The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-02-12
Worrall Goes Back on Kellogg.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 3, 1873.

New ORLEANS, Feb. 3, 1873.
Hon, W. P. Kellogg:
S1R-SOme three months ago you
promised that, in the event of your sue
cess, you would give me good posi-
ton under your administration. A
few days ago-I made application to
you for a certain position, on the
strength Of your previous pledges. /
now desire to withdraw that applica-
ton, and to state that cannot be in
duced, under the circumstances which
exist at the present time, to accept any
Office at your hands.
My reason for this is that I dol not
believe that you are the legal Govern
or of the State. The testimony taken
within the past week, by the Senate
rial committee in Washington, coupled
with certain facts which have in my
possession, make. in my judgment a
clear case against you. l have already
informed you that during the past
year have expended over 81 900 to
insure the success Of the party whose
candidate you were. In addition to
this, I have spent much time in max
ing speeches and writing newspaper
articles designed to insure your sue
cess. have travelled over large pro,
portion of the State with the same OBJ.
ject 10 view, and have never taken one
dollar from your campaign committee,
or from any one else, but have spent
freely my own time and means, in the
hope of securing the success of your
self and friends. In taking the step l
now do, see very clearly that I aban-
don all hope of ever receiving the
least return for these services and ex
penditures, but woald rather snffer
the losses and present inconviences
which they entail than sanction by any
act of mine the frauds by means of
which you have been placed in the ex-
ecutive chair. ! can afford to be poor,
bnt having been born and educated a
gentleman, cannot disgrace myself or
family by an Endorsement of those
frauds. Could I believe that you had
been fairly elected, would stand by
you to the end, Office or no Office; but
l think that l can now say that know
that you were not. GAS an Englishman
born and bred," have an inherent
love of fair play, and do not propose to
he used as tool to Cypress the people
of this State, among whom I have cast
my lot; and while I am Ivy education,
and I had almost said by instinct, a
friend of the negro, my soul revolts at
the spectacle Of seeing his foot upon
the necks Of my own race. If design
ing white men propose to take advan-
tage of the votes of the colored and
use them dishonesty, to promote their
own ends, l can have no fellowship
with such men; neither can longer
consent to be member of party
whose leaders are of this class.
have seen enough of the leaders of
the Republican party of this State to
satisfy me that they are, with few hon
orable exceptions, dishonest, selfish,
venal and disrepntable demagogues.
A man of responsibility can fud no
place among such. Some of these hold
prominent positions under the United
States Government, and to their un-
warrantable interference in the politi-
cal affairs of the State believe we owe
both the destruction of the Republican
party and the troubles that now exist,
and that threaten to paralyze our COM
merce and ruin our State; and in with
drawing my support from you am in
fuenced, in no small degree, by de-
sire to withdraw myself from such dis
reputable company. | warned you
against them three months ago. and a
neglect to heed that warning h a 6
brought you into your present. troubles,
and will ultimately lead to your over
throw.
If the Government of the United
STATES does not protect the citizens OF
Louisiana from the consequences of the
frauds recently perpetrated upon them,
I shall lose faith in its integrity, and
my parting advice to you is-give up
the disreputable contest, and turn over
the Government to those who were
honestly elected, and thus save your
name from lasting infamy.
l am respectfully yours,
: ,.. Thomas D. WORRALL.
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