New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-24

there will be Q Lew election. This was my
position during the pendency Of the Car
penteP bill for new election. have ne
personal aspirations to subserve: they shall
be sunk out of sight in my efforts to bring
about q peaceful solution of our unfortunate
difficulties, and an honest and stable gov.
ern"ent. acceptable to all classes OF our
citizens.
JOHN McENERY.
~ KELLOGG WILL NO1 RESIGN.
New ORLEANS. September Is. 1874.
James Gordon Bennett, Editor of the Herald:
SIR-1n reply to your dispatch of this
date inluiring il would be willing to re-
sign if McEnery would resign also. and
abide the result of a new election, have
to say. first. that Colonel McEAery is a de.
feated candidate for the Office Of Governor
OF this State. and has nothing to resign;
secondly, that no new election 10 needed,
inasmuch as the constitution Of the State
provides for an election for members of the
Legislature early IN November next, and
the Legislature that may be then elected
will have it within their power to remove
anv OK all the existing State officials and
supply their places By men Of their own
choice.
The constituency ] represent is largely
composed OF colored men. 1t was by their
votes chiefly that I was elected to the Office
now hold For two years have admins
tered the government of the State with a
sole desire to place ite finances on sound
footing, to develop it's internal resources
and to secure to the colored people the full
and free enjoyment OF the rights )conferred
upon them by the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution OF the
United States.
In spite OF the apparently almost insuper-
able obstacles which have beset the present
State government at every point,(we have
reduced expenditures and taxation: limited
the debt, both OF State and city, limited the
rate Of taxation, and provided by constitu.
tional amendments against all possibility Of
increased burdens being placed upon the
people. The last Democratic Legislature
that assembled in the State, of which Mr..
McEnery was prominent member, ex
ceeded its revenues by Sl3,0o0.0O0, and left
the succeeding Republican administration
to provide the means OF payment.
/ My opponents have adopted the plan Of
venting upon me individually all the hatred
they bear>to the principles Of the party l
represent. Borne down almost by the
responsibilities of my position and by the
accumulated weight Of cbloquy thrust upon
Inc, have repeatedly said if the Republi-
can party believed my resignation would
establish peace and secure from the Oppo.
nents Of the Republican party recognition
OF the rights Of the colsred people under
the constitutional amendments, would
gladly divest myself Of an office which
had not sought and had most reluctantly
allowed myself 70 be nominated for. The
OBVIOUS reply to these propositions has been
thas II were to resign the duties OF the
executive office would devolve upon Lieu
tenant Governor Antoine. and he would be
no more acceptable to the opposition than
myself and the colored people would find
themselves no better projected than now.J
No specific. charge of wrong doing has
ever been made against me and sustained
by proof. All accusations have, been
couched in sounding generalities, which,
when reduced to actual facts, will be found
to amount simply to this--that the admins
trati0n represent is in favor of putting
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
into practical effect, and the supporters of
Colonel McEnery. almost to a man. desire
to ignore them.
am willing, and have offered to give 20
my opponents every possible safeguard
against fraud in the coming election. Even
the Shreveport Times, the sblest and most
malignant exponent of the views of the op-
position, in recent issue admitted that
registration had been exceptionally faif az
far az u mad gone, and on Saturday night
the State Registrar made up his returns Of
registration to date, and found that in the
city of New Orleans, where the opposition
claim to have a majority sufficient to wipe
out an admitted large Republican majority
in the country parishes, more than half the
qualified voters had been registered, and
the Republicans we're ahead.
In this fact slone you have sufficient
explanation Of the so-called uprising of the
people on Monday last, and the sO-called
negro riots in the country parishes, which
nave simultaneously been reported. II we
can have peaceable election in November
next the result will show most conclusive!y,
think. that Colonel McEnery was not
elected to the office to which he makes such
} persistent claim.
WILLIAM pTTr EEIIOCG