The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-09-25
THE PRESIDENTS VICTORY.
fFrom the N. y. Tribune.l

Gen. Grant has vanquished tho pco-
pie of Louisiana again. He has tcle-
graphed to his generals and his admi-
rails, he has set the army and navy In
motion and the lawful Government Of
Louisiana Surrenders. Ii there was
any doubt before rs to the character of
the usurpation which rules the unhappy
State by favor of the President, any
question whether the people really ac-
quiosced in it, there can be none now.
The outrage stands out henceforth in
all Its naked deformity, an ,inpardona-
bic crime against popular suffrage and
the sovereignty ora State. a Government
which the people lOathe and despise
wts forced upon Louisiana by tho SOL
dicrs of the President; left to them-
selves for n moment, the people threw
it OF and installed the officers whom
they had regularly chosen ut the polls.
The desposcd intrudcrs made no fight;
they We're as helpless and cownrily as
children in the presence of the indignant
people; but, covering behind the shut
ters ofthc Custom-Houset they telegraph
ed to the President, ''the people have
put lis out, this is your job, come yon
and put us back again." Two years
ago Grant yielded to the bad advice of
his disreputabie associates and installed
Kellogg ut New orleans by fraud and
force, because he wanted the electoral
vote OF the State, which y majority of
| the voters had given to the other side.
That wicked decd has brought forth II
fun crop of crimes. We have seen him
! dispensing II legislature ut the point OF
the bayonet, ,eNpclling II Legitimate gov
crnmcnt with threats OF martial law
and reversing tho course ofjusticc by
the scandalous support of periured
court. His own friends have exclaimed
ut the iniquity of these proceedings and
warned him to dcsist. The hottest par
tiS:,us of his administration have de-
nounccd the wicked usurpations of
Kellogg and Durcli with an Indignation
that does them credit. Seventeen Re
publican Senators voted in Fcbuary,
tS13, to declare the pretended election
of Kellogg 'ulI and void, and to turn
him ont of Office. The President himself
finally admitted in special message to
Congress that SO many for.,crics and
frauds had been discovered that he was
not sure OF Kcllo@g'l title; an official
investigation proved the rascality OF
the whole transaction beyond any pos
sibiiity of denial, but the President
would not hnit; hc must carry out his
original crime to its natural conseduen-
COS, and the incXornble logic of events
has led him to this crowning shame.
For the first time in tho history of the
United States the soldiers of tho Union
are employed to drive out u legitimate
Governor and place II miserable protein
der in the Statc-lIouse, to shoot down
in. the streets the people who m:ty
refuse to obey him. For this Disgrace
ful and Iish@trtening spectacle the
Congress which refuses to act on the
Louisiana report, and tho Republican
party which tncitly approved the
wrong, are both to blame; but it is
upon the President that the chief
responsibility must rest; the President,
who began the long course of oppres-
sion; the President, who could have
| stopped it at any moment If he had
chosen, and could stop it now: the
President, who is probably the only
! man in America not ashamed of the
whole business, and who comes forward
in the midst Of it asking for n third
| term.