New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-05
local POLITICAL TOPICS.
The Governor and the Baptists.


The Governor and the Baptists.
By invitation, Governor Kellogg yester
day visited the large convention of Baptis
ministers now in session in this city. ant
delivered an impromptu address. His re
marks we're enthusiastically received. w,
are told he dwelt at length upon the subjec
of education, and enlarged upon the propo
sition that religion and politics go hand in
hand, the prejudice of fogies against po
litical preaching to the contrary notwith
standing. He is said to have exhibit
ed familiarity with the Scriptures that
| gratified his hearers. He drew freely
from 1t to illustrate the wickedness Of the
| doctrine that good Judge of color will be
able to pick out negro's soul in Heaven.
| lie told them they ought to encourage every
| movement calculated to bring about har-
| mony between the races, and to generously y
| invite those white citizens who are willing
to accord equal rights to all men within the
fold of the Republican party which is the
| proper place for all men sincere in this
business. The speech, on the whole, was
thoroughly Radical speech, delivered to
simon pure Republican audience. The
| speaker was unquestionably pleased with
its hattering reception.
still Unenrthing Ballots.
When policeman said at sunset on the
fourth of November to crowd around a
bal.ot-bOx down town, "Gentlemen, the
nDIIl cfnSa1. fba alacfinn Wi
begin he told a vaster amount of truth
than even he dreamed of at the time. The
election that then began is far from being
over yet, unless the Fusionsts are ready to
abandon the contest. In this connection a
strange and significant story comes to us
from Baton Rouge, an overwhelming Re-
publican parish, where so many Fusion
frauds have already been exposed. The
jail of the old capital city is being repaired
and the process of oyerhauling it revealed
to the wOrkmen novel discovery.
In the old closet, encumbered with rubbish
they dug out the balIot-b box of the seventh
ward, and upon examining it's contents
found it contained just sixty-nine Repub-
lican and only five Fusion ballots! A COM
parison with the reports of the federal in
spectors reveals the the fact that this box
contained precisely this number of votes
when the polls closed and it was brought
to town, which is the last that was seen Of
it. The jail at the time as we'll as the court
house, was in possession Of the FusiOnists,
which completes the whole story. 1t is un-
necessary to draw any differences from
these facts to aid intelligent readers
in coming to proper estimate of the party
that talks of its rights and perpetrates
such shameful outrages.
Almost all of the gentlemen appointed on
the committee to investigate the debt signi-
fed their willingness to the Governor yes
terdav not only to serve, but to serve gra
tuitoEsly. This is greatly to their credit
We understand they will take definite ac
ton on every class of bonds, and it is ex-
tremeIy likely that those they pronounce
against will never be paid,
The tobacco inspection question is getting
to be bore. In one place the law says
.all tobacco shall be inspected, and in an
other it says the inspection of produce
shall be voluntary. The courts will have
to settle the controversy. But no one de-
MES that the law imperatively requires the
Governor to appoint the inspectors. He
could do nothing less. However, he is in
nowise connected with the controversy be-
tween the merchants and inspectors. He
desires to remove every impeachment to
commerce in his power, and if the tobacco
interest will show him how he can assist it.
we can vouch that he is at all times its
humble servant. But he must not be asked
to violate the laws. He will cheerfully work
for the repeal of any burdensome act, and
will do whatever within him lies to promote
every branch OF commerce. Let these
merchants cooperate with him in his efforts
in their behalf.
AL is quiet among the pine trees. Judge
Kemp held court the other day in st.
Helena and there was universal acquies
cence in his authority. Law is enthroned
where disorder prevailed, and peace re- gus
supreme.
luC LVC VI Soloiph W iiO al
preparing evidence of frauds in the late
election for the next session of Congress
will meet to-day at twelve o'clock, at the
office of Lieutenant Governor Antoine.
OF all the leading citizens whose bio
graphies are given in "Jewells Crescent
City Illustrated" only fifteen are natives of
Louisiana. The others. fifty y-seven in num-
ber, are all "carpet-bag gers, mostly from
the North. But they came before the war.
Eight are from Massachusetts.
Mr.. r. M. Lusher, " de jnre superintend-
ent," ETC., stands magnificent prospect of
being instantly read out of the Fusion
church He kept quiet while McEnery was
cutting his splurge, and now he takes up
the fight on his own hook. He advertises
for evidences of fraud ''practiced on either
side" and tending toward promoting or
detea'iny' his election.
second Battalion Louisiana National
Guard.