The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-07
THE OUTRAGE ON LOUISIANA.
Mobile Register, Jan. 6 ]

Once agaiu has the President shown his
determination to hold Louisiana under the
heel of Kellogg, against the vote of the peo-
pie. This time the conduct of his agents has
been peculiarly atrocious. Although it has
been evident to the whole world that the
people Of that unhappy State have had no
intention or wish to resist the Federal au-
thority, the President has caused his troops
to be paraded about the streets of New Or
leans for weeks past, as though the Federal
authority was in danger. He has declared
through his Cabinet that the Kellogg Return
ing Board should be sustained in their two
months iugglery with the election returns.
He proclaimed that he would stand by KEEL
logg to the last, and is reported as being
very savage" because the people wished to
be ruled by their elected officers. He sent
Sheridan down from Chicago as a swift, vul-
gar and INSCRIPTIONS tool of the Attorney
General and of himself-a man who would
not hesitate to burn the wigwams and
slaughter village of Indian squaws and
children sick with smallpox, nor blush to
promote the son of his master over the heads
Of old officers. President Grant has filed the
cup of his tyranny by at last marching his
soldiers into the State-H House of Louisiana and
ejecting from their seats members who
had been returned as legally elected
had been seated by the House itseH-the
highest and final judges of the election and
qualification of its own members. Such an.
other act as this has not been perpetrated
among an English-speaking people-a people
who have inherited Magma Charta and the
writ of habeas corpus since the day when
Col Pride, at the command of Cromwell,
drove out Parliament at the point of the
bayonet
This atrocious action by Gen De Trobriand,
the officer whose misfortune it is to be subject
to Sheridan and Grant, has already received
the condemnation of the Northern press. It
is impossible that there can be but one popu-
lar answer to this new act of usurpation and
tyranny. Already we read the temper of the
people in the unqualified and scathing denun-
cations of the New York press
President Grant has committed his last
blunder. He has invaded the sacred right OF
q General Assembly to organize itself by 9
majority vote and to pass upon the election
and qualification of its members. What oc-
CURED in Louisiana yesterday, may occur in
Illinois or Florida tomorrow, or in any State
where the parties are about equally balanced.
When q Federal Judge, by an illegal order,
can seat usurping Governor, and when a
Brigadier General can call the roll of Legis-
lature, there is an end to all liberty in the
United States.
Indignant as we are at this high handed
military outrage upon the civil rights of q
portion of our people, it is matter of rejoic-
ing that this is probably the final act which
will arouse the whole people of the North and
complete the political revolution which set
in last October. When Sheridan drew his
sword in New Orleans on Monday, Grant de-
clared war upon the people of the United
States. He has sealed his fate and decided
the overthrow of his party in 1876. He has
imtimated that he can do without his party.
Perhaps his party win find it inconvenient to
indorse his course towards Louisiana. Let
us see