The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-21
NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.

EDITOR CHIEF:
Another voice is heard in the multi
tude Of counselors of the Democratic
party, and demands Il respectful hear
ing. The Amite Democrat wants tour
Congressman to demand the recogni-
ton Of the McEnery government )"
and State convention to reopen the
case before the Congress and country,
by authorizing the Committee of Sew
enty to proceed anew on the old line.
It says: i" Eternal shame to him who,
in the moment of assured victory,
will harbor the thought of surrender
to the usurper. Up citizens, and at
them" 1t asserts that Congress will
recognize the McEnery government
"before the middle Of December" and
on this hope a note is sounded on the
Bourbon harp. Away with comprmise,
that shallow device of the politician,
and allow the true impulses Of the
people to control their policy! The
Democrat speaks in unison with a
powerful element of its party, and it
may or may not speak by authority.
1t is certain, however, that the next
Congress will be strongly Democratic,
and will control the admission of its
own members; also, that every
Democratic candidate in Louisiana,
with or without credentials based on
election returns under the Kellogg
government, will apply foradmission
they may possibly do so on McEnery
certificates; this may be followed by
a House resolution sustaining the
pretensions of the McEnery Confed-
crates, and the Louisiana question be
e1fectually revived and pressed into
campaign service for 1876. With ref
erence to the issue, nationalized, l
believe that it would result in the
discontinue of tsagitators, by bring
| ing reconstruction and States RICH is
issues again on their merits, and
compelling a renewed vindication of
the Union and its cause, against every
Confederate hope or aspiration. 1t
will be even more disastrous than the
famous Blair Brodhead letter in 1868,
with the possibility of forcing the re-
nomination and reelection of Presi-
dent Grant, as a national necessity
The Ohio intlationists and Louisiana
White Leaguers joining hands across
the bloody chasm will cause a spon-
taneous uprising, without distinction
of race, color or previous condition,
that neither William Allen nor John
McEnery could desire. In regard to
the issue as. a local one, it must be
evident, even to the most thoughtless,
that Il revival Of the contest between
Kellogg and McEnery, will arouse
bitter political sentiment and be at
tended with similar collisions and
outbreaks witnessed before the COM
promise. And what sane man could
desire repetition of those disorders ?
No, this proposition should not be
entertained. All issues contended for
may be squarcly met in 1876, 10y both
parties; there is no reason to doubt
the intelligence of the jury, and the
verdict will be complete. Let Louisi-
ana be spared the disgrace of revolu-
tionary condition, to the end that her
railroads may be built, her people
dwell in harmony and prosper.
The appearance of the yellow fever
at Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, and
Pascagoula creates no little uneasi-
ness here. The weathcr-damp, with
cool changes-is exceedingly favora-
bic to the propagation Of malarial
fevers, and it would not be surprising,
in spite of all quarantine precautions,
if New Orleans should be visited with
the scourge.
The Governor, Attorney General,
and other officials are out of the State
on leave, but Acting Governor An
tome discharges his duties with vigor,
and appointments, removals and de-
capitations go on as ever. 1t is even
said that a proclamation is about to
issue ordering elections in Grant and
Ouachita parishes to fill vacancies in
the General AssembIy-one caused
by expulsion, and one by death. But
Governor Antoine is modest in de-
pertinent, a cheerful and faithful of