The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-26
The New Southern Rebellion.
Qpinions Of the Press.

|. SHoihS Joui HNis VI I'LL SuautS VI pO-
Elitical opinion to demonstrate the
general feeling of the country u p0n
the subject Of the White League in
s,,rrection IN New Orleans and out
RACES in various portions Of the South
ern States.
Chicago Inter Ocean-Republican.l
The rebels of Louisiana court de-
stthctiOn. They have precipitated
themselves into the very jaws of
death, for they have violated the con
stitution of their State, overturned
the law, and are now brought face to
f,ce with federal power. With that
aul acity peculiar to ignorance and
passion, Lieutenant Governor ~
Penn yesterday telegrapI,ed tile Pres
ident, declaring sincere loyalty and
respect for the United States govern
ment and its officers! With the lying
pretense that he is g suptI,ufted by the
great body Of the intelligent and
Aonest people'of the State" lie de-
1nguneas rs a " usutper" The executive
Iuf louisiana, repeatedly recognized
lis such by the President himself.
With the hand covered with the blood
Of slaughtered citizens, he penned
the declaration Of his liability to
maintain peace and protect life, lib
'erty and the equal rights Of all classes
of citizens:' The effrontery of the
NEW rebellion is equal to that of the
old. In 1861 the South prayed to be
let alone.'' The oligarclrists merely
desired to destroy the government,
and were astonisl,ea that President
Lincoln did not follow in the foot
steps Of James Buchanan, and let the
government which he had sworn to
administer, 60 to pieces! Mr.. Penn
seizes the government OF 4 State by
force OF arms, strewing dead and
wounded in his pathway to power,
and cody requests the President "to
withhold any aid or protection from
our (his) enemies and the enemies of
Republican rights and Of the peace
and liberties of the people,! !" Having
violated the peace, having stricken
down.liberty, having played the role
Of IL mobocrat until the streets of
New Orleans ran with blood, this
graceless traitor appeals to be let
alone But this newest despot, this
assassin of the liberties of q people is
already answered. From his un-
reasoning assurance that the Presi-
dent would permit the regularly -con-
stituted government Of IL State to be
destroyed by a band of murderers he
he has been rudely awakened. In
response to his demand for recogni-
ton he has the Presidents procla-
nation invoking the aid and cooper
alton of all good citizens of Louisiana
to uphold the law and preserve the
public peace. This proclamation is |
backed by all the power of the fed
eral government, aud the government
is the people. 1t is Mr.. Penn who
has overthrown the law and broken
the public peace, and the Presiden-
tial proclamation is notice to- all the
world that he is Il maletactor, to be
pursued and taken by federal troops
and punished by federal courts. He
holds the State House and Court
House, and with the desperate men
whose comrades OF the White League
have desolated Northern Louisiana,
Dverawes the people of New Orleans.
But he is il usurper, a murderer, and
consequently an outlaw. He has
pitted his fortunes against the army
md navy of the United States, and
Ill those who stand by him assail the
supremacy Of law and must abide the
The miserable pre-
ense Of loyalty to the federal author
ty will not avail the Louisiana rebels.
loyalty to the federal authority in
olives loyalty to the State authority,
md it is the latter which has been
tricken down by Penn and his rebel
rev.
memphis chr-renocratic
We deeply sympathize with the
'eopie OF Louisiana in their troubles t
'orn OF gross misgovernment, but l
egarl the late movement as not ONLY
Il Judged, but calculated to increase a
heir mi: fortunes. 1t is not q aues- {
ion to be discussed from /, senti- h
rental, but practical standpoint. t
he object was to secure u. release t
'oln oncrous burdens, but the means c
ere perhaps the most unfortunate {
nat could have been devised, for +
ley not on y placed Lo,s1kianians in '
he attitude Of revolutionists, but Il
ave given new strength to State a
pvcrnment which had already be- o
Dme a stencil in the nostlils Of the
poplc Of the North, and which would
time have fallen to pieces from :.
re sheer weight Of its own coirup- IN
on. .
Atlanta News-White Icapue.1
God be praised for this evidence =
lat all manhood and courage have
ut been crushed out of the Southern e
,ople! God be paised, we say even
ongh the heroic men Of New Or
ans should fall martyrs in the 1ause
their race and of liberty. II
We make no war upon the United e'
ates. Let the people of the North
'dcrstand this. The conflict has
en forced upon lis by the dumnable =,