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LOUISIANA a Despatches of the Opposing “Gov- ernors’’ to the Herald, McEnery Will Resign—Kel- logg Will Not. A POLITICAL CONFERE The Opposing Elements at the | Custom House. —_+——__- Concessions of the Republicans to | the Conservatives. — THE FEDERAL + Additional Statements from the ‘ Party Leaders. FORCES. General Butler’s Plan tor , a New Election. MENERY WILL RESIGN. * New Orxzans, Sept. 18, 1874. Jamzs Gorpon Benyert, Editor of the New Yorx Heratp :— Sir—Your despatch received. In answerI say | Iam willing to resign it Mr. Kellogg also re- signs, with the understanding that there will | be a new election. This was my position dur- ing the pendency of the Carpenter bill for a | new election. I have no personal aspirations to subserve ; they shall be sunk out of sight in my efforts to bring about a peaceful solu- | tion of our unfortunate difficulties and an honest and stable government, acceptable to all classes of our citizens, JOHN McENERY. KELLOGG WILL NOT RESIGN. New Orteans, Sept. 18, 1874. James Gorpon Bennett, Eprror or tae Her- ALD: — Sm—In reply to your despatch of this date inquiring if I would be willing to resign if McEnery would resign also and abide the re- sult of a new election, I have to say, first, that McEnery is a defeated candidate for the office of Governor of this State, and has nothing to resign; sccondly, that no new election is needed, inasmuch as _ the | the State provides for en election for members of the Legis- lature early in November next, and the Legislature that may be then elected will have it within their power to remove any or all the existing State officials and supply their places by men of their own choice. The constituency I represent is largely composed of colored men. It was by their votes chiefly that I was elected to the office I now hold. For two yearsI have administered the government of the State witha sole desire to place its finances on a sound footing, to | constitution of develop its internal resources and to secure | to the colored people the full and free enjoy- ment of the rights conferred upon them by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. to the constitution of the United States. | In spite of the apparently almost insuper- able obstacles which have beset the present Btate government at every point, we have reduced expenditures and taxation, limited the debt, both of State and city, limited the rate of taxation, and provided by constitutional amend- ment creased burdens being placed upon the peo- ple. The last democratic Legislature that assembled in this State, of which Mc- Enery was a prominent member, ex- ceeded its revenues by $13,000,000 and left the succeeding republican adminis- tration to provide the means of payment. My opponents have adopted the plan of venting upon me individually all the hatred they bear to the principles of the party I Yepresent. Borne down almost by the responsibilities of my position and by the accumulated weight of obloqny thrust against all possibility of in- upon me, I have repeatedly said, if the repub- lican party believed my resignation would establish peace and secure from the opponents of the republican | party a recognition of the rights of the col- ored people under the constitutional amend- ments, and would gladly divest myself of an | office which I had not sought and had most reluctantly allowed myself to be nomi- nated propositions has been that if I were to resign for. The obvious reply to these the duties of the executive office would de- volve upon Lieutenant Governor Antoine, and ho would be no more acceptable to the opposition than myself, and the colored peo- ple would find themselves no better protected | than now. No specific charge of wrong doing has ever been made against me and sustained by proof. All accusations have been couched in gener- slities, which, when reduced to actual facts, will be found to amount simply to this—that the administration .I represent is in favor of putting the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments into practical effect: and the sunnorters of | consequence of a despatch received stating that | necessary military support to re-establish the | ecutive order in | send was seat for and was present throughout | Of Congress thereunder, {t isnot the province of NEW YORK HERALD. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Colonel McEnery, almost to a man, desire to ignore them. I am willing, and have offered to give to my opponents every possible safeguard against fraud in the coming elec- | tion. Even the Shreveport Times, the ablest and most malignant exponent of the views of the opposition, ina recent issue admitted that registration had been exceptionally fair as far | as it had gone, and on Saturday night the State Registrar made up his returns of | registration to date, and found that in the | city of New Orleans, where the opposition claim to have & mojority sufficient to wipe out an admitted large republican majority in the country parishes, more than half the qualified voters had been registered, and the republicans were ahead. In this fact alone you have a sufficient ex- planation of the so-called uprising of the people on Monday last, and the so- called negro riots in the country parishes, which have simultaneously been reported. If we can have a peaceable election in November next, the result will show most conclusively, I think, that McEnery was not elected to the office to which he makes such a persistent claim. WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG. NEW ORLEANS YESTERDAY, NEw ORLEANS, Sept. 18, 1874, Governor McEnery, Penn and their partisans held a long consultation at the Custom House | to-dey with Governor Kellogg, Longstreet, Oasey | and others looking to a compromise, but it is stated | that there are many Jegal and personal difficulties that bar the way to @ permanent peace, It | was suggested that military occupation of the city until Congress