New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-31
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Senator Blackburn few days ago, i'll
advocating the passage of 3 bill introduced
by Senator Greene to adjust dis putcs and
contests arising between officials anH pre-
tended officials in this State, alluded to the
sO-ealls6 public sentiment of the koesICH
better class in Sertb Louisisna and through.
QUE she state, and INDUCED in some very
pointed and severe criticisms, Sus, as sye:y
one could readily perceive who heard him.
his criticisms were well timed and well dc
served, and not at al too severe.
lie read from little paper published ir
jackson parish The proceedings ot yHbl;c
meeting seceAts hel3 there, SO which is
was ''resofved" by these present tIat shey
Locked upon Governor Kellogg ard Ais
government ss 4 fraud, Sui would pay Yo
taxes 30. perform militia duty so any either
power Or ''avshoriay" thaS the sIeEHe:,p
concern.
among oehes home tGsus9s. Se RlacS
burn made the following:
And, tlr, President. here Is e1sc name OF
one Captain i. Z. Kidd, who is put upon
the ecord as the statesman who explained
rev OlutIUnary meeting-the proceedings Ct
which We hDd here published Ia one OF
those little eIingy fly bloEn sheets which
still hang upon the sinking shameless OF a
rotten pubic sentiment throughout QUE
land, taiuting The mOrai and political ar
mospbere almost to eutfOcati14. Yes, sir.
Captain +. L. Kidd, the same TcGregOs
from the pinehill OF North Louisiana who,
III the Louisiana Legislature Of 1866 and
ettpHEH Stsf
peoples money 20 pay some rebel law} er to
test The cOnstIt utiOnaity of the measures ~
Congress :naki.g good She freedom! OF th9
former savfs-O, yss sir!-but whieh
measures ne and other poli.ica! maicon.
tents Liked himself are n0w 20 ready and SO
eager 20 submit 20, if they can Gnly have
them 60 construed and sU carried Out as 80
place into Official power once more the
plaFed-out GhlvaIry of eur lovely aatlve
laDG-a land which has suffered so much in
biOoG and sgODys and lost so iNucS ia
beauty and treasure through and BY virtue
OF the past Eule OF the same played0ut,
lazy and impraCticable chivalry And
moreover, II was he who once az a legIsia-
tor, at the time and date alluded to, threat
sned the country with forty and four tIOU-
sand cleaning swords and twice as many
sharp bayonets. If the attempt to sonsum-
mate the entranchisement of Tho Negro
should DE persisted in by. the Gatienai sU-
thorty. But this Captain Ridd" is not
che celebrity whose ndmo is tasuyaeiy
mentioned in the history of piracy on onr
shores, in connection with certain lost
treasure supposed IS Do buried s0ns-
where IN the isles Os che sea-geihaps
There she mango apples grow" No.
SIR, fhs IA not the man, but our little ehlVsi
riC captain Kidd, Of jackson parrish, ia
North IoUistana, IL g gentleman of some
fame in waf, romance and 10 sy neve'th
less. whose name is connected slightly Wtt
tine history 0f certain ''lost cause We
read aDOaf; d cause for which he Is sup
posed to have fought, Sus not 60 haSe ble6
and oied; u easse which was Intended 20
build up % miserable and Gebasjng slave
ol9arcby upon th6 ruins OF free govern
ment. And this is The Captain Kidd who
''rlses 20 explain" the object oY % pHhio
meeting IN the classic and patriotic parish
of jackson, called, as 10 seems, 20 express
defiance to the legally constituted authority
I'D cur State; all authority formally an1
officially recognized by that great national
power at whose feet the special friends aud
ce-coBSplrators OF the gentlemen lately de
ieated aS the polls are now cYOUchlng AMI
begging for recognition and countenance.
What patriotism What consistency
But such are che natural fruits OF pollSi-
cal HransgressioD, such the legitimate
conduct and action OF those who have ambl-
zion beyond the safety and prosperity ~
their country. It is left with those NhO love
Their country and who love the right to cay
and determine how FAR such characters
should be permitted 10 go in their unbiidle6
p"ltieal lust and debauchery. vould say
lec them GO their way 10 individual destyue-
ton. but let lis see 90 il that the country
does not 60 10 destruction With them.
Mr.. Black burn alluded 90 others wbose
Dames fgured in this Jackson parish lin
dignation" meeting, in equally 9ointed and
F2a;hing icrInss and also 90 come who had
served in the Legislature sith Captain
kida since tie ~ar-CeIonel John NcEnery
among them-he who would n@ faiB be
Governor Of tho State by virtue of negro
outrage, but sho then and there voted sc
virtually fe-enslave the poor negro, which
hr. Blackburn charged the records ssSld
elsasly sAew.