New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-11
LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.

On the fourteenth of September, one
year ago, the chairman of the Committee
of Seventy or Sanhedrim of the Louisiana
Democracy, stood in front of Clay statue
in New Orleans, ard called upon his
hearers to take up arms against Cover
nor clothed with all the paraphernalia OF
State and federal authority, and issued a
declaration of the grievances they would
proceed to redress. The Governor was
compelled to seek federal protection and
witness the humiliating spectacle of an
armed minority overriding all the re-
straints and driving from place all the
agents of his authority. For within one
hour from the call to arms at Clay statue,
companies and battalions, differed and
equipped, wearing the Confederate gray,
and carrying new and improved rifles,
marched as bodies of soldiery un-
der the direction of generals commits
stoned by the defeated Dem ocratic candi-
date for the Governorsh ip of Louisiana,
for the attack and capture of the NUM-
tons of war and the Capitol building of
the State. This movement was brazenly
heralded abroad as Spontaneous up
rising of the people" when in reality it
was deliberate attack by an organiza-
ton of several months st anding. of a
politico-military character, and denomi-
mated the White League. It was the
boldest conspiracy ever conceived in this
country by any political party, and the
return of Louisiana to Confederate rule
was only prevented by the constitutional
support of federal law by the President.
The Louisiana affair has been amply
discussed in all its bearings before the
country, but it is well to recall its leading
incidents, and draw comparison be-
tween the late troubles of Louisiana and
those which now aflict the State of Mis-
sissippi.
First and foremost, we have the fact
that no fraudulent registration or election
has taken place in Mississippi, as was
chargeable to Louisiana; consequently,
there is no ''usurping" Governor, and
only one Legislature-both- the unchal-
Hanged representatives of the majority of
the people of that State. A short time
since, so high an authority as Jefferson
Davis saw no hope to retrieve the losses
of the Democratic party at the polls.
If the White League of Louisiana
were justified in their instruction
against lawful State and federal. author
ity, as is, in substance, maintained by
the Democracy, what reasonable argu-
ment can uphold the White Liners Of
Mississippi, who battle against law and
order under no similar circumstances
save the one of bitter hostility to the Re-
publican party9 In Mississippi the White
League is ready for marching orders, and
the railroads and steamboats, convey them
from point to point in the proper time to
rout Republican meeting, and put to
death or flight the leaders. The Governor
Of Mississippi, possessing an honorable
record as soldier, leading . blameless
private life, property holder, and repre-
senting every qualification that would
entitls him TO peaceful residence in any
orderly section Of the Union, Il assumed
70 be responsible for the fourth Of July
celebration at vicksburg, the breathing Of
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