Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-19
INDIGNATION MEETING LAST
NIGHT.

Z. M. Apperson was called to the cha
ard committee was appointed to dra
series of resolutions. The COMMITTEE
consisting of Messrs. Brown, Hill, Allel
Fizer, Guy, Vaccsro, Dixon, Lower
stein and Estes, presented the followin
resolutions, which were adopted unsn
mously by the meeting.
Recognizing as facts no longer capa
BILE of successful denial, that the author
ity exercised for some time past and sti
claimed over the State OF Louisiana, b
W. Pitt Kellogg and his associates, is
usurpatien and against the consent G
the governed; that this usurped govern
ment has most grieyously oppressed tn
people of that State, wasting their sui
stance, destroying their industries anC
commerce by excessive and unnecessar
taxation and by official corruption, plum
dering the wealth and property Of th,
State; that by INSCRIPTIONS construction
and odious registration laws the pre-
tended authorities cooperating with tn,
said W.. Pitt Kellogg, are endeavorinl
to deprive the people of the means t.
relieve themselves of the evils now upor
them by peaceful ballot;
We, as American citizens, neither for
getting nor willing to surrender the
liberties transmitted from the Colonial
struggle of '76, and embodied by our
ancestors in the Federal Constitution
feel constrained to extend to our op.
pressed fellow-citizens of Louisiana the
most profound sympathy in the untowsrd
circumstances that have deprived them
of selfgovernmen and subjected them
to the destructive expressions of cor.
rupt and illegal administration of their
domestic affairs.
We likewise appeal to the people of the
several States OF the American Union to
co. operate in procuring such Federal &C.
ton as may be constitutional for the
restoration to the people Of Louisiana OF
government in accordance with their
interests and wishes, republican in fact
and not merely in form. We invoke the
aid of the entire people of the Federal
Union in establishing once more in the
republic self-government, believing that
in the restoration of this ancient habit
of American political life will be found
a remedy for all distempers, sectional
and national, and return to the whole
country of renewed prosperity, sur
passing in material progress that of any
former day.
We likewise regard the recent violent
overthrow of the Kellogg usurpation not
a mere tumult; not the disorder of am
bilious agitators; not the riot of desper-
ate and lawless men, but as an honest
effort to establish free government by
the best citizens of the State, evidently
representing the great body Of the peo-
pie, under provocation and expressions
that would have produced, in all proba-
bility, the same result in any other State
of the American Union. Though marked
with technical illegally, and character.
lied, under the peculiar circumstances,
by temerity, we cannot recognize this
conduct-free as it was of all hostility
to Federal authority, utterly devoid of
rspine, and affording the amplest guar
antee for life, liberty and property to all
-as meriting the resentment of the Fed.
eral Government, or of the people of the
Union. On the contrary, we feel that
the wrongs which could have induced
such irregular courses on the part of the
best citizens of an American Common
wealth strongly solicit the indignation
of every honest citizen, utterly irrespec-
and invite the most active
exertions by all to remove and redress
these wrongs. We hold it to be the duty
Of every true friend of Republican insti-
tutions to oppose the application Of
revolutionary methods as remedial of
evils in the State, but we likewise hold
hat this duty is best subserved by the
prompt action of legal authority in
and removing admitted
wrongs and oppression that naturally
provoke violent remedies.
Colonel Duncan McRae mounted the
stand and offered another set of resolu-
ions almost identical in expression of
sympathy, but full Of compliments to
Mr.. Grant, who is the one.man power in
he United States at present. Just now
he Chief Magistrate of the nation does
not stand in high favor in the South, yet
le has a few enthusiastic admirers who
rave unbounded faith in his honesty and
idelity to the constitution. (He is an
honest taker Of presents, and his fidelity
o rings of Radical usurpers of State
as well as Long Branch, is
lndisputed.)
When the resolutions of the commit
ee had been adopted speeches were
made by B. NJ. Estes, Judge I. W. Brown |
nd Attorney General Luke E. Wright
n favor of the regular set of resolutions,
nd by G. P. NJ. Turner in favor of the
IcRae resolutions.
The meeting adjourned at late hour,
nd those attending were full of sympa.
by for the down-trodden people Of Louisi-
ma, who are just now feeling the iron
love and heel of the man Grant, who
as as much respect for State govern
ients as Cromwell had for the English
'arliameut, or Napoleon had for the Re
ublican Assembly of France, both Of
Ihich bodies were dispersed at the point
{ the bayonet by the Pretorian guards
{ these respective dictatorial Generals.
A Voice from New Orleans.