The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-19

what or where the end Will he no man
can foreseo. " II were u conflict no
tween the rnces, OF II II were n struggle
between the two political parties for
the ascendency, 1t would possess no
special significance, and we wo2ld be
prepared to see the federal forces IN
tervene and restore the peace. But II
Is neither of these. II is the deter
mined uprising of II portion of the An
glo.SaXon race who,have borne wrongs
and expressions until they have reach
ed that condition that any fate were
preferable to bearing more. For years
they have been subjected TO outrage
and indignity such ms no christian peo-
pie ever before imposed upon another
civilized race. All this they have
borne with patient endurance that
illustrated only more grandly the
manhood that had triumphed on II
hundred bloody fields. Trusting to a
returning sense of justice in the
hearts of their conquerors they have
submitted as meel;ly as they could to
the most unblushing usurpation that
blots the annals of the nineteenth GEN.
fury, hoping that their remonstrances
would be needed, and that the same
measure of liberty that their northern
fellow-citizens prize for themselves
would be accorded to them. In
vain were all their petitions and
prayers. The dominant party in the
United States congress, while admit
ting that the government under which
the people of Louisiana groaned, was
without a shadow of legality, and that
it had no other basis on which to rest
than the secret order of a drunken and
debauched Judge, turned II deaf ear to
their humble demands for relief, and,
governed solely by what it conceived
to be the exigencies of party, remanded
the petitioners to theyoke ofthe vulgar
ami INSCRIPTIONS usurper. BY this ac.
ton of the only power to which they
could appeal for relief the people OF
Louisiana were relegated to their ma
tural right of self-preservation. They
were in effect told by congress that
submission to any and everything was
expected of them, and the only altern.
alive left them was such submission oil
an assertion of their rights by theil
own strong arms.
When we remember of what race
they are and the liberty-loving schoo
in which they were reared, the only
source of establishment is, not thai
they have struck for their rights now
but that they did not strike long ago
A yearning desire to keep the peace
and to giveno further pretext for oppres
sion is what nerved the men of New
Orleans to bear outrage that would al
most bring blush to their cheek rs
they told of them.
The conflict will arouse tremendous
feeling Mt the north. 1T will pUsh Ou
of sight all the issues that are now agi
Eating the public mind, and will direct
universal attention to the condition o
the reconstructed states. The cry OF
kuklux will not do in this case. 1t il
the spontaneous rising of Il whole pop
ulation, who are determined TO beai
10 longer the burdens imposed upon
them. We dare to hope that the feel
ings that prompted the men who mel
at the base Of Gays monument, on
Canal street, will find an answering
echo in the hearts of the AnGiG-fs&gon
men of the north. They know what
liberty is; they love liberty and are
themselves as jealous of their personal
and civil liberty as any other people on
the globe. Their sympathies go out
spontaneously to the people Of every
other cline who are struggling for free
dom surely they will not steel thei,
hearts against their own fellow c.ti-
zens who are struggling in the same
holy cause.
The immediate cause Of the outbreaks
OH Monday was the violation by kel.
logg of one Oft the rights secured to every
American citizen by the constitution
of the United States-the right to keep
and bear arms. Having essayed every
other plan without success to provoke
the people of New Orleans to re-
sistance, be finally began to seize
all the arms AND &mnnnition that was
being brought into the city, Steamers
were searched at their landings, end
cars ut the depots, for munitions of war,
and all of such articles were at once
taken possession of and confiscated.
Even this did not provoke armed resist
ance, as 1t might reasonably and justi-
fiably have done. AT last the vile
usurper laid on the lest feather that
was to call forth the long peHt-np feel
ings of the outraged people and break
the back of his unlawful and tyranDic
rule. On Thursday afternoon last at
3 o'clock, squad of Metropolitan
police. ia charge of nm officer, proceed
ed to the stoEe of Mr.. Olivier, 80 Canal
street, importer 81 guns, etc, and, after
arresting him on tranapeG-up charge
of assault and battery, went 10 YqF!
and carted off the contents of his store
to the first precinct station. The Bull
letin says:
"At t,le time of the seizure Kellogg,
accompanied by Judge Atocha, was
coming out of the custom house, when
some one informed E,ra OF the fact,
kellogg said: "Did they tsks them
before the whole crowd" Hbs an
fwer was ayes, before the whole
eowd." Whereupon Mr.. Kellogg. in
aSerisive manner, ha had Justify"
L is was the browning outrage. The
psope felt that the lime for resistance
ilad as,iyed, unless they were prepared
10 suffePGeF everything that an Amer
lean ouAlt 10 held dear. Calls were