The New York herald., 1874-09-16
CIVIL WAR.
The Condition of Louisiana Before
the Defeat of Kellogg.
Preparations of the "Leaguers"
TO Secure Justice.
THE WHITE CAMELIAS.
History of the COnshatta
Troubles.
Seizures Of Arms and Threats Of
Federal Prosecution.
OPINIONS ON THE COUP D'ETAT.
Leading Southern Men Interviewed by
Herald Reporters.
THE CITY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK.
Seizures Of Arms and Threats of
Federal Prosecution.
OPINIONS ON THE COUP D'ETAT.
Leading Southern Men Interviewed by
Herald Reporters.
THE CITY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. IL, 1874.


worse than that OF any other Southern State In
Kentucky there is mere lawessness, with some
boodshed. In Tennessee there is an effort to keep
the negroes from the exercise OF political power.
In Mississippi there is discomfort with negro rule.
But in Louisiana there all OF these things and
the State is IN condition OF chronic anarchy dis
affection and despair There IS, besides, no reason
to hope for anything better. The young men are
resolved upon ruin, thinking armed interference
with authority which they regard as usurpa-
ton as the only remedy that Is lett. The old men
that respectable part Of the community which Is
always conservative-are helpless, either as
against the official thieves, who are beggarng
the State, or the even more dangerous element
which is trying 60 plunge the people into civil war.
Look where you will there are only utter hopeless.
ness and despair The parishes are overourdened
with taxes and instead OF allowing the negroes to
work undisturbed In the fields White Mans
League is formed at the very moment when they
are disposed to lorsake politics, and the leaders
are thus easily enabled to force them back into the
ranks. "rhe white men have formed party to
keep you from voting or to Kill you,u say these
men, and the negro is easily persuaded to assert
rights which all men agree are guaranteed to him.
SO passions excited and labor is neglected.
New Orleans, which ten years OF peace should have
made not only the commercial metropolis OF the
oOuth, uub tuc lifdl vi NeW lOEh, is u great
idle thing. sleeping lazy Oh the banks OF the
Mississippi without trade and without the hope
or trade, while politically it is in fact only
A CITY WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
Words cannot Adequately describe the condition
OF people who have nothing to do or do nothing
but drink Juleps and talk politics. Everybody Is
very polite and KIND and people answer questions
readily, so readily, indeed that New York friend
expressed some surprise at 1t. They seem to
have nothing else to dor answered, renectively.
This, however was before ! understood the real
occupation Of the people Of New Orleans. In the
evening every street corner has its knot of
politicians, talking OF impending strife and swear
ing vengeance upon somebody. The barrooms,
which are magnificent ana abundant, are nightly
filed with crowds, eagerly discussing the sit
uation over their drinks. These places, with
their splendid whTe columns and long array OF
black bottles, their marble counters and cut glass
and brilliant mirrors are the only evidences of
prosperity. The merchant is without customers
and the customers without money. The levee Is
duh If there never had been any trade and
never would be any. There is no shipping ana no
hope of any. This is the dull season, but there is
no real prospect that it will ever end. CONNER
cia activity Is impossible because political dis
senson has destroyed all faith in the future. Dis
trust reigns everywhere. Disgust is found to be
large city filed with ugly smells and an idle, dan
gerous population. New Orleans is no longer the
capital OF gayety and fashion. Even the Mardl
Gras Is mockery. The old men are
helpless, crying "What can we dor" The
young men are violent, rude and uneducated.
Everybody iees that this Is the of disaster and
despair. The city is lsolating itself from all the
world and from the sympathles OF all the world by
the exhibition OF unexampled stupidity, in threats
OF unparalleled cruelty. Unless the people OF New
Orleans are merely seeking TO destroy the COM
mercal prospects OF their city by talk, idle
is wicked. their purposes are those OF massacre
and bloodshed, IN which the unarmed and the de-
fenceless will suffer more than guilty partisans
who are trying to preclp1late a conflict. The al
legged cause OF all this evaporation Is
THE CoRRUPTIoNs OF THE KELLOGG GOVERNMENT
For State, parish or municipal government: In
Louisiana very little can be said. Kellogg would
harqly be accepted anywhere as model Governor.
de Is not a statesman. HIS integrity mas been
questioned too often and with too much reason.
But IL Is easy to go too tar even in Just condemna
ton. II he is not less unscrupulous than War
moth he lacks Warmoth's bodness and courage
1t is universally admitted that his administration
is as honest as McEnery's possibly could have
been, and he has the advantage over McEnery
In sense and experience. Besides 1t must
ernor OF louisiana Tor even so long
as fortnight and come out OF it with a shred OF
reputation left to him. Every official act Is dis
torted, while many OF Kellogg's are bad enough in
their nakedness. In some instances when the out
cry was most violent, he was clearly right, but he
Is not often right. dis Is no easy place. To
deal mpartially between the men who are his
friends and the men who proclaim themselves his
enemies, the latter calming more avors than If
they had elected him, IS next 10 Impossible. To 20
in and out among raoble which would howl
down the wind If there was nothing
else to denounce-to live in fear OF
death by assassination, which Is constantly
threatened by desperate men; TO see signs OF In
surrection and civil war looming up on every
nanI and yet take no measures for seifpreserva-
ton and the preservation OF the great body of the
people would be criminal. Governor Kellogg feels
50 acutely the personal dangers OF his position
that it Is said he often dismisses his carriage and
walks home behlud it. Yet there is not a Cover
nor OF any state anywhere who is more approach
able The doors to the executive chambers ny
open readily to friend or foe. Even that terrible
custom House, with It's stories OF Cat
ing guns and armed revenue cutters, is
not utterly inaccessible. Collector casey,
everybody knows, lis not q smarter man than
Henry Clay" Marshal Packard is a mild looking
man, OF good bodily proportions, VINO seems 10
take lie kindly and whom one would not suspect
OF being particularly wariike or bloodthirsty
Hewig. Casey's deputy who IS the brains OF the
whole concern state and national, is a man OF
business; acute prompt, decisive, with a taste for
a good cigar and the disposition to commend good
sherry, though he looks as II he seldom tasted II.
Postmaster Ringgold Is as bright and smiling as a
morning in June. The personnel OF 1.-THE rng'i Is
agreeable enough, and IL Is not impossible that If
the people OF New OrleaDa and Louisiana accorded