The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-19

were ready to join, to remove abuses
under which taxpayers of some States
are suffering. But now they have
letied the laws, the courts and public
opinion, and taken the law into their
own hands. It is impossible to say
how far their own acts may put of
the better day for which they long.
No man can say how great revulsion
of public opinion this armed revolt
may produce. It's consequences may
pot be confined to Louisiana, but
may reach to other Southern States
as well.
1t is marvellous, that even at this
late day, Bourbons have not learned
that the people of this country mean
that the laws shall be enforced and
obeyed, and will trample under foot
any party or faction, which, upon any
pretext whatever, defies the law and
resorts to violence. The mere threat
of revolution did more in 1868 to over
whelm the Democratic party than !
other causes combined. If the peo-
pie Of the North are led to believe
that there is on foot at the South u
conspiracy to overthrow existing
State governments by armed revo
luton, the outburst Of indignation
against Rourbonism and lawless
methods will be swift and terrible.
Most sincerely we pray, for the sake
Of the people Of tue South, who have
been so long led into calamities by
desperate counsels, that this new out
break may not assume such proper
tions us to cripple still longer the eff
forts of those who strive for removal
of abuses in that unhappy country,
through peaceable and lawful meth
dds. But we may rest assured tibet
peace does not come through armed
revolution, nor prosperity through
the counsels of law defying Bourbons.
New York Tribune-Independe
The action of Penn, who assumes
to be acting Governor. certainly
seems hasty and ill-advised. The
McEnery government may have been
legally elected but this is no time to
assert power aud undertake to over
turn the existing government 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. The situa-
ton is so complicated by these new
developments that the general gov
eminent can have no excuse for nom
interference and when it inteferes it
must be for the reorganized and es-
tablisled government, which is that
Of the Kellogg ring.
cincinnati neutrality-suspicious.
It is possible that Lieutenant Gov
ernor Penn imagines the general gov
eminent will look passiyely upon this
revolutionary performance, and, be-
yond endeavoring to prevent further
bloodshed, do nothing to reinstate
the BUSTED administration. His dis
patch to the President indicates a
hallucination of this sort. He very
patronizingly assures the President
that it will be our (his) special aim
to protect the property and the Of
ficials Of the United States" It is
very kind and thoughtful in him. His
consideration is likely to be appre-
ciated, but it is also probable he will
be presently informed that there can
and will be no recognition OF an adj
ministra ton set up on the points of
the bayonets of the White League of
Louisiana. That way lies anarchy.
fla portion of the people OF a State,
dissatisfied with its administration,
may organize, arm, and ag given
signal rise and overthrow it, and set
up another in it's stead which claims
to have been legally elected, and that,
too, in face Of the fact that the SUI
preme tribunal to which it carried it's
case pronounced judgment against it,
then there is an end of stable govern
ment in the United States. We shall
have entered upon road to revolu-
ton and anarchy along which the re-
public Of Mexico has travelled to the
verge Of irretrievable ruin.
Kellogg will undoubtedly be sus-
tanned, and the White Leagues be
broken up. .......
tChicago Post-Republican.1
The people of Louisiana, and gen
orally of the South, have invoked by
their own bad teH,pers and ugliness,
a large share Of the evils under which
they groan, and from which they in
sanely seek to escape by anarchy and
riot. Stolid indifference and precon-
certed inactivity in regard to poi;i-
cal matters, followed by spasmodic
md frnitless appeals to arms, has
been the method pursued in dealing
With public affairs, especially in New
Orleans.
This course leaves no option to the
rational government. Its power
must be put forth, and the blood of !
he White Leaguers mingled with
heir sacrifices to the Moloch of preiu-
lice, ignorance and hate. Indeed, it |
yohld probably prove in the end
nerciful to strike at the rioterers a |
blow so annil,ilative that it will not
iced ever to be repeated. They need
n no fauohk thaf tbnx- p,n.t ,oc1, H.