The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-19

Louisiana.
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IfE question: on every tongue, day
before yesterday, was, "Whnt VIII
President Grant do about lt?" The
answer will he found In the proclama-
ton contained in our Geographic col
umn.
We suppose no one will be surprised
at the action of the president. with
his record OH Louisiana affairs before
him, he could not do otherwise with
out convicting himself of the grossest
Inconsistency. Unfortunately the con-
stitution that the fathers worked so
patiently and so zealously to perfect,
has become obsolete, and party eXigen-
cy is now the unwritten organic law Of
The land.
The able men who are at the head of
the movement that overthrow the
Kellogg usurpation no doubt anticipa-
ted that General Grant would take the
position he has, and have their plans
all arranged accordingly. What those
plans are it would he idle for us to
speculate about. One thing we may
rest assured that they will not do, that
! Is, offer resistance to the will of the
federal government. If President
Grant determines to persist in the
course marked out in his proclamation,
to ignore the present dc .tdcto govern
ment, and set up again the defunct
usurpation, the men of Louisiana will
perforce he compelled to submit. But
even in that event the work of Mon
day will not have been done in vain,
nor will the patriotic blood shed on
that occasion have been shed in vain.
The fact has been established that the
Kellogg government was Il hollow
structure, so far rs its inherent strength
was concerned; that while it had its
origin in the orders ola drunken feder-
al Judge, it could not stand unless sus-
tanned and upheld by federal bayonets.
This fact will go to the minds of the
northern people with force that can
not be avoided, and they will be called
upon to determine whether or not they
are ready to ignore all the landmarks
of freedom and spend their substance
in maintaining Il military government
over the state. In solving this ques-
ton in their own minds, the thought
will obtrude itself that probably they
are preparing chalice for the lips of a
portion of their fellow-c citizens that the
whirligig of time may eventually COM
mend to their own lips.
With the light we have before us,
therefore, we are of the opinion that
the stirring events of the past few days
in New Orleans will advantage, rather
than prejudice, the cause of the south
among the masses of northern people.
They are also u brave people. 1t is inn
possible for them not to feel in their
hearts generous glow of enthusiasm
when they read the doings of brave
men, risking their all in the sacred
cause of civil liberty. All that they
will need to be convinced of is that the
movement did not spring from any
hostility to the United States govern
ment nor from any purpose to set its
authority at defiance. The bold, cah-
did and manly dispatch of Governor
Penn to President Grant ought to con-
vince them of this. But whatever
its effect at the north may
be, the gallant men of New Or
leans, who struck 40 n0bly for free
dom, will have the consolation OF feel
ing that wherever the English Ian
ga&go is spoken their action will be
uppiauGed as the action of patriots and
heroes, and that ttiopgh they may be
crushed to the earth aow, the time will
come when the cause Tor which tEey
battled so bravely will triumph and
/! the purity of their motives and the
| hepGiaB. of their conduct be acknowl-
edged even by tb0ee who now brand
them rs turbulent ana disGrdar'y per-
sons.