The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-07
NEW ORLEANS.
Address Of Democrats and Conserva-
tives Of Louisiana.

cTallG aHO NOhSVi 'ablNC sCldlt NNIihi a.
Committee Of Louisiana have issued the
following address:
NEW ORLEANS Sept. 5, 1874.
To the People Of tie Union:
For nearly two years the people of
Louisiana have persistently applied for
aid 10 the judicial, Executive and Legis-
lative Departments Of the General Gov
ernment. The Supreme Court on ac-
count Of its limited jurisdiction, found
itself without power to remedy the
wrong perpetratcd by the Federal Dis
trict Judge of Louisiana. The Execu
tive remitted them to Congress as the
proper tribunal, but Congress over
whelmingly reported in both branches
that while recognizing the grievance
complained of signalized itself by IL mas
terly inactivity, the real purpose of which
was to leave the Kellogg usurpation in
power. The only means left to Louisi-
ana to redeem herself from this usurpa-
tion is by participating in an election
+, held under the very auSpicics of the u>ur-
per himself, armed with special enact
| mcnts of his opinion by the Legislature" I"
secure his retention in power, and with
other and appropriate acts to be signed
and promulgated by himself according
to the circumstances. Already has h"
substantially violated his solemn promise
not to sign the election law by signing
and promulgating a rediStricting law,
which, in his hands, is mere potent i'll
strument for political mischief. In the
meantime the people are ground lown
by taxation for unholy purposes; proper
ty finding no purchasers at tax sales Is
| bv the wholesale adjudicatcd to the State,
and upon the subsistence Of dcSolating
and widespread overflow, the municipal
| authorities have been swelling up the
| local taxes and vet there Is no attempt
at revolution in Louisiana. Not satisfied
with driving the people to move for re-
| dress in this vicious circle, the usurpcr
! and his coadjutators are falSitying tn"
! facts, invcnting war OF races,
and magnifying to unlimited numbers of
murders and atrocities; have conSpirrd
to bring about Federal interference
in local affairs, under the pretcnce Of
protecting the rights of citizens, but for
| known purpose of intcrmeddiing i'll the
coming election The very acts of vio-
! lcncc which occurred in several parishes
have been deliberately instigated by them
selves. and their object being, as asserted
! bv one of their number, to
Forge Lightning I'm Louisiana, that
there might be Thunder In the
North.
| They have, however, succeeded in i'm
pressing upon the President the belief
! that, unless speedily checked, matters
! must become worse, until life aud prop
erty there will receive no protection from
the local authorities. The President re-
! nit, all proceedings for the protection of |
the South to the law department of the
government, to be directed bv the Att"r-
! ncv General. in accordance with the pro-
visions of the enforcement acts, and h"
orders the troops in readiness for that
purposr. The people of Louisiana do not
object to United States troops being sta
toned in their midst. These troops may
as well he stationed in this State as in any
other State for Louisiana is component
part of the Union; the federal Judiciary
may. and does, aS heretofore, contlnu"
To- administer rigidly Tn" cnt"rcr-
mcnt acts OF Congress. No conf
plnint on this score has been or
can be made against Louisiana Toy tn"
most fastidi"u~ civil rights partiSan>:
but the people of Louisiana de- protest
against the judicial persecution in stor"
for them, and against III" oppressive
abuse of Federal troops, sent +" assist in
executing the enforcement acts, hut r.
ally to ovcrawc the people in the coming
election. Troops ut the bidding of the
L. :. Marshal, who j. the chairman Of
the State Central Committee. and a>si>,-
cd by the L. :. District Attorney, the
pillar of the Louisiana Republican party,
forbade the wanton and arbitrary arrest
Of political advcnturrr, by the hundred.
under orders issued by petty /. :. Com
mi>s"nors working in party traces.
The Impending Persecution
clothed in tn" garh Of judicial proceed
ngS. is barely concealed under the "N-
ultant tone of the following dispatch
from the l.. 5. District Attorney Of
Louisiana, an officer of tn" law depart
mcnt:
: WASUrNGrov Sept. > 1874.
Gor,,2,o' ". F. K.iioq7:
Just from Long Branch. The Gov
ernmcnt will enforce order in the Suite.
Steps will be promptly taken tocrush the
new rebellion.
Signed !. +. BErKwITH.
Attorney General Williams circular
in,tructinC his suhordinatcS To- proceed
with all possible energy and dispatch to
detect. expose, arrest and punish the per
pctratorS If these crimes will he "Nccu-
ted with vengeance during this pnlitica
campaign, but no attention need be
paid to his recommendation Of cunrSr
that no Interference whatever j. hereby
intended any political or party action not
in action of law. nor much stress /" be-
laid on his statement about atfordIEg
protection toalI classes of citizens white
and colorrd. Since il i u matter uf no
toriety. the United States Suprrm"
Courts interpret the enforcement acts a.
pa>>d exclusive for The protection Of col
ored citizens besides the pr"pi" opposed
to the Kellogg usurpation. have
Never Questioned the Right OF Col
orcd Voters
TO register. and vote t. nominal" their
candidates. and install them whenever
elected and they have repeatedly and
expressly plighted themselves to main
tain these rights inviolatr q, to local dis
turbances which have occurred. They
did not spring from any spirit othoStliity
TO the cclored people. but it Wa unavoid-
able outbreaks arising from state oi "p-
preston and tyranny. In this statr Of