The daily gazette., 1874-09-21
Hare the I'Hited States q Right
10 Self Government"
Grants Acts Deny II.

From the New York Herald, Of Saturday.
Bat, whatever Mr.. Kellogg may choose
to do. the duty Of the Government Is 70
see that justice is rendered to the people
of Louisiana. The proof is overwhelm-
ing that they repud ate the Kellogg ad-
ministration. The appeal which We PRINT
today from the President of the Board
of Trade Of Baton Rouge, the President
of the Farmers Association and other
citizens is only additional evidence of the
intense dread they have that this hated
rule may lie restored. General Grant
should deal with the question of equity
as we'll as with that of the law. He has
suppressed the armed revolution by
word, but the moral revolution still lives
as n protest against usurpatlon and crime
in Louisiana, and the criminal sympathy
given TO usurpation and CRIME by the
administration. The country Will de-
mand from the President, as due to the
oppressed people of that State, something
of the vigor he has shown in overcoming
the McEnery government. He should
| insist upon justice to the State. 1t is no
answer to such a demand to say that
having heretofore recognized Kellogg he
| must sustain him. If, us no one will seri-
| ously question now, his recognition was
| a mistake, why not retrieve ltt If the
| people of Louisiana answer with alacrlty
| the President 4 summons TO surrender II
! sovereignty which was taeira by right as
well as in fact, why should not the Pres
idcnt recognize this peaceful dlsposlt iun
hy securing to the State its rlghtful gov
ernment? He cannot do this by the mere
force of arms. Upon the surrendr. Of
the insurgents " Adjutant Gen, raj
Towns sni says in a despatch of yesterday
u General Emory, you will in 'rm
Governor Kellogg of the fact and /. We
him the necessary support to re-establI. Ii
the authority of the State government. "
But is this all? Is there no more 10 be
done for louisiana What kind Of "A
government is that which needs an army
10 protect il from the wrath of the peo-
pie it misrules! 1t is here we think that
the higher duty Of the President begins.
He has carried out the strict letter of
the law 10y replacing Kellogg in office;
now let him act in the spirit of the Con
stitution, which guarantees IA rrpubli-
can form Of government to every State,
and use the immense moral influence Of
his office to obtain un honest election of
a new Governor by the people. Not by
the terror Of bayonets, but 10y measures
of justice, can Louisiana be restored 10
her true place.
The President cannot ignore these facts
The Republican party cannot live unless
II ADOPTS Hobler pollcy lo"hfIS the
South; nor can the North be- true to the
Union while such crimes as that of the
Kellogg government are clothed with the
sacredness of the National Constitution
With us alCAe rests the responsibility
We conquered the South; we accepted
the burdens of conquerors; we destroyed
its armies We exhausted its wealth and
its resources We annihilated its credit
We paralyzed its social system; We eman
cipated the slaves, and in doing so threw
its rich dominant governing class into pov
erty. In doing this virtually imposed
upon the Southern people war fine in
fnitely greater than that imposed upoi
France by Germany.