The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-09
HOW MUST THE PEOPLE STAND?

Under this heading the New York Day Boo1
ndulges IN some very plain language upo1
ne condition of affairs in many of the South
ern States. 1t does not hesitate to read Presi
dent Grant severe lecture upon his action il
Louisiana affairs; and the rebuke administered
to him for the efforts he is making toward
centralzing the Government and destroyin,
every vestge Of Republican principles, i
scathing, but just and merited.
When the people of the nation realize full,
the true condition and character of the Radi
cal Governments that have been imposed
upon some Of the Southern S ates they vii
be compelled, through prudential motives
and for the safety of their own lives and liber
ties, to check the growing tendency Of thu
National Government to absorb within itsel
all the rights and privileges that properly be
ong under the Constitution, to the States
themselves A third term for Grant mean.
centralization, and total abrogation Of the
Federal Constitution. The Doy- Book sees it.
and ia neither slow nor choice in it's language
to announce it, and to warn the country Of the
impending danger.
OF the condition OF affairs in this State and
South Carolina, it says:
OF what use is Government to a people
when its fruits are those Of the Governments
Of South Carolina and Louisiana; not to allude
to half dozen other Southern States, now I'm.
der the heels of terrible despotism made uI
of vice and ignorance? The white citizens Of
almost q dozen Southern States have to-day
better cause to make iear upon their local
governments than our revolutionary fathers
had to strike down the despotism f the mother
country, which was riding them to death polit-
ically and physically; shackling them with ar
bitrary, inhuman laws, and taxing them to the
verge of poverty to support despCtism which
was perpetual torture.
The picture of the Southern States to-day
day presents very grave features, and should
cause the great Northern and Western State
sovereignty to seriously ponder the situation
Louis ana has opened up startling phase OF
Republicanism, and the omen is of charac-
ter to cause men to think hard and deeply.
Kellogg was placed in power in January, 1873,
after having been rejected by the voters of the
State, under the mandate of a drunken Fede-
ral judge, sustained by the 5ayonets Of Presi-
dent Grant A reign Of twenty months of the
most brutal tyranny followed, the political and
social fortunes of which were carried GU. by
the negro subordinatss of Kellogg, who
robbed, murdered and stole, who insulted and
upon the virtaous citizens, with the
devilish spirit and vandali SIN Of pirates, when
the maximum of human patience and endurance
having been reached, the outraged and abused
victims of a worse than pagan despotism arose
by the virtue OF a God-given right, wrested
the usnrped power from the wicked rulers,
drove them from the high places they had dis
graced. inaugur:.ted the true representatives.
the McEnery officials, the choice of the
people, restored law and order, opened ND q
period of peace, secured once more the pros
pect of political and social concord and bar
mony, infused confidence into an almost
dying trade and commerce, and the great
St"te of Louisiana was again tranquil and
hopeful Now comes the political devilsm of
the Federal Government; its power has been
bAsely made use Of by the man whose tool the
usurper Kellogg is. Gen. Grant sends his
troops down into Louisiana, and by the aid Of
The bayonet, reinstates the infamous gang of
,coundrels the honest, patriotic masses of the
State had righteously deposed, and the old
plundering, th;eving, chaotic condition of
Lou isiana has been resumed
OF the interference OF President Grant with
he revolution in Louisiana, the Dcy Book
,oes on to say:
But is the part that Gen. Grant, who is 'the
Federal Government" plays in tkis Louisi-
lana revolution to be tolerated by the other
States Of this great Confederacy? Have the
PEOPLE Of State no redress for such terrible
wrongs as Louisiana and South Carolina are
low suffering from? Louisiana is to Le made
Q writhe under the torture Of niger rule, at
east until January l, 1877, and how much
onger God only knows, and her abused peo-
lie must submit We desire to say to Gen.
iraut, President of the United States, that the
eople of Louisiana, or the people Of New
,ork, have Heaven-ordained rgnt-a right
bove all human laws or enactments- the |
at all hazards, Of that condition, |
tate or National, which shall: permit their
enjoyment Of life, liberty and the pursuit Of |
dpptness;" and when the State Governments,
r the National Government, are base enough !
, seek to destroy that Hsaven-ordained right
ach a State power, or such a Federal power,
hould be resisted to the very last Better,
n better invite another internecine war,
nd deluge this land from the St. Law
snee to the Gulf, from the Atlantic to
le Rocky Mountains, with blood, AID
ndure the horrors Of another whirlwind of
uman passion, and wreck OF every
ling that makes up common civilization, than
} all W human liberty to become mere
cookery, and human happiness to be crushed
nder the heels Of vice, ignorsnce and African
aganism in the United States, as is the case
'-day. It is high time for the Northern and
1estern States 70 speak out Let the man in
le White House be told mo further shalt
VOL 90 in this work Of centralization. Let
en-. Grant, and the political revolutionists
ho back him, understand that no respect, NO
verence, no fealty, no loyalty, if you like it
stter, will be evinced for or accorded to the
ederal Government of the United States
hen it is known to exceed the authority
hich the people have delegated to it, in up
olding base usurpation in any State of the
Mon.
Louisiana to-day should drive from her soil
cry United States soldier polluting it.
hen revolutions are in order, let the Federal
liberties understand the people cease to re-
re Governments, National or State II the
esent condition of things continue in the
,uth. and the interference of the Federal
thority is not to bring about concord, bar
ony aud peace, but to perpetuate anarchy.
ID continue the social outrages this anarchy
nerates that Federal power has ceased to