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LOUISIANA. 



property now in their p:ssession, and to disband the 

 insurgent forces under their command, Brevet Brig- 

 adier-General J. K. Brooke, lieutenant - colonel of 

 Third Infantry, is charged with the duty of taking 

 possession of the arms and other State property. 

 He will occupy the State-House, Arsenal, and other 

 State buildings, until further orders. He is hereby 

 appointed to command the city of New Orleans until 

 such time as the State and city governments can be 

 reorganized. The present police force in the city, 

 under charge of Thomas Boy Ian, will remain on duty 

 and be responsible for the good order and quiet of 

 the city until regularly relieved. 



By command of Brevet Major-General W. H. 

 EUORY: LUKE O'KEILLY, 



Captain Nineteenth Infantry, A. D. C. 



On the evening of the 17th, therefore, the 

 State Capitol and government buildings were 

 formally surrendered by McEnery to General 

 Brooke. In making the surrender, the former 

 said : 



GENERAL BROOKE : As the lawful and acting Gov- 

 ernor of this State, I surrender to you, as the repre- 

 sentative of the Government of the United States, 

 the Capitol and remainder of the property in this 

 city belonging to the State. This surrender is in re- 

 sponse to a formal demand of General Emory for 

 such surrender, or to accept as an alternative the 

 levying of war upon our government by the military 

 forces of the United States under his command. As 

 I have already said to General Emory, we have 

 neither the power nor inclination to resist . the 

 Government of the United States. Sir, I transfer to 

 you the guardianship of the rights and liberties of 

 the people of the State, and I trust and believe that 

 you will give protection to all classes of our citizens 

 ruled and ruined by a corrupt usurpation, presided 

 over by Mr. Kellogg. Our people could bear the 

 wrongs^ tyranny, annoyance, and insults of that 

 usurpation no longer, and they arose in their might, 

 swept it from existence, and installed in authority 

 the rightful government of which I am the head. All 

 lovers of liberty throughout the Union must admit 

 the patriotism that aroused our people to act as one 

 man, and throw off the yoke of this odious usurpa- 

 tion. I know as a soldier you have but to obey the 

 orders of the Government of the United States, but 

 I feel that you will temper your military control of 

 affairs with moderation, and in all things exhibit that 

 integrity of purpose characteristic of officers of the 

 army. I now hand over to you, sir, the Capitol and 

 the other property of the State under my charge. 

 JOHN McENEEY. 



The action of General Emory in appointing 

 Colonel Brooke as the military governor of New 

 Orleans did not meet the approval of the Gov- 

 ernment in Washington. It was there thought 

 that the Kellogg should be recognized as the 

 lawful government of the State until another 

 one should be legally supplied, and that Gen- 

 eral Emory, therefore, should have named 

 Colonel Brooke commander of the United 

 States forces in New Orleans. The views of 

 President Grant on this point were indicated 

 in the following telegram to General Emory : 



WAS DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, ) 

 WASHINGTON, D. C., September 18, 1874. J 

 GENERAL W. H. EMORY, New Orleans : 



.lam directed by the. President to say that your 

 acts to this date, .so far as they have been reported 

 and received here officially, are approved, except so. 

 far as they name Colonel Brooke to command the 

 city of New Orleans. It would have been better to 

 have named him commander of the United States 

 forces in that city. The State government existing 



at the time of the beginning of the present insurrec- 

 tionary movement, must be recognized as the lawful 

 State government until some other State government 

 can be legally supplied. Upon the surrender of the 

 insurgents you will inform Governor Kellogg of the 

 fact, and give him the necessary support to re- 

 establish the authority of the State government. If 

 at the end of the five days given in the proclamation 

 of the 15th inst. there still exists armed resistance to 

 the authorities of the State, you will summon a sur- 

 render of the insurgents. If the surrender is not 

 quietly submitted to, it must be enforced at all haz- 

 ards. This being an insurrection against the State 

 government of Louisiana, to aid in the suppression 

 of which this Government has been called upon in 

 the forms required by the Constitution and laws of 

 Congress thereunder, it is not the province of the 

 United States authorities to make terms with parties 

 engaged in such insurrection. 



E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant-General. 



To this General Emory replied that he had 

 " placed Colonel Brooke in command of the 

 city as well as in command of the troops. 

 Otherwise there would have been anarchy. 

 Governor Kellogg did not and has not yet 

 called on me for support to reestablish the 

 State government. His chief of police was 

 shot down and the next in command also, 

 and the whole force utterly dispersed and hid- 

 den away out of sight. For one of them to 

 have attempted to stand on his beat would 

 have been certain destruction, and even now 

 the State authorities represented by Governor 

 Kellogg have asked to defer taking charge for 

 the present." 



McEnery and Penn now issued an address 

 to the people of the State, in which, after al- 

 luding to the chief events of the overthrow of 

 the Kellogg government, they say : 



We need not remind you, fellow-citizens, that at 

 every stage of our protracted conflict with this usur- 

 pation we have constantly asserted, and maintained 

 pur assertion, that we have never intended to come 

 in conflict with the authority or the forces of the 

 United States ; and when that has been the alterna- 

 tive, we have not hesitated to yield ready obedience 

 to that authority. 



Simultaneously with this, will be published the 

 protest which we made to General Emory against 

 this action of the Federal Government, which dis- 

 places your rightful Governor and Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, and which places the State in the possesiion 

 and under the control of the military forces of the 

 United States. 



Thus, fellow-citizens, has the State of Louisiana 

 heen finally stricken down by the hand of power, 

 and we are no longer citizens of a State, but are in- 

 habitants merely of what was once a free State, the 

 peer of any other in the American galaxy_. 



It is no disgrace to submit to power which we have 

 not the capacity or the right to resist. It is painful 

 to be compelled to give up our most cherished rights ; 

 but we do so with the full determination to regain 

 them, and to have them restored by the hand by 

 which we have been deprived of them. 



It only remains for us to urge upon you to summon 

 to your aid all your courage and fortitude, your vir- 

 tue and forbearance, to enable you to submit with 

 becoming diguity to this great calamity, which no 

 act of ours or of yours could have averted. Continue 

 to be, as you have been, law-abiding and faithful to 

 your duty and obligations to the Government of the 

 United States. You have just gained a great victory 

 over your enemy, arrayed in arms against you. Make 

 one more sublime effort, and gain a grand victory a 



