The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-24
HE NEW YORK HERALD ON lHE
SITUATION.

He1dtd OF the 18th inst, We publish in full TO thu
exclusion Of much interesting matter, As shown:
he drift OF Northern sentiment since the facts 0
4 the trouble in Louisiana have fully dawned npoI
the people there:
E Shall there be New Election in Louisiana
o Coy. McEnery has set noble example 10 hi.
oppone. In his letter addressed to the Herald
: offers to resign all claim to the office to hie
1 he believes he elected, upon the condition
, that Mr.. Kellogg shall lao resign, with the
tcrstanding that new State government shal
ne chosen by the people. To this spirit of un
$ ltsh zeal for the good Of Louisiana the high 81
t praise is due; but it has cha acteiized the
llcEuery party from the st. II the recent rey-
button there was every template Tor the sue
'essu. Il adars to use extreme measures to retain
D the power. They certainly represented TIE vii
ot the peope. They claimed to be the d5ly
elected officers of louisiana
The uDic upnl i OF the country. ana as in
the case "a as conspicuous partisan as Senator
. Carpenter, pub c opinion withont dlstit elton O
party, believe in the Justice Of this claim Nv II
extreme Republicans. ofwhom Gen Butler might,
he called the repre- sentative. could find nothing
but apologies for the Kellogg Government As
if to aplasize these facts, the behavior of the
contend ns parties during the crisis was such as
t. destroy any vestiSe OF respect that may have
been felt for Kellogg, and to increase onr svmpa-
Thy for Mr. McEnery and hi. followers he logs
and his comrades behaved lik. towards They
did not strike manly blow for their power. At
the frat blush of revolution they threw down
the sovereignty of the State and fastened to seek
protection behind the Federal bayonets. Gen.
Longstreet seems to have made all EFFORT 70 re
deem the cause Of Kellogg, but surrounded by
such men even his conspicuous and unqncs toned
bra, cry was useless.
Yet, III the hour of absolute victory, thu Ne
Emery Government threw down its arms aud 1T,
opportunity at the feet of the National Govern
rncnt. J he simple dcmal Of the President va.
enough. His movement of troops from Other
States to Louisiana, his orders for WI, vessels to
| proceed to tie Mlssls Ippl, was alto 2ether un
| -Il,t
New Orleans was as snperiu ,us as ii would have
| been against New York, tor no resistance 10 III,
United States authority contemplated OF
made. The President might have spared hle
threat to Shell the city or mandate /; by breaking
the levees, TOR it not justified by the tempe,
| # the people, and We regret that 1t was ever
| made.
| We must remember that We cannot Away.
| deal with revolution wicked outbt eak against
| authority or an act OF lawlt ssness, hike the ro
| liglous Ilots OF thirty years ago, or the Asst
Place riot, or the on breaks In tins cl's against
onscfIption in 1864. The difference. between
these events and what we have seen Ill Louisiana
is the difference between isolated and wanton
disturbance ct the peace and the -pphtaneoils up
rising OF people against tyranny and corrnp
ton. Nothing could have been more brutal, Tor
instance, than the New Orleans riot of 800. The
r. Spouse to that the part of the North
was instant and decisive. Presilcit John
sons strange SYM athy with the aftir was
the beginning OF the downfall of h 5 ad- |
wickrI resi- lance +, law An armed mo, am, |
pressed freedom af speech. convention III
proper elaboration was dissolved by fore, its
leaders murdered, innocent spectators massa |
N IA 4 general rcipu Of Iawi,ssn,ss anr ,n,rn,
he recent revolution had none OF tLes. pail,fn |
phases Authority was assumed by what Ger
tinly Wa obedience to Tie viii of the people OF
cation. none Of +. ose scene. al ii ,oI-hed = -;
,rr,lty which marked the success of r,.yoIl,;,44
III France and other countries. Iur- Wa>
netting IN TIE Whole couis.. ,.f the ,;ef,uac,
re,tInfi.,u from ifs -nreDtii4 To lis surrender
IL .orfeit the respect o. the symna,l. al H.
lnotl.ao nro,,l, t'r The peo lie " Irlf ~. .,f,.3
thelr leaders.
The answer which alr. kellogg VII make 10
M, lie ,tr I'll. ease VII, WI 81, the ,,.it,tl.l
va tctcd must have convince III. f,sti u ,L1t
u- government has no, tho > .ppol! OF The ;eo.
pie, and nu should profit l.y tie lesson. lie has
The povtr nov to satisfy tn. wishes OF !ou;.!t1,.
and t. relieve the N .ti6nal Government !rs.n ,in.
barra5sncut Let Inn use IT wisely. and l.ot in.
list upon compelling the Administrator to keen
MIN in the Office. winch he has not Tx POKE, 10
SIR McEnyrv he will make a pcacetlu AID pcr,,,a-
slcnt solution Of the difficulty possible and 1,rn,e
that h. values the welfare Of the Stat. u.u,, than
the hon rs and gaiiis of .niel. But if hrlefrses
hin al obstac. t, peace, aud vii ns IL ltasot
that the nlan Who breads a far election now mas
gosa cause to donb+ the fair,.ess Of lie ciretion
d fore. We infer from his ,e.esram 10 The |
Ii rad that it is not his mteurion to !, s;en. ard
HAT lie places The r,spousiIi!ity of his r,u,nyal
u,.u the Legislature Which is to be elect, d
But. whatever MIR. Kellogg NAV cIou,, to do
The dnty Of The Government il To ae, that ;fsjct
il rendered to the people OF Iunisjana. The ;
proof is overwhelming that they REM, iat, thr
kellogg administrator. The anpo,l vh;c, we
orln, today from the President o! the Board Of {
Trsde Of Baton rouge. the President OF The Far ,
mrs Association and o,her citlyens is only add,
Iional EVIDENCE of the intense drtad thry nav,
MT .his hated ,ule m,v ho restored Can I
irant sllonld deal with the onestion of eun1y as
we'll AZ with that of the law He has ,rnire s.eI
he armed revolution bv a word but lie Mora
eyolut n still lives as n pro est against nsurru
lion and crime by the An,ninis1rat,1n t
The country viii demand from Tie presi
lent "a dine to the oupressei ueonie oi
nat State Something of TN. yioor he has shown
d overcoming the SCENERY Government. He
.honld ms,.t npon irs,ice to the State II is rn
answer to .ncL \ demand to saw that having
lereto ore +, coenzeo Kellogg h. must sustain
nm. II. as no one will Sc, iouslv question now.