The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-07
LOUISIANA TROUBLES.

Address Of the Conservative State
Central Committee 10 the Pe0plt
OF The UnIOn.-PTotest Against Fed.
eral Interference
New ORLEANS, sept. 5.-The Demo
cratic and Conservative State Centra
Committees Of Louisiana have issued the
following address:
"NBw ORLEANS, Sept. 8.
"I0 Tie People Of the Union
"For nearly two years tho people oI
J Louisiana have persistently applied for
rellet to tho Judicial, Legislative and Ex-
ecutive Departments OF the General Gov.
eminent. The Supreme Court, on &C
count Of It's limited Jurisdiction, found
Itself without power to remedy the
wrongs perpetrated by the Federal Dis.
tfict Judge Of Louisiana, The Executive
remitted them TO Congress as the proper
tribunal, but Congress, overwhelmingly
Republican in both branches, while recog.
nizIDg the grievance complained Of, sig
nalized iLseli by mastery inactivity, the
1 real purpose Of which was TO leave the
Kellogg usurpation In power. The only
means lett 10 Louisiana TO redeem herself
from this usurpation Is by participating
in an election held under the very aus.
pices Of theusurper himself, armed with
special enactments oi his spurious Legis.
lature TO secure his retention in power,
and with other and appropriate acts 10 be
signed and promulgated by himself, ac-
cording 10 circumstances. Already has
he substanti tally violated his solemn
promise not 10 sign the election law, by
signing and promulgating redistricting
law, which in his hands is 8 more potent
instrument lor political mischief.
"In the meantime, the people are
ground down by taxation ior unholy pur.
poses; property finding no purchasers at
tax sales, Is by the wholesale adjudicated
TO the State, and upon the subsidence Of q
desolating and wide spread overflow the
municipal authorities have been swelling
up the local taxes, and yet there Is no at
tempt Of revolution in Louisiana. Not
satisfied with driving the people 10 move
Tor redress in this vicious circle, the
usurper and his coadjutors, falsiiyiug the
facts IN inventing war oil races, and
msgnifying 10 unlimited numbers muir
ders and atrocities, have cOnspired to
bring about Federal interference in local
affairs, under the pretense Of protecting
the rights Oi citizens, but for the known
purpose of intimidation in the coming
election. The very acts of violence which
occurred in several parishes had been de.
liberately instigated by themselves, and
their object being, as asserted by one oi
their own men, TO forge lightning in
Louisiana, that there might be thunder in
the North They have, however, succeed.
ed in impressing upon the President the
belief that, unless speedily checked, mat.
tiers must become worse, until lie and
property here will receive no protection
from the local authorities.
1.-THE President RENTS all proceedings
for the protection Of the South TO the Law
Department Of tho Government, TO be
directed by the Attorney General in &C
cordance with the provisions OF the En-
forcement Acts, and he orders the troops
In readiness for that purpose. The peo-
pie Of Louisiana do not object to United
States troops being stationed in their
midst. These troops may as well be sta
toned in this State as any other State,
for Louisiana Is component part ol the
Union. The Federal judiciary may and
does, as heretofore, continue tc admins
ter rigidly the Enforcement Acts Of Con-
gress. No complaint on this score has
been, or can be, made against Louisiana
by the most iastidious civil rights psrti-
sans. But the people Of Louisiana do
protest against the Judicial persecution In
store for them, and against the oppressive
abuse oI Federal troops, not 10 assist In
executing the Enforcement Acts, but
really 10 overawo the people in the COM
ing election. Troops at the bidding oi
the United States Marshal, who Is
Chairman Of the State Central Republican
Committee, and assisted by the United
States District Attorney, the Pillar ot HE
Louisiana Republican party, lorebode the
wanlon and arbitrary arrest oil political
adversar1es by the hundred, under orders
issued by petty United States Commits
siOners, working in party traces. The
impending persecution, clothed in the
garb OF judicial proceedings, Is barely con.
cealed under the exultant tone OF the fol-
lowing dispatch from the United States
District Attorney oil Louisiana, an officer
Of the Law Department:
"'NAaHNGroN, Sept. 8, 1874
ITO Governor ". p Kellogg:
"Just from Long Branch. The Govern.
ment will enforce order In the State.
Steps will be promptly taken 10 crush the
new rebellion. ~. r. BKCKWITH.'
Attorney. General Williams circular
instructions to his subordinates TO pro-
coed with all possible energy and dis
patch to detect, expose, arrest and punish
the perpetrators Of these crimes will be
executed with vengeance during this
political campaign; but no attention need
, be paid tohis recommendation. '0fcourse
that no Interference whatever Is hereby
intended with any political or party &C
,, ton, not In action Of law nor will much
stress be laid on his statement about al
fording protection 10 all classes OF citizens,
white and colored, since 1t is matter Of
notoriety that the United States Supreme
Court interprets the Eniorcemet Acts as
passed exclusively Tor the protection ol
colOred citizens. Besides, the people op.
posed to the Kellogg usurpstlon have
never questioned the right Of colored
voters 10 register and vote, to nominate
their candidates and install them when
ever elected, and they have repeatedly
and expressly pledged themselves 10
maintain these rights invlolate.
"As 10 the local disturbances which
have occurred, they did not spring IRON
any spirit ol hostility 10 the colored peo
pie, but were the unavoidable outbreaks
arising from a state of oppression and
tyranny.
"In this emergency the people Of Lou