can meet and settle the question might be acceptable to both parties. | The conference, indced, has been held almost con- stantly since noon Thursday. It was inaugurated by Efingham Lawrence, Alter a two hours’ con- versation with Kellogg, Packard and the others the preamble has just been agreed apon. By its terms those representing the McEnery govern- ment will recognize’ Kellogg, who 1s to be placed | in the State House to-morrow. A fair registration and election are guaranteed. The Republican I State Committee, who prepared their ultimatum, decline to promise an extra session of the new Legislature, to be elected in November, or any action from them, saying they can make no prom- | ises for a body which as yet has no ofictal exist- ence. The conference is still in session, Among those who represent the people are John McEnery, Davidson B, Penn, Albert Voorhies, Duncan F, Kenner, D, & Page, Effingham Lawrence, Dr. Choppin, Dr. Burns and Major Beard. The repub- licans aro represented by the State Central Com- mittee. A monitor, manned and fully equipped, has been ancaored opposite Canal street, THE BAYOU SARA RIOT. A detachment of United States troops were or- dered to Bayou Sara to-day by General Emory, in that town was attacked last night by negroes, and that the blacks were only repulsed after prolonged effort. But citizens who nave just arrived from Bayou state that the accuuntof the outbreak is greatly exaggerated, RE-ESTABLISHING KELLOGG’S GOVERNM: Uncer the arrangements entered -nto with Gen- eral Emory the late government is to be re-estab- lished to-morrow as the following will show:— Hust @UARTERS OF THE i Verakeea? OF THE GULF, NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 18, 1874, To the Hon. WiLLIaM P, KELLOGG, Goveruor of the ‘State o1 Louisiana :— Sir--In obedience to the orders of the President I have the honor to inform you of the surrender | of the insurgents lately armed against tne State government, and to afford you the necessary mill- | ‘ary support to re-establish tue State government, Very respectiuliy your obedient servant, W. H. EMORY, Colonel and Brevet Major General Commanding. | RAL SUPPORT. La., Sept, 18, 1874, Major General W. H. Emory, U.S, A., Command- ing Department of the Gulf:— Srr—I have the honor to acknowledge the re- ceipt of your communication of this date, intorm- ing me that you are prepared to afford the State government, 1 will promulgate an ex- the oficial journal to- morrow morning, instructing all oMicers of the State who have been prevented trom perform. ing their duties to resume their functions at once. Owing to the disorganization of the police force in New Orleans, resulting from the recent confict of arms, the commandant of the Metropolitan Police will not be abie to get his otticers on their beats until to-morrow. Therefore | I must request you to assume the maintenance of | the peace and order o1 the city during the coming night, Vhave the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedicnt servant, WILLIAM P. KELLOGG, Governor. AN ORDER BY THE GOVERNOR, The following order was subsequently sent to the official journal :— EXECUTIVE ORDER. All State oMfcers who have been prevented dur- ing the recent troubles from performing their duties will immediately resume tueir otficial func- tions. The Board of Metropolitan Police will at once assemble and organize the police force of New Orleans and assume the maintenance of peace and order of the city. WILLIAM P, KELLOGG, Governor. Messrs. McEnery and Penn have issued an ad- dress to the people advising a cheerful obedience to the constituted autnorities, THE TROUBLE IN WASHINGTON. ~ WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18, 1874. Iv is not probable that any further instructions will be sent to General Emory at present, The Cabinet meeting to-day was attended by Attorney General Williams, Secretary Bristow and Post- master General Jewell. Adjutant General Town- the session. The following message to General Emory having been prepared was handed to Adjutant General Townsend for transmission by telegraph :— Wak DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, } WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 1874, General W. H. Emory, New Orleans:— Jam directed by the President to say that your acts to this date, 60 Jar as they have been reported and received here oMictally, are approved, except s0 far as they name Colonel Brooke to command the city of New Orieans. It would have been bet- ter to have named him commander of the Unitea States forces in that city, The State government existing at the time of the beginning of the present insurrectionary movement must be recognized as tue lawful State government until some other State government can be | legally supplied. Upon-the surrender of the insur- gents you will inform Governor Kellogg o! the fact, and give him the necessary support to re-establish the authority of the State government. Ii, at the expiration of the five days given in the prociama- tion on 15th Inst,, there still exists armed resis! ance to the authority o1 the State, you will sui mon @ surrender of the insurgents. If the gur- render 1s not quietiy submitted to it must be en- forced at all hazards, This being an rrection against the State government o! Loutsiana, to aid in the supsression | oi which this government has been called upon in the forms required by the constitution and laws the United States authorities to make terms with , parties engaged in such insurrection. KE. D, TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. GENERAL EMORY’S REPLY. The following telegram was received to-night irom Generai Emory, addressed to Adjutant Gen- eral Townsend, dated New Orleans, to day, and in reply to the foregoing :— I placed Colonel Brooke in command of the city as weil as in command of the troops, otherwise there would have been anarchy. Governor Ki logy did not and has not yet called on me tors port to re-establish the State government. Chief