The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-10
LOUISIANA.

The telegraph brings the news that the
rotten and corrupt kellogg government in
Louisiana is tumbling to pieces. 1t never
was the government of the people of that
state. 1t was set up ard inaugurated by
lot of political prostitutes and thieves from
the north, and was sustained and upheld
by the bayonets of federal soldiers. There
never has been day since it was Matched
by the infamous returning board OF that
state when it could have stood an hour, had
it not been propped up and supported by
Grant. 1t was rotten fungus clinging to
fraud and bayonets for life and sustenance
Should the things on which it fed be re-
moved il must of necessity die. One OF the
sources from which it drew its life still ex-
lists but the nutriment it gives out is too
poisonous to sustain life even in parasite.
1t is the returning board of Louisiana. In
future times, when the student of history is
asked to name the most infamous institu-
ton that ever existed, he will not answer
the Spanish Inquisition, but the returning
board of Louisiana This board made the
kellogg government, and although it still
exists, the government will die unless il is
sustained by the other element suitable to
it's duration-the bayenets of federal sol
diers.
The transactions yesterday in New
Orleans teach a lessen which ii would be
we'll to heed II is that in republic no
government can exist without the consent
of the governed. A government which has
not this consent is not republic but
monarchy. That Of Kellogg, in Louisiana,
does not exist by the consent of the people,
and therefore it mSst die. 1t is now in
comatose state, and II there be any breath in
it it will soon be goae.
Grant and Morton end the balance of the
radical conspirators are trying to set up
government at Washington which will cor
respond with that now dying in Louisiana.
The monster created by Wells and his coad-
tutors is in the thrOes of death, but it is in
timated that pheniK like, it shall arise from
its ashes and live again. Its domain is not
to be confined to the sugar plantations of the
pelican state, but to embrace the whole
country as well. The same accouchers are
to assist at its birth that brought to life the
louisiana monstrosity, and the same power
is to support it that sustained the latter
the returning board of Louisiana and the
bayonets of federal soldiers. What will
be the end of such govern
ment can be easily OWNED, One has
but to turn to Louisiana and see what is
transporting there to learn the fate of such
government. A majority of more than q
quarter of a million of the voters of the
country will not yield willing obedience TO
such government. If they support it, it
will be because they are forced to do it And
if it comes to that, they can thrust bayonets
as well as receive them. God preserve the
country from such dilema; but if it shall
come, it can only have one result Those
who stand by the law and the decision of
the ballot-box will win. for they will have
law and right upon their side IL any man
doubts this, let him look 10 louisiana and see
federal army to sustain Packard and kellogg.
the people of the state which is cursed by
these men may be forced to suecumb but in
a contest between the people of the whole
country and the usurpers at Washington
there would be no army from another power
to come to the support of fraud and wong
The contest would be decided without such
an Intervention, and it's decision could not
be doubtful. Let those who would set up
an usurped government over the people
look to Louisiana and see what would be
the end OF the usurpation.