice.
Candor should compel the admission of
| the historic facts in the Louisiana case.
The time for partisan half-statement in so
serious matter has passed, A United
States law, enacted under the late amend.
ments, is the authority by which the re.
turns purporting the election of McEnery
were set aside. This fact should be stated
| when the wholesale charge of force and
fraud is made. The Durell decision was
a construction of that law by tribunal
which the Supreme Court of the United
States has decided to have had full legal
| jurisdiction in the case. So far the facts
Why should they be persistently ignored
in the history of anarchyg Let them be
recognized as often as the Durell decision
is arraigned as wrong.-St. Louis Globe
Nay 10. -.-.-- -..- .....
Captain Halls Arctic Expedition.
NEw YORK, May 10.
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