The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-01-20
The Strangled STATE

Two hundred and thirty-four years
ago yesterday Charles Stuart i went
down to the House Of Commons ii per-
son and demanded the arrest Of Pym,
Hampton, Hollis, Harlerig and Strobe.
Yesterday Ulysses Grant, in the person
Of General DE Trobriand, entered the
Legislature of Louisiana and demanded
the election of five members of that
body. The five members of Louisiana
were as strictly the champions OF, free
government as the five members Of the
House of Commons, and the whole po-'
htical welfare OF these United States IS
bound up with the success Of the cause.
for which these men are fighting.
What happened to Charles we know!
The least and lightest that can happen
to Grant, if Republican liberty is to
survive On this continent, is to be fol-,
lowed at the end of his term Of public
office into the obscufity from, which he
emerged at the beginning Of it by the
Fexecrations of all the people. r.. =. IN,
We hope there is 10 American man who
can read the news from New Orleans With
ont a thrill of shame and rage. There is
no doubt in the mind of any man in Ieay
lslana that the five men for whose election
DeTrobriand called yesterday were the
chosen representatives of the lawfNlgo,
tiers of their districts. There is no: doubt
IN the mind of any man that with the
cause OF which these men were the aceged-
tied champions rests the only hops not
alone OF good government, but, OF reptibHa
can governments, in the State Of Louisi-
ana. The miserable imposturb Of GOvefno
ment under which the State has groaned,
so long, from the creature of fraud, has
become avowedly the creature of force!
The miserable usurper kellogg, is, more,
plainly than ever before seen to be the,
pnppet of the yet more tlagitious usnrper,'
Grant, who has now employed the military.
power which is intrusteG to him to- maiH-
tain the liberties and defend the,ffshts Of
his. cOnnntrymen ID putting both It'd an
open shame. The troops of New Orleans
were not there as a police. There, was no.
pretence that they We're needed to pre-
serve public order. They were there, only
to prop the government which Grant had
set mp over the people of Louisiana, and.
which the people Of Louisiana, we're TIE
soldiers of the United States withdrawn
from their degrading work, would sweep
from power. forever in an hour. Their
commander expressly said that, his in,
structions We're to obey the orders Of,Kel-
lOggg. 1t was well for the Speaker Of the
House to say, as he did, that LouisiaHha.
has not a republican form of governtnehtt.'
We can have nothing but praise for the
spirit in which the representatives of LbuA
isiana yielded to the tyranny which they
could not resist. We say deliberately that
there was no reason why they should not
ave- raStSfa md rn..rk,1 <o A. J1-kS. y
this foul outrage upon law and liberty
except the hopelessness of resisting. a
rising yesterday would have had conse-
quences which are pitiful and terrible
even to think Of. These CONSTITUENCIES
were present to the legislators Of Louisis
ana, who not only yielded with decency
when they could not resist with hope, but
who have TINS far stayed the hands, Of
their constituents. But We say also that
terrible as would have been the conse-
quences OF resistance yesterday, they are
less terrible than will be the consequences
OF submission Oh the part Of the people of
the United States to the outrage winch
has been perpetrated upon, them tall
through the people of Louisiana. For
that submission, or any tolerance Of, this
last and worst outrage of the traitor who
sits in the Presidents chair which stops
short of driving him from it into darkness
and disgrace, will be a confession that the
American people are no longer fit to have
the liberties which in that case it will not
take them long to lose; and it were better
that the cutters of New Orleans should
run with blood than that republican gov
ernment should be exchanged throughout
the country, as it has been exchanged ii,
New Orleans, for the rule of a stupid and
sordid tErant.-[N. Y. World.