The enquirer southerner., 1875-01-08
A cRoWNING INSULT 10 AMER
ICAN REPUBLICAN1SM-
LOUISIANA UNDER FED
ERAL RAYoNETS.

ERAk la YVNEIS.
The Press of this country has
been teeming for the past two years
with the high-handed and unparall> |
eled outrages perpetrated BY the
present Administration upon the
several States of the South and ups
on the brave, chiyalrous and patient
people of the State of Louisiana in
particular. On the 4th inst, the po-
litical events of these two years in
Louisiana found their logical result
in the forcible expulsion of four
Conservative members of the Legis-
lature by the Army of the United
States, and the consummation of the
greatest outrage that has ever yet
in the history Of the country been
practiced upon the citizens of o
State. To-day a minority Legisla-
ture never elected by the people,
but foisted upon them by the most
barefaced frauds, without regard to
ballots or returns or anything bat
the necessities of a wicked and cor
rupt Ring of politicians, sits in New
Orleans under the protection of
Federal bayonets, and undertakes
to legislate for the State. In the
language of that most independent
of journals, the New York Tribune,
nothing in the history of even the
great conspiracy by which the Bor>
der Ruffians undertook to seize the
Territory and State Of Kansas can
furnish any parallel for this crown
ing iniquity of the Federal Admin
istration."
When files of armed soldiers were
marched with fixed bayonets into
the lobby of the House of Repre-
sep ptatives, the Conservative mem>
bers-powerless against the Federal
Government-wisely retired from
the hall in which their rights were
denied them, and where their pres'
ence was only an excuse for farce
of legislation, and left the body
without a quorum. There is no
disturbance. The people are quiet.
The forces of Gen. Emory, number.
ing 1,1O0, are ercamped around the
State House, subject to the orders
of the unmitigated knave and usur-
per, Kellogg. Sixty United States
soldiers have elected from the Leg
islature four members who had
been declared legally elected by the
Legislature to which the returns
had been referred by the Returning
Board. The citizens Of Louisiana
have seen themselves cheated and
defrauded, and when the fraud came
near to failure they have seen the
whole power Of the General Govern.
ment used to consummate it and
make villainy succe ssful. They
make no outcry, but upon the fact.
as they are they invoke the deliber.
ate judnment of the people of the
United States.
! A forcible resistance under the
circumstan ces would have been JUS
tifable, but inexpedient and we car
but congratulate them-the people
of this truly unfortunate State
upon the wisdom Of their conduct
The time is near a. ,hand-in The
elections of 1876-when the indig.
nant voice of an outraged people viii
rise up against the unmerciful ty'
rants and capacious thieves who
have for so long a time held dom
inion over the insulted, ,down-trodden
and oppressed people of the South.
ern States, and will hurl them from
that power which they have SO un>
scrupulously abus ed. The whole
Federal administration, headed by
the most devilish of all devils, At
torney General Williams, have
prostituted the sacred trust commits
ted to their charge and are traitors
to American Republicanism. We
shall hail the approach of the time
with grea! pleasure, and it will
truly bo an occasion of national re-
joicing and thanksgiving, when they
shall have received at the hands of
the whole people the rebuke which
they so richly deserve. So may it
be.