The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-17
PEOPLE OF :Eoslistaia for Sffeiri redemption
from the .inisrul of styg and safsDrp
Suitable resolutions & WEI q passed and
speeches mace by sninent cis ,sens. II Il

speeches mace by emil mt oh III II
Sfsii The issnissans sIrspb lss. II
II H'astaastoa, y IS com
iIict which has long been brew wing abetWeen
the Ketlogg egoYerninen and the people OF
Louisiana, has had Its natural cuinii atfon
as far asithc course to be pursued by the ma
tional executive is concerned. ] AS sstatea 10
these dispatches yesterday, since, the out,
break OF the disorders which have been en-
acted In various parts OF the South, the Pre-
sident has been extremely DESTROYS not TO
unduly excite the better disposed elementby
too summary exercise OF authority. ia view
Of this conciliatory policy, the attorney Gen.
eral was instructed to move with great cau-I
ton, and while carrying out the fur letter;
and spirit Of the law to avoid, IL possible,
the employment of forcibie measures to,
bring offenders to justice. n The further
continuance of this magnani,noas course
&c is maintained Ia high official cir
Giles, has been forfeited s. In the case
Of the rising Of the New Orleans people,
against the Kellogg usnrpation, and If order
is not restored Chat Is to say, II Kellogg Is!
not restored within the period of FIVE days
allowed by the Presidents proclamation, Is
sued to-day, there will be a g salutary preee-'
dent - established. But whatever may be
the causes for the unhappy condition Of
things which has SO long existed in LOUISE
ana, one fact is paramount, and that Is that
Congress has passed laws governing the
case, so that the Presidents without discre-I
ton, except in the exercise Of. his duty to-
carry out the laws, to compel obedience to
them and to preserve order. 9The President
has 1t not in hts power to determine the
question Of the legality or iilegality of the
Kellogg government, and whether a usurpa!
ton or not, the existing government having
been recognized as legitimate it will be sup!
ported by the whole judicial, and IL that is
not sufficient, military power Of the national
Government Washington telegrann-.BaItt
more Sun. o.
The Press on the Louisiana Revolution. ,
from the New York Tribune, 15th.] .'ie.t
Unhappily the story Of wrongs and mis-
government to which the people have been
subjected is in the main true. Whether
they are sufficient warrant for revolution
| or an attempt at revolution is quite another
question. It is not difficult to understand
| how the people of Louisiana may have been
| badgered by their oppressors to make this
desperate effort to free Themselves, but it can
hardly happen otherwise than that such an
outbreak will only make matters the worse
for them by Strengthening the kel-
logg government and giving it re-
newed lease of power. The action Of
Penn, who assumes to be acting Governor,
certainly seems hasty and ill-advised. The
| NfcEnery government may have been legally
elected; but this is no time to assume power
and undertake to oyerturn the existing gov
eminent by force. The resort to arms is not
| among the remedies provided for such cases.
That means revolution, and is only justified
| BY success, which in this case can hardly be
| reckoned among the possibilities. Tbeposi-
ton is so complicated by these new develop
| ments that the general government can have
| no excuse for non-interference ; and when it
interferes it must be for the recognized and
established government which is that of the
Kellogg ring. fsla. 9t aa.
from the Norfolk yirginian.I
The telegram brings us the woful news
that the people of New Orleans have at last,
in paroxysm of despair, risen against their
oppressors, swept all opposition before them,
| captured the Metropolitan police, under
command of the ever infamous Longstreet,
and forced Kellogg to seek safety in the GUS
tom-house, fortunately guarded by, United
| States troops. We say fortunately because
| we deplore the action Of the whites, while
| we cannot wonder at it.. They have borne
all manner Of wrong and outrage until, it
| seems, they can bear no more. The pent-up
rage and indignation of an oppressed peo.
| pie has at last broken bounds. They see
| nothing worse before them than what they
| have already suffered; they will probably
| welcome military rule as an escape from kel-
logg's despotism. .'.' S:@.
| from the Norfolk Landmark
| At this distance, and in our tranquil at
moSphere, the action of the Penn party
seems unwise; but as the country has re-.
fused to listen to the prayers of Louisiana,
it may happen that the present commotion,
in the end, may secure justice for the plum
dered and oppressed people of that unhappy
State. One thing is certain, their condition
cannot be ignored and, avoiding collision
with the Federal authorities, they will be
heard at last, through a feeling of curiosity,
| if not through sense OF justice. We pre-
sumo the real object Of the movement is to
secure military government in place of that
Of the thieves and vagabondS who have
grasped the ireins of power. t,an
| from the Petersburg Newsl -
| But what the end Of this serious matter
| will be cannot now be foreseen. We do not
see that it bodies any good to Louisiana or
| the South,eto the Conservative party or the
! country The Federal troops will most pro-
baby reinstate Kellogg, and then visit on our
people additional severity for the occurrence
The overt Act Of the KeIloEgites. ~. +
! TFrom the New Orleans Picayune, September ~ ]
These seizures of arms are beginning to
take a deeper and more significant aspect
than the simple act of violence at first seems
| to imply. We have already alluded to the
| noun famous insolence Of the Guyol and
Fremaux affair, where the arms were first
seized and the owners afterwards arrested
on charge which the arms themselves are
to be used to prove. The public under
stands this. 1t is another case OF the big boy
who hit the little boy 'Just because ne
could" The police pounce on these arms
without knowing whom they belong to;
next day the owners apply for restitution,
and then, having discovered their identity,
the police have them arrested and keep the
arms in evidence. A little mummery is
gone through with, and the case remains:
arms in possession of the authorities, Messrs.
Guyol and Fremaux criminals before the
police court.
Now more arms are seized. A steamship
is boarded in the act of discharging freight,
and part of that freight appropriated. There
are no formalties this time; the police as.
sumo they are strong enough, and they just
hit the little boy on general principles. For
which reason we say the question is enlarg-
ing its scope. 1t begins to look as though
the Kellogg administration believed IN Its
ability to stand without Federal aid, and
desired 10 test the point. Much of this may
be inspired by the knowledge that troops are
near at hand and will soon be here, but the
fact remains