Year: 1874

THE SITUATION BECOMING CRITICAL.
THE KELLOGG PARTY DISPOSED TO FORCE THE


PEOPLE TO COMMIT SOME RASH Acr-THE


PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF BREACH OF FAITH


IN ALLOWING PACKARD AND HIS MEN TO MAKE


WHOLESALE ARREsTs-AN EXCITED UNDERCUR'


RENT OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT.


NEw-ORRANs Oct. 90-The situation IN Louisi-
ana is graver to-day than at anv time SINCE the
surrender of the McEnery Government to Gen.
Emorv With the authorities in Washington. par
tcularly with the President and the Attorney
General rests the power to keep the peace or TO
bring on an era of violence throughout the state.
The people are loyal, orderly, and patient IN
spite of their wrongs. Their leaders are sincere
On their desire for peace and have surrendered their
rights to it, But if the policy OF the usurpa-
ton is carried out foreshadowed by advices from
Washington and by the warrants now In the hands
of Federal officials and the in North Louis
lana neither the advice the example OF the
leaders nor the presence of United States troops Will
be likely to restrain the wrath of the people. They
argue that they surrendered in good faith TO the
representatives of the United States, as to an um-
pire not 10 the Kellogg usurpation and that IN
allowing Packard and his men TO persecute them by
arrests and threats of arrests the President is lack
ing in magnanmity and fairness If not guilty OF a
breach of faith. The Kellogg party seem disposed
10 push the people to the wall In the hope that they
will in desperation, commit some rash act that Will
alarm the nation and gain for the usurpatlon the
sympathy of the loyal North, To this end and
with other object the State is kept IN state OF
excitement by of the intended arrest OF Nc
Emery, Penn, MARI Ogden, and other popular men
of the Conservative party, while arrests are
actually taking place in the mp country, where
it is easiest to cause an uprising of the indignant
people There is no reason why all of these arrests
even when made for good reasons, should not be
postponed until after the day of election now not
two weeks distant. The present undercurrent OF
public sentiment throughout the state seems TO be
reproduced in the following extract from an excited
article in The Nec- Orleans Bulletin:


little sooner than expected, but not moment
too for the political effect designed, the reign OF
been inaugurated in the parishes The eanK
OF sabers tramp tramp OF armed men, and the low
Omnous rumble of artillery, have awakened dreadful
echoes the peaceful forests and fields Of Northern
louisiana and the myrmidons OF Williams and his
superservceable isokas PACKARD aud Beckwlth roam
domicile 10 domIcile. ar 7s';ng gentlemen VINO
have committed no crime, whU nave not even been
suspected OF any wrong, but who ar" 'roooesome Dy
reason Of their avowed hostility - Radical misgoyern
ment, and who dare 70 side Win the
people in their struggle against organized ra
pacity and legaized robbery. The spectacle is
more than sad and bumiatine; IL dreadful ana poI-
tends trouble and cOmmOtion /. future, which tDe
scheming villains VINO hodndnG Oh the officers OF the
central despotism little calculate upon The man must
be an idiot born blind who cannot see that tie great
heart OF the people Will rebel and throo in Indignation
at the Hagrant outrages heaped upon white men an0
citizens OF a State In the Union


We charge that the General Government is il rebel


lion against the States and that is the deliberate pur
pose Of Grant and his Cabinet 10 strike down state
sovereignty until the Federal power shall he recognized
as supreme IN all things, and State courts
We
IL now conspiracy in Washington 10 effect this radical
change in our system OF government and that II the
Governors Of the States and the people at large
do not soon take alarm and check the movement IT Will
be accomplished before their voices can be raised ID
protest.