The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-16
KELLOGG's PREDICTION

AG6AOoO Ah6OAOl1ON.
William Pitt kellogg is reported as say
ing that Packard would never surrender
his claims to the executive office of Louisi-
ana that, in Plsquemine, he would have
fifteen thousand colored men, with white
officers, in the field to espouse his preten-
sions, and, becoming emphatic, he contin-
ued thusly tell you the white league
there would have enough to do to look
" out for their homes. Why every colored
I" servant in the employ of those belonging
" to the white league has his little bottle of
" of coal oil ready for the match, and when
81 collision occurs, if it does occur, the
=" white league will not have time to be.
" fighting for Nichols in New Orleans, but
I" will be needed at home to look out for
I" their property. Packard is made of
4" sterner stuff than Chamberlain, and he
" means to defend his title and the rights
"' of those who elected him." The next
day, however, Kellogg guardedly denies the
use of such language, saying that all he in
tended to imply was that the whites of
Louisiana were still SO fearful of negro in
surrections, that they would be deferred
from leaving their homes unprotected "to
I" go to the defense of any government that
Z" would need general armed support"
Judging from the public record that
Kellogg has made, we should be inclined
to boliovo that ho was CORRECTLY rsporisd
in the first instance but be this as it may,
1t is equally absurd to say that the negroes
of louisiana are prepared to make war on
the whites and carry bottles of oil and
matches with them SO as to commence a
general system of incendiarism /; or that
the whites are SO fearful of a negro in
surrection that they dare not leave their
homes to 60 ''to the defense..of any govern
ment that would need general armed sup
port" The government of Nichols is
here referred to, and the idea that his gov
eminent, if the president should conclude,
as we trust he will, TO withdraw the army
from the state house, would "need general
EARNED support" is too ridiculous to be
even considered. Why, the very idea of
placing the troops in the state house, the
very opposition to the withdrawal of the
troops, is founded upon the fact, conceded
upon all sides, that Packard could not
sustain himself for a day without the
presence OF the United States army
in the state house. With the presence
of the troops there, and their maintaing a
kind of s"armed neutrality" ho has been
unable to make any Roadway in establish
ing himself, to collect any taxes, TO keep
the courts in operation, and hardly to
keep his so-called legislature together.
While, on the other hand, Nichols has
maintained himself, had no difficulty in
obtaining the necessary money for carry
ing on the government, receives constant
accesions to his so-called legislature, is
recognized by the citizens of the state as
the deJdctO governor, and is only prevented
from obtaining peaceable and undisputed
control of the whole government by that
same armed neutrality " of the troops
in keeping, as President Grant ordered,
the status quo.
Not only will Nichols not need any
general armed support" but the negroes
will not fight, and the ''white league" is
not afraid of them. 1t would have been,
perhaps, far better for Louisiana and the
south if the negro had shown som dispo-
sition to fight, some disposition to maintain
his rights. 1t might have made bloody
work for a time, but we doubt it. If the
negro had shown the least disposition to
defend his rights by force of arms, his
rights would not have been encroached
upon, and w should have heard moth
ing of ku-klux, white leagues, intimidation,
coercion, or bayonet rule. The whole cry
from the carpet baggerS of the south has
been that the negro could not take care of
himself, that he would not fight, and did
not even dare to vote contrary to the
wishes of.these white leaguers, and hence
the repeated call for troops, and the mill
tary interference on the part of the gen.
eral government.
For four long years Wi. lam Pitt KEEL
logP was the de facto governorlof Louisiana
placed there by the military arm of the
federal government, and sustained only by
the same power. How long would he have
dared even to pretend to exercise the duties
of that office without such support2 How
long coald 1t have had even the prelence of
an existence without such support? The
army was withdrawn temporarily, and
Kellogg'S government crumbled into the
dust before a few undisciplined militia act.
ing under the orders of Penn, who claimed
to be acknowledgements was only
restored by the active interference of the
army of the United States, Kellogg's gov
eminent derived its whole force from the
support of the army, and the same hal
haen the case with the Oretendad 0ovePn,