The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-20

1t is not very surprising to hear that the
president is greatly surprised and displeas-
ed" at the reception OF Durell's resignation
which he CONSTITUTES as "tacit confession
of his guilt"-a result all the more surpri-
sing and disagreeable that The president has
'stOod by him and upheld his decisions from
the first" You will observe in this that the
president is shocked-unspeakably shocked
at the course of Durell-not, mind you, be-
cause that Desotted rascal has demeaned the
bench, insulted the bar, plunged state into
anarchy and debarred the legitimate author
tiles from their functions-not because of the
enormities of which these are but a 1.-THE
but because he sinks out of the contest and
leaves the president and his scoundrelly
attorney general not the shadow of an ex-
cuse for their murderous interference in the
Louisiana state government. For mark you
the only pretext for the calling in of bay
onets and the overturnipg of the legitimate
legislature was the infamous mandate of this
drunken thief, perched upon the United
States circuit BENCH 1t was he who,
without request, put the machinery of
the government into the hands of a drunk
en- rObber; he who called upon the United
States marshal to patrol the State domain
with bayonets; he who stayed the lawful
processes of the State courts; he who put a
pretended authority in the hands of the
ignorant and scheming gambler Pinchback,
to act as governor, while the conspiracy was
in preparation to put kellogg at the front.
He was known from the first to be an
outrageous partisan. He upheld the place
simply through servility to the robbing gang
which has impoverished the greatest COM
mercial metropolis of the South. Yet in the
face of this General Grants law officers tele-
graphed the citizens committee getting
ready to visit Washington. that sit is useless,
the president has made up his mind.' The
gentlemen comprising that assemblage were
many of them witnesses who have testified be-
fore the committee, and they could have told
the President then what has been proven
now. Yet he would not hear them. He
knew better. He had his brother in-law in
the field-the odorous Casey-and in the COL
lection of customs he was better calculated to
know the situation than the men who had
built and dwelt IN the city for a life time.
So Louisiana by General Grants command
was thrown into the keeping of robbers who
had neither interest or property in the
state. The pretended governor, worthless
scamp from Illinois, and the subordinate
officials colored men unable to read or write.
Pinchback, rascally gambler, was given
his choice OF offices and selected the place of
Ii eutenant governor and acting governor,
cOngressman-a large and senator. Fortwelve
months this vile condition of things has
been upheld, and now that the principal agent
of the villainy is brought TO book ard re-
signs to escape punishment, the president is
wroth with him; not for his guilt; not for
the infamies of lawlessness set in motion
at his behest, but because he flies from the
struggle in which he would have had presi.
Dental aid and countenance. 1t is pleasant
picture Of republicanism this, and it is hard
ly to be wondered that banded Europe looks
coldly upon the prospect of such work in
France and Spain.