of Police was shot down and the next command also, and the whole force utterly ai persed and hidden away out of sight. For one of them to have attempted to stand on his beat Would have been certain destruction; and even | Over, and expressed the hope that the bustness | where they could live by themselves, as it was ut- Dow, the State anthorives ranreaenied by Gov- ernor Kellogg nave asked to defer taking charge jor the present. THE MILITARY TO GO TO NEW ORLEANS. At the Cabinet meeting the question was dis- cussed also whether it was advisable to revoke the orders sending the Twenty-second infantry and ar- Ullery to New Orleans, and tt was decided that the | disposition of troops as already provided for | should be carried out, with the exception of the | companies of artillery stationed along Lake On- tario, The orders sent to the Twenty-second in- fantry were to proceed direct to New Orleans | without delay, and not by way of Northwestern Louisiana, as had been tn- | tended, As soon as the troops are concentrated at New Orleans they will be distributed avout the State at such diferent points as will enable them effectually to prevent any outbreaks what- ever or domestic violence, KELLOGG, CASEY AND OTHERS IN DANGER. A prominent omcial here stated to-day that he did not believe Kellogg, Casey, Longstreet, Mar- shal Packard or Representatives Sheldon and Sypher would be safe with their lives for an hour if they singly or together appeared in public. He believed that the people who upheld the McEnery- Penn faction were so incensed at the prospect of the continuation of the Kellogg rule that they Would not hesitate to carry out the threats which have been publicly made in New Orleans to kill those persons if Kellogg were restored to power. NAVAL FORCE T0 BE EXHIBITED, The Gettysourg, which satled vo day, carries im- Perative orders to Rear Admiral Mullaney to send | three vessels of the North Atlantic squadron to New Orleans. They will not reach thelr desti- nation before the 27th inst. The feet at Key | West does not require any supplies of ammu- nition, as each ship, to use the words of a Navy Department ofictal, “is tull chock-a-block with the ordnance stores put on board at the time of the Cuban row.” A standing regulation of the navy Tegarding the expenditure of ammunition ts that when the amount on board 1s reduced to 100 rounds for each gun no more shall be used except for cases of actual necessity, The usual target practice must be stopped even untit the supply is renewed, The explanation received by the War Department of General Emory’s relation with the insurgents was regarded as satisfactory, though the President would have been better satisfied had he exercised a little more firmness, Adjutant General Townsend to-night telegraphed to General Emory to strictly follow the instructions already | sent, and to arrest all persons disposed to create trouble. THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES THE TROUBLE OVER, The President in conversation to-day said he believed ail serious trouble in Louisiana was now aspect would be fully resumed in New Orleans aad elsewhere in the State. He was gratified tn learn- ing there had been no conflict whatever between the federal and State troops, and that the general government had not been forced to extreme meas- Ures, It was ascertained also from an official source that the orders for the movement of troops and vesseis had not up to one P. M. to-day been countermanded, with the exception of one com- pany in Miciiigan. Although no danger is appre- hended, the orders will remain in force atleast until Monday next as a precautionary measure, Secretary Robeson had an interview with the President to-day in reference to these matters, MORE OPINIONS, Army ofMicers say that the army is not large enough for the protection of the frontiers and at the same time to act as a posse comitatus to judi- clal officers of the South in enforcing process in extraordinary cases, such as that of Louisiana. Gentlemen in prominent, legal positions say the surrender of the insurgents does not prevent their prosecution for treason against Louisiana by the authorities of that State. . KELLOGG'S DEFENCE. Governor Kellogg has telegraphed here to-day to this effect:—“I left the State House on Monday at the carnest solicitation of all our friends. The Lieutenant Governor and Speaker being absent from the State, an accident to me, they felt, would have made complications desperate. There were none but colored militia in the State House, and had they made any resistance they would have been burned out and massacred, the building being entirely indefensibie.” LOOKING FOR A PARADISE.” The President to-day received a petition signed | by one thousand colored citizens of Caddo purish, La, asking to be removed to a territory terly impossible to live with the whites of Louisi- ana, They were willing to be sent to Liberia, if no better place could be given them, PENN'S STATEMENT. NEw ORLEANS, Sept. 18, 1874. Lieutenant Governor Penn makes the following statement relative to the State goverament:—The two governments have been organized since 1872. There was a meeting of the McEnery Legislature last season. In every respect, therefore, the status of the de facto and de jure governments was maintained, The troops engaged on the 14th inat., instead of being insurgents, as styled in the President’s proclamation, were the militia of the McEnery government, duly commissioned. They overthrew and drove from the soil of the State the officers of the de yacto government, establishing the McEnery as a de facto as well as de jure government. Under the strict letter of the law Kellogg could not call upon the United States to interfere, he and his government being out of the State and unable at the time of his application to maintain himself on Loaisiana soil, but a refugee in the Custom House. The proclamation of the President has been | obeyed, while the United States forces are in pos- session of the