The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-09-26
THE LOUISIANA REVOLUTION.

THE LOUISIANA REVOLT rION.
As every body anticipated, the brief tgi.
umph Of the McEneryites in Louisiana has
come to sudden end Gen. Grant, on as.
ccrtaiaing the facts Of the case, at once sent
despatch TO Gen. Emery, commanding the
/ L. ). forces 1t t,ew Orleans, directing him
| to take possession of the state house cNpel
/ Lict GOV. Penn and his associates, and re.
store Kellogg and his crew to their tormcl
position and power. Gen. Emery proceeded
promptly on Monday to carry out this order.
/ He took two companies ofinfantry, proceeded
to the state house and demanded Pcnn's sur
render. The revolutionary governor made
no opposition, His surrender would have
been as prompt had Emery appeared with an
orderly only or alone. The thought had
nsyer entered the heads Of the rcyou;ionsts
| to oppose the Government of the United
States.
Gen. Emery, in this business however,
seems to have exceeded Grants orders. Hay-
| ing dcposcd Penn, he found Kellogg still too
Icowardly to risk his carcass alone in the state
house and he proceeded, therefore, to organ,
izc a sort Of military government to hold
possession in the absence Of both the dcposed
governors This Grant construed as a sort
of recognition Of NcEnery as at least the
| tpso ftcto governor for day or two, while he
prefers to regard him only as the temporary
chief Of a mob After such a recognition of
McEnery, il will be impossible 10 prosecute
him for nsurrcction, &c
The "hash" being thus settled in New Or
leans and Kellogg having mustered courage
to return to the state house, peace and quiet
on the old basis would seem to be restored :;
but there remains this drawback: During
the few days Penn held the rcins, he deposcd
all the Kellogg officials throughout the state
and put his own partisans in their places.
Many Of the deposed Kelloggites thereupon
left, while many others who remail find pub
lie opinion 50 strongly against them that, as
they return on KcllogG's order to reclaim
their Offices, they find their rights contested
by mob" The result is, that through the
parishes outside OF New Orleans general dis.
order and discomfort prevail.
The situation is certainly strange and
anomalous. II is true, tina! the constitution
gives the President the power to protect the
States against domestic violence in order
to guarantee them "republican form Of
government Out docs lhlS power auIhoElZe
the /. ). Government to interfere in a state
where arccolurion like that in New Orleans
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Nus ''c'' ".'oi' ''''nC"' Io' '''''l5 i" wv
overthrow OF II republican form oil govern
mcnt," but in the peaccable and solid cstab
Iicbment of = more nerfactlv renullican form
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Vi s'Ncln'ho"' '''"" 'N0 >'"'c l'''' Ia" o''''''
Docs the constitutional clause in question
pretend to DENY wholly 20 the states the very
r,r,lo,i,, r,,b.o f tuoric,, rro,loo,--,bn
F'-hl "i revolution:
In this light, the following comments Of
the Louisville lear laclau.
'"",S "''s''' "'' S'-''''C''',.'
- ~, SCUM t'dl,I". c"Iuo' ''', az 1T L, must
hce"7 exc Out us "'>i!Hy from gay 20 HaY-'
,o'to i haE"hi'' conn., sung bei"lHco inc
heaven, ana me rar'i-d 'hiHefA'ir poor "cV-
H. 1>clt'iinT between he'i ana ]"e IRON
W"'N,rhc''Aer hsh' hesH nor low. with me
F"P"oI' 'ei2lhE nearer ahI nearer upon me
one man power; H. we say IN" Nou'n can oe
40 better '.iaA 'hI', II Aad better end II all III
4 2.llR 'io'J :" oe,tfucloh. IL ia! better
I'VE io' roNcHge anu ule through despair nap
ly II !. carry IL, enemy win |, Gown % ruiH
Anything is oo'''r IMAM the ne we nave leu
INC l'7' ~" yours diiu' Us INC oc!l-crchls
nave Il 'hHhGG GOWN IN LOUISIANA, lei Us see
what ulry WIZ 90 win II. IhcE cannot make
matters worse. hey are sure to be stamped
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