The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-29
THE REGISTRATION LAW.


, After close examination of the registration
! law just promulgated we are satisfied that
means the Acknowledgement Of the whit
voting population Of the city and State. TIL
authority vested in the Registrars is suprem
and unappealable, and they have it in thei
power to refuse to register as many whites a
they may deem necessary to insure the success
of the Republican ticket.
Section eleven of the law requires sth
supervisor of registration of each of tn,
parishes to go from place to place, besides
keeping the necessary Offices This is done
for the purpose of drumming up the negro
voters and compelling those who may be
indifferent about the matter to step up and
take out their registration papers. In this
way the door is left open for the introduction
OF any amount of fraudulent registration.
Fictitious names can be added to the lists and
bogus certificates issued, which can be used
by negroes who have voted once before on
their own papers,
! The operation Of this unjust and infamous
law eontemplates most gigantic freud upon
the white Democrats. They ar" .lot allowed,
under its provisions, any sho7 whatever The
| supervisors and registr.ls are all to be APP
pointed by Kellogg, and will be entirely sub
ject to his control and dictation. We all
know what his instructions will be. Every
obstacle must be offered to the registration of
the whites, whilst the negroes will be urged
and persuaded 90 come forward, and al facili-
ties will be given them in obtaining their GER
tificates
This is the law, under which Kellogg pro-
claimed the people of Louisiana could have a
tair election. Rather should he have said it is
the Law which gives him the power to cheat
the people out Of the right Of suffrage, and
vests him with the authority to say who shall
be elected to the various offices and who shall
not. In fine it embraces all the Objectionable
features of the law which he promised, by
official proclamation, not to sign.
Under this condition of things the people
have but one alternative left them if they would
save the last vestige Of their personal rights
They see the well planned and deliberate in
tention OF the Legislature and the Executive |
to deprive them Of their privileges as freemen
and to hold them for another term OF years i'll |
subsection and under the heels Of oppression.
They see that Kellogg recognizes the fact
that fair expression of the will of the people
Of this State will inevitably result in his re-
quotation and ultimate expulsion from the
'tfice he has usurped and holds by
ufferance alone. Knowing the character
# the man as well as they do, they
must know that he will not hesitate
Q resort to the most desperate means to save
himself from political humiliation. Presum- {
ng upon the long forberance Of the people
nd their quiet submission to his usurpation,
e believes that he can with impunity commit :
ny farther outrage upon the State, that may {
observe his persons al interests.
1t remains, therefore, for our people to
lake up their minds to positive fact. 1t is I
MS Unless they give Mr.. Kellogg dis p
nctiy to understand that they are determined Il
have fair election; that if he attempts, :;
rectly or indirectly, actively or passively,
cretly or openly, to interfere with or impede
e white people in their right of registration
I'd voting, he will do SO not only at the peril
his own life, but at the risk Of inaugurating r
ch revolt as will make this State military re
IT1tory; unless, We say, this be done, it will NJ
useless to participate in an election which dl
II prove only farce and barren of any de
cd result to the white people. m
Convince him of this fact and he will be ar
" to commit the outrage he so plainly con- WI
nplates. But convince him in such a way 10
to let him see that the threats are not idle
4 meaningless, but are made by people pc
o, knowing their rights dare maintain hi