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Show Louisiana is blessed with legislatures. legisla-tures. .Warmoth runs one. KIIegg another, and occ as s-i on ally the secession seces-sion of a faction from one or both of these occurs, and enlists as a separate, and especially lawful law-making concern, con-cern, under the flag of Osscy or Finch- back or somebody else. The sheriffs j' are kept busy in serving injuctions sued out by the leaders of these insti tutions to restrain each other from the ? fantastic farce of presuming to be j rcprc'ivelv the legislative bodies. Warmoth has judges in his interest, i and Kellogg in his, and eo injunctions 1 clash; when up comes a troop of federal soldiers that qua?hes with bay-' bay-' onets the orders of any judge disliked ' , by the custom bouse or Casey cliaue. Louisiana seems to be fast descending to the condition of Mexico, and in the turmoil of tho wrangling parties striving striv-ing for ascendancy, it is d.ffialt to determine which party is right. The State is in the hands of unscrupulous carpet baggers, and equally unscrupulous unscrupu-lous native demagogues all bent on plunder. The best citizens have no voice in governmental affairs, and deprived of all rights, unless to be robbed is considered a right Delegations Delega-tions of these go periodically to Washington Wash-ington and imploro the President to protect thorn from the horde of political politi-cal highwaymen preying upon them ; but the President's attempts to afford them redress only make tho condition of affairs worse. This disturbed condition con-dition will probably result in putting the State under martial law. |
