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Radical Reform

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Day
25
Month
September
Year
1874
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Public Domain
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We hear about roiorm oven from Kadicals who foei its need, but are weak enough to hope tor it in their own party ! Vain delusion. In all their convontions they shrink from demariding reform, and nomínate men as candidates morely for spoils, seleoting thosu who have money for tlns very purpose. How elne eau they account for the nomination of Begole, in the Gunesee .district. They admit him to be wholly unfit for the office, and hn voted for inflation of the ourrency : but ho is rich enough to pay a high price to men to stump the district for him. And Congor, ia tho Seventh District, who votod for and retained the salnry graVj, whiuh overy Radiriil paper in his district dunouneed, but the army of office-hulders, as thick as grasshoppers in Iowa and as destructivo, intrigued, bribod and secured his renomination. Tliis is Iiadical reform. Canada is rapidly enlarging the Weiland Canal around the fulls of Niágara, and in two yeara more it is ; expectod tliat vossels witk 50,000 i bushols of gffain will be able to ass tUrough, while so vast is the ] tion aud so rapid the progvess of the i West, that a dolivovy of 1310,000,000 i bushels of grain and flour is ( ted by 1876, jf the average prices of j the lust three years ai'ü maintained. j TlIAT THE KelLOGG Government of I Louisiana was founded neither on a rock Í nor on the votes oí' the people, but hung on a rope of sand or was the crcation of a fraud, and repivsentcd neitber tlie public sentiment nor the public wil), ia seen in the tact that it gavu way without a blow, was snuffed out by a wave of the hand, and that out of New Orleans, in every paiish in the State, the Kellocíg ofücers I gave place to the MuEnehy officers almo8t without a word of retnonst ranee, In New Orleuns there wpre a few shots fired, but the Kellogg poiiue were the aggressors, led by Gen. LoNUSTlUiET and Uhief BadGER. They fired the iirst shot, from musket and fitild-piece and (iatling gun, grape and cauister, into a masa ot' men, women, and children. ïhe registration law was beiag abusod ; citizens were bei'ig disarrued without authorily of law; thoy gathered in the street to enter their protest, and sent a committee of five to lay their grievances before a usurpor and diüuaud bis resignatiou. He was not not fonnd and a subjrdinato officer gave them insult. We lot an eye witness teil the story : The committoo returned witli the rcply, and tlie peopte went to their respective homes" But at 3 o'clock the streets swarmed with indignant cilizens armed with a variety of weftttons. Some oafriSd duck guns, others staggered under tho wuiulit of ol.l rogulation muskots, while others had nnthiug but revolvers. At 4 o'clock 700 Metropolita" pólice ñled out oí tho United States Custom-House nnder command of Longstreet and Chief of Pólice Badger. Tlioy were splendidly armed and equipped, and were accompanied by four large field pieceB and a Gratliug gun. They drew up iu line iit the head of Canal street with their backs to the river, and without a word of warniug fired canister and sphencal case down the street into the streeteahi freighted with women and children, into ciowda of harmless men and boys, who were attracted to the spot by curiosity. I hesitate before writing this last sentence. It will seem mcredible. That in this countiy such a thing could happen, no man in New York will be ready to believe. But it is nevertheless true. I saw it. I heard the screams of the afïrighted omen ; 1 saw mothers gather their infants to their breasta; I saw men fall, killed by the Government that claims to stand on the votes of the people. This was too much. Brave men immediately formed in impromptu oompanies, selected their offtcers, and with a yell started towards the guns. On they went. The murderous weapous belched forth ñames of ñre, and sent the sliot rattliug hke hail, but still the citizens charged on. Another volley came, killing many a noble man, but that mattered little. The citizens were determined. In a few moments more three meu with revolvers were among the pólice. Not another gun was diseharged, and the guilty Kellogg, standing on the roof of the Custom-House, gloated over the carnival of blood, turned pale and ran below, for his traiued meu had dropped tlioir Winchester rifles, had abandoned their guns, and were fleeing to the Custom-House like so many aheep. Badger was dangerously wouuded and was left on the field. He was tenderly cared for and carried to the hospital, and protected from the wrath of the mob by the men he hail attacked, by the husbands and fathers of tha women and childten he liad fired upon. Duriixg this spirited engagement the Windows of the Custom-House wero manned by deputy marshals under command of Packard, who kept up a deadly ñre upou the citizens. The mon soized tlie captured guns and drew them by the Custom-House. Tlie United States troopa in the building raised their hats as the brave men filed bv, and gave three hearty cheers in honor of the daring dued they luid just witnessed. Another fact is equally patent : that the McEïiEKY faction, the revolutiouists, the rebels, or whatever Iladical journalists and speakers choose to cali thom, had no designs against the authority of the General Governmunt. They simply claimed that the Kellogg Government was au usurpatiou, and not to be endured. When the President issued his orders, the Government was tiirned over to the military, and by the military to the deposed Kellogg again. Theso two facts should spike the guns of the Radicáis and teach the people of the whole North that the people ot' Louisiana aro not robéis, tltat their cause is in short a righteous one, and that Kellogg's administration is a fraud.

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Michigan Argus