archtves and property of the State. The McEnery government is still organized, and is sensibly deprived of its de facto functions by the | power and authority of the United States, The McEnery government can assert, and its power will be obeyed throughout the State. The Kellogg government can be reinstated by the United States forces, but can only maintain itseli through that power. Penn then asks, “Is this the republican form of government guaranteed to every State under the constitution 1” GOV. KELLOGG INTERVIEWED. New ORLEANS, Sept. 18, 1874, Below will be found an interesting conversation with Governor Kellogg, in which he states his | views of the situation and the causes which led to | the unhappy events of the last few days, 1 nad | not much difficulty in reaching the Governor and the other prominent personages with whom I spoke, although headquarters have not always been so accessible to visitors to the distinguished | oficials within. Upon presenting my card I was | at once bowed beyond the sentinel, and walked up the broad flight of stone steps of the principal entrance. At the summit preparations to resist @ rusn of revolutionists had been made in the shape of a barricade of cut stone in the boxes in which it had been transmitted from the quarry. Of this implement of defence the materials were not lacking, for the interior of the building 1s, In a great measure, unfinished ¥rom the hall | beyond the barricade passages radiated in dif- | ferent directions, and there seemed to be a perfect labyrinth of rooms. I went straight to the room | ofMr. Casey, the United States official head of this | department, for whom [ had @ letter of introduc- | tion, This, with my card, was submitted toa servant, and almost immediately aiterward ay gentleman came out irom a side door and asked me to follow him, | MR. CASEY WAS AT IIS DESK | | doing as much of his oMcial business as the times would permit, and in various parts of the room were knots of persons gathered about the heroes ofthe hour, On a sofa in one corner was Governor Kellogg, and about him were two of his officers, | one the Inspector of Schools, a colored gentleman Of distinction; the other a State ofMicer connected With the registration, But the gentleman walk- | ing about at the other ena of the room was Long- | street, with whom a deputation of insurgents was busily engaged trying to prove to him some- | thing, which apparentiy he did not accept, for he pulled his gray, bushy whiskers, smiled ire- guently, but said nothing. In one of tha windows 3° Se en was Major EM ngham Lawrence, of Plaquemines | The Kellogg government was Inaugurated by force | whites in any struggle witb arms. The calumnies, parish, The good Lawrence, as he is univer- sally styled, was surrounded by revolutionists, who were evidently asking for his mediation. AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLOGO. Mr. Casey received me kindly, and, after some pleasant conversation, introduced me to all the gentiemen in the room, My talk with the Governor was long. I asked him what was the origin of the trouble. KELLOGG—Sir, it commenced with the with- drawal of the United States troops some months ago. As 800M as they were gone these men felt that they were strongest in the city and were de- termined Gpon a contest; so when Marshal Pack- ard—the large, dark man you see sitting near | Casey—appiied for troops to see that the Registra- | tion iaw was carried ont, they pretended tbat they were afrald of foul play at the election. The regis- tration was perfectly fair. The appeal for troops was according to the terms of the Enforcement act. CoRRESPONDENT—Was there anything special about the registration that excited their appre- hensions ? KELLOGG—No; it was a mere pretext. The White Leaguers commenced as early as the end of August to patrol the parishes, with the avowed object of scaring the colored men so badly that they would be alraid to register their names, and 80 lose their vote, 1 gave thema perfectly fair registration, Murshal Packard appointed all the Supervisors they nominated, and every democrat would have cast his vote. ‘They had fair play themselves, but they would not give it to others, OFFICE, NOT REFORM, CORRESPONDENT—Do you think they have any special plan in hand—any idea of reform of any kind—which they want to rush through by getting a democratic Legislature this fall? KELLOGG—Not they! They just want the oMices, | and that 18 the meaning of this outburst, The Governor of Louisiana wields an enormous amount of patronage, for which McEnery and his triends hunger. Plan of reform! No; they are too muddle-headed for that. I have re- duced the taxation by one-half since I came into office. I have done everything that I could with honor to conciliave those men, My record, in spite of all their accusations, is clearer than their own, They call me a thief, and I chal- lenge them or any one else to prove that I have ever peculated, The affairs of the city are in their own hands, The Mayor and municipal omiciais are all their own men. They have the disposal of all the city funds save those des- uned for special purposes, like the levee fund, and those are in the hands of commissioners of both parties,. They do not claim that these have been misused, So unreasovablo is the opposition I experience, 80 violent the hatred which meets me, that, were I not in a measure tied to the State, I would resign, I would not remain in so onerous aud unthanx{ul an ofice, But I have to remain, FURTHER BLOODSHED FEARED. CORRESPONDENT—Do you anticipate any further bloodshed when General Grant replaces you? KELLOGG—I fear there will be. CORRESPONDENT—But have they not given in, and is not the town in the hands of General Brooke? The people have returned their arms to the arsenal, and have gone about their business, have they not? KeELLoG@—I hope there may be no trouble, but l greatly fear that the passions of the mob have been so excited that they cannot be controlled, They do not wish to come