The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-30
IT THUSDERS IN THE NORTH AND
WEST
Kellsgg's New Move.

II vHUNVEnO IN HE NVAsA - AMI
WEST.
KelIsgs's New Move.
Whatever enthusiastic Conservatives in New
Orleans NAV have thought about their chances
az fair vote in the coming election, nobody
atVhe North has probably imagined for mo-
Ment that Mr.. Kellogg would surrender any
Of the advantages which the scsndaious act
of his fraudulent Legislature placed in hi
banda The appointment of the abortive Ad
visory Board was shallow pretense which
probably deceived hardly anybody outside o.
New Orleans, and even the peaceful progress
Of registration awakened no delusive hopes.
We could not forget that the new election law
made Mr. Kellogg master OF the situation
and il was not possible to imagine that he
would step down and out until he had ex'
hausted his resources.
The Supervisors of Registration, all OF them
his appointees, are empowered to revise the
lists after the enrolment is closed and to
strike out all names which they judge to be
improperly recorded This power is purely
arbitrary. The State courts are forbidden.
under penalties, from interfering in any way
With its exercise. Hence, if the Supervisor OF
Registration sees fit to disfranchise qualified
voter, the law not merely fails to provide any
means of redress, but actually forbids the
the proper tribunals We have never doubted
that Kellogg would make use of the despotic
authority granted him by this Act, and we
now sec the process by which he means to DO
t.
His Attorney General has prepared an
npinion that all certificates of naturalization
orsnted by the Second District Court of New
Orleans since 1864 are void, and the Super
visors of Registration are to be instruc ed
under this opinion to disfranchise about 5000
voters. Whether Attorney General Field is
right or wrong we need not stop to inquire;
but it is atrocious that thousands of foreign
born citizens should be deprived of one OF
their most valuable privileges on the mere
opinion of . single functionary who is their
political opponent, without the judgment of
any court, and without even the privilege of
appealing to q court for the examination OF the
lsw.
Il is q question whether the action of the
supervisors in this case may not be reviewed
by the Federal courts, and we trust the dis
Ganchised citizens will proceed to try con-
illusions with their adversary at once. The
Ku-Kluk act provides "that any person who,
under color Of any law, statute, ordinance,
regulation, custom, or usage of any State,
shal subject or cause to be subjected any
person within the jurisdiction of the United
Statee, to the deprivation of any rights privi-
lsees, or immunities secured by the Consti-
tuition of the United States, shall 80. be
liable to the party injured in any action at
law, suit in equity, or other proper proceed
ing for redress" the proceedings to be pros
ecuted in the District or Circuit Courts OF the
United States. It would be q strange instance
Of poetic justice, if the very statute under
which the Carpet-bag Governments have COM
mitted SO many wrongs, should turn out to be
Gee M, Il
York 1Fibunc 26th.
Tho Louisiana Mystery.
There appears to be mystery in this Lou
is it that the President has placed Louisiana
and Alabama under the military control of his
partisan Attorney General and given him
carte blanche to harass the people by the whole
sale arrest which he is making on the eve of
the congressional elections? Why is it that
Col Merrill, the bitterest partisan in the army,
has been seneAs repeat the Claverhouse part
in Louisiana which he lately played in South
Carolina? Why is it that the Federal Office
holders at New Orleans, Packard and Beck
with, are exhibiting more than their usual
audacity in meddlng in the local affairs of
that State Just now. in spite of that almost
univend condemnation Of their conduct
which Senator S,hurz's denunciation of Pack
ard Provoked? If the Federal officials are
interfering in the Louisiana election it is be-
cause they have been ordered to do so by
somebody at Washington; and as Marshal
Packard and District Attorney Beckwith, of
whom the Conservatives complain most, are
both accountable to Attorney General Will
liam, it would appear that the latter is the
arch mischief-maker in the case. But why
does the President permit him to stir up this
mischief by course of conduct for which
A. T. =. ~ r. ~ L.,
These questions need to be answered. The
new troubles in Louisiana and Alabama ex-
hibit suspicious traces Of having been deliber-
ately organized at Washington for purpose
not yet developed. What is that purpose p
81. Louis Republican, 9Th inst