The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-29
S. G.


Tuesday Morning. April 20, 1878.
The Prosecutions IN LOUISIANA.
kilograms from New Orleans announce
that Kellogg, who is in possession of the
Government of Louisiana by reason Of
the Federal Government sustaining
Judge Durell's partisan and blundering
decision, has purchased a steamboat.
armed it with howitzers, and organized a
battalion Of cavalry. to be Dployed
against tie people. especialI:. in those
portions OF the State in which his author
ity hos been hitherto defied. He has
also directed the Attorney General of the
State to prosecute the dolly elected Co.
vernon. MoEnery, for usurpation, and,
together with others engaged in the re-
cent demonstration against the Kellogg
police. for treason. It would be difficult
to Imagine more arrant usurper than
Kellogg himself, the circumstances OF
whose usurpation are as notorious as his
pretensions are impudent, and this action
might we'll provoke ridicule if it were not
too serious matter. The recent trouble
in Grant Parish arose from precisely the
same order OF circumstances as that un
der which all the balance of the trouble
in Louisiana has sprung, and the failure
OF Congress to take action, with the state
of the case actually thrust before their
faces. Thus, in the election in Grant
Parish, in November last, the vote for
Governor, as duly returned by the cleo
tion officers, was Tor Kellogg, 40l; Nc
Emery, 513. Without any other returns
upon which to base report, tho Lynch
Daroll Board upset this count, and made
out the vote to be for Kellogg, ITO; Nc.
Emery, 165. The candidates for repre-
sentatives in the Legislature from the
parish were VIM. Ward (Kellogg) and
James Hadnot (McEnery,) the latter OF
whom fell victim to the treachery OF
the Ward party in the recent fight,
which led the way to the massacre of
Wards misguided followers that ensued.
In the election Hadnot was chosen, but
the opposing authorities declared Ward
elected, and each served in the rival Lee
gislatures subsequently organized. The
parish officers were elected by the Con-
eervatives, but these, too, were displaced,
the man Ward himself placing himself. at
the head Of a. colored mob. tqking pos
session of the court house, and inergu-
rating hostilities. committing many e1-
cesses upon the hitherto peaoeable in
habitants. and forcing their political op-
ponents to armed resistance. The Balti-
more San asserts that the fearful result
OF this collision is only too we'll known,
and in spite OF the representations Of the
aggressors to the contrary. it is now we'll
understood by the people. To give colo-
to their representations, the Kellogg Go
vernment is now carrying armed perse.
cation iato this and other parishes to
suppress the popular will. only adding,
1t may be said, to the terrible RESPONSE
bility which already rests upon it.
The New York Herald says:
''Is not Governor Kellogg. OF Louisi.
ana, stretching his authority little in
getting up an amateur navy, with bel
ligsrent Intentions, on his own account?
It has. we believe, been generally cup
posed that Congress had sole power in
such cases, aud that the President was
Commander-in-C Chief of the Army and
Navy Of the United States. with Secre-
tary of the Navy-who. fortunately, at
this jnnc!ure. happens to be rare old
salt-as o Cabinet adviser. But pur-
haps Kellogg has usurped tho title of
"Lord High Admiral" like his other
arrogant assumptions in Louisiana, ard
it Was necessary for him to hive navy
IN order to complete his sway as High
Cockalorum in General of the "Pelican"
State. sobriquei that should be at once
dropped by the people, for Louisiana
has ceased to "feed her young" Now
let us see what the Lord High Admiral
will do with his gun-boat."
INsoLENcE OF CRIME. E.-Crime, permit.
ted to become organized, becomes bold
and formidable, especially in large cities.
Suppressed in its incipiency by frmness