The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-09
THE PRESIDENTS POSITION.

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and which is said to reflect precisely the
Presidents views on the Louisiana question,
is peculiarly interesting and significant at this
juncture. 1t proves that the eyes OF the E1-
ecutive have at length been opened to the
real situation, and that the solemn protest
uttered by our people on the 14th OF Septem-
Der has appealed to his better nature and
shown him how utterly contemplate and IN
popular is the government which he has sane
toned and upheld by the bayonets and cannon
Of the United States.
It has shown him that he has, from the first,
been played upon and shamefully deceived by
| by designing men and demagogues, who for
their personal interests, would not, and did
not, hesitate 70 precipitate Louisiana into the
horrors of civil war.
1t has aroused him to realization that the
further endorsement, by him, Of government
so opposed to every principle Of Republican
ism involves consequences more serious than
those he thought to avert by his hasty recog-
milton, and we are at length promised that
justice and that hearing before the National
Congress which the Committee of One Hun
dred Citizens sent delegation to Washington
in 1872 to respectfully petition for, but which
was CURLY and most unfortunately denied
them, chiefly through the impertinent and
insolent interference Of Attorney General
Williams.
The HeraTs dispatch reads as follows:
s.He does not agree with johnson that either
Kellogg or McEnery was elected, but equivo-
cally declares that the election Of 1872 was q
mockery, and that his only motive tor recog-
nizing Kellogg was to save society i'll Louisi
ana from anarchy. He does not consider
either Kellogg or McEnery the lawfully elected
Governor of Louisiana.
s'On Friday last, in conversation with
Southern gentleman, he intimated that this
would be his position in his next message to
Congress, and that he should ask that provi-
sion be made for free and fair election at the
earliest possible day, and should give empha-
sis to what he had already declared, that it
was time for the Republican party to unload
Louisiana
This is he very first CLEAN Of reason and
intelligence we have had from Grant on the
Louisiana question, concerning which it is
charitable to believe his mind has been in q
chronic condition of "muddle;" but it is q
CLEAN that brings with it hope of an early re-
lief from the evils and troubles which beset
US. 1t is hardly to be expected of people
who have been wronged and insulted as have
the peopl of Louisiana, that they should feel
any kindness to wards the man who is directly
responsible for oppression aad bad govern
ment in their State (inasmuch as he made
haste to recognize pure and simple usurpa-
tom; but it is not too much to say that the
President, in this matter, has always been
regarded by us as imposed upon, and as hay
ing been SO blinded by partisan representa-
tons as to be unable to discover the real
merits of the case.
The repeated assurances Of Kellogg and
Morton and Williams, that the people ac-
guessed in the rule of Kellogg and the in
genious lies of Kellogg in regard to the condi-
ton of the State, no doubt Influenced the
President, and caused him to believe that his
prompt recognition of Kellogg was fortu-
nate stroke of policy, and had saved the State
from anarchy.
These ideas were rudely but effectually dis
PEELED by the action of the people on the 14th
of September and the sudden collapse of the
usurpation which had looked so imposing and
solid, when fenced about by Federal bayonets,
must have been as much of surprise to him
as it was shocking to the nerves of the con-
spirators against free government who had set
it up, and cojeled him into giving it his coun-
tenance and support.
So great has the reaction been throughout
the entire country, and such revolution Of
public sentiment has taken place since the
overthrow of the Kellogg usurpation, that the
President is fully alive pow to the fearful
blunder he committed in first recognizing and
afterwards sustaining Kellogg.
The Republican press is appalled, by the
developments Of the fraud and corruption
made by the publication of the captured cores
pondence of the usurper, and frankly confess
now, that it was beyond their comprehension
how such infamy could exist in free and en-
ightened country.
The President has been made to feel the
weight of popular Indignation that is now
widespread, and he realizes the danger of
any longer tampering with the rights and lib
critics of the people in any part OF the country.
We believe, tn srefore, that new election is
one of the certaintes of the near future, and
we know that some of the more ardent o.
those who heretofore supported the usurpatlon
are now determined upon new election.
West, Casey and other Radicals OF promi-
nence and influence, are pronounced in their
opposition to kelloggs rickety govern
ment. and we are informed will aid in every
way to facilitate It's overthrow, while Packard,
Sypher, and few of that ilk whose desperate
fortunes are all involved in the maintenance
of Kellogg, are filled with apprehension at the
situation.
The last enunciation Of the President is
really their death knell, and they see the