New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-27
The PrOnunciamiento of the Committee OF
Seventy.

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clare that they have NO hope from Congress
or the President. At the same time they
must have been aware that committee ap
pointed by Congress and composed OF three
men than whom no three men in the cOun
try are more likely to make fair, intelli
gent and bipartisan report of their cOndi'
ton. is on the way to their city. The almost
insulting tone of their references to Congress
and the President incline one to believe
that they do not want any remedy that came
from either Of those sources. We are well
satisfied that the people OF the country at
large have become convinced that the peo-
pie of Louisiana are suffering from evils
that must in some way be cured. But nc
matter how strongly they feel that, they also
know that in case of any resort to force the
duties Of the President are strictly defined,
and they will expect him to discharge them
and will uphold him in doing co. If the
New Orleans committee think that anything
in the recent elections tends to show that
they can by any appeals excite the people
of the United States to interfere by force to
prevent the President from discharging his
duties under the constitution. they are
grievOusly mistaken.
The St. Louis Globe says:
The burden of the song of the Seventy is
the usual one Of Radical corruption" This
time the Returning Board is the special
subject of complaint. 1t is accused of all
manner Of fraud, committed for the purpose
of giving the control Of the Legislature to
the Republicans. The address does not
confine itself to what has been done, but
deals with equal fervor with what its ALL
thors imagine to be intended in the future.
1--WE are imminently threatened with being
6efrauded Of our victory" it says, and go
on to the extent of q column, intended to
inflame the already agitated minds of the
people with the belief that they are Op-
pressed to a point which degrades submis-
sion into cOwardice and exalts resistance
into patriotism. Catching the true echo Of
this appeal, the Shreveport Times exclaims
that Louisiana expects every man to do
his duty" when the time for the meeting OF
the Legislature arrives. In other words,
party of that State-expects every man to
be ready for an armed revolt in the city Of
New Orleans in January next. This is the
exact situation to-day. The White League
is in active preparation. Its ranks have
been recruited and multiplied since what
may be called it's successful overthrow Of
the State government, and it will be found
in very efficient readiness for the larger
revolution for which the Committee of
Seventy have issued their appeal and their
justification.
In no event can Che appeal of the Commit
tee of Seventy to the passions OF the people
of the South be justified. The issue Of that
address will turn the current of impartial
minds against those whom they would
otherwise sympathize with, because its
whole tenor is Mexican, and not American.
II is call to arms on what is admitted to
be only euspicion that something wrong
ia intended; and it finds parallel in an
other appeal, issued fourteen years ago, on
uuht nd1o in
fact was yet potent enough in the minds Of
the Southern people to wrap the whole ma
ton in the flames Of civil war.
The following is from the Chicago Inter.
Ocean:
The agent of the Associated Press in New
Orleans, with his customary liberality to
the White League, sent the address of the
seventy members of that organization TO
tho people Of the United States, in full, and
that address We published yesterday, The
insinuating styIe Of the document, and the
pleading and plaintive tone adopted is we'll
calculated to deceive, and lead the people
Of the North to pity these down-trodden
patriots; but before we have gush OF
sympathy, especially from the Republican
press Of the country, we beg to call atten-
ton to a few facts and queries. First-Can
a citizen of illinois gain q residence in
Louisiana! If he can, then Governor Kel-
logg ought to have gained it, for he has
been there for years, and has business in
terests of great magnitude there. If he can
become q citizen, we know of nothing to
prevent the people from running him for
and electiDg him to the highest Office in the
State if they wish to do 90. One would
think from the indignation Of these people
that none but natural born Louisianians
had any right to locate in that State, and
that all Others were interlOpers and in
eligible to Office. This not teing the case.
but only delusion Of these gentlemen, lot
us proceed to the next point.
The committee Of White Leaguers declare
that Kellogg was put over them by
drunken United States judge, sustained by
the United States army. What are the facts!
Kellogg was first ''put over them" by the
people, at which they rebelled. His election
was certified by the Returning Board, CON-
posed OF men superior to any of this White
League committee, both in judgment, ability
and honesty. The action Of the board was
sustained by the local court, by the State
Supreme Court and by the United States
court. In fact, every tribunal before which
they have taken their case from that day to
this has decided against them. Yet they
have the hardihood to come up before the
people of-the North, after attempting to
assassinate the Governor and State officers,
and with this falsehO0d in their mouths ask
for sympathy and support
But they say that they are being plum
dered and their properly coniiscated by
exOrbitant taxation under Kellogg. Why
do they not submit the prOOf2 Not figure
is adduced--nothing but the bare asser-
tion. 1t has been clearly shown, so clear
as to defy contradiction and prove this
statement of the committee bald false
hood, that the State government under
Kellogg has been in all financial respects
a success; that taxation has been decreased,
the public indebtedness reduced, and the
reputation Of the State advanced. So
much tor this part of the address.
The committee then say that after having
beaten their adversaries in the late election
they are about to be counted out by the
Returning Board. Indeed! Now the Re-
turning Board is creature OF law. For
tunately it is composed in this instance OF
some of the very best men to be found in
Louisiana, all Of them native born South
erners, and all but one, we believe, natives
of Louisiana. They are sworn to discharge
their duties faithfully, and only ignorance
or knaveTy pYek umes to cay they will do
otherwise. They will probably throw out
the returns of some parishes where the
systemized plan Of intimidation by tho
White League kept hundreds Of voters
from the polls, and if they di0 not do 80 they
would be false to their Oaths. The White
League committee need not come before
the people of the North claiming fair
election. Every reader knows better. These
men declared openly and boldly before
the election that there should not be free
ballot, and right we'll they kept their word.
Whole parishes were debarred from voting
at all or compelled to vote the White
League ticket, and the persecution Of those
refusing was kept up after the election until
life in that region 70 Republican became