The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-12

tive TO the great crime against Louisiana
Shall vermont-the first state to demand,
through her legislature, the abolition of
slavery In the District of Columbia, the
first state to protest against the fugitive
slave law, the first state to rise at The crime
against Kansas, the first state to organize
the friends of freedom against the cohorts
of slavery, and the first state to elect re-
publican governor and general assembly
shall Vermont. with such record, hesitate
TO condemn the usurpaton In Lous-
lana, the attempt to control the organi-
cation -of a legislature by force lof
arms and at the bayonets point, the
"banditti policy OF Sheridan and
his demand that the civil law shall be sup
planted by military law, its courts by drum
head court martials, and its only rule of
action be the arbitrary commands of an
officer of the United States army? God
forbid that Vermont should remain silent
at this time. A legislature, in time of
peace, virtually dispersed at the point of
the bayonet by general of the army
acting by command. we regret to
say, of son of Vermont claiming to he
governor, but who, our own Senator
Edmunds says is neither such de Jtre or d
tdcto, neither 10 right or in fact, and only
claiming to be such by unwarran,able, IL
legal and unconstitutional proceedings
can Vermont remain silelt in such a case
| 1t matters not, IL seems to us, whether
Wilt or Hahn is legal speaker of the Lou
lsiana house of representatives,, so far as
l. this matter Is concerned In either event
the action of the army was Illegal, unwar
ranted, arbitrary-in a word, an usurpa
ton. Admitting the doubt, we and Yer
mont can well say with Senator Edmunds
'the calm and peaceful law of the state
"will rcctify the evil and republican gov
''ernment will go on Shall not the gen
eral assembly of Vermont utter the indig
nant protest of free people and, while de
handing nothing for Louisiana which the,
would not demand for Vermont, demand
that the whole question be left TO be rec
lifted, where the constitution of the United
States, of Vermont and of Louisiana leave
such questions, by the laws of the state st
that republican government will go 1on!'
Is Vermont DESTROYS that republican gov
eminent shall Ego on" or go down? Thi!
is the question for the general assembly tc
answer 1t may be our turn next. Jane,
Madison had as much right and power tc
interfere with the United States army and
control the organization of the Vernon
house of representatives in 1918, as Ulysse
S. Grant, General dc Trobriand or "Goy
ernor" Kellogg have with the Louisiani
house in 1875. In 1873, the army did en-
deavor to control the politics of the hous
and state not by force, however, but b,
voting at the polls, and the Nermonters @
that day Indignantly denounced The at
| tempt, threw out the illegal votes and reg
ulated her own affairs in her own way ant
I in accord ince with heI own laws-thc leg
islature simply judged of the "election
qualifications and returns" of its own mem
bers, and that was all sufficient. Senators
and representatives of Vermont will yol
not conceGc the same right to Louisiana
Will you stand quietly by, uttcring NJ
word of protest, while sister state il
bound like lamb for the slaughter, ant
while 80 bound her dearest rights ar,
slaughtered, and her citizens threatened t.
be treated as "banditti'' and shot by thu
| judgment of drum head court martial
/ The whole country awaits your answer
Show, then to the people of Louaiana ant
of the Union that you are patriots not par
tisans, that you are a liberty loving, Law
! abiding people, and that while you CLAIM
your just rights as American citizens yol
demand that the same rights shall be cx
tended to others, so that the 'calm ant
peaceful laws of the state "may" rcctif,
the evil as we'll in Louisiana as in Yer
mont, and, above all, that REPUBLICAN
government may go on"