Show THE LOUISIANA BUNGLE mr kellogg had a sufficiently good prima facie case for declining to recognize the house as originally organized had lie he done so had he even undertaken as executive of the state by the use of state machinery to compel a reorganization there would have bave been no such such buch feeling throughout the country as we see today to day instead he instructed an officer of tile tiie the united states army who had been placed at his orders to take a detachment of united united states troops enter the legislative chamber remove the de do facto speaker from the chair remove the de facto members from their seats and in a word fix matters to mr kelloggs liking his instructions were promptly carried out the american people have ever since been asking themselves what call or right federal military officers have to march arms in hand upon the floor of a legislative chamber and rectify the irregularities ties or 1 illegalities I of a legislative organization the more the people think of it the more emphatic will be their indorsement endorsement indor et of congressman Phelp phelphs ss position that the federal interference was as illegal as the conservative viva voce organ za tion asp springfield republican the gist of tile the outrage is that the legislature of an american state the absolute final finaI judge like every other leg legislature slature of the qualifications of its members having a legal quorum in the very ery c cry act of pro beeding to the discharge of lis ILs duties 1 is turned neck and aud heels into the M i i eats cats by au an armed body sent on fit iu for that express purple e without a shadow of excuse or even reason we say pay without reason for the pret pretense enze enzo of kellogg that the legislature was not itself in a correct way is is a mere sham the constitution of or louisiana does not make kellogg judge of tile the organization of the legislature of that state any more than it does of the legislature of massachusetts we do not get however the full flavor of the outrage without remi recalling ling the fact that as on the present occasion occasion the troops are called in to turn an adverse majority out two years ago they were brought up for the opposite purpose of seating a favorable majority and this time the members were turned out on the strength th of returns on their face ridi ridiculous eulous unfair and fraudulent while two years ago they were seated on the strength of a midnight order illegal on its faco 3 issued by a drunken united states judge while congress is still considering the question what is the legal government of Loul loui louisiana siana slana the nation ration we are at a iosa losa to make out what are gen Sheri dans ideas of the constitution under which he lives ilves or of the functions of congress or of the powers of the executive to say nothing of the powers which may be rightfully ex raised by a lieutenant general of the army he first of all suggests that congress should pass a bill declaring a certain class of the people of louisiana arkansas and mississippi 11 how many lie he would include in this class does not appear nor does he explain since what date in our history it has been usual for officers in thearin the army Y to presume to dictate to congress as its to the legislation it should adopt but a moment afterwards a still better idea strikes hiland he says fays it is possible that if the president would issue a proclamation declaring them no further action need be taken except that which would devolve upon me if this means anything it means that gen sheridan sher Shei idan would forthwith proceed to hang or shoot as many persons as he chose to bring under dersons his hig is own description of ban dittl we have then a plain proposal that the president shall declare an indefinite number of citizens ban dittis and that GenS Gen herldan Sheridan should then deal with them without benefit of judge or jury this would certainly be resolving government into its primitive elements but there is a shorter cut still which gen sheridan an might have recommended it is la for the president to declare the constitution and all its amendments annulled shut up congress put down all the newspapers and then proclaim himself dict dictator aitor with gen sheridan as his sole minister and chief executioner if gen sheridan had advised this course at once he would scarcely have shown a greater ignorance or diere disregard ad of law than he has dobao in his S most extraordinary and we must add disgraceful dispatch of jan ath JN Y times the late events in new orleans have produced a more general and painful excitement than anything that has recently occurred and the consequences will undoubtedly be nar far reaching and most important rhe fhe louisiana question is no longer one of party under the government but of the fundamental guarantees of american liberty while the situation may be all that has been presented represented ro by the most heated partisan while all may be true that general sheridan stated in his first dispatch although lie he could hardly have known it to be so while all that is charged as to the murderous and unlawful designs of the white league may be correct while all that was said in the senate of assassination sassi nation ku xu klux and rebellion may be well founded while all that is alleged of the irregularity and illegality of tile the organization of the legislature may be conceded the action of the republican government upon the assembling of the louisiana legislature has no precedent whatever in american constitutional history except the democratic crime against kansas and P painfully 1 u filla recalls king charless Char leses fatai fatal and foolish arrest of the five live members ft the gravity and the menace ef of this case we can better understand under staid by making malting it our own suppose election had bad left the new york legislature as closely divided between the parties as that of loul loui slana siana and half a dozen republicans republica ansi claiming to be elected ejected but thrown out by the canvassers had taken part in the tho organization and the house so constituted had bad chosen a republican speaker what should we navo have thought if governor tilden had sent a file of united states soldiers soldier with orders ordera that persons not returned as elected sho should uld be iye removed from the tile floor of the house mr thurman stated in the senate that some years ago the legislature of ohio was engaged tor for a fortnight in a desperate wrangle over organization but fro from da whatever cause the trouble may have arisen he said that if president van buren had sent the army to settle the the army would never have left columbus again in sam adams would have aid ald d very much the same thing a hundred years ago A very great wrong as it seems to us has been committed in new orleans and with the acquiescence of the administration republican as we are we are so only because we believe the equal rights of all americans are safer with the intelligence and cOns conscience clence that make the inspiration and have in general directed t the he policy of tile the republican party but we do not excuse or justify justl justi fv in this or any other case what seems to to us a flagrant and fatal ilis disregard regard of those guarantees which are indispensable to to free popular government and because we are republican and contemplate with profound apprehension the possibility of or the restoration st of the democratic party to power we see with the utmost utmost amazement incredulity inere dulity and pain pair that measures are approved by the administration which can have but one result and that is the total destruction of the party that was called into active and triumphant life by the aggressions of human slavery and th the e wrongs of rall Kail kanbas kansas sas there is no need of rhetorical fury or brute force either our whole american system I 1 is wrong or the intelligent vote of the country will peaceably settle this question harpers weekly ive lVe ekly the result atall ot all ail Is that when mr beeche r now goes to court his wife goes with him talking politics is a business not profitable enough to support a family many a child goes not because became there Is want of prayer or virtue at hopie hople home but simply because home lacks sunshine T c troublesome visitor who has been shutting the doors after him all summer now leaves leates them open there is nothing bothin g to be eo so highly prized I 1 as asa a soft sweet voice in woman except j her ability to take in washing mien truen hard umes times come an aristocratic but econn wele mele matron out west has invested in i bat rit tit teabell tea bell and invented a paragon ui 41 v ts whose only imperfection is her oc cc f ices when she has company at tea the ui tresa rings and rings for the cake baski t t or more hot water or something then with the remark that jane gets dearer deafer and deafer every day goes for it herself and returns maintaining a conversation with the imaginary jane all the way up the basement stairs |