LOUISIANA. 



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over your passions and inclinations. Yi.M 

 il, ready obedience to all legally-constituted 

 riiy, and be assured that the story of your 

 '*, vour lonif forbearance, your heroic virtues, 

 11 \\ ill in yur li<mr of triumph as in your 

 iMiin-s, will oommand and rccmvo the syuipa- 

 l>ect of the civilized world. 



On tho 18th General Emory notified Gov- 

 Ivilogg, who was still at the Custom- 

 ll'iii-o, tlmt the insurgents had surrendered, 

 jiinl U'li'leivd "the necessary military support 

 lish the State government." On tho 

 .. in:,' morning Governor Kellogg resumed 

 the executive functions, and published an or- 

 der requiring all State officers who had been 

 prevented during the recent troubles from per- 

 lormini: their duties immediately to resume 

 their otlidnl functions; also the Board of Me- 

 tropolitan Police to " assemble at once and or- 

 ganize the police force of New Orleans, and 

 assume the maintenance of peace and order of 

 the city." 



< ii ueral Emory now reported to Washington 

 as follows : 



HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, ) 

 NEW ORLEANS. September 20, 1874. f 

 To the Adjutant- General of the United States Army, 

 Washington, D. C. : 



rday tho State authorities replaced the tem- 

 porary police force by the regular police force of the 

 It was feared that this change might cause 

 some disturbance, and troops were posted at various 

 points in the city, but the night passed very quietly. 

 I think this may be taken as an evidence that the 

 surrender was complete and in good faith, for, by a 

 peculiarity of the law of Louisiana, the police force 

 of thia city is organized under the State law, and un- 

 der the direct control of the Governor. 



W. H. EMORY, 

 Colonel and Brevet Major-General commanding. 



Thus, within less than a week there had 

 been civil war in the streets of New Orleans, 

 the overthrow of the State government by 

 armed force, and its restoration through the 

 military power of the Federal Government. 

 A committee representing the McEnery party 

 now published an address, dated September 

 23d, to the people of the United States, in de- 

 fense and explanation of the late revolutionary 

 movement. The address asserts that " short- 

 ly after the election in November, 1872, by 

 the alleged action of a District Judge of the 

 United States, aided and enforced by soldiers 

 of the Federal Government ordered from Pen- 

 sacola to New Orleans for that purpose, the 

 State-House was seized at night, a pretended 

 Legislature, composed in great part of defeated 

 iMiiilidates, was organized, and "William Pitt 

 Kellogg was forced upon the people of Louisi- 

 ana as Governor, and C. C. Antoine as Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, both of whom were defeated 

 by large majorities, as shown by actual count 

 of official returns of the votes as cast." After 

 citing certain facts and adducing arguments to 



States for relief againit the usurpation tot up and 

 established by tho Federal power nlone, ana that 

 they were repelled with insult by the Attorney -Gen- 

 eral; that they appealed in vain to the legislative 

 department of the General Government for relief at 

 two successive sessions ; that they invoked the aid 

 of tho Supreme Court of the United States to relieve 

 tin in of the outrages upon their rights by an inferior 

 Federal Judge (Durellj, and that the Supreme Court 

 found itself without jurisdiction and powerless to 

 take cognizance of the cause. 



There remained for the people of Louisiana but 

 one hope of relief, and that a hope for partial relief 

 only. The gubernatorial term in four years, and the 

 present term expires in January, 1877. The State 

 officers hold for the same term, and the Senators 

 hold for four years, one-half being elected every two 

 years. At the election in November, 1874, a State 

 Treasurer, the members of the House of Representa- 

 tives, and half the Senate, are to be chosen, with the 

 addition of members of the Senate to fill such vacan- 

 cies as may have occurred by deaths or otherwise, 

 so that the most which we could have hoped to ob- 

 tain by the election would have been a State Treas- 

 urer and a majority in the Legislature. The consti- 

 tution of Louisiana subjects the government to im- 

 peachment, but the concurrence of two-thirds of the 

 Senators present is requisite to the conviction. As 

 half of tho Senators hold for the same term as tho 

 Governor, the election by the opponents of the Kel- 

 logg usurpation of every member of the Senate to be 

 chosen in November would still leave Kellogg and 

 his colleagues in power, and the people subject to a 

 continuation of this usurpation until the constitu- 

 tional expiration of the term in January, 1877. 



Partial as was the relief thus to be hoped for, the 

 people of Louisiana determined to avail themselves 

 of this election as the last peaceful mode of obtain- 

 ing even a fragment of their rights and a voice, how- 

 ever feeble, in their government. In proof .of this 

 determination we refer to the proceedings of the 

 State Convention lately held at Baton Rouge, the 

 formation of political clubs in every ward of the city 

 of New Orleans, of every parish in the State, and 

 the eagerness manifested by citizens to have them- 

 selves registered as voters. The existing registra- 

 tion law, the passage of which by the Legislature in 

 the form in wliich it has been promulgated has been 

 questioned and is not generally believed, gives to 

 trie Supervisors of Registration supreme power, so 

 that they may refuse to register a citizen or strike 

 his name from the registry at their mere will and 

 pleasure, and no court can or dare { under a penalty 

 of a fine of $500, entertain any application to enforce 

 the right of the voter to be registered as such. 



To execute this law, Kellogg appointed as Super- 

 visors of Registration his political adherents, many 

 of them persons of disreputable character, and thus 

 this tremendous power, this machinery which has 

 been devised and created for the especial purpose 

 of defeating the popular will, was delegated to the 

 mere tools and instruments of the usurper, and the 

 result of the election was secured beyond perad ven- 

 ture in advance of the ceremony of casting the votes. 

 Seeing tho impossibility of obtaining a fair expres- 

 sion of the popular will under the uncontrolled 

 manipulations ot the usurper and his appointees, a 

 number of citizens, representing the most respecta- 

 ble and influential of the population of New Orleans, 

 called upon Mr. Kellogg ana requested him to select 

 from such names as they might furnish Supervisors 

 of Registration to act in conjunction with those ap- 

 pointed by him, so that to both parties might be 

 secured a perfectly fair election, wnich he had de- 



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show that McEnery and his associates had re- clored it to be his purpose to afford. It is almost 



cvived a majority of the legal votes cast at the P e ?.^. e89 to add ,* 1 ? at ^ u ' 1 r , e< *" e8t w " * reated with 



f i ana *u A A Indifference, and the fraudulent registration was oon- 



election of 1872, the address continues : tinucd umlo ' r tho origina i appointees. 



It is matter of public history that the people of It was difficult for naturalized citizens to obtain 



Louisiana appealed to the President of the United registration, and many white persons clearly entitled 



