The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-29
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
KEW ORLEANS, DECEMBER 90. 1874
LOUISIANA.

Kellogg. the usurper, sends dispatch to
Che President, asking him to use his influence
in Fastening the departure OF the lnvesrIgat-
ing Committee appointed by Congress. The
legislative is a subordinate branch of the
1,overnment, in the view Of such as this bo-
rrus Governor and his confederates. He calls
for the committee because he is confident
fiat it will yndicate the policy Of the Admin
istration, strengthen the Republican party,
and. last of all, place his usurpation under
the President and a servlle Congress In q
better light before the country.
An impudent demand Of this sort is ex-
r,octed to cover more completely the design OF
this wickedest and basest Of all conspiracies.
1t is becoming more evident, as time elapses,
that it is the intention Of the Returning
Board to count in Kellogg and Legislature
in his support, and to count out his opponent.
And the rumored muttering OF menaces from
Washington implies sullen determination III
that quarter to sustain this gross iniquity at
all hazards. 1t is perfectly natural that
the citizens of Louisiana, who were IL
g,eled in the last annual message of the
President in order to prepare the public mind
for this predetermined step, should, after hav-
ing been hidden for these two years to be pa
tiert while their property was sold from under
shem for taxes aud to set themselves right at
sentiment as they daily become convinced Of
the purpose of the Returning Board to nullify
the notorious result Of their peaceful voting,
aud wonder how they are ever to possess
themselves again of the rights OF self-govern-
.nent. The mystery OF this Kellogg usurpa-
ton, if second time attempted, is to be
sought for in the existence Of the State bonds
III whose corrupt and fraudulent issue too
large and powerful an interest is held to be
successfully resisted by IN ordinary process
ut the ballot-box.
Kellogg and his confederates have too heavy
n stake in the continuance of the rule whose
date is that Of the infamous judicial decision
OF Durell What to them, greedy OF wealth,
is the prostra ion Of noble State, the de-
struction of its industry, the annihiatlon OF
the commerce of one Of the finest OF Amerl-
can cities the overthrow Of confidence abroad,
the withdrawal of the needed assistance OF
capital, and n sequestration OF private estates
far more wanton and cruel than all the alleged
robberies of Hastings, which made Westmin-
ster Hall ring with the eloquence of Burke
and Sheridan? This bloodless band Of con-
spirators, intent only on plumber, and quar-
tered upon the ,omed State by the power Of
Federal bayonets, could at any moment be
scattered by a single word from the President
ON whose authority they place their sole ulti-
mate reliance.
It is for this conclusive reason that the path
from this great wrong done not more to Lou
isiana than to every other State in the Union,
conducts, like other wrongs, with fatal GER
tainty to the Federal Executive. That the
impressive and peaceful rising of whole
population, before which this same bogus
Governor was awed into ignominious flight,
should only excite the greater anger in the
Presidents mind, is one of those strange con-
sradictions which is full of ominors meaning
for the security OF republican government.
Public opinion could not express itself
more positively on any outrage than 1t did
upon this in the late elections; and it is met
in the message Of the President with SEEM
ing acceptance by an attempt to throw over
the whole of the responsibility upon Con-
gress If the courts and Congress are neither |
Of them found sufficient to dispose Of such a
dispute according to the rules of law and
equity, then that same public opinion must
come to its own rescue and reinforcement, and |
speak out to Congress and the President both |
in voice still less liable to be mistaken To
return Kellogg rs the elected Governor of
Louisiana would only fix more fast and firm |
the fraud which was organized and success
fully executed two years ago, and from the
effects Of which the State is now grievously |
81 fferng.
If it is to be hopeless suffering, without |
furnish the strongest proof of the existence
OF tyranny, masquerading in the dress of
statutes and decisions, such as never estab
lished even a temporary footing within our
republican system until now. There will be
found no etfectual remedy for it except in the
overwhelming force Of public opinion, and to
make it instantly effective the recent ex-
preston of the people at the ballot-box
should be reiterated in every form that is cal
culated to make permanent impression. If
blood is shed once more in the streets Of
New Orleans, the country will be unwilling
10 hold the President clear Of all response
bility for the tragedy.
1t needs no proof to show that there has been
predetermination on the part Of the con-
,sIarators in this case, terrifying themselves
with secret assurances from the highest au-
thority, to steal the State from the hands Of
the people to whom it belongs, and to make it
the prize for such a cruel, cold-b loOded self
ishness as was never yet tolerated in the
affairs of republic. The matter is the more
aggravated for being screened and masked
behind the forms OF law. Such law is but
organized lawlessness and freedom for tyr
amy. The outrage is the more fragrant be-
cause it is VIGOROUSLY committed against re-
publican liberty for the sake of making it the
spoils for rapaciOus family. -Boston Post.
I'D inst.
The Committee OF Seventy, representing
the most important business interests of Lou
asiana have issued an address in which they
clearly expose the scheme of the Returning
Board to cheat the people of that State out Of
the results OF the last election. With fraudu-
lent State Government in power, and with the
courts in the possession of degraded creatures
of the spurious Governor Chief Justice of
the State has Just been pronounced a swindler
by the United States Supreme Court they feel
that they have no protection against con-
tinuance of the rule which has wrought such
mischief unless the force of public opinion
should make itself felt in Congress. 1t re-
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