The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-24
TIE DE JURE AND DE FACTO.
HeEaerJ Willing to Step Down and Out,
But Kellogg Stick, TO Office.
he Difference B .tw cen Patriot and a
DemayOgue.
Kellogg Continues to Vindicate His Right
10 the lie of Champion Liar.

From the New York HeroI Of the 10Th W.
extract the telegrans sent to James Gordon Ben
nett by Gov. McEnery, and G usurper kei-
logg, in reply to kilograms from Mr.. Bennett
asking their Individual status. The reply Of
Gov McEuery is what might have been ex
p-sted from that gallant and unselish patriot
ana gentleman, who holds his personal inter
est as nothing in comparison with the welfare
Of the State.
The long winded reply of Kellogg is also
characteristic, being evasive, untruthfu
and whining McEnery is brief, manly and
to thu point. Kellogg is lengthy unn tnly
and diffusve. The characters OF both men
could be easily gagged by their responses to
NEW ORIEAST, Sept Is, 1874
James Gordon Bennett, Editor OF the New
York Herald.
Sir Your dispatch received. In answer !
say am willing TO resign if Mr.. Kellogg also
resigns, with the understanding that there VIII
be new election. This WAS my proposition
during the pcldency Of the Carpenter bill Tor
anew cleo ION. / have no personal aspira-
tons to subserve; taey shall be sunk out o.
sight in my efforts to bring about II peaceful.
solution OF our unfortunate difficulties and ali
an classes of cur citizens.
JOIN McESEnY
kellogg will Resign.
NEW ORLEANS Sept Is 1874.
James Gordon Bennett, Editor Of the Herald:
SIN reply TO your dispatch of this date
inquiring if would be willing to resi- gu il
AcEne'y would resign also and abide the
result OF a new election, have to say, first,
that McEnery is defeated candidate for the
Office OF Cover ,or OF this State, and has
nothing to resign; secondly, that no new cleo
ton is needed, inasmuch as the Constitutions
Of the State provides " an election tor mem
bers Of the Legislature early in November
next, and the Legislature that may then be
elected will have it vi hin their power to re-
move any or all the existing st tie officials and
supply their places by men of Their own
sheice.
The ,nstituency I represent is largely
composed Of colored men. 1t was by their
votes chiefly that was elected to the Office
now hold. For two year, have administered
the government Of the State with sole desire
to place lis finances On . sound tootlny, to
develop its internal resources and to secure
to the colored people the full and free enjoy
Aent OF the rights conferred upon them by
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments
10 the Constitution Of the United States.
In spite i the almost sG,upel.4alu Obstacles
which ave best the present State govern
Aent al every point, We + I've reduced * )en
dituTes and taxation, limited the debt, both oi
Stnte and Oily. limited the ra'e q taxation,
and provided by cOnst.tu lonal amendment
against all possibility OF increased burI.is
being placed upon TIE people. The las
Democratic Legislature that assembled il this
State, Of which MeElely was y III mtnent
me,nber, exceeded it, revenues by SO, 900 900
and left the succeeding L publ ar admins
tw,t tn ,,rnyI3,. h., n1pallS 111V1nnut
Ny opponents have adopted the plan OF
venting upon me Individually all the hatred
they bear TO thl pIiEciIl. OF the party l
represent
Borne down almost by the rcspon ,ibilites of
NY position and by the accumulated weight Of
cbloqny thrust upon me, | hnvG repeatedly
said, if the Republican party believed my
resignation would establish peace and secure
from tDe opponents OF the Republican
party recognition OF tic rights Of the col
ored people under the constitutional amend
ments. | would gladly divest myself of an
afice which had not sought and had most
reluctantly allowed myself 10 w nominated
for The obvious reply to these propositions
4 been thas if ! We're 10 resign, the dnties Of
the executive Office would devoive upon Lieut. |
Gov. Antoine, and he Won be no more nc
eeptab.c to the opposition tian myself and
the cOlored people would find themselves no
better protected than now
No peeific charge Of wrong doing has ever
been made against me and sustained by proof |
AN accusations have been couched IN gener |
alities, which, when reduced to actual facts |
will b. found to amount simply to this-tha: !
the Admins ration ] represent Is III favor OF
putting the fourteenth and fifteenth amend |
nents into practical effect and the sup |
Rorters of Col. McEnery, almost to a man, de-
sire to ignore them. am willing, and have
offered to give to my opponents every pos
sible egr1ard against fraud in the coming |
Gle ,ton.
Even the Shreveport Times, the ablest and |
most malignant exponent Of the views Of the |
oppO sitlon, in recent j, sue admitted that |
registration had been exceptionally fair a, far |
as it had gone, and on Saturday night the |
State Registrar made up his returns OF regis |
tratlon to date, and found that in the ely Of
Now Orleans, where the opposition claim to
have majority sufficient TO wipe out an adj
mitted large Republican majority i'll Il e
country parishes more than halt the qualified |
voters had been registered and the Repub-
licans were ahead.
In this fact alone y0n have sufficient eX
PLANTATION Of the so-caled uprising OF the peo-
pie Oh Moiiay last, and the so-called negro
riots il tfle country parishes, which have SIM
,aneously been reported. II we can have
peaceable election ia November next, the re-
suit vii, show most conclusively, think, that
McEnery was not elected to the oftic4 Of which
he makes such p rsistent aim.
WILLIAM PIrT kELDoGG
OPINIONS or THE GERMAN Press OF ST. I