The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-05-17
TIE SHOOTING AT kELLOGG.

TnE SHOOTING AT kELLOGG.
The attempt ofsome unknown person
to shoot the usurpinG Governor of the
state, whilst engaged in business con-
nrrtcd with the forwarding of troops
and carrying on war against tho people
was IN event which might have been
apprchcnhcd in the present state of
popular excitement. In all ages and
among all people, such modes of seek
ing relief from oppression, wrong and
insult have been employed and applaud
cu. Kellogg is justly regarded :,s the
incarnation of the most burning insult
and ErcNi"uS wrong ever pcrpctratcd
upon Il Ircr people. IL" has uSurpch
the government ofu State in the most
fraudulent and auIlacious manner. II"
sustain that government he has organ
izcd ~ standing army OF mcrcennrics,
and given them arms Of tho most dis
trurtiNC ch:tr:ictrr, to shoot down the
people who refuse To pay tho illegal
taxation he has rNactcd, and to rrcog
niHG the appOintrrS- of the most
corrupt and abandoned character
whom he seeks to force into the Offices
already filed hy the duly elected of the
people. lie has stolen from the city of
New Orleans, tho police, constituted
and paid to protect tho lives and prop
crty of our citizens, and sent them ,,S
an invading army into Il remote country
parish To murder and lay waste the
country, leaving our city to he piIIugc
and violence of II mob. lie has made
public and cNuiting display personality,
and through his organs and cmiS5ari"S,
of his determination and his power tn
EtStcn the chains upon our people, :nh
SuhjuEntr them TO his will and pleasure,
TO hold them bound hand and foot unfit
nc can fleece them Of their last cent.
lie has organized and set on foot, and
proposes to enforce, with cannon
and bayonct, ~ SyStrm Of WHOLESALE"
contiScator alld piundcr Of this ronmu-
nifty, in order to fiji his own Golfers and
thos" of his ring of gamblers, jobbcra
cnrpctbagGcrS. All this ana much
more he has done and is continuing to
do. Such deeds of u proclaimed and
armed usurpcr--one so declared by tho
| highest political attthority in the United
| StatcS-Iuay we'll provoke to violence
| the passions of men and drive the rash
and cxcitnbtc to even the extreme of
that quick penalty which in all ages
has f,ccn tho doom of the fawicss uSurp-
or and Sanguittary inVn'cr and enemy
of the people.
We Htt,f"ts,t" and Hctfofc Hfi forms
ri I~~:tN-f fftttftft. Ntftfftiy ftHftt tftHt
even 50 htH and guilty II man ,S krl
| lDttS siiDHiH be- rNit1"i to such AN
ignt,ii,iiuu5 Gtir. We should prefer 10
soc hinf HV" iAnt he may ntalt" atone
.4,rni ip ibis p"npl" for the wrongs and
! insults hr hns put on ihrnt. We should
! !Hn"ni lhni h, responsibility ~ for his
rilInnr" by violent n,"nnS should be
Itl,I"I to The other "nlnmIiirI of our
people. I:r better for himself and for
pur state, for his own lIriyand for TIA"
inIiun, i"r humanity, peace and order,
that hc should relieve them Of his pres
! cnc", and seek in the ~hai" Of his iii
npiS farm that safety, ""nt"ntmrni, and
W" trust, hat -incrr" and honest pcni-
fence fpr his SINS nGninSt republican,
] liberty which II" can never hope to
enjoy whilst cnVirouCh by the hate,
the UnrCpsinT cnmiiy of Tia" people
whom hr seeks to rn-laV", and whom
r he has 50 Cri"VousIy wrong"d, dcfraud
cd and oppressed. -puUY ". -. U',rid
, ihr combination Of ~ safe lock in on"
Of th" Champaign ono banks was Tor
, gotten, and an expert was brought from
Cincinnati to open the safe, and he Wa,
. iwuiN" hours in accomplishing Tn" job
: "t'In 20 thirsty" said u boy ut wort
} in II corn field. "Wcft, work away,
said his industrious father; "yOu ilunv
the prophet says, ''itnc every ono tha
> ithir~tCth.'
John u. Thompson, formerly chiiu
IS OF the EirhuOnL Southern litcrar
# Messenger and ON" OF the most giftc
l. poets of the South, died n few days ag,