The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-09-24
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Peace relgns again IN warsaw ana
under the force of Federal power. the
people have been compelled to snrren-
der their Government into the hands
of the usurpers. The government
which GRANTS corrupt Judge and Fed
eral bayonets have established there
is the same kind ola Rep1blic as is
enjoyed by the people Of Poland and
ireland, only more corrupt and des-
potic. The New York Tribune, COM
menliHg upon the condition of affairs
in that unfortunate State, says:
Thiais q free representative govern
Inent, yet it is an undeniabIe truth
that the people of Louisiana are liv-
ing under an absolute despotism. For
them the ballot has no meaning and
the courts have no power. No reason
able man doubts that at tie last elec-
ton MeEnery and Penn were fairly
chosed Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernpr of the State, but that Kellogg
siezed the reins of power by fraud
and force, and installed a pretended
Legislature of his own by the use of
the Federal bayonets- "A gainst this
capital outrage what remedy. had the
citizens of Louisiana Should they go
to the courts The Judges were part
ners in the crime. Should they APP
peal to the Legislature ? 1t was dis
persed and the eonspirators made law
in its place. They complained to the
President and he denied them even a
hearing. They went before Congress
and Congress ordered an investigation,
ascertained that the charges of usurpa-
ton were all true, listened to terrible
denunciation OF the usurpers and an
eloquent plea for justice from the lips
of Senator Carpenter, and then-did
nothing. Nor was this all. During
these two years while the citizens had
born every imaginable wrong, and
watched the State sinking day by
day into lower depths of disorganiza-
ton and bankruptcy, they had still
the hope that the next election in due
course of law, might enable them to
overturn this Ubiquitous administra-
ton. But of late Kellogg has des-
troyed even this last hope. His ras-
caIly Legislature passed registration
law so monstrous in its provisions
that he was afraid to approve it while
Congress was in session. But when
there was nothing more to fear from
the INDIGNATION of Congress, he drew
the haIf-fOrgotten bill from his desk
and signed it. The new law empow-
ers him to appoiut supervisors and
assistant supervisors of election in all
the parishes of the State, with full au-
Lhority to add names to the registry
or erase names from them. Their ac-
ton on both these points is final.
They have only to draw pen throuha
q voters name and he is disfranchised
beyond the power of any authority in
the State to help him aud the courts
are expressly forbidden to interfere,
by injunction, mandamus, or other
process ) and to make the case COM
plete, the registrars are authorized to
appoint an indefinite number of ssuit-
abb persons" to attend them at the.
polling places, as their Janizaries, s'to
keep order" Is there the faintest
shadow of a chance that an honest
election can take place under such
cIrcumstances2 Is there any remedy
whatever left for the citizens Of Lou
isiana except this last resort of all, the
appeal to arms 2q.l3 .,4t - asi st5
That there has hever been day for
| two yearssWben the Kellogg admins
tration eould sustain itself without
the help of the Federal army we have
all knoWn; but none of us at the
North were aware how empty and
unsubstantial this fabric of usurped
power really was until yesterday
| One faint demonstration against the
barricade exhausted it. The revolt
! lifted its head at sunset, and in the
morning the government of Mr.. Will
liamP Pitt kellogg had utterly vanished.
Mr., Kellogg had just enough strength
to call upon Acknowledgement Will
Iiams for more itroops,D and with his
characteristic and familiar crv he went
into ignoble retirement. Ii is just as
we would have il. There is q stern
poetic justice in the complication of
/ events which throws upon the power
which first thrust him into GoverRor-
ship the odious task Of putting him
back there again after the people have
expelled him. Gen. Grant must now
carry his crime against Louisiana to
its logical consequence. He upheld
the usuFpeF; he will now use the army
iof the United States to dispossess the
/ government which he knolCs to be a
Legitimate one. We wish him joy OF
his occupation. 5iri
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