The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-09-25
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GRANT LATEST OUTRAGE-HE WANTS THE
ELECTORAL VOTE OF LOUISIANA AND OR
DkRs THE SOLDIERS Of THE UNION To
DRIVE OUT a LEGITIMATE GOV ERzoR.
From the New York Trlbune.l
Gen. Grant has vanquished the people
of Louisiana again. lie has teleeraphed
TO his general and his admirals he has
set the army aud navy in motion and the
lawful Government of Louisiana surren-
ders. If there was any doubt before as to
the character of the usurpation which rules
tie unhappy State by favor of the Presi
dent-dny question whether the people
really acquiesced in it-there can b. none
now. The outrage stands out heuceforth
IN its naked defoymity, an unpardonabIe
crime against popular suffrage ard the
sovereignty of State. government
which the people loathe and despise vas
forced upon Louisiana by the soldiers of
the President. Left to themselves for n
moment, the people threw it off and in
stalled the officers whom they had repular
ly chosen at the polls. The deposed in
truders made no fight /; they were as helm
less and cowardiy as children in the pres
ence OF the indignant people but COVER
ing bchlnd the shutters of the Custom
house they telegraphed to the President
The people have put us out this is
yoGrJob come You and put us back again;
Two years ago Grant yielded to the bad
advice OF his disreputable associates and
installed Kellogg at New Orleans, by fraud
and force, because he wanted the e,ecror-
al vote of the State, which a majority of
the voters had given to the other side :
L nat wicked deed has brought forth a full
crop OF crimes. We have seen him dis
persing Legislature at the point of the
bayonet expelling a legitimate Govern
ment with threats of martial law. and re-
Versing the course of justice by the scan
oaious support OF perjured court His
own frleniis have exclaimed at the iniouitv
oil these proceedings, and warned him to
deslst he hottest partisan, of his ad-
hiihiStration nave denounced the wicked
usCIpatlons of Kellogg and Durrell with
an indignation that does them credit -
seventeen Republican Senators voted in
February, 1873, to declare the oretended
eiectlon oil Kellogg null and void. and to
tuiii him out OF office. The President him
sell hnally admitted in special MESSAGE
10 Congress that SO many foroe,.ies and
frauds had been discovered that he wasnot
sure Oh heiloggs title. An official inves
legation proved the rascalty of the whole
transaction beyond any possibility of de-
nal. But the President would moi halt
lie must carry out his original crime to
It's natural consequences, and the jnexor
aDie loSlc or events has led him to This
crownlns shame. For the first time in
tne history OF the United States the SOL
diers OF the Union are employed to drive
ou1 d legitimate Governor, and place a
miserable pretender in the State Honse
TO shoot down in the streets the neor1o
VINO may refuse to obey him. For this
u'sSracefui and disbeartening spectacle
Ihe congress which refused to act on tbs
LOUISIANA report, and the Republican par
" Which tacitly approved the wrong. are
pom 10 blame; but it is upon the Presi
uen' mat the chief responsibility must
rest, the President who BEGAN tho ion,r
course OF oppressiou-the President who
could have stopped it at any moment if he
Gao chosen and could stop it now-tbe
resident who is probably the only man
10 America not ashamed of the whole bus
mess, and who comes forward in the midst
OF 1t asking for third term.