Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-19
ESTABLISHED MARCH 80, 1885
ON WITH THE DANCE.

To say that Grant has disappointed
US in the coursehe has pursued toward
Louisiana, would be to confess that we
had some confidence in his desire to do
justice to the people of the South, and
we have never entertained such an
opinion of him. Fair-minded men Of
his own party bear testimony to the
fact that McEnery was fairly elected
Governor, and that Kellogg's claim to
the Office was not sustained by single
fact in law or equity, that his installa-
ton in the Office of Governor By the
military forces in New Orleans was an
outrage upon decency and right; and
that his administration has been a scan
dal and libel upon justice, and hehas
driven the intelligence and worth of
Louisiana into determined opposition
to him and his hordes of plunde-ers,
and when the crisis came, Tuesday
morning, his followers deserted him as
rats do a sinking ship. No pretended
government in any State in this Union
ever collapsed 50 suddenly and SO thor
oughly as did Kellogg's carpet-bag
despotism.
notwithstanding all these evidences
of fraud and oppression; of the thor
ough detestation of the worth ard In
telligence of State, and of the con-
tempt in which Kellogg is held by
respectable Republicans both in and out
of Louisiana, Grant has determined to
brave public opinion by forcing this
man again uponthe people of Louisiana,
and compelling them to recognize
him as the legal Governor of
their State. But it is evident that the
President viii fail in this, unless he
uses the whole available military force
of the Government. There has never
been day since Kellogg was installed
in Office by means of Federal bayonets,
when his administration could have
sustained itself without the help of the
same power that placed him in his
usurped Office, and whenever that pro-
lection shall be Withdrawn, his admin
istration Will tumble to pieces as it did
the other day. Lieut.. Gov. Penn clear
ly intimates this much in his statement
relative to the status of the govern
ment of Louisiana, which appears
among our kilograms this morning.
The people of louisiana are terribly in
earnest In regard to this matter.
Lieut.. Gov. Penn says that the
McEnery Legislature met at the time
prescribed IN the constitution and laws
of Louisiana, and that everything has
been done to preserve intact the gov
ernment then inaugurated; that the
MeEnery government is still organ
lied, but is deprived of its de facto
functions by the United States
authority and power; and that this gov
eminent can assert its power, and Will
be obeyed throughout the State, while
the Kellogg government, if reinstated
by the United States forces, can
only be maintained by bayonets. Here
is the difference. The one derives
its power and authority from the con-
sent of the governed, the other from
Federal interposition. These facts are
well known to Grant and his advisers,
but they do not amount to a feathers
weight with them. They have deter
mined to force the Kellogg usurpa-
ton again upon the oppressed and
despoiled people of Louisiana, be the
consequences what they may.
Since the above was put in type, ouf
dispatches announce that the infamy
has been consummated, by the REIN
statement of Kellogg in power. This
is simply the beginning of the end.