The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-18
THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE FOUR
TENTH OF SEPTEMBER.
The New York Times, of the 18th inst, con-
tains the following editorial utterance:

To commemorate what the Democrats ZIG lour.
Struggle for constitutional liberty. TO do honor
to the dead heroes who fell on the ever-gloriouss
i4th Of september. When . me egy e,ei 6v
dn Sp 9n N the p streets Of New Orleans the White
Of the To- No.
man wh9t the legion ordered out for duty
Ta1isia AM Greys, Francs. Tifenrs dor.
leans, and numerous other her,, KINDRED i Or
THE Radical carpet -baggers" out OF the State.
We have no doubt that the celebration will be IN
WY and nc rs p one
police. Secure IN the enjoyment Of their rights
as ezen and Without fear Of
they were organized to put down, the members
Of the White League will parade In peace Incl
den tally It may be mentioned that there will be
were slaashfered on that ever-sorlous 18th Of
September"
Very nearly oil that our able and amiable
New York contemporary predicted, came to
pass. The people OF New Orleans en- masse
turned out on the 18th of September to do
honor to the men--both the living and the
dead-who fought on that day in 1874 for the
constitutional right of American citizens to
bear arms. The Times, however, is not
well posted as to the status Of the govern
ment the revolution Of that day overthrow.
The government was that Of William Pitt
Kell ogg, created In violation of the consttu-
tion Of the United States and of the State of
Louisiana, by the combined agencies Of per-
jury, fraud, violence and the unlawful inter-
position of Federal bayonets.
Tn tbn rx,,,rt,,
ment q number of trained hirelings of the
thieves sustained by Grant were shot down.
and, but for the temperance and magma
nimity OF the citizen soldiery of New
Orleans, the whole vile -Metropolitans
scallawags and carpet-baggers would have
been swept from the earth. That Kellogg and
his associates survived to be reinstated in
their lawless and abused authority Is due
solely to the mistaken generosity Of q brave
people who, though deeply wronged when
their foes threw down their arms, and fled like
whipped ours or begged like cowardly whelps
spared and protected them.
The Times paragraph does injustice to
m any of our military and civil organiza-
tions which turned out on the lat h to cee-
brate the victory gained for the principles Of
the constitution by the heroism and the blood
of our people. It mentions only three or four
organizations, when the true list would fill
one Of its columns These organizations did
not, on the t4th Of September, 1874, succeed, as
the Times says, in driving the Radical carpet
baggers out of the State; but they did all in
their power to do SO; they fought the Rad
ical thieves. defeated them, and would have
emancipated the State from their power had
not the American government, animated by
the same mean and partisan malevolence as
that which inspires the Times, interfered to
save them and replace them in control Of
civilized and Christian people.
The celebration, as the Times predicted was
successful and harmonious. 1t was not
interfered with by the Packard police"
That gang Of hired ruffians and official cut
Threats was disbanded in Louisiana some
months ago, and though nine-tenths of them
deserved the halter or the penitentiary, the
government of the State gave them a largess
and permitted them to go in peace. That
villainous organization will not again, we
trust, disturb the people of New Orleans.
Secure in the enjoyment of their rights as
American citizens says our amiable con-
temporary, land without fear of molesta-
tion," etc, ''the members Of theWhite League
will parade in peace. Incidentally" it con-
tinues, there will be no exercises In mem
DRY OF the Radicals who were slaugh-
tered on that ever-glorious 14th of Septem-
Der" The Times was right again in it's
prediction. There were no exercises on
the 18th OF September in memory of the Radi-
Gals killed on that day in 1874. For ten years
the people OF Louisiana have been held by Fed
eral bayonets in subsection to the rule OF the
thieves and advehturers headed by such men
as Warmoth, Kellogg and Packard, But,
thank God, in all their trials suffe rings and
nominations, they were never br' Jmght, even
In their direst poverty and darl lest hour, SO
mean, low and servile as to flonor the mer-
cenary rascals who followe d the robber
banners OF those thieves. TIE Radicals who
were Killed, or, If the Times prefers the word,
slaughtered, on the 18th. Of September, were
IN arms against the d sareyt rights of this
people; they were the t rsaa,,d hand Of KELLOGG
ana the Returning Bo ara. thew were the enc
~ " zig iionor' ,eace and prosperity of
.S J"'.o' a,lo were seeking to compel our
poopio W opeuieh' ae to an odious and infa-
nous usurpation. Thov sol, In an infamous
struggle, fghtir 81, 80, n +ho in+oroet ~
- against men who, in desperation, had
heir liberties -. so.s,,,aa
The people 60 NJ vi, -, - Moss,oh,,.
800 y. " any other enlightened State would
,'; -" * them down and spurned their in
go" carcasses, and the people of those
an ~. ught to feel that they have, as Ameri.
orosl lzens, a common interest with us in the
hoe !, struggle made on the 14th against
70 . men. Their memory deserves only
! Grafton and contempt, and when the peo
e of Louisiana shall fall SO low that they
an institute exercises in their honol
they will deserve to be RENTED to thu
| Infamous thraldom from which the battle o
the 14th September and succeeding events
emancipated them.
All the honors OF the 14th, let us assure tn
New York Times, were paid to the citizen sol