The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-30
LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS.
From the Boston Post. i

eminent. Until there is a rising of public
/ sentiment tor the rescue of any and all
States thus situated, the progress of that
destructive force in our republican system
will be unchecked. The only way for Con-
gress to properly and cOnstitutionally
redress the deep wrong against Louisiana is
suggested by Senator Bayard; first, a
Governor of Louisiana and Davidson B.
Penn Lieutenant-Govefnor, and that
they were unlawfully compelled, by
armed forces, acting under the authority
of the President of the United States,
from discharging their respective official
duties; that Kellogg and Antoine. by this
unauthorized interference of the Federal au-
thorities civil and military, obtained and
held possession of the offices of Governor;
and requesting the President to issue his
proclamation within ten days after the pas
sage Of this act, notifying the people of Lou
siana that all obstruction on the part of
the Federal Government to the peaceable
and legal assumption of the above offices is
withdrawn, SO that they may proceed to fill
the offices, and that the persons elected to
the Legislature on the Fusion ticket may
take their seats. This is open and direct,
and simply acknowledges the wrong whose
redress it likewise seeks to secure. In his
speech Oh the Louisiana case, Senator Car
penter admitted the electi, of Gov. Nc
Emery by the people.
Senator West, the other day, pressed him
in his argument by saying tEat since the
Wisconsin Senator admitted an election, yet
positively denied that of Kellogg, the other
candidate must, according to Mr.. Carpenters
conviction, have been chosen. Assal the
facts with what assertions or arguments
they may, the enemies of the clear majority
of the voters of Louisiana cannot deny that
McEnery was the overwhelming choice of
the people for Governor, and for that unan-
swerable reason he should be allowed to
take the seat from which Federal power
alone elected him. The fagrancy of the
fraud committed by Kellogg in the begin
ming, relying, of course, upon Federal as
sistance, is paralleled by that which he has
sought to impose upon the Senate at the
last. He was willing to deceive even his
partisan defender, Senator West, and leave
him before the Senate and nation an object
of derision unless he was ready to disavow
all knowledge of the Kellogg action respect
ing the second repeal bill, which he prompt
ly did.
Senator Bayards comment was a crush
ing one for the surviving claims of Kellogg
to the Senate's recognition he remarked
that, after Senator Vests acknowledgement
of his ignorance of Kellogg's base trick with
the suppressed act of repeal, there was
nothing for him to add which could more
excoriate Kellogg than Senator
Vests own confession.
Senator Carpenter denounced the affair as
" a dirty trick on the part o. Kellogg" but
what was to have been expected of man !
holding his place by far worse and wickeder |
tricks than that's The whole matter merits
the denunciation of the Senate. That body
ought to manifest the greatest indignation
and alarm that such case should ever have
arisen for its investigation and disposal.
As soon as it discovered that Executive
invasion of State had taken place as al
eged it should have acted with a prompt |
irmness which would have read decisive
lesson to all similar experiments in the flu
ture This going into State and Selling
the election returns, or setting them aside
Tor manufactured returns in the interest of
creatures of the Executive, is the most dan
yerOus movement of the absorption of all
power within central dynasty which can
De conceived. Once concede this right to
he Federal Executive, and after that no
State possesses right which he is bound to
aspect. AS Senator Carpenter asserts that
he Federal Government has now no au-
hOrity to enter a State and order new
election, Senator Bayards amendment to
lis bill, as above recited, fits the conditions
# the case as exactly as anything can.
But Arkansas is only another Louisiana
without the Casey factor. 1t is a State
whose citizens are divided into warning
actions, and all the industries of peace are
or the time suspended. Brooks and Baxter
re equally eager to gain the private ear
+ the President, and therefore are entitled
0 no general sympathy. Brooks was elected
nd counted out: his claim had not been de-
ided on upon appeal; in taking possession
the State House he was, therefore, prac-
ically a usurper, while Baxter had for the
ime the law with him. Blood would have /
cen shed but for the interference of the
'ederal arms. There is, of purse, no recog-
lied Governor or Legislature to call on the
Executive for military aid, but it comes in
II the same. 1t has acquired the easy
abit of doing so. The Washington con-
option of the Government is simple SUI
remacy at the centre, the same which Mr..
'outwell used to preach with bis bigoted i,
ervOr.
There is nothing to excite the belief that
he President will not take possession of ,
precisely as he has done by Lou /,
lana, except the consideration that the
sual motive is not yet developed. The
lea of restraining violence, establishing
and distributing equal rights,
not enough to move the President to any
etermined action, as in Louisiana. But
9th States to day warn the people of this
Mon against their danger. They can see
lat a power already exists, centered at
7ashinyton, which on any pretext or none, 6
lirly assumes the authority to deal with
le rights, the persons and the property of
le citizens of all the States as if they
ere its own. Whether it accomblishes it's
esigns by violence OF corruption, its stead
y moves on its objective point and will
,cure it at last unless the sovereign voice
the people thunders its rebuke before it =
too late.
THE Pores HEALTH.-A Rome letter chats
about the Pope's health, which
ppears to have improved wonderfully.
II persons privileged to visit the sacred
recincts of the Vatican observe with Won
or the forid and robust health of the Holy
ather. They contrast the Pope's present
,ndtion with that in which he found him
If twelvemonth ago, precisely at this
lme time of the year. Last April, they say,
le POntiff to all appearance, had barely