The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-03
ABSORPTION OF THE STATES.

Autocracy is the simplest form Of govern
ment. Our American system is tending t
this primary, simple form. One by one Oh
dogmas are laid aside, old usages abandoned
old maxims ignored, and old models thrown
into the shade. The machinery Of State gov
! eminent, or what in the old country is called
home rule is in process of being put away a.
useless rubbish. Many things once held as
sacred are already turned over to the nationa
junk shop for the study of antiquaries or fol
such thinkers and members in laws and consti
tutions as may hereafter find them useful
The recognition by Congress Of Mr.. Kel-
logg as Governor Of Louisiana is perhaps the
most notable example OF simpEfication ap.
piled to IA State. Heretofore it was oreya-
lent opinion that any State, member of this
Republic, had the sole and exclusive right to
select her own Chief Magistrate in her own
way, without let or hindrlnce from any quar-
ter. Americans have differed as to the proper
dividing lines between the authority and
powers of the Federal or General Government
and the reserved powers and original auth ori-
earnest and honest, forming the separating
lines between great parties and engaging the
best efforts of the ablest men on the Western
Continent.
All this discussion is concluded The reso
luton OF the House of Representatives,
adopted March l, 1915, is practically an abro-
CATION Of the right of a State to elect her Gov
ernor
A Federal Judge, by an interlocutory order,
declared Kellogg Governor. That Judge has
been mathematical all over the Union, but |
his decision stands with the tacit sanction of |
The Federal Chief Magistrate has declared
Kellogg to be Governor of Louisiana.
and has sustained him as such in every way
known to executive authority, and by the re-
peated and direct use of weapons and soldiery
Now comes the action of one branch Of the
legislative department Of the government of
The Union, which, by solemn resolution, con
firms what the judiciary and executive de-
oartments have before declared. The Senate,
will, beyond doubt, accept and affirm the
esolution of the House.
Anything my grow out Of this precedent
Which has :been in process of enactment for !
more than two years. Here Governor has >
zen made and sustaine by the Federal au- y
horitles, although positively known to have ,
een defeated at the polls, although positively :
eclared and believed to be an intruder by Il
hree-fourtbs Of the reading men of the Union.
nd while denounced from Maine to Texas as q
supper. If the Central Government can
lake Governor in one State, it can make
oyernors for all the States. Ii it can make !"
overnors it can IS well make Judges and II
9gislator5. If it can do for the people Of a =
ate what they have heretofore done for az
amselves, thy can just IS well abolish ~
the forms and name, under which the NO
ian sm OF State government has been accom- -
ished. This assumption Of State authority .
therefore, step towards the massing of .
governing power in the departments Of the ~
aneral Government. while that is only IRE -
nlnary to the concentration Of those three -
partments into one. This is what the -
wiping out of State lines " signifies. This % :.
the bread roai which a great Republic is =
-Velng towards despotism or anarchy. 7.
VIII the gentlemen who represent free and va
norablo constituents sanction the usurpa-
n of Kellogg as supported by the Federal -
vernment? Pi