Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-09-22
KcIIO. Calls ca the President
for Relief.

PROCLAMATION BY McENERY LIEU
NT-GOvERNoR.
ProclanatIOH 10 the people of LOuisi-
ana,
For two years you have borne with
patience and forlitude great wrong,
through fraud and violence. The
government of your choice has been
Uverthrown, and It's power uaurped.-
Protest after protest, appeal after APP
zeal, To the President of the United
States and to Congress have
failed to give you the relief you had a
right under the Constitution to de-
mahd. The wrong has not been been
repaired, On the contrary, through
the fundamentally Bipartisan judges,
YOU are debarred from all legal reme-
d..
Day by day taxation has been in
creasiug with costs aad penalties
amounting to the confiscatiOn of your
property, your substance squandered,
your credit ruined, resulting in the
failure aud bankruptcy of your valued
institutions.
The right of suffrage is virtually ia
ken from you by the enactment of
skilfully devised registration and
election laws.
The judicial branch of your Govern
ment has been stricken down by the
CO INVERSION of the legal posse crnaitdtuS
of the Sheriff to the use OF the usurper
for the purpose officiating the DEGREES
of the courts, his defiance of the law
leading him To use the very force for
the arrest of the Sheriff while engaged
i'm the execution of u process of the
Court.
To these may be added corrupt and
vicious legislature, making laws IN vi>
Olation of the Constitution for the pur-
pose of guarding and perpetuating
their usurped authority.
A metropolitan police paid by the
city under the control Of the usurper
uuartered upon you to overawe and
keep you in subsection.
Every public right has been denied,
and as if to goad you to desperation
private arms are seized and individuals
arrested: to such extremities are you
drawn that manhood revolts at any
further submission.
Constrained from a sense of duty, as
the legally elected Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of the state, acting Governor in
absence of Gov. McEnery, | do hereby
issue this my proclamation, calling
upon the militia of the State. enbrac-
ing all males between the ages of eigh-
teen and forty-five years, without re-
gard 10 color or previous condition, to
arm and assemble under their respec-
tive officers for the purpose of driving
the usurpers from power.
Given under my hand and seal this
fourteenth day day of September, 1874.
(Signed) ID. ID. PENN,
Lieutenant-Govern
GENERAL ORDER NO.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. IA, 1874.
General order No. /.
General Frederick n. Ogden is here
by appointed Provisional General OF
Louisiana State Militia. lie will at
once assume command and organize
into companies, regiments. and bat
taliOns.
No. 2. General Ogden will report
names of staff. regimei.tal and COM
uany officers to this department
forthwith to be commissioned.
BY command of
ID. B. PENN. Lieutenant.Governor.
and Acting Governor and Command
erin Chief of the Louisiana State
Militia.
GOVERNOR PENIS ADDRESS TO THE
NEGROES.
To The CoIored People Of the State Of
Louisiana
In the grand movement now on foot
against the enormities of the rule of
Kellog's usurpation, rest assured that