Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1876-07-15
Davidson Il. Penn 4 Candidate
for Governor.

We clip the following communica-
ton from the n. o. Bulletin Of the
18th inst, 1t has the right ring, and
if McEnery fails, we would rather see
Fred n. Ogden, than any other man
get the nomination:
Editor OF New Orleans Bulletin
In your issue Of Sunday, July 9,
inst, you nominated Davidson b.
Penn for Governor of Louisiana, and
in the course of your eulogy on Mr..
Penn you make it appear that to him
as well as to Gen. F. n. Ogden, was
due the great act of the nth of Sep
TENDER. Far be it from me to detract
one iota from any eclat justly gained
by Mr.. Penn on that memorable occa-
sion. But Mr. Penn never conceived,
never advised, never planned, never
organized the swift campaign of the
l4th of September against the vile
despot Kellogg.
Had conception, plan or organiza-
tion been left to him, never would
there have been any such occurrence.
No, the people, prominent among
whom was Gen Ogden, ordered this
blow agains! the tryrant it was polit-
ically necessary to have at their head
the Executive elect of the Safe, and
in the absence of Gov. McEnery,
Lieut.. Gov. Penn was put in civil
command OF the movement. Ask
Mr.. Penn, and be will tell you this
is true as holy writ.
The writer knows the spot where
the revolution had its birth, and he
knows the man who wrote the call,
the resolutions, the proclamation of
Penn-all, everything. Again, ! say,
Penn had nothing to do with it, save
to follow the line laid down. That he
did this well | do not deny.
But it was far different with Gen.
Ogden. lie was, to use a cant phrase,
one of the "head Gcvils:" from his
aud other brains in the ranks of peo-
pie the whole plan originated, and he
carried out the part assigned to him
to the letter.
! Gen. Ogden and Mr.. Penn worked
together on the l4lh of September,
but how has it been since? Gen.
Ogden whipped Kellogg out of his
boots with few poorly armed men ;
he did it on the highest principle and
10 defense of the dearest right of civ
ilized man. From that day to this
he has never recognised Kellogg, save
through the muzzle of United States
rifle, or point of United States bay.
Onet. Mr.. Penn not only sustained
the compromise with Kellogg, but
(see the Picayune of October last)
opposed the assembling of the people
of Louisiana in peaceable convention
for fear they might interfere with the
compromise, and even went to the
extraordinary extent of proclaming
that the compromise was the logical
sequence of the 18th of september.
Finally on the 18th of September
last. the anniversary Of the great &C
casion on which you say Mr.. Penn
"sprang into sudden and dazzling
prominence" with one heart, as it
were, this people assembled at ST.
Patrick's Hall to commemorate the
great day and to pay deserved tribute
TO noble martyrs who shed their blood
like water on our streets. Mr.. Penn
was especially invited to a prominent
seat on that occasion, and be posi-
lively and pointedIy declined. He
could order the patriotic citizen to
die in defense Of liberty, but, for prn-
dental reasons, be could not pay pub
lie tribute to his memory.
But you seem to think Gen. Ogden
as good man for Governor as MIR.
Penn, and only choose the latter be-
cause the former will not run. Now
here you are in error again. Gen.
Ogden will not seek the place. and no
doubt thinks as thousands of others
that McEnery is fully entitled to it
but | undertake to say that if be is
nominated be will not decline the hon.
or, and if be is elected he wiU take
The seat.
just as be led the little army to
victory the l4th September, and has
ever since been true to the principle
that impeded him, as well as to the
memory of his gallant dead, so will