The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-02-03
ALEXANDRIA, La, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1875.
THE REMEDY FOR LOUISIANA.

Satisfied that q great wrong has
been done in Louisiana affairs, and
thoroughly frightened at the upris-
ing Of public opinion all over the
country, a few Republicans in Con-
gress would faih try to appease pop
ular Indignation by posing an act to
reconstruct the State and authorize
a new election. For many reasons
we are opposed to any experiment Of
this sort. If any Republicans in
Congress or elsewhere are hostile to
Giants rule Of Louisiana by fraud
and the sword, let them say so like
men, and not endcavor to wriggle
out Of a very uncomfortable position
by q dcspicable dodge.
We oppose any further attempts to
reconstruct Louisiana and order cleo
tions therein by Congress, because it
would be violation Of the Constltu-
ton and dangerous to public liberty.
1t is nearly twelve years since that
State returned to her allegiance to
the National Government, and nearly
ten years since the rebellion subsi
ded in all the Stotcs. In the mean
time the reconstruction acts and the
Executive proclamations, and the ju-
dicial DEGREES, and the military or
ders promulgated in regard to Lou
isiana would fill a good sized volume.
There has been more than enough of
this. Congress and the President
have no better right or excuse to in
terfere in the affairs of Louisiana
than they have in those of New
York.
We object to Congress ordering a
new election in Louisiana because it
would only result in another series of
frauds to set aside the verdict of the
voters, winding up with further mill
tary intervention to place in office
those whom the people had not cho-
sen. Two years ago McEnery was
elected Governor, together with de-
cisive majority of members of the
Legislature of the same political
party. But, to promote the schemes
of Casey, the brother-in-law of the
President, Grant used the bayonet to
turn out McEnery and the Conserva-
tives in the Legislature, and to put
in their stead Kellogg and the theiv-
ing crew who follow his lead and dc
the bidding of Grant and Casey.
| Notwithstanding this outrage, Nc.
Emery and his friends were advised
to submit and wait till abe election
of 1874 gave them an opportunity tc
rectify their wrongs through tlfe bal
lot boxes. Well, this opportunity
came in November last, and the Con;
, seryatives, with the aid of consid
cradle negro vote, swept the State
carrying their candidates for Treasu,
rer by a handsome majority, all the
Congressman except one or two, and
a clear majority of the Legislature
But Of what avail was this overwhel
ming victory? Kellogg, Casey, and
Packard, with Grant and the army
behind them, set it aside and agar
forced the usurpers into power at thu
point of the bayonet. Would it no
be worse than trifling to order anoth
err election and thus open the way
for a REPETITION of this crime agains
liberty, law, and the Constitution
These experiments are full Of peril
for they establish precedents which
some dictator in due time will EN-
!, ploy to set his heel not upon Louisi
, ana only, but upon the thirty-seve1
!, States Of the Union.
The only effective remedy to mee
the emergency is to withdraw, til
; army from Louisiana, and then le
E the people turn Grant out of tn
White House at the earliest possibl
moment. He is the root of the evi
At him the blow should be aimee
IN. Y. Sun.
= "A New Hampshire paper tel
, about a little six-year old girl in
country town in that State who wei
S into store where her father W.
n lounging the other day, and slyly a.
e preaching him, said: "Papa won