The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-11-14
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From thB Galveston MereuFy.
Louisiana is Id the hands Of
men who are despoiliug her. It
is tie duty Of our people to hear
her cry for help. We afe pros
porous and happy, but she is suf-
fering and helpless. Prosperity
should not dull our senses, aud
make rs cold and uncharitable.
In our sister State, within a few
short months, things have occur
red that make an American citizen
blush for his nationality. On the
affidavit Of q soldier men have
been bandcufed and inCarcerated
in prison, without d pretext of law.
On one occasion man wearing
the uniform Of 8 soldier, gave as
his authority for the arrest Of
peaceable citizens the argument
of highwaymen "a revolver point
ed at the head Of the duestioners
Our dispatches last night in
form us of 8 continuation OF these
higb-handed outrages, and the ar
rest of peaceable and working
citizens of Louisiana by Pack
ards tools. So open is rufianism
that even the bogus Governor
Kellogg IS taken BY the hand
when riding III bis carriage ia
New Orleans, shot at in the pres
ence Of Judge Atocha, (now presi-
ding over the Criminal Court by
Burke, one Of his partisans, who
had gulled the people into his ele-
vation to an important leadership
Of the opposition, and the harm
less bullet failing. as a matter Of
course, in its mission, the accom-
plice ef the bogus Governor, play
ing assassin, is arrested but
promptly released at the request
of Kellogg, the coward who was
shot at. The messenger employ
ed to effect his release was Atocha,
the Judge Of the Criminal Court.
We expect The people North,
East, West and South, wherever
the Mercury ciroulates, To open
their eyes at this announcement
of facts. but we are not prepared
10 believe that our friends and
across the Atlantic
would have believed such q thing |
possible, did we not oorroborate |
The statement, By thus repeating
it in our editorial columns. One
tenth of the real property III New
Orleans Is owned bY foreign CAPT |
salists. We do not wonder that |
the house of Rechereau failed, as |
they held mortgages against most |
Of this property, and it is now so
deprecated that il will not bring |
The money advanced. Any man
who would trust bis capital or
send his goods to acity, where the
representative Of the State Of I
which it Is q part resides and en-
ploys a paid aceomplice to get up
such d shooting scrape as that de-
scribed ID our dispatches yester-
day, would be a fool. We do not
think many such can be foRnd.
The duty Of the whole American
people is to protect their national
honor. They can only do this by |
uniting to relieve Louisiana from
The thieves who now hold her by
Hhe throat, and are engaged Ii her
ravishment. If the Government
1f the United States allow S400
honest naturalized citizens to be
1isfranchised BY d cowardly thief
who robbed the government when
ID the army, suborned her officials
Ehen Collector of the Port 0f New
Orleans, bought through bis In
iusnee his way into ths United /
States senate, 50 that he could be
on railroad and other
paying schemes, and coming back
. L0uiaiana, utilized all these
By being placed at the
mead of the State Government
We have no faith ii tho honesty Of
American citizenship,
The people of Texas arc chiy-
,lrous and brave A protest
should be made by Gle whole eit-