The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-01-15
2he .SsTG;sJ'ed State.

Two hundred and thirty-four years ago
yesterday says the World of the 5th inst,
Charles Stuart went down to the House of
Commons in person and demanded tho ar
rest of Pym, Hampden, Hollis, Haslerig,
and Strobe Yesterday Ulysses Grant, III
the person of General De Trobriand, en-
tered the Legislature of Louisiana and de-
maRded the election of five members of
that body. The five members of Louisiana
were as strictly the champions OF free gov
ernment as the five members of the House
of Commons and the whole political wei
fare of these United States is bound up
with the success of the cause for which
these men are fighting. What happened
to Charles we know. The least and light
est that can happen 10 Grant, if Republican
liberty is to survive on this continent, is to
be followed at the end of his term of public
office into the obscurity from which he
emerged at the beginning of 1t by the exc
crations of all the people.
We hope there is no American man who
can read the news fIom New Orleans with
out thrill of shame and rage. There is
no doubt in the mind of any man in Lou
isiaua that the five men for whose election
De Trobriaud called yesterday were the
chosen representatives Of the lawful voters
of their districts. There is no doubt in
the mind Of any man that with the cause
of which these men were the accredited
champions rests the only hope not alone
of good government, but of republican
government, in the State of Louisiana.
The miserable imposture Of Government
under which the State has groaned so
long, from the creature of fraud, has be
come aYowedly the creature of force. The
miserable usurper Kellogg is more plainly
than ever before seen to be the puppct of
the yet more fagitious USurper, Grant,
who has now employed the military power
which is intrusted to him to maintain the
liberties and defend the rights Of his cOun-
tl.ymeu in putting both to an open shame
The troops of New Orleans were not there
as a police. There was no pretence that
they were needed to preserve public order
They were there only to prop the govern
nlent which Grant had set up over the
people of Louisiana, and which the people
of Louisiana, were the soldiers OF the
United States Withdrawn from their de-
grading work, would sweep from power
forever in an hour. Their commander ex-
pressly said that his Instructions we're to
obey the order of Kellogg. 1t was well
for the Speaker Of the House to say, as he
did, that Louisiana has not a republican
form of government.
We can have nothing but praise for the
spirit in which the representatives of Lou
isiana yielded to the tyranny which they
could not resist. We say deliberately that
iitIc NsiS no IcdS'pii Why tHSl IOS
have resisted, and resisted 10 The death,
this foul outrage upon law aud liberty, ex-
cept the hOpelessness of resisting. A ris-
ing yesterday would have had consequences
which are ptiful and terrible even to think
Of These consequences were present TO
the legislators of Louisiana, who not only
yielded with deccncy when they could not
resist with hope, but who have thus far
stayed the hands of their constituents.
But we say also that, terrible as would
have been the consequences of resistance
yesterday, they aIe less terrible than viii
be the consequences Of subniss:ol on the
part Of the people of the United States to
the outrage which has been peIpetiated
upon them all through the people of Lou
isiana. For that submission, or. any toleT-
ance Of this last and worst outrage of the
traitor who sits in the Presidents clair
which stops short OF driving hin from Il
into darkness aud disgrace, VIII De con-
fesaion that the 4 American people are no
longer fit to have the liberties which IN
that case il will not take .hem long to lose :;
and it were better that the cutters of New
Orleans should run with blood than that
republican government should be exchtng-
ed throughout the country, as it has been
exchanged in New Orleans, for the rule of
a stupid and sordid tyrant.