The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-16
The louisiana Crime.

In order to fully appreciate the causes |
leading the white people of Louisiana
to resist with such persistence as they |
are doing the attempts of the spurious
kellogg faction to obtain recognition as |
the legal Government of the State, it
should be understood that if they should
acknowledge the validity of Kellogg's |
election they would thereby resign them
selves to the permanent domination of the
negro and carpet~bag politicians who have
robbed them so numerically during the
past four years. Not only this, but sui
mission to the usurpers would lead to the
continuance Cf a state of affairs in which
illegal courts assume authority to adjudi
cate cases involving questions of proper
tY, course certain to lead to the most
vexati Gus litigation in the future, while
unsettling values Of every kind in the
present
1t should also be remembered that Kel
lOgg was never elected to the Office he
pretends to hold. Mr.. McEnery was leg
ally elected Governor by ubout 10000
majority, and was inaugUrated sac cOrding
to law. But, instigated by the representa~
tives of the Administration in New Or
leans, a band Of cOnspiTatOrs-amOug the
+ chief of whom was Casey, the disreput-
! able br0ther-in law of the President
| convened an illegal body calling itself a
| Returning Board and this pretended
! board, after receiving a quantity of forged
afidavits, and making an estimate of the
number of votes which certain parishes
! ought to have given to Kellogg, went
/ through the form of deciding that this
( carpet bag imposter was the Governor of
the State. Senator Carpenter says of this
performance tnat there is nothing 10 all
the comedy Of blunders and frauds under
consideration more indefensible than this
pretended canvass - and be dc clares that
at the time of its action this board was
under valid injunctions restraining it from
making any canvass not based upon the
official returns of the election.
Upon the strength of this pretended
count by an illegal body which bad no re-
turns to examine, drunken United States
Judge named Durell made decree putt
ting Kellogg and his associates in posses
sion Of the State House and the archives
Of the State Government The New York
Sun says Durell had no more power TO
issue such a decree than he has to-day To
issue a decree unseating GOV. ID adJ
putting William NJ. Tweed In his place
I he Judiciary &, mmittee of the United
States Senate says of this decree that 1t
had no more legal effect than an order
issued by any private citizen; and YET
? upon such an illegal decree, issued to en-,
force the decision Of IA Fraudulent and IL
legal body who did not even pretend that
Kellogg had been legally elected, Presi-
: dent Grant Joined IN the cons Tracy with
his bTutherIn law aasi Others u overthrow
state Government by ordering the
United states troops to ~IppuT II the pre-
posterous claims of Kellogg to act as
Governor, In short, by the use of Federal
troops President Grant drove a legally
elected State Government from the Capi
tol, and IN It's place installed a gang o
thieves who have no more right TO make
or execute laws for the people of Louis.
lana than they have to perform the same
Office for the people of New York ThiI
{ Is the story as told by a Republican CON
, mittee Of the United States Senate