Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-01-13
The Stranglcd State.

the person of Gen, DE Trobrian, enter
ed the Legislature of Louisiana and
demanded the election of five mem,
bers of that body. The five members
Of Louisiana were as strictly the
champions Of free government as the
five members Of the House of Com
mons, and the whole political welfare
of these United States is DO md up
with the success of the cause for
which these men are fighting What
happened to Charles we know. The
least and lightest that can happen to
Grant, if republican ibert is to sur
vive on this continent, is to be follow
ed at the end of his term Of public
office into the obscurity from which
he emerged at the beginning of it by
the execrations of all the people. We
hope there is no American man who
can read the news from New Orleans
without a thrill OF shame and rage
There is no doubt in the mind of any
man in Louisiana that the five men
for whose election De Trobriand call
ed yesterday were the chosen rep
resentatives 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 become
avowedly the creature Of force. The
miserable usurper Kellogg is more
plainly than ever before seen to be the
puppet Of TIE MORE rLAGIrIoUs UsUR-
PER GRANT, who has now employed
the military power which is entrusted
to him to maintain the liberties and
defend the rights of his countrymen
in putting both to an open shame
The troops Of New Orleans were not
there as a police. There was no pre-
tence that they were needed to pre-
serve public order. They were there
only to prop the Government 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United States withdrawn from their
degrading work, would sweep from
power forever in an hour Their COM
mander expressly said that his mstruo-
tons were to obey the orders of Kel-
logg. 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 no,
thing but praise for the spirit in which
the representatives of Louisiana yield,
ed to the tyranny which they could
not resist. We say deliberately that
there was no reason why they should
not have resisted, and resisted to the
death, THIS FOUL OUTRAGE UPON LAW
AND LIBERTY, except the hopelessness
of resisting. A rising yesterday
would have had consequences which
are pitiful and terrible even to think
Of. These consequences were present
to the Legislators of Louisiana, who
not only yielded with derency when
they could not resist with hope, but
who have thus far stayed the hands of
their constituents. But we say also
that, terrible rs would have been the
consequences of resistance yesterday,
they are less terrible than will be the
consequences Of submission on the
part of the people Of the United States
70 the outrage which has been per-
petrated upon them all through the
people of Louisiana. For that sub
mission, or any tolerance of this last
and worst outrage Of TIE TRAITOR
WHO SITS IN THE PRESIDENT CHAIR
which stops short of driving him from
it into darkness and disgrace, will be a
confession that the American people
are NO LONGER FIT To HAVE THE LIBER-
TIES which in that case it will not take
them long to lose and it were better
that the cutters of New Dreams
should run with blood than that re-
publican government should be ex.
changed throughout the county as it
has been exchanged in New Orleans,
for the rule of stupid and sordid
tyrant.- n. Y. World, Jan. 9TH.
The Inauguration Of Gov. Tilden
as Governor of New York is now an
accomplished fact, and its ceremonies