The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-25
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WILL OISE 1EACE AND RECOSSTRCC
TIoN.-General Butler aud Seuutor
Morton have given US their views upon
events in Louisiana. They are repro
sentative men in the Republican party.
10 that party we must look for imme.
diate Justice to Louisiana aud the
South. They give us an idea of what
its extromo thinkers will be apt to ad-
wise as IL further measure of recon
straction. It may be useful for us to
consider how adequate their advice
mMy he for the peace aud recoustruc-
tion Of the South. Ia the light of
this advice, we may consider the pro-
position that seecos to be- acceptable to
the country, thut Kellogg aud his con-
Germ should resign and permit an
houesL election.
According to Senator Morton, the
whole difficulty in the South arises
from the conduct Of the enemies Of
reconstruction, mot because of nuy
Intrinsic defects in the system" Re.
construction is resisted "because OF
opposition to the abolition of slavery
and the elevation of the negroes to
civil and political rights" There has
been "a high carnival of crime" in the
South for the past two months. This
carnival has not become known to
| the Northern people, and has even
escaped the daring and almost omnipo.
tent omnlscience of the press. This
is because the news agents Of the press
are either democrats" or "sympa-
thizers with the mes
participators. There has been no
war OF ruc s." simply war against
Republicans O. Itte South. black and
white" meaning to reduce the ue-
groes ns nearly as possible to sluves."
The McEnery movement twas Of the
nature Of Mexican pronunciamento.
And there would be no reconstruction
until we had cessation of murder.
General Butler speaks of ''information
which he had received two weekg ago"
TO the effect THAT even then there was
rebellion MI over tho State, aud Kei
iogg's government WAS rs good us over
thrown" General Butler makes the
significant admission thai the Kellogg
party "have no rights whatever by law,
for we have no evidence that there has
even been an actual election according
to the provisions Of the constitution.
Flo does not think that General Grant
has any right to say "whether Kellogg
or McEnory shall assume to be Govern
or" "The people," he says, "must,
sooner or Inter. decide in the manner
Of an election"
Senator Morton appeals to the igno.
rant passions of the war, madly in
voking the spirit of rapine, with which
| we became 30 familiar during the
dreadful days Of strife. There are
mono SO blind as they who will close
their eyes and not see. But it is mourn.
ful to find statesman as Influential as
Senator Morton deliberately ignoring
the actual state of affairs in Louisiana
aud speaking of the McEnery move
ment as though it we're the work of the
Thugs OF India or the bandits Of
Greece. This is simply demagoguery,
passion, ill-considered invective. The
McEnery movement. illegal as it was
IN every way, and introducing as it
did i'll our Republican Government
that appeal from the ballot to the bur-
ricades which has been the dismay and
misfortune of Democracy in France.
was nevertheless the protest Of people
against misgovernment and tyranny
brave, temperate, wisely handled
protest. and none the less worthy of
our wise consideration because it as
sumed the phases OF revolution.
General Butler reaches the heart of
the matter when he says that the Kel-
logg government has no actual, legiti-
mate authority. This admission from
q man disposed to immoderate and un-
usual views Of public affairs is of the
gravest importance in the controversy.
II Governor Kellogg has no actual nu
thority in Louisiana. and will not yield
to the demand that he should retire
aud ask new expression from the
people, should not the President undo
the wrong which he, and lie alone,
committed when he forced the contri-
vance called the Kellogg administra-
ton upon that State? The PROPOSE
tion to submit the whole question to q
vote by the people is, as our readers
will remember, identical with the pro
position accepted by McEnery in q
letter from New Orleans We printed on
Friday. We, therefore, find Mr. Nc
Emery, who represents the people OF
Louisiana, and who is certainly sup
ported by all that remains of Confede-
rate sentiment in that State, and
General Butler, who is the extreme OF
the extreme among Radical prophets,
standing on the same ground
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