New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-03
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PUBLIC OPINION.


PUBLIC OPINION.
v,sv, Abroad Of the Proposition 70 In
peach Gevernsr Ksllssg. ~
The oomments of the leading Journals o.
the North ON this point may 30 OF inseles'
to the political reader. now that tho nss'o
10 1t m end.
The New York Herald ssys;
We fear the Democrats of tho Louisiana
House of Representative VIII PoIPeIraso
great blunder to-day by tneir cEntempMarsto o..
Impeachment Of Govesn of . Mvs hi. ccn.
U;.t; Mn in = rial By the Republican Senate.
~" Movement 10 . trick, moro dexterous
than wise, for putting the Dem0crauc
Sneaker of the House in temporary pos
session of the gubernatOrial chair with .
view to the next election. 1t 10 not 30 mucn
an act of justice against criminal Is .
scheme for gaining party advantage. ~
fhe constitution Of Louisiana an impeached
cf,;car 10 srsnended from his functions until
the conclusion of his trial, and in kellogR's
case IL is calculated that such suspension
would be equivalent to an absolute removal.
Tho Ieoislature is about to adjourn and
will moi meet again in regular session until
naxt Janusry, when Governor Kellogg's
term will have expired. 1t he 10 lmpeached
now. and the Senate should not be in session
to try him until the Legislature meets next
wear, the impeachment would have the
came practical eject as conviction and
sentence, which 10 the result aimed 1t by
the Democrats.
In order to get beforehand with his enc.
mics and defeat their game, Governor kel-
logg has called IN extra session of the
Legislature to meet Immediately after the
adjournment; but his authority to issue
such q call is disputed on some technicality
Of which we can not judge, not having .
CODY of the Louisiana constitution at hand.
But if the Republican Senate responds to
the call, tho trial will proceed, and there
can be no doubt of his prompt acquittal. If
this ia accepted - valid, the Democrats
Will have made great furry for nothing;
hut If the right Of the Senate to try and
acauit is disputed, the State will be dis
turbed by Q new bloody conflict, leading to
federal interference for restoring tran
guilty. There is no excuse for mourning so
great danger, and - the whole movement
81 = political trick, the public sentiment of
the country would justify federal interfer.
once, That unfortunate State has suffered
enough from civil disturbances, and it is to
be hoped that the passions of reckless poll
ticiAns will be held in check by tho united
public opinion of the business GLASSES. who
have nothing to gain and much to lose by .
renewal Of old conflicts.
Tho Washington correspondent Of the
New YORK World writes:
The proposed impeachment of Governor
KELLOGG yesterday in the Louisiana Legis-
lature is regarded here by Democratic and
Conservatives as game, ct this late day,
NOT worth the candle. and word to that
effect has been sent to New Orleans. There
IL q disposition here to adhere to the policy
of peace accepted in the Wheeler compro-
mise. This is shown by the action of the
United States Senate in the virtual refusal
to admit Pinchback - the representative
of the Kellogg government, the Democratic
and many Republican Senators not believ-
ing in the validity Of that government,
though unwilling now TO 60 further on that
hand and say that it ought to be turned ont
of Office for acts committed even since
April, 1875, which are not covered BY the
terms of that compromise. II 1t be clearly
proven that the impeachment ID based ON
an appropriation Of public funds BY KEEL
logg during the past year, then it IL entirely
outside of the old troubles in Louisiana,
and therefore . new issue. But those we'll
in Louisiana matters fear that
there are other underlying pretenses which
may be used to precipitate causeless revo-
luton, and in the light of the real facts
oppose the step taken yesterday.
From the Chicago Tribune:
The Confederate plot for the impeach-
mcnt of Governor Ames, OF MlesissiPpPl,
and Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, 10
developed in season to serve as timely re-
minder of the unslterable purpose with
which, in the words of Ben Hill, the Con.
federates have come back into the Union,
and ''are here to stay" Both States. since
reconstruction, have been and are Repub-
Ican-Louisiana, on an honest count. by
not less than $1,000 majority, and Missls.
eippi, whenever there shall be an end of
terrorism, intensified by preliminary mas
eacre of negro voters, as at Vicksburg and
Yazoo, By from $4,000 to 10000. In Louis
lana, BY the Wheeler compromise, &C.
cepted ON all sides as the final and
satisfactory solution of the bloody anarchy
in which that State was embroiled by
the White Line lawlessness, there was
conceded to the Confederates control
Of one branch of the Legislature, which
they had not carried and could not carry at
an honest election. In Mississippi. at q
sspeaceful" election-made peaceful by the
fact that the slaughter If negroes prior
thereto had impressed upon them the ne
cessity, for self-preservation' sake, of keep
ing out of range of White Line sh0tgune
near the polls-the Confederates suppressed
the Republican majority of between 25,O0O
and $4,000, and secured full control of the
General Assembly. The common purpose
of the Confederate minority in each State
that which they have come back into the
Union and stay to executes to regain
complete ascendency over the Republican
majority "anyhow." Prompted by this, the
Confederates in the Louisiana Legislature
deliberately propose a breach in the
Wheeler compromise virtue of which
solely do they hold their own seats-and
by revolutionary proceedings to seize
possession of the executive Office, the pre-
text therefor being found in the reopenipg
Of matters which BY their own solemn COM
pact were forever closed by that com
promise. In Mississippi, with even less
shadow of pretext therefor, the first use the
Confederates make of the power acquired
by intimidation and terrorism is to inau-
gurate the like insurrectionary movement
for the like purL ose. In both States the
Confederstes are guilty of q fatal blunder
In their policy. But the frank disclosure of
the Confederate purpose thereby made is
one for which the country is none the less
indebted to them. If it is to be reduced to
this, that these States are to be ruled abso-
luteIy by the Confederate minority, no
matter BY what revolutionary proceedings
that rule shall be established, it is well that
the loyal people should know it before the
presidential election. There will then be
left time in which to deal with these insur
rectionary Confederates as the emergency
may require.
Frem the Cincinnati Times:
The "White League" of Louisiana, is al
its work again, and the Ku.Klux will of
course Join hands with them. They have
repudiated the solemn pledges Of faith
made to the Wheeler compromise, and have
passed resolutions in the State House OF
Representatives impeaching Governor Kel
for their action. 1t is admitted by all i'm
partial observers of Louisiana politics, that
kellogg has made . good Governor-haa
lent his hest efforts to the cause of economy