New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-09-17
Kn.KiuN Triumphant.

Every Republican administration in the
Southern States may be overthrown by the
means adopted in New Orleans. On Mon
day the conflict in that city resulted in the
seizure Of the State offices from the legiti-
mate government. They will be held for
the next five days by the Ku-Klux of
Louisiana, or until the United States Gov
eminent, in obedience to its duty, shall re-
store the Stale to its proper authorities.
President Grant has issued the following
proclamation, which is not filled with idle
words, but means that law and order are to
be sustained:
Whereas, under the pretense that William
p. Kellogg, the present Executive of LOUISE
ana, and the officers associated with him In
the State administration, were not duly
elected, certain turbulent and disorlerly per-
sons have combined together with force and
arms to resist the laws and constituted au-
thorities of said State, and whereas it has
been duly certified by the proper local au-
thorities and judicially determined by the in
ferior and supreme courts of said State that
said officers are entitled to hold their offices
respectively, and execute and discharge the
functions thereof; and whereas Congress, at
its last session, upon due consideration of
the subject, tacitly recognized the said En-
ecutive and his associates then, as now, in
office by refusing to take any action in re-
| spect thereto; and whereas it is provided in
| the Constitution Of the United States that
the United States shall protect every State
in this Union on application of the Legisla-
| ture, or Of the Executive when the Legisla-
ture cannot be convened, against domestic
violence; and whereas it is provided in the
| laws of the United States that in all eases Of
Instruction in any State, or of obstruction
| to the laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, on applica-
| ton of the Legislature of such States, or of
the Executive when the Legislature cannot
be convened, to call forth the militia of any
other State or States, or to employ such part
OF the land and naval forces as shall be Judged
necessary for the purpose of suppressing such
instruction or causing the laws to be duly
executed; and whereas the Legislature of
said State is not now in session, and cannot
be convened in time to meet the present
emergency, and the Executive of said State,
under section of article of the Constitu-
| ton OF the United States, and the laws
passed in pursuance thereof, has, therefore,
made application to me for such part of the
military force of the United States as may
be necessary and adequate to protect said
State and the citizens thereof against do
nestle violence, and to enforce the due exc
cution OF the laws; and whereas it is required
that, whenever 1t may be necessary, in the
Judgment Of the President, to use the mill
tary force for the purpose aforesaid, he shall
forthwith, by proclamation command such in
surgents to dispense and retire peacefully to
their respective homes within limited time !:
Now, therefore, 1, ULYSSES S. GRANT, do
hereby make proclamation and command
said turbulent and disOrderly persons to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their respec-
tive abodes within five days from this date,
and hereafter to submit themselves to the
laws and constituted authorities of said State,
and l invoke the aid and cooperation of all
good citizens thereof to uphold law and pre-
serve the public peace.
In witness whereof l have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this fif-
teenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
[sEAL ] eight hundred and seventy-four,
and Of the Independence of the
United States the ninety-eghth.
| L. S. GRANT.
BY the President:
| HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
The above proclamation is an exact copy
of the proclamation issued in May, 1873, upon
the occasion Of the riotOus demonstration
made i'm New Orleans at the beginning of the
Kellogg McEnery gubernatorial troubles, with
the exception that in this instance the insur-
rectionists are required to repair to their re-
spective abodes within five days, instead of
twenty days, as on that occasion.
AS in the days preceding the rebellion mass
meetings of sympathiZcrs with rebellion are
being held in different parts Of the South,
and resolutions Of sympathy and congratula-
ton are being adopted. The cheers given
by United States troops to the successful
rebels, rs they marched through the streets
oc New Orleans on Monday, have resem-
blance to the treachery of members of the
Regular Army at the beginning Of the rebel
lion of 1861. Prompt, firm, and decisive
action is the only safeguard against another
terrible war. In our opinion the situation to-
day is SO threatening as to justify the rcasscm-
bling of Congress at an early date. That
President Grant will do all in his power to
suppress the new rebellion we have not the
slightest doubt. We feel that more troops
are needed than are at present at the dis
posal of the Government. Provision should
be made by Congress for the necessary force
to enable the President to maintain the
laws.