The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-13
TAKE TIE ARMY AWAY.

Speaking of the appeal made to President
Grant by the Committee of Seventy to remove
the Federal forces from Louisiana, the St.
Louis Republicanaays:
The committees request is respectful and
most reasonable. The army has done no good
in Louisiana. On the other hand, it has been
made to do great deal of harm. 1t has ha-
rassed and injured the people of the State and
there been no troops in Louisiana two years
ago, all this trouble in which the President
has been induced to play SO unworthy part
would have been avoided Louisiana would
have been at peace, instead Of being torn with
disorders, the country would have been spared
the prologed scandal that has been maintained
there, and President Grant himself would be
better off than he is this day.
Some timid persons may apprehend that
the withdrawal of the troops would precipi-
tate second revolution against Kellogg and
a new persecution of the colored people. Must
the army then be kept in Louisiana forever to
protect Kellogg and the colored people !?
There would be no second revolt against Ke-
logg; Kellogg would not be there to revolt
against The moment the army was with
drawn he would withdraw with it, in imitation
of his carpet-bag brother, Bullock, of Geor-
gia. The usurping government would fall to
pieces, from its own weakness, and it would
devolve upon the people to establish new
order in its stead. There is no doubt that
they would perform the task, not only thor
oughly, but peacefully and lawfully. They
would set up the government of their own
choice which they have in reserve. and the
Louisiana trouble would disappear forever.
As to the apprehension that the colored
people would be maltreated, there is no ground
.1,a<o @O~ n% ~, al
ored people have been tending towards the
whites ever since the September revolu-
ton, and at the recent election several
thousand Of them voted for the Con-
sentative candidates The colored people
do not apprehend the danger which Attorney
General Williams pretends for them. They
seem to be safer since the defeat of the Kel-
logg party than they were before. In many
parishes the whites and black united in sup
porting common ticket on which both races
were represented, and all that We hear of the
feeling in the parishes strengthens the belief
that an unusual harmony exists between them.
There is another consideration: It is prob
able that the maintenance of the army in
Louisiana will be more likely to provoke
trouble than its withdrawal. The whole
country has pronounced in favor OF the Lou
isiana people and against the Administration.
Suppose, then, that in disregard of this, the
President insists on keeping the troops in the
State to overawe the peoples there not dam
ger that the people, presuming on the SYM
pathy and support Of the Democratic ma or-
tiles in the North, West and East and South,
may make bold issue with the Administra-
ton by rising against Kellogg and the army
that supports him? 1t is manifest that, in the
event Of such contingency, the Government
would have its hands full Of troucle. 1t would
be an admission of wrong for the President to
remove from Louisiana an army which he
should never have sent thither but he had
better make this admission than invite the
rebuke which persistent maintenance of the
army in the State might provoke.