The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-12-23

tee Passed by Legislature Thus
composed, it was signed bY the
asnrpeF Antoine ats Lieutenant
Governor, approved by the usHrper
Kellogg as Governor, and promul
gated by the asurping Secretary ot
State
As its bests IL recognizes tile ezist-
ance of eis Jg7a nnt the legality of
de jnrs government and was passed
signed approved promulgated py
the very nsurpers whose legal sata
vou seem to think II recognizes. what
provision of our law. state or Federal
constituted tlis usmping government
/. the Judge of its own legality 0r author
ICES the supervision of d ds .iA4s ID fa
vor of j bastard III facig government
All must also be remembered Chat the
advocates III this adjustment declared
tIlat It referred solely IA tue difficulties
growing ant of the election of 1874 and
had no reference tn those of 1872 ansls
besides. Tint the Wheeler Committee
ia their report To Congress declared
tliab they had not investigated the eiae-
tion o9 1872. and that their resolution
recognizing Kellogg they based not on
facts w law. but on their surinisea and
opinions of what tile people of Louis
lama were wiling to accept and Of
which they knew absolutely nothing.
III they had sought the desires of the
people. they could have found simple
evidences I'LL their stubborn and heroic
resistance to two years of oppression
aha wrong, III the forms resolves of
every parish and community in tha
State, and ID their imposing upheayal
Of September III, 1874 which swept
away, as with tha hand 81 fate, every
yestige af hated usurnasion
As to THE action of Congress, I need
not remind sou that tha House im
peached Judge nursll because of Che
nidWght order anl seated Cen
sAeridon on tle official returns, which
evidence my election that THE Senate
has refused ~ admit Alr Pinehback,
has announced that the Kellos sov
ernment WA not elected, ana that tha
declarations 81 the Lynch RETURNING
Board were false MA without Che aem-
blance IF in ty Logically ana la-
gally, there hnt one conclusion from
she findings ana acsion 81 Congress-
ANA tint ii f3e 0rg9tbrn9 ef tas s@Mpa
ffon TIA seating Alr Akoreg, oa sae
6sl inlt, THE House did mt recognize
AFr. Kellogg other than as aeting tF8y
ern0r. They expressly eXpnnged lei
THAT would imply tleir recognition og
him sle iure.
L therefore. as Governor elech 9f
Louisiana. in tlie name III the people
si0 deny THAI tsieir right f0 govern
themselves has been lost either bg
their own acghieseenee ar by tlle Ahee
ler adiustment of llla Louisiana House
Of Representatives, Gil by any actiQn "a
the Federal Congress.
on the 6sh vi January, 1876 4 con
yenti0n will be hei3 III this eity. and
the peoples representatives, many oE
them already elected and instructed,
will demand 0g the Federal Govern
ment the overthrow 0f the usnrpatian
which iss Executive alone has Greatest
and whose official head Ar hsliag
has confessed his inability t0 maintain
his position ior d single slay without
the bayonet aid III iss anth0r.
This demand viii he intensified by
the appalling fact that tha naarpat0n
through les election law an6 Returning
Board. Yields the absolute power of
salE-ps rpetuation, im defiance uf thn
popular viii, ana that Resistance nn tha
Dart 0f the people maY ie0pad5za sn
the next election, ths paace oE tha
State
Renretting your COURSE ln raa sain3
vour position as Sanat0F / have n0 0p
tian but i0 accept the resignation, and
L will lrtltvs8tR appaimt YauF saeeeaf.
In conclusion woald ada, tAat iar
myself will neysg nbanaan tsia 9st
to which the people of Eoaisiana have
called fae So long 81 haS His ana
straa1sh + will continue IA 6atlle a sna
nfm0at faF their iAaiiennale right pf
se governments BEFORE the a1stHa
t0Fla 0f mY stricken State shal stli
hgld the aesis at the Gens.isaisau ana
ns alien. nor dain le haGs8 ssitl sEike
at heF liberties unfesistad hv Me
With \ siA uniaiseruE gutia ln
tna Justice aud g89a alih eS tA a