New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-24
LOUISIANA TROUBLES.

| SEVENTY TO PRESIDENT GRANT-A STATEMENT
OF THE RECENT CONFERENCE.-THE WHITE
LEAGUE.
fBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
NEw-ORLRANs, Sept. 23.-Tbe special correspond
eDt OF The TRIBUNE has received from the Commit
tee of Seventy representing tho people Of Lou
siana, the following address to the people OF the
United States in the defense and explanation of the
iate revolutionary movement:
| 10 NE People Of the United States: The undersigned
committee, appointed at meeting composed OF the
committee OF Seventy the State Central Committee. and
the Parish Committee representing the opposition to
the usurpation OF william Pitt Kellogg. and instructed
prepare statement OF the recent events In Louisiana
and an address to the people OF the United States
respectfully submit the following for your candid
| sideration
IL has been demonstrated and brought 70 the knowl
edRe OF the people, by publication In every leading jour
nal In the United States that shortly after the election
In November 1872 by the alleged action OF District
Judge OF the United States aided and enforced by SOL
diers OF the Federal Government ordered from Pensacola
10 NewOrleans for that purpose the State House was
seized at night, pretended Legislature, composed
In great part Of defeated candidates. organized
and VIM Pitt Kellogg was forced upon the people Of
Louisiana as Governor, and c. c. Antoine as Lieuten
antGovernor, both OF whom defeated by large
maorites. shown by actual count Of official returns
OF the votes without going into Details 1t suf
Hoes for the copy the language Of the UGed
States Senate Committee Of the goth of February 1873
Report No. 49, XIId Congress, Third Session. page a.
Your Committee, are therefore, led to the conclusion
that the election held IN November 1872 be not abso
utey paid for frauds committed therein, McEnery and
as members OF the Legislature by the De Ferret Board
ought to be recognized as the legal Government OF the
STATE Considering all the facts established before your
Committee, there escape from the alternative
that the McEnery Government must be recognized by
Congress, or Congress must provide for reelection.
And again, page As:
II the Senate should be inclined not to go behind the
oea returns Of tue election then the McEnery Coy fo
lawful Government OF the State.
No one believed, one had the audacity TO pretend
that Kellogg and his associates had been elected Tue
fact being established by the actual count Of the official
returns Of votes cast 10 the presence of the Senate
Committee, that McEnery Penn, and their associates
had been elected, the only question was whether
that election Was void from fraud. Protesting as
we do that the State Committee had nothing
do with question OF fraud in State election and
that the Federal Government in all its departments
was bound by official returns OF the votes cast
we assert that the McEnery Government was legally
and fairly elected. The Senate Committee and the
people Of the Northern States generally were led into
error and arrived false conclusion by assuming as
true two false propositions:
First That the colored voters In Louisiana were
largely in excess of the white voters.
Second: That the c0lored voters aud White Republ-
l. The OF 1870 taken In the months OF July
aud August when as is well known. thousands OF white
people absent from this State In pursuit OF pleasure
and business. Colored people had neither the means
inclination to travel and while the census may he
taken fair exposition Of the colored population IT is
not a statement of the white population The
that there were in Louisiana IN July and
August 1870:
OF white males-1e3. o31.
OF eoIored maies-a,,sIss a.,
OF white males above the age of 2l-s7,oco
OF colored males above the age OF 21-06,)l3
Excess OF white males over Il years-l53
BY an arbitrary rule the compilers OF the Census
classed as above all persons whose ages were un-
known. We know that most white persons above the
age puberty would be able to state their ages so that
very few white would be classed improperly,
while many negroes give no accurate
information that subject. Very few white
people under 81 would be classed as OF that
age while many negroes under 20 would be cassed over
81 from their sheer inability state their This cen
sus was taken under tho auspices Of the Republican
party and there is no pretence that it did any injustice
TO the coored population diminished the numerical
strength of that race its friends and adherents II
shows:
Total coored population. ...-.......-.-.... SG2lo
4otdi MhIte ''-'''
Excess OF colored population. PAS
White males. 1900
Excess OF white males. 1927
Coored females i9S1sI
Colored nales..-. A'0'''H
Excess Of colored females. 66i2
This disparity in the males aud females OF the two
races respectively shows IL the ratio Of TO five
il correct basis upon which 70 estimate the voting
capacity Of the white with its excess OF 1897 maes
different and lower ratio would be necessary to ascer
tain the voting capacity Of tho colored race with Its
excess OF 6,6i2 females.
H. It's well known that many Republicans, white
and colored, under the leadership OF Warmoh, Sherl
dan. Campbell, McMien. and Armistead, the eolored
candidate for Secretary OF State voted the Fusion or
McEnery ticket and there is reasonable doubt OF
tho election OF that ticket fairly, and by largo
majority. 1t is matter Of public history that the
people OF Louisiana appealed 10 the fres-
ident of the United States for relief against
the usurpation set up and established by the Federal
power alone aud that they were repealed Win Insult ny
the Attorney Genera that they appealed in vain to the
Legislative Department Of the General Government Tor
relief at two successive sessions that they invoked the
aid OF the Supreme Of the United states TO relieve
them OF the outrages upon their rights Dy an ineror
Federal Judge (DurelD, aud that the Supreme Court
found Itself without Jurisdiction aud powerless 70 take
cognzance OF the cause.
There remained for the people OF LOUISIANA out one
hope Of relief and that hope for partial roller only Inc
Gubernatora term is four years. aud the present term
expires January 1871 The State officers hold for the
term and the hold for four years. one
half being elected every two years At the election In
November, 1874, State Treasurer, the members
Of the House Of Representatives. and half
the Senate to be chosen, with the ADDITION
Of members of the Senate I'LL such vacancies as may
have occurred by deaths otherwise, so that the ut
which could have hoped to obtain by the Cleo
ton would have been State Treasurer and majority
in the Legislature. The constitution Of Louisiana SUD-
ects the Governor impeachment but the concurrence
OF two-thirds OF the Senators present Is requisite
to the conviction As half OF the Senators hoid ior
the same term as the Governor, the electiOu