in contact with the United States authorities, it 18 true, but I fear we have not seen the end of this. CORRESPONDENT—Governor, the insurgents take great credit to themselves because no negroes were hurt in the recent conflict, Was the marter Personal to yourself or a matter of race feeling ? KELLOGG—The latter was the cause most cer- tainly. They started out as White Leaguers to de- Stroy and uproot the whole colored community, though now they crawfish out of it. must have heard of the troubles in Grant and Conshatta parishes. You must have heard of these. CORRESPONDENT—Certainly, I heard of them, The whole world has beara of them, KELLogG@—Very well; there you have the whole Matter ina nutshell. They hate me because Iam | m the way ¢i their murderous designs against colored men, Whatever they may say or pretend, the White Leaguers have @ race object, and so have all the secret white organizations, CORRESPONDENT—That I suppose 1s the case in the towns, but are there White Leaguers in the | parishes? KE1LOGa—The parishes are full of them, sir, fu.l of them. Remember Grant parish and Conshatta. WHY WHITE FARMERS FAIL. CORRESPONDENT—Yes, but I do not understand that exactly. The landholders are dependent upon colored people for their labor, and if they drive them away what value can their Jand be? KELLoGG—Sir, what you say is true of the large landholders, and they treat their colored people with the utmost kindness and considera- tion, There is Major EMngham Lawrence for ex- ample. Under his kind tutelage the colored men have proved themselves capable agriculturists, good citizens and saving, economical men. But many estates have been broken up into fifty-acre farms, and of these a large proportion are held by whites who are the main stay of the White League. CORRESPONDENT—I suppose in many instances the white men who take these small farms have neither money nor creait, and do so as @ last re- source after failing in everything else? KELLOGG—Exactly. Such farms are 80 numerous that any one can take one, CORRESPONDENT—ANQ, not being used to work— hating it, in fact—and knowing nothing of agricul- ture, these men would failand be greatly embit- tered by the success of the colored farmers around them? KeLLocG—That’s just it. You've hit it, sir, you've hit it. hey are mostly young men who have servedin the Confederate army, and notn- ing prospers with them because they despise | labor, Then they murder and plunder the colored man. CoRRESPONDENT—Then I suppose that the de- cline of commerce in New Orleans 1s only in part due to politics ? St. Louis has cut them out of the North Texas trade by our Atlantic and Pacific and Iron Mountain railroads; Memphis is grabbing jor their cotton; Vicksburg ts commencing the same game, and, in fact, while they have been squab- bling their rivals have run off with their business ? KeLLogc—Yes, sir; and then they lay the blame on me, as if | was responsible for their want of commercial enterprise or for the energy of their rivals, They say ttat there is a want of pubic confidence in my administration, which prevents enterprise, and that I have so robbed and plun. | dered them that they dare not invite the co-opera- tion of capitalists North. But, sir, this is the excuse; you have suggested the reason, GOVERNOR KEMPER’'S ViEWS. RicuMonp, Va,, Sept. 18, 1874, Your correspondent yesterday waited upon Goy- ernor James L, Kemper, and in response to the general inquiry a8 to What his opinion was of the late revolutionary movement in New Orieans he said:—It is the atrocious system of misrule forced on the unwilling people of some of the Southern States which has subjected virtue and intelligence to the rule of vice and ignorance; which has put the iree born and educated classes under the dominion of their late slaves, led on by miscreant adventurers, compared with whom the negro is as Hyperion to Satyr; which has paralyzed the in- dustry of whole communities and given them up to be pillaged and sacked by the most daring piun- derers and thieves America ever produced, and | which constitutes a black and damning stain on | the civilization of the nineteenth century. It has wrought out Its logical resuits at New Or- | South are, with few exceptions, democrats and | leans, The flesh will quiver as the pincers But you | and fraud. Congress refused to interfere in the | | contest in Louisiana and deliberately ignored it, | she fons | The federal legislation thas sanctioned the policy | of “Laissez nous faire.” The federal Executive will reverse that policy, postpone peace and re- construction, and prolong the evila that now de- press the business interests of the whole country, | if the sword 1s again flourished over a State and | the army and navy employed to uphold the Kel- ' logg usurpation over the people of Louisiana, GENERAL BUTLER'S PLAN. Boson, Sept. 18, 1874, | Ever since the premonitory symptoms of a revo- lution were maniiested in Louisiana General Butler has been kept weil informed by correspondents in and around che Crescent City of what was going | 0D, and the outbreak which has now come was no surprise to him. Indeed, in his speech at | Gloucester last Saturday evening he foreshadowed | much of what has gince occurred, and intimated | | that he wouldn’t mind going down to New Or- | leans again and taking a hand in the enforcement of law and order, I called upon the General this afternoon at his law office, in Pemberton square, and after discussing a iew general topics the mat- ter of the Louisiana troubles was incidentally alluded to, | “It is @ sad state of affairs,” he remarked, with | much feeling, ‘and what the result will be it is now impossible to determine. I had aietter from a friend there some two weeks ago, a man who is Weil posted and reiiable, and he says that evea then there was arebellion all over the State and Kellogg’s government was as good as over- ; thrown.” “Can't the federal courts settle this matter some Way or other and establish the fact that one party or the other is the government?” J asked. | “I don’t see,” he replied, “bow the action of the | federal courts can affect these men. Whatever | the actual rights of Kellogg may be, or whatever | the rights of McEnery may be, they have no rights whatever by law, for we have no evidence that there has even been an actual election ac- cording to the provisions of the constitution, This talk about the United States Senate settling the | Matter of the election is absurd. That body has ‘no more right to decide upon an election in Louisiana than it has in Massachusetts,” “1 suppose, then, a new election is abont the | only way in which the matter can be properly and | satisfactorily settled?” 