The daily gazette., 1875-01-26
Trem the New rork rritane of Monday.
mprOs,t Use.

} Every few days arnmor comes from
Washington or New Orleans that the
friends and the advprsaries of the
Louisiana usurpation have agreed upon
some form Of compromise" which
will settle tho whole trouble. Kellogg
and McEnery, the dispersed Legisla-
ture of Wiltz and the fraudulent leg
islature of Hahn, are TO come to an
understanding, through their deputies
tand attorneys, aud proceed to divide
the offices. Kellogg shall keep the
Governorship on condition that the
next valuable office goes to Penn Some
body else shall take possession of the
State Treasury The minor places
shall be impartially distributed between
the rival claimants, and the two houses
of Representative shall make believe
that nothing has happ ened since the
1st of January, and organize afresh
under such terms as may be agreed
upon by the contracting parties. In
short, the struggle between the people
of Louisiana and their oppressors is to
be treat ed as mere battle of factions
to be settled by fair division OF the
plund er, on the principle that they
shall, take who have the power and they
shall keep who can. ~ rf.
Is itpossible that any Conservatives
of influence and respectable position
in New Orleans, after their long, ard
uous, and gallant resistance to the
usurpation, are willing to surrender all
the ground that they have conqueIed
and disavow all the principles for which
they have fought, by acceding to this
contemplate and debasing com
promise?" Between the armed invader,
who attempts to seize the Government,
and the people who maintain their
rights, compromise Is impossible.
Give up to the lawless claimant one
iota of authority to which he is not
entitled and you surrender everything
The North sympathizes with the mis-
fortunes of Louisiana, burns with in
dignation at her wrongs, and has just
struck telling blow at her oppressors,
because it feels that republican govern
ment is outraged in her person, and
the whole Union is oppressed when
one of the States is deprived of its
rights. But it cares nothing for Nc
Emery and Penn. 1t has never even
asked the names of the members whom
ocutIhl OIdul tuIHcu Out VI TIE lckiS-
lature, and does not know what par
ishes they represented 1t does not
vex itself at the bad character of Kel-
logg. 1t has no COMMUNICATION whatever
for the various functionaries whom he
has tricked out of their offices. Our only
concern is for the cause of constitution
al government. If the people of Louis
lana consent to degrade this great issue
into mere tussle for the powers and
.emoluments of office, to barter away
their political liberties for a mess of
pottage, they may fight their battles
henceforth alone
We presume. however, that the re.
ported compromise is q mere trick,
like everything else the Kellogg Gov,
ernment has put before the world, and
we take it for granted that the Conser-
vatives are too shrewd to be deceived
into the fatal blunder of accepting it.
Let them wait with the noble patience
theylhave shown 80 long and their ulti-
mate triumph is assured Against them
stand few thousands of office-holders;
with them are almost all the rest of
the American people, Is there any
doubt which will prevail?"