The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-10
A NEW ELECTION.
REPUBLICANS PETITION FOR 1T.

As an evidence of the growing dissatisfac
ton of our people, irrespective OF color OF
politics, with Kellogg and his usurpatlon
we note the fact that a petition is now being
circulated and will be signed by thousands
# the best Republicans in the State, asking
for a new election and for the passage by
Congress Of Senator Carpenters bill, which
| is now before the Senate. The petition will
set forth that the bill of Senator Carpenter
offers the only hope Of relief to the people
of this State, and is necessary to the safety
Of a large majority Of the Republican party
within her limits.
We hail this movement as an evidence OF
returning reason on the part Of the Repub-
Leans, and are satisfied that every man III
the State who is not irrevocably bound to
Kellogg and his wretched satrapy by the
cohesive power Of public plumber, must de-
sire new election. Fair play is as much an
American as an English characteristic, and
no human being who has been raised under
the forms of free government, or has any
conception of what true republicanism is,
but must feel his cheek Jingle for very
shame and humiliation whenever he con
templates the once proud State of Louisiana
prone beneath the heel of a tyrant more
despicable than Nero.
Men of all parties are anxious for new
election, the Fusionists because they were
shamefully wronged and defrauded, and do
not recognize the present government ds an
expression Of the public will, and the Repub-
licans because they find that the Odium
attaching to bayonet government, and to
Kellogg, is greater than any party can sup
port. Then, too, there is a large element
among the Republicans who find themselves
and their friends unprOvided for in the dis
tribution of office; they find that while
Kellogg promised fairly he has with unblush-
ins effrontry ..gone back" on those who
rendered him material aid N the days when
like shimmering ghost he lodged about
the city fearful of every lamp post, and
starting, with guilty apprehension, at his
own ungain'y shadow.
They find that with him, to break faith is
t.o rule, to keep it, the exception and they
know, perfectly well, that he will on the
very first opportunity desert the negroes for
the whites, even as Warmoth did before
him. Strange as it may seem, the negroes
hold Warmoth in higher estimation to-day
than Kellogg; the former they always had
an affection for there is personal magne-
tsm about him which they find irressist
able, and to do him justice he always
treated the negroes with kindness and
heartincss, which quite won their hearts,
until he abandoned them and went over to
the Fusion camp. Kellogg on the contrary
has no friends among the negroes; they in
recognize in him an enemy and
though he has plausible manner and oily
tongue, there is a lack Of sincerity in every
thing he says his actions are ungrac eful
and a certain restlessness of the eyes and
nervousness of manner betra" to the negro
who is close observer, his true contracte
1t is not at all astonishing, therefore,
hat Republicans should join in petition
or new election, tor they are heartily
'ick of the brief experiment Of a usurpatiOn,
md are quite prepared to part with the
nsurper.
The petition, we learn, will be presented
to the Senate of the United States stimuli
taneously with the calling up of Carpenters
new election bill, and it is probable that
the formidable array Of names which will
be thereunto attached will have some influ-
ance in determining the vote of Republican
Senator's.