1 said, inquiringly. “Yes, that’s it, exactly, Last December I made | @speech in favor of a new election in Louisiana, | | thinking that it was wise then to take positive | measures and thus avert the possibility of such | | events as have since happened, but I was over. | | Tuled at that time, and you see what the conse- | quences have been. The federal courts can't do | anything, and all they have pveen able to do 1s to | stop one side from going into power and keep the other side out. They don’t seem to pat an end to trouble or settle the matter as tu who is or who is not Governor.” “It seems to be a pretty complicated vase, then,” | J observed, “Yes, there Is going to be @ great deal of dim- | culty in bringing matters to an end. President Grani has sent troops down there to enforce his orders. These troops, however, can’t have any- thing to say as to whether Kellogg or McEnery shall assume to be Governor. What has the United States to say about the matter if 1 choose to sit here in my office and write and issue prociama- tions as Governor of Massachusetts? if I shouid | undertake to enlorce such proclamations, then there might be reasgnable ground for interterence, and not until then.” “But, General, suppose you were regarded as Governor by the people and your orders were en- forcea?”? “On, well, if the people choose to recognize me as Governorand respect my proclamaubns, why, | party. are made pretexts for assassinations throughout It {8 not @ war of races, bat 4 WAR AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS of the South, whites and blacks. Not irom any apprehension of social equality or fear of tue Civil Rights bill, bat to make this a white government | and reduce the negroes a8 meariy as possi- ble to slaves, He reviewed the condition of Louisiana jor the ae eight years, during which time, he said, that State had been made a vast slaughterhouse. ‘The effort to defeat Kellogg in 1872 he gharacterized as a @iganvic fraud. He referred to the Senate Louisi- ana luvestigating Committee's report upon that matter as showing the trauds perpetrated by the McEnery party to secure nis election. He said the Supreme Court had repeatediy decided that the Kellogg fovernment was the lawiul govern- ment, The President, in five diferent ways, bas recognized it, The House of Representatives has recognized it by admitting a member on Kellogg's: certificate, ‘The Senate did so by refusing to pass the bill for anew election, He reviewed the Col- fax massacre and the Conshatta murders, and said, for all these inhuman crimes not a man bas been Punished. Lam no advocate of Kellogg's, bat 1t ts ouly justice to say that he has not belonged to any Of the piundering rings, and no robbery or stealing has been orought home to him. The re- pubiicaus of Louisiana are NO’ FREE FROM FRAUD, | Thave no apology for them, but they are trivial when compared with the system of murder by which their ranks have been decimated and tbe whole State demoralized, fe said further that if the pee le of Loutsiaua would not have their State blighted they must stop the murder busi- ness, They cannot expect an honest government. | The seizure oO! the State by the Mcknery faction was in toe nature of a Mexican pronunciamiento. If it 1s tolerated in one State it will be adopted in another, ‘here is but one Salvation for the | South—the recognition of equal otvil ana political rights of the colored people, the protection of tle ior ail opinions and forall parties. Whatever may be said of the irregularities by which the Kellogg gov- ernment was established, It 18 undoubtedly true that it represented a majority of the peopie of the State; but u McEnery had been piaced in ofice, {t woula have been py a fraud ucequalled in ex- tent and wickedness. Two apologies are given for the murder of black and white republicans throughout the South—first, that the whites are driven to it by the robberies of carpet-baggers This he styled & self-evident, weak and senseless Jalsehood, for | Murders and punishment have always failen upon the innocent and poor. The thieves have always found democratic partners. When discovered they are kicked out of the The case of Warmoth is ble fact. The next excuse 18 that negroes have conspired and armed themselves to exterminate the whites, and that these muraers are committed by the’ whites im seli-defence. These are stupid lies, manufactured by kn ves, tu be believed by idiots. The beginning of all lin- provement and restoration in the South must@on- sist in the cessation of murder. While tha@pre- vails it 18 useless to hope jor reform, AN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT. BaTON Rovag, La.. Sept. 18, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— We send you the following appeal to the Ex- ecutive and earnestly request its publication :— President GRANT—All Eastern Louisiana has peacefully declared in favor of tne McEnery gov- ernment, our only hope for prosperity. In the name of this people we appeal to you not to con- den us back to the desolation of the Kellogg rale. » 8. M. HART, of Hart & Herbert, Bankers. JAMES McVAY, President of Board of Trade. W. L. LARIMORE, President of the Farmers’ Association. D. C. MANTON, of Manton & Huguet, Bankers. A. W. SIMMONS late Captain of Indian Voi- unteers, T. W. HURST, late