The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-19

was the response, and there was NJ
further suggestion of possible resist
anee to Uncle Sans authority. With
in the specified delay Messrs. Mem
cry and Penn retired from the exer-
else Of a little brief authority, and the
military assumed possession Of all
| State property. Yesterday Gen. En-
DRY received orders to give Gov. Kel-
logg all necessary support to re-estab-
lisll and maintain the lawful State
Government, and the city papers in
form us that affairs will resume their
wonted channel to day.
While we can not find language too
strong to express our denunciation Of
tie riotous and lawless means by
which the White Leagues of New Or
leans sought to overturn IL lawfully
constituted State Government and
substitute one which is more paiata-
table to themselves but not neces-
sarily so to a majority of the people
Of the State, yet we have nauglit but
.admiration for the moderation and
lnagnanimity shown by the Leagues
in their hour of transitory triumph.
Non7combatants, black ana white,
Democratic and Republican, were al
lowed to walk the streets without
danger Of molestation. There were no
Outrages committed aside from the
casualties OF the fight, no rowdyism
or drunkenness tolerated, and all cit
liens combined to prevent the anar-
chy and bloodshed which history has
taught us will in nine cases out of ten
follow such outbreaks. The leaders
of the movement were enabled by
reason of the military discipline en-
forced among their followers to sup
press any indication of desire to
commit excuses, and life and proper
ty were respected to a degree that, in
the premises, was remarkable. The
fact OF the matter is, that to their
thorough organization was wholly
due the success of the Leagues. If
they had made their attack as a mis-
cellaneous, undisciplined mob, the
drilled police would have routed
them as easily as was done last year
when an attempt was made to seize
the government. In the revolution of
Monday the White League appeared
us military force, commanded by
men who smelled powder and faced
cannon i'll the recent war. There
were brave men and old soldiers on
both sides, and the few policemen
who showed cowardice but serve to
set forth in brighter relief the hero
ism of their comrades and the gallant !
officers, Badger, Longstreet, Bafdey, /
LAWYER and others.
The action of President Grant in
the legal government and
the ipsurrection las the APP I
proval OF the mass of the people of
the country, and is sustained even by
those who oppose the Kellogg gov
especially in the North and
West. To recognize a dynasty forced
into power by an arr,ed rebellion
against lawful authority, would be to
a precedent fr;lught with the
greatest danger to the institutions of
the country, and if the President had
been personally disposed to act other
wise than i'll the manner he did, pub
ic opinion would have demanded of
lin the immediate suppression Of this
lew Southern rebellion.
We trust that in this overt act Of
nsurrection by which life has been
acrifced and the material interests
If the State jeopardized, we have wit
lessed the elimination of the long
state Of uncertainty and
threatened discord that has lowered
'ver our" State. Tile determination |
# the federal government to uphold
Governor Acllogg's administration is
and lawlessIess and riot will I
'e put down at any cost SO, let the {
White Leagues of Louisiana abandon !
heir rule OF ruin policy and adopt
more h>anly; fair and peaceable t
curse If they would hope for 5uccess. t
1t having been currently reported s
hat the editor of the CHIEF, in an t
ddress to the Fourth Ward Central t