Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-23
0u.sIANA IYSURRECTIOy.
TIE Opinion Of the Press on the
situation.

/ which claims 10 have been legally
elected, and that, too, in face of the
fact that the supreme tribunal to which
it carried its case pronounced judgment
against il, then there is an end of stable
government in the United States. We
snail have entered upon the road to
revolution and anarchy along which
| the Republic of Mexico has travelled
! to the verge of irretrevable ruin,
| Cincinnati Gazette (Rep) 10th.
| Had the Southern people spent the
| time they wasted in forming White
/ Leagues, in earnest labor among and
/ in behalf of the freedmen, they would
have found before this that there was
"A better road to reconstruction than
meassacre aud riot,
There is nothing like a Spanish pro-
nunciamento in the Presidents lam
/ guage. He INDUCES in no threats,
! but the Leaguers can easily infer what
will be the result of their disobedience.
! If they are not frenzied they will be-
gin to take the back track very
| speedily. A failure at New Orleans
/ involves "a failure in all other parts of
/ the late CUnfederacy. If the precau
tlouary measures referred to in the
proclamation are duly carried out, we
shall hear of little more trouble in the
/ South.
st. Louis Democrat (Rcp). 18th.
The people of Louisiana, who have
resorted TO armed revolution, have
taken upon themselves a terrible re-
sponsibilty. It is we'll nigh certain
that another session of Congress would
not have passed without a successful
effort, in which the best and ablest
Republicans were ready to join, to re-
move al uses under which tax payers
of some States are suffering. But now
they have defied the laws, the courts,
and public opinion, and taken the law
into their own hands. 1t is impossible
to say how far their acts may put off
the better day for which they long,
No man can now say how great a re-
vulsion of public opinion this armed
, revolt may produce. It's consequences
may not be confined to Louisiana, but
may reach to other Southern States as
, well.
Chicago Tribune Und.) 18th
, As a defiance of recognized authority
] aud an open revolt against the existing
5 government, the New Orleans revoluN
t tionists must be put down by the
. strong arm of the Government. There
e can be no question about this. There
. should be no delay in bringing the re-
volt to a sudden end. 1t will be prop
er to ask, when the mob shall have
= been driven Off and order shall have
( been restored, whether it is not time
- that something should be done for a
= State which even Senator Carpenter
e. said, "A year ago, has been "trodden
o. beneath the foot of q Federal judge
L Chicago Tiraes Dem }, Eth.
90 whit, 7 - ~ t
= wholly hlameless. 1t is true they had
e exhausted many of the eXpedients to
y bring about better condition OF
Il affairs, but they had not tried all. A
I wise diplomacy would have suggested
1 the endurance of the ills under which
: the suffered, with a sincere effort tC
y mitigate them. BY assuming the of.
fensive in an appeal to arms they are
$ placed at IA disadvantage, for even
.' their well~wishers must admit that the
Federal cannon must be pointed al
l. their ranks; that the military must
defend Kellogg at all hazards, even
II though he may be in the wrong.
, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18th.
Il We shall never gain power in the
,s nation by lawlessness. We recognize
h the oppression and usurpation, and the
If great provocation to insolent resistance
n to them, but we denOunce the lawles
=, men and the lawless measures Withou
> stint. These short sighted men, WHIT
are closely related to madmen, vii
never learn, as it appears, the duty o
forbearance, the wisdom of patience
= the folly of lawlessness. If the day o
deliveranCe from the evils OF whlcl
they justly complain is indetinitel,
49, postponed, the Southern sufferers viii
I l.. II LY,f lnVN / xync
ia To send the report over the cOuntr.
% that men are in arms in the sum.
TX land, that fifty men have been killed
that the law is not respected, furnish
u es proof of the idiocy of the men VIII
4 violate the law that law may reign.
a. Nothing is lacking to the completion
no of the folly of the Democracy Soutl
- but a speech from Jefferson Davis.
~ Indianapolis Sentinel DEM, 18th
They simply fall back on the sacre
se- right of instruction. 1t is not neces
nm sarv to recapitulate the reasons fo
cir their action. Their manifesto set
rot them forth at full length. The Sen
ne tj1lel does not hesitate to say, however
IS that they have received abundant pre-
~ vocation for resort TO violence, a
,s- though, in the present state of th
g country, their action can hardly fail
~ result in general disaster 1t must NJ
an be forgotten that the men who an
as moving to expel Kellogg are the law
's, fully elected officers Of the State kel
on out of their positions by the interir
e. ence Of United States troops.
.r Memphis Avalanche DEM, 10Th.
TO We deeply sympathize with the p,
nd pie of Louisiana in their troubles Dor
for of gross misgovernmcnt, but regar
nd the late movement rs not only il
scs Judged but calculated to increase the
misiOT,unes.
Nashville Banner yDem.), 10th,
,os At this hour, II P.M.there threatens
ot. be bloody work i'm New Orleans. Wha
Nv ever the provocation Of it all, we ca
1e, but look upon it as altogether unfoI
Oh tunate and certainly most inoppo
or tune and ill-advised. That the Peep
lis. of Louisiana have had their patient
he severely tried is not to be denied, an
EN- they have taken the worst Of method
al if their earnest purpose is to bett