The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-20
A FEW WORDS TO THOUGHTFUL
CITIZENS.

| to submit TO such wrong as that under which
Louisiana groans to-day Senator Ihos. f.
| Bayd,u.
| This country stands upon the brink of an
other war. 1t is not like the last one for or
against the Union. 1t is not one of sections.
1t is not even one OF Faces 1t is far more
terrible than either II involves q strife in
every State, in every county, in every village,
if it is once commenced And with it viii
come perhaps the Cestruction of our liberty,
of our free institutions anl of the form of
government
The prlncipl underlying the action Of the
Louisiana people Is the same which sctuated
our ancestors to thro off the yoke of Great
Britain 60 taxation without repr, SEN alton.
Nay. the grievance Is n thousand 1old worse .
than in 1916, Tor il is now actual cOnfScation.
spoha1on and OBJ rrs>lon, which has charac
leriZed the misrt!e Of the usurpels in New
Orleans. We r.va ie'ore us the tax bills Of
citizen of Louisville for a piece OF property
in New Orleans tur which he Would gladly
take $1,000, aud ne has had to pay 500 tor
the years taxes.
Rather than submit to such robbery. rather
than have every vtstige of liberty or right
wrested from them, tho Louisiana people,
who have waited patiently for years, hoping
that tardy reoresS l'ght come Ill some other
shape, have preferred to die, rather than
longer endure such oppressions And their
cause Is to-day the cause OF every true Repub-
hcan in the land. who does not wish to see the
Republic bathed i'll l.ood; and a one-man
power erected upon its ruins Are we to have
political war? Is the Federal Government
Created for the common benefit Of all the
states, and the agent of their people, to be
permitted, Mt tie command Of one man, to
crush portion by the use of the united forces
and means? The army Of United States,
III its present status, would De unavailable to
make war with success upon the people OF
Louisiana alone They have fully 20, 900 men
ready t" take the field at once, with ample ar
tlilery, sailA arms and munitions. which KEEL
l"sg had been. gathering for tn purpose of
conpl sv crushing the people. But free
men Will not be crushed, even when the odds
seem hopeless
Installed by violence and superior force,
Kellogg and his ring of harpies has been sus-
tanned by the moral and II iitary influence of
the United States; wrongiully eXerted. 1t has
fallen, without hope Of rehabilitation by any
power within the State. The Government de
jtre. the rlghtiully elected ot1i :lAls of 1872,
has been installed de focto, and its power to
exercise tull authority unmolestod from out
side is nnquestlonad. Kellogg has no hope
whatever, except from outside force. Is this
truly a Repub,ic2 Are TIE people to enjoy
constitutional liberty? Or is urs mere
mockery, a Tor having lie only ut the will
of one man? If the Federal power is to be
used to reinstate fallen us,lrptr, who cannot
enforce hereafter a single order, without the
accompan ment Of Federal bayonets, let us
throw aside the mere name and establish our
government, as it will in reality be IL CONSOLE
dated Dictator ship, withou. State lines.
Under the law of nat ons, Gov. Penn wonld
be regarded as fully entitled to recognition.
His Government Is not My IL. jaTe, but it is
lie tacto the usurper being over brown and
powerless. No.other State has witnessed the
scenes preserved by Louisiana, IN utter def
ance of the United States Constitution. Under
the name & Police this Kellogg has main
tain I'd standing army, lately augmented to
1900 men, and costing the unfortunate city Of
New Orleans (which groaned nnwillngly
under the grevous burden) probably 81, $780,.
600 year. Kellogg and his ianissaries lord
ed 1t over the community They set at
n ught all ideas of law or iustice-ignored
even the courts or their orders or their Off
GERS Houses were broken open and property
seized without due process ct law.
All this the citizens have borne, even while
they knew that it was usurpation. But when
war was made upon them in the streets-when
grape ana CANISTER was poured upon them
rom cannon procured from Federal arsenals,
5he crushed worms turned upon the oppressor
md made him bite the dust
The telegraph has carried the loyal words
d Gov. Penn to all the people of the Union.
There is no intent to violate the III. hts of any
person whatever. There is no hostility to the
Government Of the United States. There is
lnly a determination to be free or to die de-
ending that cause, which will be the cause of
very Northern or Western, Eas,t IN or South
IN Republican.
If the Federal Government persists in the
lght OF present events, IL attempting to coerce
he people OF Louisiana, it may result in the
. lara H.. r.
me disastrous and bloody battle. But with
hat success the liberties of every State are
doomed. And .he Federal power will remain
urroine prepared and capable OF debating to
View York Tomorrow and ONO The next day
need be, what the people Shall do, when
he one man commands it.
There are two sides to this question; and
nen are just ns likely to espouse the cause of
19ht and justice, against the organized rob-
'ery OF Kellogg, even if the Federal arm is
lpllfted to sustain hlm-and men can pour
nto New Orleans by the 1U,00O from every
'olnt OF the compass, just as readily as others
an be sent against them. 1t is openly &C
by thousands of fair Radicals
hat Gen. Grant committed an error in sup
'ortIng Kellogg in his usupations To persist
n an error Is crime To spill drop of blood
n such cause wohld stain our Federal
equation to the bounds of history One OF
ht Soou ana true men, who were sacrificed
a New Orleans, was worth the carcasses Of
Kellogg and his whole official gang, a hun
red told.
We hoIe and trust that wise cour seis may
i've us peace. But we frankly confess our
-ars that snch will not be the case And to
ne thoughtful mind OF every locality we COM
lend the words OF o St Louis speaker:
. Ii liberty is to be suppressed, if free
tate Gov rhments are to be wiped out by the
lctates OF an imperial government residing
Washington, then tyranny will lie oars, #
e do not choose to obey the imperial man
ate ''-LouisoiAe Ledger.
A number OF young people OF East Norwich,