The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-10-09

How the Kellogg Government In Sus-
tanned by Federal Bayon ets-The
Anarchy Of POwer-Extrac a. from
senator Schurz ~ speech az 50. Louis.

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Anarchy of POwer-Extract a. from
Senator Schurz's speech az 50. Louis.
Last week the whole country was ablaze
with excitement over the revolution i'm
Louisiana. My opinion on the louisiana
case expressed when II first came up i'm
the Senate, In February OF last year
That opinion was based upon a conscien-
tious and candid study Of the very elabo-
rate report of our investigating commit
tee. IL was this That the Kellogg Gov
eminent in that State had been set up by
an act OF
GROSS AND INDISPENSABLE UsURPATIoN
on the part Of United States District
Judge, aided by United States troops,
without the least evidence of am election
by the people that all the evidence there
was of an election by the people. in the
shape of returns, was decidedly an favor
of McEnery; that McEnery was p,iDsd
facie entitled to the office of Governor,
subject TO subsequent contest II any OF the
returns were fraudulent, and that the only
duty of the National Government in the
case then was simply TO undo the usurpa-
ton effected and sustained by its own OH
| GERS. 10 restore as much as possible the
condition Of things which had existed be-
| fore the usurpation, and TO leave the final
settlement of the matter to the competent
State authorities. The same views were
entertained and expressed by prominent
Republican Senator's, especially Senator
Edmunds, who is now chairman of the
Judiciary Committee OF the Senate. i
hold TO that opinion still.
But, while the act Of gross usurpation
was not denied. Others formed different
conclusions. The President had recog-
nized the Kellogg Government when II
was first set up. In subsequent message
to Congress he confessed his doubts as 10
kellogg's title, and asked Congress to d.
rect him what to do, stating at the same
time that. if Congress failed to act, he
would continue to recognize Kellogg.
Congress permitted two sessions to pass
without doing anything. Thus Kellogg.
in spite of the universally admitted usur-
patton, remained dc facto Governor of
Louisiana, recognized by the Natioi al Ex-
ecutive; while the McEnery Government
maintained a show of organization, with
out such recognition.
The time for the election of a new Leg
islature approached. The opponents of
the Kellogg Government, experimenting
that
NO CHANCE FOR A FAIR ELECTION
would be given TO them, Organized; an
uprising followed, and an hours struggle
drove Kellogg, with his adherents, to
blight; whereupon McEnery and his asso-
ciates possessed themselves of the State
Government. Ms.f
Then Kellogg called upon the President
for military aid, and in rhe manner pre-
scribed by the Constitution. lie was the
only Governor of Louisiana recognized by
the President. and the President, also in
the manner prescribed blythe Constitution,
granted that aid. The troops of the Uni
ta1 rot oil oil ~
McEnery party, the successful revolution
its, submitted to the national authority
promptly, without the least attempt at
resistance. This was the end OF what is
called the Louisiana revolution. But II Is
not the end Of rhe disease, neither Is II the
final remedy.
GREAT WRONG
has been committed. That wrong does
not consist in the Intervention of the Pres
ident against those who, by force of arms.
had driven Kellogg 70 flight; for the
President acted In the exercise OF his con-
stitutional authority. Neither can. In a
republic, the right Of self help by force be
admitted, for such an admission would en-
courage every party, every Individual that
has a grievance, either real or imaginary,
to resort TO force for redress. and a state of
anarchy would ensue which no political or
social organization could withstand We
have too much of that self-help already.
and too little patient reliance upon the
slow but orderly and peaceable ways ofthe
law.
But the great wrong was committed be-
fore. IL was when Federal Judge, pal
pably overstepping the limits of his juris-
diction and penetrating an Outrage
without precedent in our history. was
supported by the power of the National
Government, which had not the least evil
dencc of All election by the people. 1t
was when the creature of such an
UNHEARp OF UsuRPATIoN
was by the same National Government
permitted to stand as lawful authority
and TO lord 1t the people of State. II
was when. even after the President had
undo the usurpation and to make room
for those who had prima facie evidence Of
an election by the people.
| The wrong was committed even before
that, and i'm more States than Louisiana.
| Ii was when Federal office-holders i'm the
South were permitted 10 use their authori-
| ty and prestige as power in partisan con-
flicts, and for the support and perpetual
ton of partisan State governments the
most rapacious and corrupt that ever dis
graced a republican country. TWAS when
the countenance Of the dominant party was
not promptly withdrawn from the thieves
who buried the Southern States under
mountains of debt, and, filing their own
pockets, robbed the people of their sub
stance. II was when the keeping OF the
Southern States In the party traces was
deemed more important than that they
should have an honest and constitutional
government. That wrong Is notremeded
by military Interference and the subsection
of revolutionists.
Louisiana Is quiet. Kellogg sits i'm the
! Governors chair-tremblnp perhapS but