The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-05-21
The Overthrow of Republican Government
!. in Louisiana.

Il -" Do i'll h0UlSlalu.
Tho oy,stIrow of the regularly
sleoted 60, ,crnmeHt in l.ouisiana,
through the aid Of federal bayonets,
!; is producing its Legitimate results in
disorder, riots end blocdShcl through. :.
cut the state. a severe fight tool;
place yesterday, at St. MartinsYillc,
) between the citizens and Kcllogg's
police, and serious disturbances o:
CURED in New Orleans. Some foolish
youth fired q pistol at the usurpcr :;
but, fortunately for the good name
and cause Of the people, without fatal
result. When tho administration at
Washington 7 r;ostitrtcd tho Unitcd
States Army to tho wo:k of driving
from power the Legitimate authorities
of Louisiana and installing the mi.
nority candidates in their place
the people Of New O.lcans. com.
PEELED to choose between massacre
and submission, yielded their liberties
to preserve their lives. Their city
was in the hands Of federal troops
their balls Of Legislation wcro filled
with armed men and surrounded by
artillery their Courts were broken
up at the point Of the bayouct ; their
public officers wore soiz:d and COW
fined on the authority Of orders is"ucd Il
by debauchcd United States UG &c
and executed by an uns>u nlpus
Uuitcd States Marshal. The prcsi-
don't, advised by partisan Attorney
General, approved and endorsed the
acts OF the uSurpcrS, recognized the
Kellogg gang as the regular State
! government and refused to allow ANY
appeal from his arbitrary decision. If
the people of Now Orleans had then
executed the law on the rcvolutionis,s
and mctcd out to them tho punish
mcnt they deserved tho streets of the
city would have been swept by United
States artillery, and men, women and
children wonld have been the victims
of a general massacre. The citizens
weighed tho cost Of asserting their
rights and declined to pay SO heavy
price: They trusted that timo and
the peaceful but strong expression Of
indignation that arose FROM all parts
Of the State would secure their l,ber-
tics from further outrage and wculd
at last restore to the those constitu.,
tional rights of which they had been
robbed.
| The forbcaranoc Of tho people or
Now Orleans was applauded by their
fellow countrymcn throughout tho
Union. The rebellion of tho South
had eft behind it wounds too deep
and memories too painful to suffer
our citizens to look calmly upon a
renewal of civil, st,ite. The t5crth
gonerally felt thct tho past needed
atoaemcnt, and knew that any resist
ancc, even TO federal tyranny, would
bc trucll y 'r<cd to the injury Of the
Southern States. But the events Of
the past few weeks in Louisiana rem
der it doubtful whether the patient
endurance ofthe people of New Or.
leans will suffice to avert from the
State the evils of civil commotivn.
Tho Kellogg usufpation, cmboldencl
by the success ofi.s first crime cga;nst
the laws and the constitution, is seek.
ing to render its power absolute all
over tho State. The ignorant negroes
rendered b:ave by the discovery
that The United States Army is
at their back, arc prepared to aid
il any outragcs tho Kellogg whites
may prompt; Kellogg and his associ-
at cs have therefore re solved to override
the popular will in every parish, and
to place creatures of their own in
every public office. Appointments
arc. made without any prctcncc Of
Authority, and tho hired rul'lano
known as the "Metropol:tans," an
armod force created in New Orleans
in violation Of law, md composed Of
all the thieves and cutthroats whose
Rn';cs are It tho service of any one
who can pay for chem, arc sent from
parish to parish to make war upon tho
rcoplc, II necessary. to drive out the
legal authorities aud to install tic
Kellogg orrointcos. With charac-
teristic coUaraicc tho white ru'Gans
prompt tho negroes to tako a promi-
ncnt part in the fighting, and hence
the trohb'e is fast assuming tho ter
rible aspoct of wa: Of races.
Alrcadyssono fearful massacre has
J ecearrcW and the unfortunate blacks
Navo suffered Ito most severely, their
white promp!crs leaving them to their
fate. IN the parish Of st. Martins a
state Of civil war actuaily'cxists, and
irregular battle between the New Or
leahs cntthronts and the negroes on
one side and the ci(izcns Of 81.
, Martins on tho other side is
!, imminent. St. Martinsriile is in n
!, state Of siege. Wo read Of the throw
> ing out Of pickcts, Of the arrival of
recruits and rcinforccmcnts, Of The
> blockade Of tho Court House ald OF
y other military movements, just as If
q state of war actually existed.
DO the American poopie 'panco tc
!. reflect upon he fatal consequences o.
n