Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-06
LOUISIANA.
The Wrongs Inflicted Upon the
People.
A Powerful ArraIgnment by the Dem
Oerafic Executive Committee.

/ A Powerful ArraIgnment by the Dem.
Oerafic Executive Committee.
| New ORLEANS, Sept. 5.-The Demo
cratic and Conservative State Central Com
mittee of Louisiana, have issued the fol-
lowing address:
.Net5 Orleans Sept. ), 1S74.-To the peO-
pie of the Union: For nearly two years
| the people of Louisiana have perSistently
| applied for relief to the judicial, Executive
| and legislative deDaItments of the General
Government. The Supreme Court, on ac-
count of its united jurisdiction, found itself
without power TO remedy the wrong perDe-
trated by the Federal District Judge of
Louisiana. The Executive remitted them
TO Congress as the proper tribunal, but
Congress, Overwhelmingly Republican both
branches, while recognizing the grievance
complained of signalized itself by a master
| ly inactivity, the real purpose of which
was to leave the kellogg usurpatiOn in
! power. The only means left to Louisiana
10 redeem herself from the usurpatiOn, is by
participating in an election held under the
very auspices of the usurper himself, by EN-
actments Of his spurious Legislature TO Sc
cure his retention in power, and with 9th
er appropriate acis to be signed and promul-
mnlgated by himself according to circum-
stances, already has be substantially violated
his sworn promise not to sign the election
law, by signing and promulgating a redis-
tricting law which, in his hands, is a mere
patent instrument for political use. In the
meantime, our people are ground down by
taxation for unholy purposes. Finding no
purchasers at tax sales, our lands are by the
wholesale adjudicated to the State, and up
on the subsidence ofa desolating and wide
spread overflow, municipal authorities have
been swelling up the local taxes, and vet
there is no attempt at revolution in Louis
lana. Not satisfied with driving the people
to move for redress in this vicious circle,
the 1SuTper and his oOadjutOrs are falsifying
the facts touching a war of races;
aud magnifying to unlimited numbers
murders and atrocities, have conspired to
bring about Federal interference in our
local affairs, under the pretence of protect
ing the rights Of citizens, but for the known
purpose of intimidation in the coming elec-
tiOn. The very acts of violence which Oc-
CURED in several parishes had been de-
libeTately instigated by themselves, their
object being 10 forge lightning in Louisiana
that there might be thunder IN the North.
They have, however, succeeded in i'm
pressing upon the President the beliefthat
unless speedily checked, matters must be-
comes worse until life and property there
will receive no protection from the local
authorities. The President RENTS all pro-
ceedings for the protection of the South to
the law department ofthe Government, to
be directed by the AttOrney-General in ac-
eOrdance with the provisions of the en-
forcement act, and he orders the troops in
readiness for that purpose. The people of
Louisiana do not object to United States
troops being stationed in their midst. These
troops may as well be stationed in this
State as any other State, for Louisiana is a
component part of the Union. The Fed
eral judiciary may and do as heretofore,
continue to administer rigidly the enforce
ment act of Congress. No complaint on
this score has been or can be made against
Louisiana by the most faStidious civil rights
partisans. But the people of LOuisi-
ana do protest against the judicial
persecution in store for them, and
against the oppressive abuse of Federal
troops, not to assist in executing
the enforcement acts, but really TO over
bear the people in the coming election;
troops at the bidding of the United States
Marshal, who is the chairman of the State
Central Republican Committee, and assist
ed by the United States District Attorney,
the pillar of the louisiana Republican par
ty, in arresting political adversaries by the
hundred, under orders issued by the petty
United States Commissioners, working in
party traces. The impending prosecution
clothed with the garb Of judicial proceed
incs is barely concealed under the eXultant
tone of the following dispatch from the
United States district armOTy of Louisiana,
an officer of the new department:
Washington, Sept. 8, 1S74.-GOy. W. p.
kellogg: Just from Long Branch. The
Government viii enforce order in the
States. Steps will be promptly taken to
crush the rebellion. J. r. BECKwITH.
Attorney General Williams circular of
instructions to his subOrdinates, to proceed
with all possible energy and dispatch to
detect, expose, arrest and punish the perpe-
traitors of these crimes, will be executed
with a vengeance during this political cam
paign. But no attention need be
paid to his recommendation, of course
that no interference whatever is hereby in
tended with political or party action not
in violation Of law, nor will much stress be
laid on his statement about affording pro-
lection 10 all classes of citizens, white and
colored, since it is matter of nOtOriety
that the United States Supreme Court in
terprets the enforcement acts as passed eX-
clusively for the protection of colOred citi-
zens. Besides, the people opposed to the
kellogg usurpation have never ques-
toned the right of colOred voters
to register and vote, to nominate their
candidates and install them whenever
elected, and they have repeatedly and ex
pressly pledged themselves TO maintain
these rights inviolate. As to the local dis
tuTbances which have occurred, they did
not spring from any spirit of hostility to
the colOred people, but were the unavoid-
able outbreaks arising from state of
oppression and tyranny. In this emer-
gency, the people of Louisiana appeal to
their fellOw-citiZens of the Union for a
hearing. They ask the judgment of an en-
lightened public opinion. They assert
their fidelity 10 the nation, but they
spurn an OdiOus UsTpatiOn, gnawing at the
vitals of the State. They respect and
cheerfully give obedience TO the general
government, but they discriminate between
the well-defined action of that government
and the fraudulent perversion of Federal
functions by subordinate officers. Con-
scious of the rectitude of their purposes, OF
their cause, they are largely listed in the
work of redemption, and cannot be deferred
from reclaiming their heritage.
II. Ii. MARR, President.
ALBERT VOORHEEs, Vice President.
W. j. BUDDENDORF, Secretary.
shipping Cotton by Rail TO New York.
SHREVEPORT, Sep. 6.-An experimental
shipment of forty bales of new crop cotton,
leaves here by rail to-day for New York