The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-16
Ghe Daily Argas.
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who were under Gen, Badger and armed
with two pieces of cannon. The citizens
were soon in possession of the court rooms
aud station house without the firing of a
shot, But their triumph was of brief dur
alton, for at the very moment of the re-
treat OF tho police, Capt Smith, aiJ de-
camp to Gen. Emory, commanding the
department of the gulf, rode up and de-
manded the surrender of Gen. Waggman
and his forces. The general surrendered
was released on parole and the people dis
persed quietly to their homes.
During all this time the contest between
the rival governments spread throughout
the state. There were disturbances in
Grant parish, Thibodeaux, and elsewhere,
On September IA, 1874, Lieut.. Gov Penn
made another effort to rescue the state
from the Kellogg usurpation, and, after a
fight in which thirty men were killed, sue
lceeded in getting possession of the govern
ment Kellogg took refuge in the custom
house and his followers everywhere sur
: rendered their offices to McEnery's ap-
pointees. The state was 10 fair way to
be redeemed when, in obedience to proc
lamation issued by President Grant, the
people again surrendered to Gen. Emory.
and Kellogg resumed Office. In No
vember Of the same year an eiec
ton for congressman and members
of the legislature resulted in a
Democratic victory. Again the United
. States government interferred. In Janu-
airy, 1875, the president appointed Gen.
Sheridan to the command of the depart
t merit of the gulf, and the new commander,
n on Jan 4, broke up and dispersed the
t Democratic legislature, driving the mem
:. bers out of the house at the point of the
= bayonet, and issuing, soon after, his infa-
;, nous "bandItti'' dispatch. This outrage
d was denounced by the governors of Ohio,
Tennessee, Missouri and Massachusetts,
= aud at public meeting in New York by
- William Cullen Bryant, William M. Ev.
arts, William K. Dodge and others. Or
the 18th, the congressional sub committee
on Louisiana affairs reported in favor Of
/ the legality Of the house of Representative
u which had been dispersed by Gen. Sheri
n dan. Still there was no relief for the
= victims of this long series of outrages
g Later on, the Louisiana question came
le before congress again in the form o.
iiee Pinchback's application for seat in The
N senate. The claim of this impudent ant
=, disreputable vagabond was rejected, bu
he still no effort was made to give the Pelican
u.
t t. The patience Of the people during al
ed this period is matter of record. The,
bided their time, and hoped against hope
- Last November they nominated Gen, Mich
oils for governor and ex Mayor Witt 70
lieutenant governor, against y. S. Marsha
Packard and Caius Cassius Antoine, TIL
Republican nominees. Again they tr
81 umphei at the ballot box. Tilden an
Nichols carrying the state by at leas
1000 majority. The Infamous frauds b
which Wells and his co.conspirators agai
reversed the peoples expressed will ar
fresh in the minds of our readers, and az
likely to be more widely known still befor
the Louisiana question is definitely settled
The attack upon the court house yestcl
;. day will be readily understood when tn
II. history of the Louisiana judiciary durin
R. the past few years Is remembered. 1T
Ia Warmoths and Kelloggs have always relic
greatly upon the courts for assistance
j. their schemes of plumber and. as long ;
they are in the hands of the conspirator
tie people can do nothing. In the cour
On house captured yesterday by the Nichol
party is the Eighth district court. so-cale,
This was established by Warmoth, wi
appointed Henry c. Dibble to preside ov,
it with exclusive jurisdiction in interl
cutory proceedings and special remedie
DIbble enjoined everybody from doll
everything and from reiraining to do an
thing, just as Warmoth directed. 1t W
by the aid of this court that the Slaught
House. Chattanooga railroad aud 9th
Jobs were accomplished When a Dem
crat was elected judge of this court
1872 kellogg abolished it, and establish
rted the superior court in its place, appoint
and and Jacob Hawkins, of the returning boar
test Judge Hawkins also dealt extensively
nj1nctions. At the last election Den
ie1y crat was elected judge of the superi
court, and now the Radicals abolish it al
IS, creating another court OF equal iurisd
ton. 1t is in view of these facts that
CT citizens of Louisiana desire II get t
U courts once more in their hands