New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-01
TIE WHIBLwINp.

~-~s s~ASA SoDke<nsS kSs>s~-,
who in 1S72-73 taught that q government
not lawfully elected in the opinion Of the
defeated minority was not binding upon
the people, have sowed the wind Of dis
obedience which has been gradually in
creasing to cyclone of anarchy. AL
remember the telegraphic order from
Washington pending the great contest
before Congress. It was "agitate agitate
agitate y The advice was taken literally.
The mob was armed with private weapons
and guns taken forcibly from gun stores.
The police station at jackson square was
attacked, the assailants were repulsed,
and subsequently surrendered by prefer
ence to the United States command,
which was present to aid in preserving
the peace. The same conviction of the
want of lawful right in the State govern
ment, caused an attempt to assassinate
Governor Kellogg, and as he was consid-
cred fair game he ran further risk in Q
personal rencontre growing out of political
differences. Then there came the meetings
at Clay statue and elsewhere in which the
killing of the Governor was proclaimed
by irresponsible men in the mob, the call
for men to march to the aid of the law
resisters in a western parish, the invasion
of Colfax. the capture and assassination
at Coushatta, the overthrow of the State
government ON the fourteenth of Septem-
Der. We extend this atalogne no fur
Their. 1t may be eked out by infammatory
newspaper articles in which the people
have been told they were cheated out of
their rights in 1872, and should organize
and arm to prevent similar wrong in
1876.
1t is very true that the continuous de-
cline of the city in spite of the advantage
Of Democratic city administration, the
groans of the landlords and the silent emf
grafton Of capital and enterprise, has COM
PEELED business interests to expostulate
with these political desperadoes. The at
tempt to make the violence in Louisiana
paramount issue in federal elections
has failed dismally, while the fact that
some of the most ultra men who de-
nounced the government of Kellogg as
usurpation, binding no one, have actually
accepted commissions under his official
signature, and are now among the most
law abiding and law enforcing of our citi-
zens. The wind which blew defiance to
the law has been modulated to a lnll in
New Orleans. There is even tendency
to an opposite current, which may blow
away those who have evidently agitated
for an official vacancy that they might fill
it themselves .4
While, however, the reasoning against
lawlessness has prevailed in this city, the
doctrine that no act of government said
by defeated candidates to be illegal can
be binding among the people, has been
waited and diffused like the seeds of any
other problem. 1t has been adopted as q
gospel creed in some of the parishes, and
they have literally taken not merely the
law into their own hands, but have laid
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by Democratic orators and editors in New
Orleans, the violent men of the parishes
have regarded all law as OF an end, and
have inaugurated lynch law, which they
adjudicate and execute according to the
a;a.a+a. 80 .h.;, n .,;us;.. -:
oie'a'es VI tneir own preJuoIce or amoi-
ton.
Under thu ruray ann,;cat;or of tho doc
- VIZ Ae."' oppno"'ou Va 'ne ooc-
trlne the sherin OF East Feliciana was
driven nom his parish. A man who had
served as Representative IN the Legisla-
lure was arres'ed upon suspicion OF hav-
ing Deen scoesSo'y V . "ufder' ana nav
ing oeen 'aken iorciDiy nom tne hands
OF inc omce.' was snot' while the alleged
principal Oh the imputed murder was
eAecu'eo W hanging. Inc Judge OF the
same parish mas Deem called on Dy "a
0'mm'''ee 9. o'uzens and nouned 70
res'en ne mas mus iaf escaped the re-
formers VINO nave already selected his
successor Ine East felciana Ledger
says:
a mass meeting Of the people Of Esst
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tax collector 81 the grace Of Boss PsoisTd
and and Gnsriey aiu va Politely invited to