The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-25

HAVE WE A REPUBLICAN, GOVERN.
NEWT?

lHAvE WE A REPUBLICAN, GOVERN.
NEWT?
| The Constitution by which this country il
supposed to be ruled expressly says, thai
I" The United States shall guarantee to every
State in this Union republican form o
government" This article is now dead
letter, as far at least as Louisiana is con
cerned. About this fact there can be no dis
pute, for the intruders who are now exer
cising the functions of government have beer
repeatedly compelled to acknowledge that
they could not maintain themselves in Office
without the assistance of the United States
army.
Although Kellogg and his fellow-thieves
have been twice beaten at the polls, they still
hang on to the Offices to which other men
were elected, and they rely on Federal inter.
ference to sustain them in the GROWING out.
rage through which that infamous quartette,
Wells, Anderson, Casanave and Kenner, are
bold enough to undertake to nullify the
solemn verdict of the people of Louisiana.
The questions raised by this stupendous
crime against popular sovereignty-a crime
which ought to be assimilated to high treason,
and for which an ignominious death upon
tho scaffold is the only adequate atonement-
the questions which the citizens whose
dearest rights are thus insolently trampled
upon are Of such grave and momentous i'm
port, that we forbear from expressing our
individual views as to the proper course to
be pursued until the whole people of Louisi-
ana shall have decided upon the mode and
manner of obtaining that redress to which
they are entitled, and which no conceivable
combination of circumstances Gsn prevent
them from securing ere long.
That this atrosioqs wrong will not be per-
mitted to be Carried out We are as firmly con-
vincc1a as We are that the majority Of the Re-
turning Board have achieved an Immortality
Of infamy, and that every one of them ought
to be just now dangling in the air. They
may not receive their ward at once, but
scorpion whips Of the averging Nemesis will
soon be laid on their dishonored shoulders.
voice Of the people is the voice Of God.
The only reliance of these miserable crea-
lures is upon the renewed interference Of
President Grant in our State affairs. But as the
St Louis Republican well remarks, this does
not remedy the trouble, ''but only exasperates
and increases it. As that journal says, at
certainly is the duty of the United States to
guarantee to every State republican form of
government; but this does not mean, and
ought not to be made to mean, that the
United States shall guarantee to each State a
government By the Republican party. There is
IN established government in each Of the
States Of Mississippi, Louisiana and South
Carolina, backed in each case by the judiciary.
the treasury and the militia, and, it is claim
ed, by q majority Of the people.
ITO admit that these governments cannot
govern the State, cannot enforce the obedi-
ence of the minority, cannot Withstand re-
belions, is to impose on the people of the
other States the endless and costly task of
performing those governing functions for
them. For if Kellogg cannot maintain him
self by his own power this year, he will not
be able to do it next year. nor will his Radi-
cal successor Of five years hence be able to
stand without help. If the State government
Of Mississippi, backed by two-thirds ma
jority Of partisans, cannot protect its indicted
sheriffs from forced designations to-day, nei-
Their will it be able to protect them next week,
Or next year.
''Ths negro and carpet-bagger governments
of these States, will, therefore, be continually
calling on the President of the United States
to act as their constable, and to hand his bill
Of expenses to the people Of the United
States In other words, the people Of the
United States win have to bear all the cost and
perform oil the laborious work of governing
Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina,
leaving the imbecile authorities the sole func-
ton of collecting and consuming the taxes.
But the people of the United States do not
fancy this disagreeable task. The people Of
Ohio take care of themselves, and they insist
that the people Of Mississippi shall do the
same thing.
"They are growing weary Of the constant
drafts on their time, money and peace to up
hold governments which cannot uphold them
selves, and they have recently expressed their
dissatisfaction in q very emphatic way. Some
other policy than the one Of interminable in
reference will have to be devised. That is
condemned by an experience Of disasters, and
by the public voice also. The army of the
cost Of forty-two million dollars for the benefit
Of the rickety Governors who cannot govern
without its aid, and it will be wise for the
President and his party to invent, if they can,
a more peaceful and effective method of deal