The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-14

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The flrst gres. crime IL thessnuliiiaoa.
tion Of the ballot has led to ahundrad'
others. The military heel which tram
pied on this great bulwark OF free 20:
yernment crushed all other liberties at
the same time. Where those who have
been deprived of their share in the Go.
vernment are in the numerical majority,
they. in turn. have disregRrded the citi-
zen rights Of their opponents; the party
made ihs6Sant BY ste6ess spares no effort
where numbers are in its favor to make
defeat CALLING to its opponents. Crime
lis heaped upon crine.' Outrage is Offset
by massacre. Passive resistance is faced
by unmissakable threat. 1t only re.
mains for the !fash ION one side or the
on the other to precipi-
tate civil war.
/ We have from the commencement of
these troubles sincerely hoped that the
sound sense Of the people of Louisiana
would resist oil temptation to invoke a
conflict, which. apart from the blood.
shed that must follow. will render the
material condition Of the State more de-
plorable than ever. Plnndered as it has
been by rasoals, some OF whom are now
in the party OF resistance, there ia q
depth Of misery still greater which
state OF civil war would produce. The
disgust which the usurping action OF the
Federal Government will produce
throughout the nation can only be re-
moved By ill.advised acts on the part Of
those robbed of their rights.
The Executive Of the nation is hasten.
ing homeward from his Western trip.
aud it is worth while asking what he will
think OF his work when the numerous
telegrams reach him which were chasing
him and each other over the country.
yesterday. He may imagine that his
power is such that ho can act without
being held responsible to the nation or
to humanity. This, however, is not the
case. History has its revenges on indi-
viduals as well as on nations. The
party which gave him all his present
power may see such consequences flow.
ing from his first action in Louisiana
that it will fall away from him as from
leper. The danger which menaceH true
republican government in the South will
not be forever justified by Republicans
In the North and West on the selfish
ground OF party necessity. The disgrace
which it brings upon the nation will be
DIT even by Radicals, who are not office
holders, as the great stain upon their
party. The Constitution of the United
States ID invoked to justify what future
action the Federal authorities may
adopt. But tho world will note the Bit
erirony OF this. as the original infrao-
tion OF that Constitution is seen to be the
moving cause leading to the active, per-
ho NJ 1p -
article. We suppose that President
Grant, among other things, looks for
ward, In Imagination, to his name hold.
ing an honorable, if not great, place in
history. The story OF Louisiana and his
connection Herewith will be one OF tba
very black clouds upon whatever figure
he may make in the tale OF the future.
The echoes OF the rebellion can only be
wakened now by the guns of Federal sol.
diery. and if they are aroused, the true
patriotism OF the nation will loath and
desert tho whilom leader of Fedora,
armies who. in his Louisiana usurpatiop.
gave the first signal. It is eaddenino
outlook. We cannot afford to have an
other bloody rebellion. That is q pro.
position easily understood; but the re.
sponsibility for making rebellion a
probability will be fixed and Justice done
in the peoples measured way.
The Augusta Constitutionalist adds:
Another leaf in the chaplet of Grants
peace policy has been woven in Louisi.
ana. At the behest of United States sol.
diers. armed and ordered to crush down
al resistance. the people who resisted
the Kellogg usurpation have laid down
their arms and passed under the Federal
yoke. What = commentary on Grants
maxim. ''Let us have peace" What
commentary on the election system OF
go!ernment-on the right of the people
to select their own rulers. Kellogg
counted into office by fraud, installed by
a fagrantly corrupt decision of drunk
en- Judge, holding his commission from
the President. finds himself powerless to
command obedience. Heis powerless TO
collect taxes or carry on the Government
OF the State. He therefore calls on the
President to send United States soldiers
to sustain him in Office. at first, he put
on bold face and declared that the peo.
pie werereconoiled to his authority and
checrfully paying their taxes. The sham
and the falsehood are now exposed. The
Kellogg Government is now confessed
before the world a usurpation sustained