The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-12-22
ALEXANDRIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER mo 20

signed, approved and promulgated
by the very usurpsrs whose legal sta
tus you seem to think it recognizes
What provision Of our law, State OF
Federal, constituted this usurpins
government, the judge of its own lie
gality or authorizes the subversion o,
q de jawe in favor of bastard de tactt
government?
It must also be remembered thai
the advocates of this adjustment de-
clared that it referred solely to the
difficulties growing out of the cleo,
ton of 1874, and had no reference te
those Of 1872; and besides, that the
Wheeler Committee, in their report
to Congress, declared that they had
not Investigated the election of 1872
and that their resolution recognizing
Kellogg they based not ON facts OF
law, but on their surmises and opin-
ions of what the people of Louisiana
were willing to accept, and of which
they knew absolutely nothing. II
they had sought the desires of the
people, they could have found ample
evidences in their stubborn and he
roic resistance to two years of op-
preston and wrong, in the formal
resolves Of every parish and commu-
nifty in the State, and in their impo-
sing upheaval Of September IA, 1874,
which swept away, as with the hand
of fate, every vestige of q hated usur-
patton. ,..
AS to the action Of Congress, /
need not remind you that the House
impeachedi Judge Durell, because of
the midnight ORDER" and seated
Gen. Sheridan on the official returns,
which evidenced my election; that
the Senate has refused to admit Mr..
Pinclback, has announced that the
Kellogg government was not elected,
and that the declarations Of; the
Lynch Returning Board were false
and without the semblance ofiinteg-
rity., Logically and legally, there is
but one conclusion from the findings
and action of Congress, and that is
the oee'1hroae Of the at$slpation, In
seating Mr.. Morey, on. the 9th
inst, the House did not recognize
Mr. Kellogg other than as acting
Governor. They expressly expunged
all that would imply their recogni-
ton of him dc jn'e as
/ therefore, as Governor elect oil
Louisiana,'in the name Of the PEG
pie, do deny that their right to gov
-ern themselves has been lost, either
by their own acquiescenceior by tho
Wheeler, adjustment Of the Louisians
House of Representatives,, oribyf any
action of the Federal Congress. i
On the 9th of january, 1876, aeon
vention will be held in this city, ane
the9people's representatives, many o
them already elected and instructed
will demand Of the federal Govern
ment the overthrow Of the nsurpa
ton which its Executive alone ha
created, and whose official head, Mr.
Kellogg, has confessed his inability
to maintain his position: for a sin 81
day without the bayonet aid of it
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author. ~
This demand will be intensified b,
the appalling fact that the usurpa
ton, through its election laws am
returning board, Yields the absolut
power Of self.perpetration, in def
ance Of The popular will, and that re
sistancc on the part Of the peopl
may ,jeopardize, in the next election
1.-THE peace of the State. $
Regretting your course, in resigl
ling your position as Senator, I hay
no option but to accept the resign;
ton, and I will forthwith appoi1
your successor. E
In conclusion I would add, that fl
myself, I will never abandon the pc!
to which the people Of Louisiar
have called me. So long as / la,
life and strength will continue
battle to the uttermost for their il
talienable right Of enlightenment
/ Before the PROSTATE form Of m
stricken State 1 shall still hold IL
T agis of the Constitution, and j
alien nor domestic hand shall striE
at her liberties ,lnresisted by me.
, With still unfaltering confden'
in the justice and good faith of tt
Federal Congress, shall never cea
to appeal to that justice and tn
faith until I shall have secured
Louisiana the right which alone
denied to her, and which she vi
never surrender, Of living under Il