The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-05-06
Kellogg'S General Jail Delivery,
/ / hspqtl,er coNpp :of this mornings
sTihes, the reader wili find list of Six

ty-six convicts whom Kellogg, dur ng
the last few weeks, has pardoned out
of the penitehtiary and turned loose
upon society. Thirteen Of these con;
victs were convicted of murder, five of
rape, two Of arson, six Of manslangh-
ter, three of burglary and two of per-
jury. There is -pfebably no instance
on record in recent times of SO fagi-
tious an abuse Of the 'pardoning power,
and We are not astonished, to learn Of
the indignation IT has reused among all
.the honest GLASSES Of society in New
Orleans. None of the acts Of Kellogg,
nay, not even his robbery Of the con-
tingent fluid to play, at no coat to him
self, pllilanthrnpist to Shreveport, has
SO astonisled the public, and so fully
opened tile eyes of tie people to'1the
fellows absolute baseness.. -. .-.....
In face Of this Wholesale liberation of
murderers, honse burners, burglars and
ravishers, society stands appalled,; all
feeling of security of life and property
is weakened, if not utterly destroyed.
Immunity from punishment is gnaran
tetd mafefacturs of the worst class, aud
the dogs of murder, rape and arson
turned loose by the Louisiana usurper
are already at their work; two horri-
ble murders on the very heels Of this
Jail delivery were perpetratel in New
Orleans, aud private letter from West
.Feiicinna informs, u of the murder
there last week Of white youth by a
radical negro official, The worst ella
ments of our population must now feel
at liberty to vent their evil passions
and indulge their most dangerous; pro-
pensiIies. They have cheering illus
tration before them of the clenency Of
the wretch clothed with the sacred pc
negatives of the executive; and they
must realize how entirely al their mer-
cy society has been placed. 81 -
| There has been some talk in New
Orleans of organizing vigilance commit
tees. to protect life aud property, and
We have little doubt that such commit
tees will lie required throughout the
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State; people. will soon begin to real :.
izs that they had better protect their
lives and property, and the chastity Of
their families by force. of arms, at the
risk Of being hunted down as kuklux,
than submit, the passive victims Of
mnrderers and li.ves acting under
tie patronage of Kellogg. This turn
ing hose of sixty six CONVICTED MUIR
derers, ravisliers and thieves, scandal
lous as; it is, assumes a blacker and
more villain0us hue when we! rpmem-
Der that at the very time they were
being set free by kellogg, Judge Wood,
of the U. 5. Circuit Court, working in
the interests of the Kellogg usurpation,
refused to discharge from prison on
ample bail, the eight Grant jparisl,
prisoners who have been IN jail for
months, who are nearly all poor men,
whose wires and children are actually
in want, whom eleven Of the jury in
three and nine 10 ti.e cases, were in
favor, on their first trial, OF acquittmg,
and who are VIGOROUSLY innocent vi
any crime, except that Of being white
men, and protecting their lives and
property from Tie depIela,ions Of a
negro mob a. wa .-s s#F..H'r sa,sA
People all over the State are asking
what this action of Kellogg means
The answer is simple. 1t means that
radiralism is reaching out to its logical
issue; the lowest and worst elements
of society are combiningto utterly sub.
vert order and justice, and prey upor
tthe wealth and industry of the State
It means that radcallsm. in Louisiana
is precisely what radiealism was II
Paris when the slime of the prison!
were belcled upon the streets, wher
the Bastile was stOrmed and the Off
GERS of the law bntchered ~ cold BLOOD
after surrender; it means that radical
ism is here, what it was in Martinique
when loosed cupvit is, combined will
emanclpated negroes drunk with til,
'sweet and heady must of their new
, liberty" caused humanity to shudde
with horror at their atrocities it mean
that the vicious elements population
which, combined by uuscrnpulou
leaders, desolated San Domingo ant
submerged that island in bleod, ar
combining in Louisiana, and that KEEL
lngg, partly bullied and controlled by
and, to a greater extent, pandering tt
those elements, means to trample up0l
5 law and order, justice aud humanity
10 sacrifice, if necessary, this State t.
] the qualification of his own ambition
f aud the n,alisnance OF the elements h
heads. 1t means, finally, that the peo
pie of Louisiana must stand uDite'
, against This infamous usurpatioD Civ
! it no countenance, no quartet, au'
: strain every energy for it's overthrow
= Il shreveport Times. s~s ,r
FITZHuGH LEES DISABILITIES. ~
Washington dispatch of the Goth ull