The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-07
The Louisiana Troubles.


when the cannon and sword ana oayo'
net are in the ascendant. The State OF Lou
isis IN Is under military rule, and the hyenss,
which prowl about and destroy, are protected
by lie military power of the United states.
The barbarous element and the thieves are
elevated above the capable and respectable
whit. race. without whose direction and con-
troll government in this land Is of no value
and but leads TO disorder and ruin.
The achievements ofthe Administration IN
New Orleans on Monday through the recK'
less and uncvil General SHERIDAN were
disgrace to the nation. The power OF the
Union was exerted In a most lawless and un.
constitutional manner, and administered
with an insulting arrogance and needless
ness worthy OF petty tyrsnt, the ready exc
c;ltor of the DEGREES Of an Executive who
knows no. the restraints upon bis own au'
thority.
The details Of the proceedings In New
Orleans are unimportant. The Government
OF the United States was predetermined to
support the thieves and incompetents and to
drive out the Intelligent and Responsible
while people-to sustain fraud and incom-
potency and eject and render powerless in
teliigepce, order, and capacity. That was
the direction that went from Washington,
and that was carried out fully by the rude
and unscrupulous agent of the Government.
Indeed, such orders require the services oil
such men as SHERIDAN men who have no
respect for constitution or law; who know
nothing about them; and who scruple at
no wrong and no injustice that they may
deem necessary to carry out their purposes.
To think of o man like Sheridan, who
knows so little of true civilization, and into
whose mind no proper conception Of true
republicansm ever entered, being appointed
to tyrannize over the people of Louisiana.
To think of his prevaricating message to the
President, and bis urging that an Executive
proclamation be put forth denouncing the
white people of Louisiana as banditti and
subject to summary trial and punishment.
This done, he begged that the rest be left to
Linn! What would that be? Why, drum
good citizens of Louisiana would be brought
to judgment before tribunal incapable of
judging, and consigned to punishment where
there would be no hope of mercy.
General GRANT dsres not yield to the sug-
gestions OF so reckless-so brutal an officer.
Were he to do SO we should soon have the
worst examples OF the bloody leaders of the
French revolution actively followed. LOU
isiara, once the home of golden peace and
prosperity, would become, indeed, the local
ity of horrors unprecedented in this land.
We again say the incidents at New Orleans
on Monday affect not the purpose of the
Federal Government, which involved great
treachery 10 society-the deliberate purpose
to put down the best people and to elevate
above them the elements of barbarisn, in
competency, and scoundrelism.
The attempt will be made TO divert atten-
tion from this point by discussing the acts of
the Conservatives and the Republicans on
Monday; the withdrawal Of the Conserya-
tive legislators from the capitol when five Of
their number were ordered to leave; and the
organizing Of the Republicans afterwards,
and so on. These circumstances do Lot pro-
Dcrly bear upon the question. KELLOGG had
no mower to declare the Conservative Legis-
Jature illegal; and no United States troops
could properly interfere with it. Troops
had not been called for properly, and could
not constitutionaly, in any manner, appear in
the legislative hall.
There was fraud In every step of the Rad
iaal proccedngs-fraud in the nefarious
Returning Board and in the acts OF the Co.
vernon. The people of Louisiana were
cheated Of their rights, and the great Go
yarnment of the United States degrades It,
self TO the Infamous position Of sustaining
the fraud and becoming particeps crinaints
with The worst band of criminals and con-
spirators against society that ever appeared
in this country.
The Government has ceased to be repub.
ican; and if the people Of the United States
have not the virtue to expel the persons who
have subyerted it there can be no IT covery,
and this country will fall into the condition
of the South American Republics, and for
the same cause: the attempt to mix distinct
races politically and socially. and the trust.
ing Of government, which is dearer to us
all than life itself, to a body polite thus
made, altogether incompetent to preserve
order and maintain justice.