National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-11

or by sympathy has animated the Southern
Democracy ever since the close Of the war
and has induced them step by step to the
commission Of the most extraordinary pc
litical atrocities. .......-.
Take the State Of Louisiana for example
From the murder Of a minister of the Cos
pei while he was bearing flag of truce to
the mob down the stairway Of the Mo
chanics' Institute in 1896, through all the
riots in the city of New Orleans and in the
country parishes. and down to the attempt
to 'mpeach Judge Durell, we have before
us at glance the ever-changing scenes Of
CHASTITY panorama of political crime. Il
mattered not that the Kellogg government
was legally sustained by the judiciary, fol
it was a part of the conspiracy against re-
publicanism to overthrow 1t. The con-
spirators, either in the courts. before com.
mittees and on the floor of Congress. OF
with asssssins' weapons in their hands.
sought this common object. The ruin Of
the Commonwealth, the paralysis Of bust.
ness, and the decentralization of every honest
sentiment of true citizenship. were NOT
sufficiently appalling to deter them. An
unprincipled press, aided by lying Associated
Press reporters, was at their command,
and the country was SO filed with contra
dictory statements that the people began to
look upon the affairs of the State as mud
died again. Thus it became the custom to
characterize the Louisiana muddle as one Of
the vicissitudes of Southern politics, and
the conspirators attempted to throw the re-
sponsibility upon the Republican party.
The truth is readily ascertained. The first
obstacle in their way was the Judge by
whom the restraining injunction against
the McEneryites was issued. His act, a
bold and manful response to the dictates of
duty, established the power of the Kellogg
government. To remove him by impeach-
ment or otherwise became prerequisite to
the success of their schemes. They did
not dare to appeal from his action to supe-
rior judicial power; but, shrewdly calcu-
lating that his disgrace would strengthen
their cause, they charged him with
infamous crimes, with collision with
political associates, and with soil
ting he judicial ermine by prosti-
tuting his sacred Office for political OBJ
jects. They hoped, ct least to succeed in
obtaining articles of Impeachment against
him. This was the kind of disgrace which
they believed would add strength or moral
to their declarations that the Re-
publican party of Louisiana is 80 disgrace
fully corrupt. They did not care whether
he was convicted of the charges or not. In
the interim of his trial by the court of i'm
parchment they expected to gather power
for the overthrow of the Kellogg govern
ment. But unfortunately for them, the
Judiciary Committee of the House has found
that their charges are not sustained by the
evidence produced. Considering the effect
that would have been produced by q reverse
finding, we cannot fail to admit that the
action must be accepted as ad
ditional and convincing proof Of the loyalty
Of the Kellogg government. With this
proof before us. together with the fact that
Governor Kellogg administration has ben
Gifted the State immeasurably, that it is &C.
,eptable to the business community, and
hat peace and prosperity have replaced ruin
md rapine under ii, we have reason to
ourselves that this greatest and
most unprincipled of all the efforts of the
Democratic conspirators has been defeated.
We do not hesitate, in view of all this, to
warn Congress most solemnly that any at
empt to disturb the existing condition of
Iffairs in Louisiana will be denounced by
men as an act of despotic inter-
erence with people who have suffered
wrongs already, and who are
Untitled, now that they have legally earned
t, to some respite from the evils and hor-
ors incident to political campaigns in the
'outh. Let Governor Kellogg alone. and
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