New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-10

its demands. 1t must be seen as command |
ing the allegiance of a united and deter. |
mined people. The spectacle. as argued, |
would be sure to impress upon the people of |
the North sense of the terrible injustice |
and wrong inflicted upon the people of
Louisiana by base prostitution of tie
power of the general government at the
hands of the party in power.
A complete and thorough organization,
too, would, by the very force of public
pressure, break down all of opposition
throughout the State. The affair at Cou-
shatts, while its possible repetition was to
be avoided, for fear of its effect in the
North, had put a ban of popular oOndemna-
ton upon the caTpet-haggers throughout
the country parishes. ReliVed of the intiu-
ence of the carpet baggers, there was little
fear to be apprehended OF very thorough
cooperation among the blacks.
The chief cause of fear, as before stated,
lay in the overhead of the country Demoe-
racy. 1t could only be restrained through
the general effectiveness of military or
ganization. That, as found in the White
Leage order, was demonstrated as insult
ticient, at least in the country. There must
be military organization having at least
cover of legality. There was but the one
way for it. Those claiming to form the
McEDery government must assume the re-
sponsibility. The leading or representative
classes must support them in their preten-
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be remOrselessly whipped into line.
We had thus presented at once, some
what anomalous condition of affairs. The
Kellogg government was, osteDsibly at
least, the legitimate government of the
State. IL certainly represented in its in
auguration, if the census returns can be
claimed as in any manner reliable, large
majority of the legal voters. The question
at issue, if any, from the first, could only
be in the matter of returns of the actual
vote as cast; out of this again the issue on
the Republican side, Of gigantic and sys
tematized frauds, through which q large
proportion OF legal voters were either de.
MED the right of registration or we're de-
frauded in the matter OF being properly
returned. Whatever the Issues, it was, as
it still is until otherwise disposed of by Con
gress, the only recognized, and therefore
the only legal government.
Opposed to its authority, however, is seen
an organization of politicians, claiming, as
| per returns of partisan board, to be the
| legally elected government of the State.
| We have thus the Kellogg government in
| recognized legal possession, and the Nc
Emery government claiming itself as alone
| entitled to that right. In support of its
pretensions, it is seen as assuming the au-
| thority for a general organization of what
is claimed as q legal militia. The Organiza-
ton of this so.cailed State militia, too,
| looks to nothing less for its immediate OBJ
| ieot than the total subversion of the recog-
nized government of the State. The move.
| ment was but a necessary preliminary step
| to zone of those spontaneous uprisings of
the people" that, however, they may de-
| ceive the uninitiated, like spontaneous
combustions in general, require proper
condition of the elements to effect the re-
| suit.
An organization of the State militia, to be
effective, must necessarily have something
| in the way of arms and equipments. The
members of the country organizations
might very well be looked to supply them.
selves. Those at the seat of government.
| as they required a more thorough and eff
| fective organization, must be provided with
more effective arms. To purchase several
thousand stand of arms required no little
| outlay of ready cash. There must needs
| be a revolutionary fund to meet the re-
| Quirements in the case. Exactly where the
money came from for the purchase of those
| muskets, SO effective in the hands of the
| MCEnery White League militia on that his.
toric day IN September last, is a subject the
evasion of which seems TO have OccasiOned
no little solicitude in council. 1t is one, in
fact, the discussion of which is generally
| avoided, as it is one that seems to have
worked some considerable scandal, that,
like scandal in general, had better be left to
| wear itself ont. The times had changed,
| however, with the process of the revOlu-
| ton. But few months before the most
urgent and pathetic appeals of the Com
mittee of Seventy to the patriOtism-i. g.,
the poekets-Of the merchants and business
men of the city, met with but a cold and
heartless response. Their patriotism was
| insufficient, in fact. as understood, to sup
| ply even the needful with which to pay the
Office rent of the committee.
The needs of an impending revolution,
| however, broOked little evasion. They were
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| the pockets, however the patriotism may
| have been affected. White League com
| mittees, as understood, had but to call and
| present list of assessments to the revOlu-
| tiOnary fund to meet with a ready response.
| The bankers, insurance men, and merchants
| generally, could scarce decline so pressing
call upon their patriotism. The Northern
Democracy, too, naturally enough, were
more than interested in the situation in
Louisiana. Poor old Louisiana, in fact, was
| their stock in trade. The terrible wrongs
and expressions, the martyrdOm of a once
| free people-ie. e., the Louisiana Democracy
was an ever fruitful theme. The spectacle
| of such people rising in open revolt against
| their OppressOrs would be q gOdsend. 1t
would create wave of popular indignation
| against the party in power, that, like the
| tidal wave that follows the earthquake in
| the tropics, would sweep everything before
| it. The movement would seem, beyond a
doubt, to have been well understood in GER
| tain Democratic circles in New York and
| elsewhere in the North. 1t would seem, in
fact, to have been cOunseled and advised by
certain shining lights of the Northern De
mOcracy. IL one, too, is to believe 1.-THE
even of the evidence presented, there were
| liberal donations to the cause from the same
source.
1t is said, too, that certain holders of Lou.
isiana bonds were made to bleed for the
same purpose There is certainly a very
suspicious train of circumstances in the
connection. The Southern Democracy have
never been pFOverbal for any excess of
honor in the matter of meeting their
obligations. 1t is probably safe to say that
| fully nine-tenths of the repudiatiOnists in
the past, as found in the South, have been
| of the Democratic school. In the campaign
| in Louisiana, 1t was a matter OF no little
/ notoriety that not few of those found
/ among the mercantile and mOneyed GLASSES,
having an interest in the credit of the State,
were seriously afraid of the reputation
| ideas of the Democracy. 1t was generally
admitted at the time to have influenced
quite a vote among the merchants and
bankers for Kellogg in lieu of MeEnery,
The process of scaling the debt, as embodied
in the sO-oalled funding bill, as generally
admitted, was practically that emanatinR
from the Chamber of Commerce In New Or
leans. 1t was an effort, good or bad, &c
meet a generally recognized necessity, and
ward off an otherwise possible total repudi
alton of the bonded debt of the State.
The Inauguration Of the late campaign
found ticket in the field in favor of q
general and complete reputation. It rep
resented, in the main, as well understood
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