South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
Restoration of Kellogg in Lou
iSiana.

io"eu oy tneh surrender OF LOUISIANA 10
President GRANT, represented by Major
Gen. EMORY. Having proved that the peo-
pie of the State are substantially unanimous
in their rejection of KELLOGG aud his usur-
patton that in fact there is no party to
support that wretched impos,uro, they have
now proved likewise that their uprising was
not against the laws or the sutbority Of the
United States. With the appearance of
the army upon the scene they have with
drawn, rcsiguiug everything iuto the hands
of the commanding General
"In doing this they have followed the
plain path Of duty. II must have been
painful to tbeu, being in quiet possession
of the Government to which they were le-
gally elected in 1872, to give it up again !;
but tho duty was plain, and it has been
performed with an ulacrity which shows
tt they perfectly comprehend the whole
case, and in manner which loavcs them
masters of the situation.
"Of course, Cow that President GRANT
has again interviewed with arms to sustain
KELLOGG and his followers, they will once
moro usurp and hold the places which they
formerly occupied through the same sgeu =
cy, and from which they were only now
expelled by the people. This is an untow-
ord and deplorable result, but under the
circumstances it was inevitable; and indeed
il would seem that the conservatives had
looked for il and counted upon it from the
beginning of their insurrec ionary effort.
There is reason fJr believing, as observ-
ed by contemporary, "that the uprising
in New Orleans was arranged with the de-
liberate expectation that the result would
be to place the whole State under martial
law and the supervision Of Federal military
officers, though tho ease with which the
KELLOGG government was overthrown may
have since induced some Of those concerned
in the movement to hope that the legally
would be recognized by the President. -
The project Of an attack upon the KELL-
ooG gang with the express purpose of com.
pelliug Federal interference has been froel y
discussed for months. Ga the Slturday
previous to the outbreak an editorial appear.
ed in the New Orleans Bulttin, the organ
of the white League, which contained tho
following significant paragraph:
1.-THE truth is that there is no trouble here tina,
could not be instan tly cured by the declaration
of martial law, or by the installation in the GU
bernatorial office OF some representing some
recognized authority, either that of the State or
of the Federal Government. If we cannot have
| the Governor Of our choice if the votes of the
citizens to be cast aside so much waste pa
ger, then we ask, we have the right to deman d,
that there shall be placed over US ali officer or
represen tative of the power that has subverted
the will of the majority of the people of the State.
Let the President declare martial law IN Louisia-
| ma and he will perform act for which the best
people here will thank him, and it may he tina (
he will thereby prevent the eifusiOn Of much
blood. We are sick of this man KELLOGG sick
of his imbecility sick of his shameful hypocrisy
and cowafdice, sick Of man destitute of all the
attributes of true manhood sick of him as a usur-
per without a re deemiug trait. 1t is the refine
ment OF cruelty to compel any people to live un-
der the rule OF this human fraud, this man who
does not boast friend on earth, and whose most
intimate associates abhor him"
"What a commentary this affords upon
tho reconstruction policy of the present Ad-
ministra,ion. Hero is q community SO
ground to tho earth under the tyranny and
oxtoriion of the robbers put over them by
GRANT a. the point of tho bayonet, so des-
perate in their dstr ess, that they are ready
to peril their lives and property in order to
gain the poor privilege Of being placed IN.
der the iron rule of an armed soldiory !"