The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-10-02

The people Of Louisiana. defrauded,
plundered, trampled on. stripped of their
property by unrelieyed villainy In power,
having usiirpers installed in office over
them by judicial corruption backed by
President Grants bayonets, and having
seen all hope Of redress taken away by the
refusal of Grant to interfere in their be-
half, and by these usurping authorities
through election ordinances and appoint
ments that render fair election absolutely
impossible-bcng thus driven To despera-
ton by public plumber and by the closing
of every channel of relief, have at last
adopted the desperate resolution of rising
in arms against their usurpers and tyrants.
l. not the act iustiliable! No man can
study the facts and recall the history of
the last few years without admitting that
If ever any people had good reason for this
last dread resort. IL Is the people of Louis
lana. II instruction can be justified un-
der any circumstances whatsoever, IL is
right and Just in their case. No body of
men ever had greater provocation or
more perfect cause for such action and
never, from the beginning Of civilization
TO this day. was any Commonwealth sub
jected to wrong and outrage by "A more
contemplate set of miscrcants than these
land-pirates in Louisiana. Bat for the
brutal, law-deiying assistance of Grants
soldiery. these wretches could never have
got into power; and their victims. seeing
themselves despoiled not only of their pos
sessions-the best property in New Or
leans will not rent for enough TO pay the
taxes-but OF every political right and
personal chance OF good. and having Moth
ing more 10 lose except life itself. may
well choose To perish in "A last sharp con-
test, rather than TO struggle on In the
misery and despair which their oppressors
alone offer them.
1t Is certain that this rising would be
speedily successful. and would result in
the wholesale expulsion of the usurpers
and robbers beyond the boundaries of
Louisiana. but for the new Intervention of
Federal troops, which Of course will rot
be delayed. Grant is under a fatal neces-
sity. Having begun this business ofput
ting down rightfully elected State Gov
eminent and installing in its place one that
the people had repudiaied, he has no al
tentative. but must go on and maintain the
counterfeit. fraudulent authority which he
has instituted.
The people of Louisiana WILL therefore.
be subjugated anew. Some of them will
be killed; many homes will be ravagcd.
and the horrors of war will be felt again in
that wretched and desolate region. But
even in this they will gain something.
Those who die will be better off in the
grave and those who live will at least be
the captives of the Federal army, and will
thus for a time be relieved from the ma
Lightly OF their local banditti. Indeed,
this is apparently what they most earnest
ly wish for. They pray 10 see the false
State Government utterly swept away,
and Louisiana once more put under the
dictatorship OF some decent army officer.
In their view, the iron hand Of military
rule is better than the lawless despotism
and the unrestricted confiscation of Casey.
Kellogg, Durell. and their confederates
and no thoughtful observer can deny
that this is a reasonable conclusion and
desire.
And such j. the result of nine years of
reconstruction and six years of Grantism
This i the sort Of peace which the country
receives from a military President, who
annuls popular election and overthrows
state government in order TO take the
electoral votes of the State for himself,
while he maintains his brother-in- law in
power to plumber. and assures TO an in
comparable gang of robbers the prolonged
opportunity OF unlimited booty And
yet there are those who still pirate about
moral ideas in the Grant party. and who
fondly imagine that the American people
will suffer such a state Of things TO be-
indefinitely co1tinued.-N. y. SiDt.