The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-05

The people then elected 10 the Lower House Of
their Legislature majority OF Conservative
members. portion OF Conservative menu
beers titus elected were refused their certificates
This ~ AN act Of great injustice 10 individuals
and Of the gravest danger to the state and free
government. and ought 10 be immediately cor.
rected by any power competent 10 correct IL.
The resolution recommending the recognition
of Governor Kellogg IL based upon general In.
preston and not upon evidence. On this point
no testimony was taken either by the committee
or any part Of H. Kellogg may may not have
been elected In lsls, but there l. no evidence 10
show the TACT, or II there be, i has been neither
sought nor found by this committee. Messrs. fOs.
ter and Phelps think that popular belief, taking
both the Conservative and Radical circles, in
clnes on the whole 20 justify helOgg's aud Penn's
claims, and that as kellogg IS and has been
Governor Of Louisiana for the last two years 10
deny his right and install another In his place AT
ter this lapse ~ time might involve incalculable
mischief 10 the legal and political interests az he
State 10 avoid the mischief and confusion of "A
change, a majority of the citizens Of Louisiana
seem willing 10 accept as a compromise kelogg's
recognition. and restoration 10 the Conservatives
OF the control of the Lower House. For these
reasons, Messrs. Foster and Phelps do not
wish To oppose the recommendation that the ad-
ministration of Governor kellogg be recognized
Neither in view of the fact that they know nothing
of the merits Of the case as judged by competent
evidence do they wish 30 be understood as urg-
ing il. They only wish 10 record their agree.
ment with those OF their associates who believe
that such compromise might, by making ter
mination Of the uncertainty In louisiana be- ON
the whole, less ntolerabe than the present situa-
ton Of that distressed people. But to any reso-
luton recognizing Kellogg, Messrs. Potter and
Marshall are utterly opposed. They find nothing
10 justify the belief That kellogg was elected
That he seized the Government by aid of federal
troops through the void and fraudulent order
which prevented the counting and return Of votes
should be standing presumption against him.
When the people. outraged by the abuses Of his
Government, had successfully regained the
Office he had usurped, he was again reseated by
federal power, and through the forms of law by
which he had intrenched himself, he once more
sought to uullify the choice of the people at the
late election, and 10 that end called in Federal
troops To break up the meeting of the Legislature
For Congress to recognize usurpation gross,
so apparent, is, they think, 10 establish prece-
dent by which. under pretexts that can readily be
found, any state government may be Overthrown
the will Of the people nullincd, fraud and vio-
lence made permanent and republican forms per-
verted Ia destroy liberty.
In their judgment all that IL needed in Louisi.
ana is ~ withdraw the Federal troops and leave
the people Of that state 70 govern themselves
(signed) CHAs. FOSTER,
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS
CLARksOS y. POTTER,
SAMUEL ;. MARSHALL.