The Opelousas courier., 1874-02-07
Loufsiana-Why Grant Hesi.
tat0S.

BY attempting to force fraudulent Govern
ment upon the Territory of Kansas, Mr. Buch-
anan destroyed himself, his Administration.
and his party. Not needing the fate OF Buch-
anan and the Democracy, Gen. Grant, by
means far more reprehensible than those EN-
ployed by his feeble predecessor, has imposed
upon Louisiana State Government vastly
worse in every element of fraud venality. and
oppression than that which Buchanan tried to
fasten upon Kansas.
Such heavy load to the party has this
Louisiana usurpation become that many pro-
minent Republicans, who want to live and
flourish after Grant is politically dead and
decOmposed. are searching around for a way
out OF this miserable business, and for a device
of some sort for getting rid of SO intolerable a
burden. They hit upon the oft-used scheme
of ordering "a new election for State officers
and Il Legislature. But Grant htsitates: and
why! The answer is plain. Judge Durell,
Marshal Packard, Brother-in-law Casey. the
usurping Kellogg, poor Pinchback, and sundry
messengers and telegraph operators, know a
great deal too many facts about the original
source whence this plan for OverthrOwing the
lawful Government of that State sprang, to
make it safe for Grant and some of his Cabi-
net to allow the Kellogg fraud to be now set
aside.
Does anybody imagine that Durelrs order
whereby WarAloth, McEnery. and their friends
were deposed, and Kellogg. Pinchback and
their followers were placed in power, spraDg
from the muddled brain of Durell Have
people forgotten the mysterious visits of
Casey to Long Branch Of Packard to Wash
lngton; and how kilograms and messengers
were sent back and forth between the Branch
Lodge and the White House. and between
both and New Orleans and that the result
was the Durell order, the Packard warrant,
and the employment of the troops under
Emory to first upset Warmoth and inaugu-
rate Pinchback as temporary Governor, aud
to keep MeEnery and the lawful
Legislature out of the State House and place
Kellogg and his motley crowd in possession
1t all the facts relating to these transactions
were to come out. the conspirators ofhigh and
low degree i'll Washington and Louisiana
would stand appalled,, while the country would
invoke condign punishment upon their guilty
heads. Now, does anybody suppose that
Grant is so foolhardy as to drive his tools in
Louisiana to desperation by turning them out
Of office, and thus tempt them to open their
mouths and tell damning truths about him
and his accomplices in the hope of averring
their own ruin
Wholly aside from the fate which may over
lake Grant. Kellogg, and the rest of these
lsurpers, is it not the duty of thoughtful Re
pubiicans to inquire whether the future of
heir party does not demand that it shall in
some way and without needless delay rid it
'elf of this Louisiana load 7 Let it remember
5he fate of the Democracy in the Kansas usur-
patton - an outrage trivial in it's enormity, |
md limited in it's scope and evil tendency, |
when compared with the Louisiana crime. |
Had not the Republican party better throw
lundred Grants, kello9gs, and Caseys over
board than to go into the next Congressional !
conflict with these men, stained from head to
DOT with this Louisiana infamy, encumbering
IS decks