The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-11
KELLOGG'S PRESS-GAGGLNG.

That Grants Louisiana satrap, however
plant he may be in the hands of his master,
is no weak fool, but contrariwise, willy and
a dangerous knave, is easily apparent to every
one who has observed his career OF villalny for
the past eighteen or twenty months. And be-
cause he is no fool, and because he knows him
self to be knave. he fully appreciates the
importance of having few observers
as possible of his villanies, even though
fresh villanies be committed in the attempt
to hide the old. The success which he
has thus far attained in shielding HIM
self and his accomplices from the public sight
was several days ago made known to our read
ers by the publication in the columns of
the World OF full and accurate history
of the process by which the two leading
papers of New Orleans, the Times and the
Picdy,tte, have successfully had their teeth
drawn and been constrained to keep still
tongues in their heads The Times, though
hourishing paper as long as it was free to wage
a vigorous warfare upon the usurper, was put
through the bankrupt court by process I'M
known to any bankrupt court outside Of New
Orleans and came out of the ordeal merely to
find itself controlled by Norton, the assignee in
bankruptcy, who held more than a half inter-
est in the paper for the alleged benefit of the
creditors OF the proprietors And Norton,
holding this control, at once caused
the old editorial corps to be sum
marialy dismissed the service of the
paper and suffered it's publication to be con-
tinued only on condition, firstly, that it should
speak no evil of Mr.. Norton, or disclose the
iniquities of the bankrupt court over which he !
presides; secondly, that it should never again
say that Durell was drunkard and sot or
speak any other truth concerning him; and
lastly, that it should cease to oppose Kellogg's
but without becoming his organ
The Picdynne, upon its purchase by the Herald
Company and its consolidation with that Jour
nal, was reduced by a very different and much
SIMPLER process to the same state of toOthless-
less and vOlcelessness. Indeed, the PcQuune
$ so very toothless and voiceless that
t Is now engaged in whitewashing the
lefar Gus seizure at midnight in the public
treets by kellogg's police of the forms of the
'nly New Orleans paper published in the En-
;ilsh language which still opposes the usurping
government and exposes its crimes The
rick by which the Herald and the Picay.ne
1ere sllenced at one stroke certainly does
red.t to Kellogg's shrewdness. The require |
lent made OF both the Picay,.ae and the Times,
ow that each of them is directly controlled by
lellogg OF his friends, that they shall appear
ather to acqulesce in the usurpation than to
phold 1T, Is unquestionably the shrewdest
nd the falsest OF the many shrewd and false
llngs that the usurper has DONE But this y
e cannot stand For though the State Treas
ry help to pay, as is broadly limited that
does. for these gagged and subsidized Jour-
ais, they cannot command the confidence t
the money Of the public when the truth t
their position is as well known to +
lie public as it is now known to no very small =
1mber OF people in New Orleans. To re-
'ectahle people in New Orleans and in
ouisiana the most important deduction to be
avn from this exposure is that they should "a "a
Elk to found or to build up a paper which n n
all be and remain free from the control of q
ellosg and which shall advocate their in
rest fearlessly and independently. To re- G
ectable people outside of Louisiana it is only.
other proof that the Kellogg satrapy is a 49,
nment to leave unplucked-N Y. UorM.