Captain Illinois Volunteers. A PROTEST FROM TENNESSEE, Governor Brown Protests Against Fed- | exai Interference in State Affairs. NASHVILLE, Sept. 18, 1874, Governor Brown, of Tennessee, sent the follow- | Ing message this afternoon to President Grant:— | EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 1874. His EXcELLENCY U. S. GRANT, PRESIDENT OF THB UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON City, D. C.:— There were sixteen negroes committed to the | jail of Gibson county, in this State, charged witha that is all very well. Taois whole matter is some- thing that the people must, sooner or later, de- cide in the manner of an election, What 1 wantea ernment vacant, vn account of the fatiure oi the people to elect a government according to tne ; constitution, and have Congress direct matters | | until @ government could be properly elected and | reconstruction effected, Why, I held precisely the | same position in Lowsiana during the war as sunk 10 the sea, and yet there was alterwards a State government established.” “But, General, don’t you regard the government there now us practically non est 7?” “Lhe judiciary exists, but there 1s no Executive to enforce its decrees, ana it is, therefore, powe: less. efforts to quell tnem:’? “Tuere 18 one tuing I can’t understand, and that is how the Metropolitan police allowea them- selves to be Captured, together with their artil- | lery, withouteven tring a single gun. look like treachery if some thirty or torty of them had not been seriously wounded. It seems that Longstreet had forty or dity of his own men killed, aud there were none killed on the other side, ferred to have matters the otuer way.” “Do you think the trouvle will be positively set- | tled soon 7? | “Tne matter is not going to be ended speedily | or easily. The great diticulty will be to fad the | trouvle. When President Graat sends down tie | United States forces they won't fitid any moo there, but when they come away it wili be there. For my partidon’t see why Keilogg could not | vicinity at once, for they are a part of the county service, the saine us the militia would be, ‘There seems to have been tbe utmost imbecility oa the part of the United States, can judge from the accounts furnished by | the “press. One thing 18 certain, anit that 18, if the United States can't protect its own | citizens on its own soil, then itis about as usele ! an affair as we can very well spend $300,000, | annually for, have no doubt that Presi Gent Grant will:do bis best to put down Chis insu: rection finally, but the diMculty will be that when his troops are there they will Ghd no armed oppo- Sition, One faction seems to think chat il the other will abdicate it will be the true government. This is all wrong, for there is no eviden there has been any government properly el surreciion or a war ?”? “lt was an absolute insurrection against the State government. Although it only sturted ina | present proportions of the diMculty are no more | Than what Was anticipated. Now the insurrec- | tonists were directly in deflance of the State gov- ernment, but the moment they interpose the United States troops or aathorities this defiance | might develop into actual war. 1 can’t conceive | that at any time tne Louisiana people will be rasit enough to fight the jederal government.” ‘Tne conversation then turned briedy upon the right of Kellogg to disurm the citizens or militia, | In which the General claimed that the keeping au | bearing arms Jor the overthrow or protection of a | | government were two different things, “4 have | fia occasion to examine that point,” he’ re- marked, with a merry twinkle in his eye, ‘for I believe Lonce disarmed the population of New Orleans myself. People have a right to have a fre in thetr houses, but if they use the fire for pur- | pee incendiarism they must be dispossessed Of it. | As intimated all through tne interview, the Gen- | eral thinks affairs are very much mixe' trad Sa only be straightened bre ew clection; eit: | | time he insists that itis the duty of the govern- | ment to protect her own citizens on her own soll, and Iam mistaken if he would not jike to take a | haud io the eniorcement of sucd protection, MORTON ON LOUISIANA, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 18, 1874 Senator Morton addressed an immense audience at Masonic Hail to-night upon the past and present condition of the South, He spoke earnestly and calmly, and his remarks were irequently ap- plauded. He opened by contradicting the asser- tion that reconstruction was @ failure, claim: | ing that its apparent fallure was due to tne conduct of its enemies, and not because of intrinsic defects in the system. Resistance to re- construction grows eut of opposition to the aboli- tion of slavery and the elevation of the negroes to civil and political rights. He condemned the white | leagues, which, he said, had bat a single princi: ple—that white men should rule, In the majority of the Southern States there has been a high car- nival of crime for te past two months, but a small portion of whicn | the Northern public, The news agents in the | sympathizers with these crimes, sometimes par- was to have Congress declare the Louisiana gov- | Would exist now M the State governinent was | “What do you think about the riots and the | It would | Now, if it had been my case, I should bave pre- | have called out the United States troops in the | so far as 1) “Do youlook upon this trouble asa riot, anin- | riot it was conceived some tme ago, and tue | is made known to | conspiracy to take the lives of tne white citizens | Of therr neighborhood, On the night of the 26th | of August, re @ party of disguised men — a the jail a took these prisoners from te ler, and kilied four and wounde | two, the remainder escaping and be- ing now at large. ‘The next day I offered a reward of $000 for each of these un- known offenders. The State Court being then io Session took immediate cognizance of the outrage, and the labora of the regular and special terms have resulted fn the detection and indictment of Jorty-dne of the guilty parties, the majority of ; Whom have been arrested, and tne remainder will | be if they have not fled the country. They are ine | dicted under the second und third sectious of the actof the General Assembly of Tennessee of 1869 and 1870, passed on the 30th dvy of January, ped entitled “an act to preserve the public peace," and which is im full force, The sections are as | tollows:— | _ Swetion 2.