The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-09
LEG iLITY OF KELLOGG'S LEGL La
TON
Editor New Orleans Bulletin:

gressional Districts. At the last election one
Congressman WAS elected for the State at
large, and one from each of the fire districts.
The same Legislature proposed ceriain amend
ments to the State Constitution and called
on the people to ratify or reject them, at the
election in November. 1S74.
The question arises ought the people OF
Louisiana. who deny the authority OF the
usurpaticn, headed by Kellogg, to vote for
and for or against the proposed amendments,
or ought they to ignore the right of the KEEL
logg Legislature in toto, vote for one Con-
gresham at large, and in the old flee districts
and omit to vote as to said proposed amend
mentS?
1t occurs to the writer that election will
convince all that we should pursue the latter
course. Why. 1t is the tr 'th Of history that
the officers and Legislature which constitute
the uslrping Government, OF which Kellogg
is chief. We're never elected nor installed in
authority by the people; that, on he contrary
they We're de Gated at the election Of 1872 by
large malorities and that they were placed ~
power by the decree of Federal Judge, act
ing ec parte out of court, and in Il matter in
which. by the express letter of the Law, his
jurisdiction was distinctly prohibited. 1t is
true the President of the United States has
FfWetfcu tAtS o.t'I'n ny tuS uNc VI TIC
army. out it has never been recognized by
any authority as the lawful Government of
this State. On the contrary, its legality has
been emphatically denied and repudiated by
both branches of the Unite States Congress,
while the President has expressly declined
to decide us to that issue, has re-
tered it by special essage to Congress,
limiting his action to the preservation of the
public eace in the State. We say that Con-
gress in both branches has denied it's de jurp
status, because the S nate rejected Ray aud
Pinchback, a Senator's because the H ouse
has rejected Pinchback as Congressman Mt
! .rge. and has ordered the production OF the
official returns, to decide the issue between
him and Gen S eridan, while the Senate
Committee on Elections ETC., in unmistakabe
terms, denounced it rs the offspring OF fraud
and f rec and rs IL foul usurpation, in which
the House Judiciary Committee has joined by
that Darrell should be impeached.
Add to these acts, that the Congress refused
to count the electoral vote Of Louisiana, be-
cause OF gross illegalites in the return by the
same tate reforming board, that falsely Ger l.
fed, without the semblance of official returns
to the election OF Kellogg and his infamous
Legisl ture, and the proof is overwhelming.
This abnormal condition of Affairs must
terminate aud will 'erminate in the over
throw of the usurpation, unless the people
ac9Iiesce in it's bastard authority. Indeed,
this averment which WAS made by Kellogg,
because certain misguided representative,
took their STATS in his Legislature. and he
eause the people paid taxes wruns from them
by the oppressive gencles OF corrupted
courts. WAS the sole ground upon which the
Senate failed to p ~ the Carpenter bill. or to
N1cEntly.
OF J,1tx 10 hat
have hot acquiesced-to prove that we still re-
sist by all the means within our power the
pretended authority of the usurper.
Let us then resolve that we will not place
upon our ballots, at the N ,vembtr election,
amy expression as to the st,-culled amend
ments to the Constitution. Let us also nomi-
nate and elect II congressman at Large, and
one Congressman from each of the five dis
tricts, as they stood III November 1872.
Let Us base this action upon the utter want of
authority Of the body OF usurpeIs, who pre-
tended 10 act as legislator =, and as such as
sum to propose constitutional amendme nts
and to red stllct tn State.
1t will show that have not acquiesced in
our own shame and humiliation.
1t will prevent the holders of our legal pub
lie securities from charging US with the di,-
sr zee OF Reputation.
bends and variants from saying, you nave
arquitsced in kellogg'> funding b Il. Il will
preserve our set-re,pect, 10y saving us the dis
sr zee OF s,,rfenderihg our cause, while yet un-
dett rmined and undecided.
in 1876 DemOcr ttIc majority will control
the Congress of the United States. Our Con-
gr, ssmen, whom we will select from the old
4 striris, will present to it their credentials,
,ld with it all issue as to the legality of the
Kellogg Legislature. II that Legislature was
+, legal body, then they will have no standing.
Ii it was bogu bod then it had no author
ty to abolish the old distri t., amt as coming
rom these districts, our Representatives must
De seated, and, a. Il consequence. the usnIpl-
on must fall And when the brave
md true men. whom we vii!
eject, shall produce the official returns of the
lection OF 1872. aud show that three-tourthS
II the X llog2 Leg stature. in both Lr,nrhes,
we're defeated at the polls. and shall produce
Durells double writ OF ma damus and prohlb;-
ion, by which he commanded the Herwigs,
he isuckburns, the Mass.ot-. the Wal,is.
he Davses and the B.rches to b seated .s
legislators, and prohibited the Thompsons the
form ms and Levi es from entering even the
legislative halls, who II doubt that Congress
will hesitate to strike fom our limb, the
which Grant, under the pretense of
the DEGREES o tDurel placed upon
hem.
1t it be lid that by voting ut all we recog-
lizr Kellogg, the answer is, We vote in pur>u-
nee of the Constitullon and laws. and not of
Aeloggs authority. Ii it he said. the super
lsors will not return the votes we cast out
lde of kelogg's new Districts the answer il,
We will have Democratic Federal supervi- |
or at every poll, and also Dtmocratic com
missioner of election. and they Can make the
: turns, and preserve the ballots. Congress
vii Judge OF the elections, On LITIGATION and
rt"rn oi its own members; ;...d we are, there
Dr., Independent Of these fingers"
As IL matter of policy, it might be urged |
hat as the new dls,r cts have been gerry
laadered, the Democrats can scarcely hope |
. elect i'll any other than pernap, the First |
nd 5 Second. TaeSe are near.y the same mn
er the ltw, and under the Kellogg new |
NV Z, so that, whether the new law be
ogn zed or not, We could be equally inditf,r-
ut.
1t might also he urged that perhaps the ac-
On of the people may thus com el Congress.
ext Decembt +, all ktdlc.,i as it is. to recog-
~ the MctlprV Government seeing that /