The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-12-19
THE PLOT DEVELOPED.

the honest people had carried the
State by not less than five thou
sand votes; that they had elected
a handsome majority Of the House
OF Representatives, ten out Of the
eighteen Senators and four Of the
six Congressman running, we were
puzzled to know by what scheme Of
fraud and rascality the radicals
could have the barefaced impu
dcnce to attempt to cheat the PEG
pie OF y sovereign State out of the
results Of = victory fairly and hon
estly won at the ballot box. The
plot is now sufficiently developed
to leave no doubts as to their inten
ton and the means by which they
expect to carry their purposes into
effect.
The long drawn out count by the
Returning Board was to pass away
the time until Congress should have
assembled, as it did on the first
Monday Of December They ex
pcct and are now demanding from
Congress an express recognition Of
the kellogg usurpation, which is
to be used as barrier to any further
discussion Of its legitimacy in the
contests which they all the time in
tended to provoke and which are
now near at hand. Such y recog-
milton would set at rest all qucs.
tons as to the election Of 1872, and
relieved of that burden as well as
of the fear of an obStrepulous Con
gress which might seriously en-
barass them, Kellogg, Casey 4 Co.,
would be enabled to turn their at
tention wholly to the task of set.
ting mp tho new usurpation which
is to be born on the first Monday
Of January next.
The corrupt Returning Board, Il
necessary element in the plot to
overthrow the will of the people,
having delayed the count which
they ought to have made in three
days, until they could delay no Ion
ger have at last been compelled to
show their hands and present us
with full view Of the next step in
this grand panorama Of fraud, Chi
canery and villiany, which is to re
fer the count of the votes Of the
contested parishes to the Legisla-
ture, after having promulgated the
returns of the parishes in which
there was no contest. This will
give quorum of the House and a
majority for the radicals. This DO
dy with radical majority to start
on, will follow the illustrious prece
dents set for it by it's predecessors
and will be careful to always keep
a majority Of its own companions
in inlamy and as it will be a compo
nent part OF the Kellogg govern
mcnt already recognized 10y Bbolh
the President and Congress, shoald
1t pass tho Joint resolution which
is to he offered before the Christ
mast holidays-it will, OF course,
be sustained by both Grant and
Congress, and if we make any oppo-
sition we are to be put down as
"rebels" and "Kn-klux," by the
strong arm of the military and Ma
val forces OF the United States.
With the same old corrupt Leg.
islature composed Of ignorant ne
groes and unprinciplel carpet
gers and rehegadcs, with all fear of
impeachment out OF the way, and
with the Amy and Navy to put
down the White League, Kellogg
will commission whom he pleases
to the parish offices, aud he will
please always to Commission the
same old crew of political buzzartls
and Unsuitable Ja.kal who have
robbed and plunde:ed us to the
verge of bankruptcy and paralized
all industry in the State. Thus is
the sovereign will of a once free
people, fairly and honestly express
ed by the Constitutional method of
the ballot, to be overthrow by a
band Of cOnSpiritOrS whose head