The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-25
THE COLORED ORGAN ON THE STATE
HOUSE JOB.

In the Lomisianian of the 23d inst, we find
the following allusion to the State House
swindle. which has been so fully exposed in
N the BULLETIN. The comments are re-
markable, coming, as they do, from the man
who was Acting Governor in the earlier
days Of Federal interference in Louisiana
politics, and who did more to establish KEEL
logg in the usnrper's seat than any other in
the State, and indicating more hearty and
thorough awakening to the hollow treachery
of the de .facto than has yet been evidenced
in the Republican ranks.
1t is highly credtable specimen of bold
denunciation of his political associates and
of pungent sarcasm towards Kellogg,
'wLOse discretion h rs already left his dGpe
Antoine and his tool Lowell in the lurch, to
bear the opprobum of an outrage in which
he is pIesumptively interested, and which,
without his action, support and connte-
nance could never have been cOnsummated.
The course of the Lousianian, representing
specially the colored people, and Republican
in its sympathies, is in striking contrast
with the equivocal halting and halfhearted
course of the two journals that claim to
lead public sentiment in this community,
and which are, presumably at least, pub
lished in the interest of the honest white
masses opposed to Radicalism and Kellogg
ism. We allude, Of course, to the Picayune
and Times, the Republican being too CON-
pletely bou I'd in party chains to express its
honest opinion:
In this connection we are pleased to see
that Governor Kellogg, with hi usual sound
discretion, far sightedness and determine
ton to protect the financial interest of the
State, has refused, peremptorily, to give
his signature to this monstrOsity, and we
regret that the influence used by him was
not equal to prevent the approval of the
lease by his associate commissioners.
If his Excellency should fail to direct the
Attorney General to intervene in behalf of
the State SO as to secure the dissolution Of
this lease, he will find in the contract
reason, additional to those he has already SO
fOrcibly given, in favor of the Funding
Bill-the public debt must be heavily
scaled, to enabled the State to pay nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars as rental
to the Building Association.
Our readers will see the grossness of the
outrage perpetrated upon the people, when
we tell them that so much as was neeedd of
the building could have been rented for
about fifteen thousand dollars year. and it
could have been purchased outright for less
Than one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
There is protection in the courts for the
people against the successful carrying out
of this wrong, and it is to be found in the
restraint and annullment of the contract,
under the orders of the court on the ground
of its illegal character.
In our Judgment the invalidiy of the
contract will appear in that article, la of
the Constitution has not been cOnformed to
in the statute, and further it violates article
l0l, Ill, and the amendment of the Consti
tuition limiting the debt to twenty-five mil
lions dollars.
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We appeal to the public opinion of the
Republican party to so express itself as to
this iniquity, and earnestly hope
that Attorney General Field will step forth
boldly and fearessly, as is his wont, to pro-
tect the interest of the DeOple