The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-10

Hon. B. c. Elliott being called tor, made
some well-timed remarks, and was loudly ap-
plauded. The meeting then adjourned.
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A VOICE FROM NEW ORLEANS.
A PICTURE OF RADICAL NIsRULE.
To the Editor OF the New York World:
Sir Many Northern journals have re-
preached and censured the people Of this
State for resorting to force to redress their
wrongs. They tell us, in every form OF Ian
guage and rhetoric that according to repubi
can and American principles, We should rely
only on process of law and the ballot-box for
obtaining our rights as citizens and as q
Democratic community. Now, could show
that in the State of Louisiana there is no pro-
cess of law, no ballot-box, no legal remedy
| whateverlby meansiof which these rights can
be indicated, and that these have been per-
verted, defeated, and suppressed by the arbi-
! trary, tyrannical and unrepubican enactments
of the usurping Legislature. If there were
room for doubt heretofore, it is now evident
to the most casual observer that President
Grant and Attorney General Williams
were primarily responsible for the
creation and preparation Of the Kellogg
usurpation, and have determined, in order to
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State affairs, to make it appear that the Re-
publican party carried Louisiana at the last
election, and that the majority in favor Of the
McEnery ticket was obtained by fraud. This
much, at least, they hope to secure by the
coming November election, The entire State
is to be garrisoned by Federal troops; the
power, patronage and authority of the Cen
eral Government is to be welded for the pur-
pose of intimidating the conservative voters,
emboldening the negroes and carpet-baggers,
and protecting Kellogg's registration, election
and returning officers in all sorts of outrages
they may find it necessary to commit in order
to defeat the peoples candidates Not only
are the ku-Klux acts to be set in motion
again by Williams and District Attorney Beck
with, but Marshal Packards deputies are to
accompany kellogg's supervisors and commits
sioners of election through the parishes, to aid
and assist in the commission of frauds While
the military and Judicial arms are thus en-
ployed in the interest Of the usnrper, the
Treasury Department of the United States is
to furnish the funds.
Already orders have been given to recon-
mence the improvements and repairs upon the
New Orleans Custom House, and several hun
dred workmen have been secured upon no
other condition than they are to join Radical
clubs and vote the ticket of that party at the
ensuing election. President Grant, Senator
Morton and Attorney General Williams have
each asserted that Louisiana was Republican
by 10000 majority, and this they must make
good in November. After the election is over
the returns will be transmitted to the Canvass
ing or Returning Board. This board is COM
posed of Gen. Jas. Longstreet, Gadanne Casa
nave (col.), the most decent and respectable
member; r. NJ. J. Kenner (col.), Senator
Thomas C. Anderson and ex-Gov. J. Madison
Wells, every one Of them Republicans and
Office holders underline Kellogg usurpaton,
although the law requires that they should be
members of the different political parties. 1t
will be observed that neither the registration,
election, nor returning officers are elected by
the people, but arbitrarily designated by kel-
logg or his Legislature.
BY the law creating this Returning Board,
they are empowered "to reject and exclude
from their returns any number of polls or
voting places because OF riot, tumult, acts OF
violence, intimidation, armed disturbance,
bribery, or corrupt influences" of which they
are the exclusive judges Is it not q mOckery
of Justice, in the teeth of these infamou, acts
and the construction placed upon them by
the Supreme Court Of this State, for the
Northern press to tell our people that we must
seek redress for our grievances at the ballot
box and through the remedies prescribed by
law? Do they recognize the stubborn fact
that the great palladium of republican institu-
tions-the ballot-bo1-such as they under
stand it, does not exist in this State that it's
voice is stihed and hushed, the result it pro-
claims perverted and changed by corruption
and fraud upheld by the bayonets OF the
United States army? Do they not per-
ceive that there is no republican
form of government" in Louisiana, and
no means given to the people to
obtain the re-estabishment of their long Lost
Df
an oligarchy, composed of adve aturers. who
have secured the machinery invented, driven
and operated by themselves, and by which
they continually and infallibly perpetuate
their own power md tenure Of Office. The
registration and election laws and the ballot
box are mere pretexts for 'feating the very
objects for which they exist in other States,
and there is, in the language of our Supreme
Court, mo remedy"
In every other country in tho world, among
every people save the slandered, despised,
down-trodden, plundered and hated Eek
rebels Of the South, the right to employ
force to redress such grievances as have been
fastened upon us by the Kellogg usurpation
would be recognized as not only Legitimate
and proper but as the imperative duty OF all
patriotic and Gberty-loving citizens.
E. HOWARD McCALEB
New Orleans, September rs.
More stubs have turned up in New Orleans.
One Of them relates to $4,000 transaction
with Mr.. VIM. E. Chandler, the Secretary Of
the Republican National Committee, the Hon.
Caleb Cushing, lately nominated by the Presi.
dent for Chief Justice and afterwards ap
pointed Minister to Spain, and the Hon. Matt
II. Carpenter, President pro tenn Of the Sen
ate, defender Of the back pay grab, recipient
of various checks from Dear Kellogg,
desperately short" statesman, locker fol
godsends," shedder of money on the just
and the unjust, and candidate for reelection
Other stubs throw light upon the manner il
which Dear Kellogg" sustained himself by
an army and navy Of his own, and incidentally
, curious interesting information as to where
, some of the money of the Louisiana taxpayer
went. He seems to have had good time O
, it with his militia and naval force.-Ner York
Tribune, 9Th inst.