Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-01
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The people of Louisiana, defrauded,
plundered, trampled on, stripped of
their property by unreieved villainy in
power, having usurpers installed in
Office over them by judicial corruption
backed by President Grants bayonets,
and having seen all hope of redress
taken away by the refusal of Grant to
interfere in their behalf, and by these
usurping authorities through election
ordinances and appointments that render
fair election absolutely impossible
being thus driven to desperation by
public plumber, and by tina closing OF
every channel of relief, have at last
adopted the desperate resolution of ris-
ing in arms against their usurpers and
tyrants.
Is not this act justifable No man
can study the facts and recall the his
tory of the last few years without adj
hitting that if ever any people had good
reason for this last dread resort, it is.the
people OF Louisiana. Ii instruction
can be justified under any circumstances
whatever, it is right and just in their
case. No body of men ever had greater
provocation or more perfect cause for
such action; and never, from the
beginning of civilization to the pres
ent day, was any Commonwealth
subjected to wrong and outrage by
more contemplate set of miscreauts
than those land-pirates of Louisiana.
But for the brutal, law-defying assist
ance of Grants soldiery, these wretches
could never have got into power and
their victims, seeing themselves de-
spoiled not only of their possessions
the best property in New Orleans will
not rent for enough to pay the taxes
but of every political right and personal
chance of good, and having nothing
more to lose except life itself, may well
choose to perish in last sharp contest,
rather than to struggle on in the misery
and despair which their oppressors
alone offer them.
1t is certain that this rising would be
speedily successful, and would result III
the wholesale expulsion of the usurpers
and robbed beyond the boundaries Of
Louisiana, but for the new Intervention
of Federal troops, which of course will
not be delayed. Grant is under fatal
necessity. Having begun this business
of putting down rigbtfully- elected
State government and installing in its
place one that the people had repuai-
ated, he has no alternative, but must
go on and maintain the counterfeit,
fraudulent authority which he has in
stituted.
The people of Louisiana will, there
fore, be subiugated anew. Some of
them will be killed many homes will
be ravaged, and the horrors of war will
be felt again in that wrstched and DESC
late region. But even in this they will
gain something. Those who die will be
better off in the grave and those who
live will at least be the captives OF the
Federal army, and will thus for time
be relieved from the malignity of their
local banditti. Indeed, this is appa-
rently what they most earnestly wish
for. They pray to see the false State
government utterly swept away, and
Louisiana once more put under the
dictatorship of some decent army off,
Ger. In their view, the iron hand of
military rule is better than the lawless
] despotism and unrestricted confscation
of Casey, Kellogg, Durell, and their
confederates and no thoughtful OBJ
server can deny that this Is reasonable
conclusion and desire.
And such is the result of nine years
of reconstruction and six years of
Grantism ! This is the sort of peace
which the country receives from mill
tary President who annuls a popular
election, and overthrows State gov
eminent in order to take the electoral
votes of the State for himself, while he
maintains his brother-in-l law in power to
plumber, and assures to an incompara-
BILE gang of robbers the prolonged OPP
portunity of unlimited booty And yet
there are those who still pirate about
moral ideas in the Grant party. and who
fondly imagine that the American peo-
pie will suffer such state of things to
be indefinitely continued.