—Be it further enacted, That it any person or Persons, disguised or inimask, by ‘day or by might, shall | enter upon the premises of another, or demand ene trance or adinission into the house or enclosure of any | citizen of this State. it shatl be considered prim& facke | evidence that his or their intention is to commit a felony, and such demand sbali be deemed an assault | with intent to commit a felony; and the person or per- sons so offending siiall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary tor not less than wep years nor more that twenty years, Sec. 3.—Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons so prowilag, travelling, riding or ‘walking Uurough the (owns or country of this state, masked in | disguise, should or may assault another with a deadly Weapon, he or they shail be deemed guilty of an assault | With ai attempt to commit murder in the first degree, | and on conviction thercot shall suffer death by hanging, | provided the jury trying the case may not substituie imprisoninent in the “Penitentiary tor @ period of uot | less than ten years nor more than’ twenty years. | The State authorities have manitested the most earnest desire to enforce the law against the guilty parties, and have demonstrated by these | jnaiccmeuts and arrests not only their disposition but aoitity to enforce the law and protect all citi- zens, without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude. These efforts, I can | assure you, will in no sense ve relaxed until the majesty of the law ts Jully vindicated. Notwithstanding these efforts, with the reswt | stated, tue United States Marshal and Commissioner for the western division of Tennessee, with the | aid of detachments from the government garrison at Humboldt, bave arrested and are continuing to arrest citizens und conveying them under guard to Memphis, nearly 100 miles distant, to answer jor the same offence charged against them py the | State courts. As Governor of Tennessee | do most respectiully but earnestly protest against this ex- ercise of jurisdiction by the United State: lnizsioner and Marshal, without referenc question whether the offences are the proper ject of cognizance by the United States courts, but ‘alone upon the ground that the peace of so- ciety will be more certainly preserved and the | Tights of citizens as well protected by conceding jurisdiction to the State courts, and | therefore respectiully ask Your Excellency to order that no further arrests be made by the Marshal, and the | parties already in bis custody be turned over to he proper local tribanals for trial and punish- | ment. I undertake to assure Your Exceilency that | no effort will be spared to enforce the laws and protect the citizens by the officers of the State government throughout the borders of this State, and believe the local authority is ample te pro- tect the people of every race and condition in life. An cat, reply is respectiully solicited, JV) ©. BROWN, Governor of Tennessee, THE GIBSON COUNTY MASSACRE, Examination of the Prisoners—An Alibi Proved. MEMPitis, Tenn., Sept. 18, 1874, The perfons arrested in Gibson county, who were brought here and were released on bail some time since, nad @ hearing to-day, Four of tle ne- groes who escaped the maskers testified against them. About twenty-five witnesses were exam- ined. The prisoners proved an alibi. The case will be concluded to-morrow, TROUBLE IN KENTUCKY, | Outlaws Barricaded in a Court House= | The State Troops Ordered To Be in | Readiness. LOUISVILLE, Sept. 18, 1674, Colonel W. L. Clark, Commander-in-Chief or the State troops in this eity, to-day received a telegram from the Quartermaster General of the State informing him that the outlaws in Breathitt county had barricaded them. selves in the Court House at Jackson in large numbers, and ordering that all the State military in the city be ready to move at @ moment's warn- ing. Iu pursuance of this order Colonel Clark has 200 men in readiness, and will take two pieces of artillery along witt him. Sixty men leit here yes- terday for Breathitt county, and are now on the march to Jackson. THE STEAMSHIP CONFERENCE, As announced in yesterday’s HeRap, a meeting tear, The South can never recover ana tne North , ticipators, {1 they have news of even larger | 0! the representatives of the North Atlantic Steam- can never prosper as long as the power of the common government upholds those who trespass and plunder the section which produces the chief exports of the country, ‘he negro ought not to be blamed, for he rareiy com- mits wrongs except such as partisan syndi- cates at the North predetermine to be done or adventurera at the Sonth inetigate him to do. with apoio- telegraph = Is negroes are they accompany it | gies and justifications. The | loaded with reports thas the | conspiring and the whites are on the de- tensive. But when the facts are known, it turns out that only negroes and white republi- oans are killed, All the negroes ask is to be let alone. Shey know thay cannot cone with the massacres, ship Companies was held yesterday at No. 29 Broadway, but owing to the absence of the repre- sentative of the Ounard line tt was resolved, alter a session Of half an hour, that the meeting sould be adjourned to Monday next. It is generally con- ceded that adisruption of the combination is immt- hent and certain, and that next week low steer- age rates to Liverpool--at $11 and $12—will pre~ vall, as they have recentiy done for several montha, tsi ait