The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-02
BAYARD ON KELLOGG,

We deem it but just to the usarping Gov
ernor, his friends and political adherents, t.
let them see that we are not alone in hold
ing up to view the imperfection Of his
character and the flimsiness of his preten
sOns to the gubernatOrial chair Of this
State. Our own people, too, should be en-
lightened upon these points and kept
posted as to the estimate placed upon Mr.
Kellogg by the outside world. With this
view we give the following remarks OF
Senator Bayard, which we extract from the
Congressional Globe:
Mr.. Bayard-Mr. President, will frankly
say to the Senator from Ohio that, welcOm-
| ing as l do any TACT, feel very doubtful
about accepting as fact anything that is
certified by Mr.. Kellogg of Louisiana. 1t is
seldom that man is willing to gibbet him
self before the public as that person did the
other day by his Geographic dispatches to
different members Of this body. If they
were to be read in the Senate-and l do not
propose to fatigue the Senate by reading
them-it would be found that in his tele-
gram 20 the honorable Senator from Indiana
he was guilty of the suppression of the
truth. He telegraphed to that Senator that
there had been repeal of a law that not
only made fraud possible but probable at the
hands of the Governor in controlling the
election of the State. The next day the
Senator from Louisiana read another tele-
gram from the same person, still more
specious in that it not only suppressed the
truth, but it suggested an untruth-both
forms of falsehOOd in the same dispatch.
And then when the truth no longer could be
concealed, he telegraphs a third time to the
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and for the first time, that a law, the exist
ence of which he had denied both expressly
and by implication, had been passed, but
said he would not avail himself Of it. Sir,
it is amazing how dishonest men can lose
their senses, and what fortunate thing it
is for mankind that honesty of intention and
discretion are apt to accompany each other,
and that when mems moral sense falters
their intellect fllters with it, and they are
led to a disclosure Of their own nefariOus
conduct If this thing depended alone upon
the statement Of Mr.. Kellogg, would say,
falsus in unO, .falsus in Omnibus-I would not
accept the statement but | am not pre-
pared to say that these eighteen individuals
have not finally bent under burden the
weight Of which they no longer could en-
dure; but does their acquiescence, their
yielding hopelessly to force and taking the
seats which have been given them for the
purpose of their own ignominy, change the
broad truth or touch the great principle
which have been here endeavoring to assert
on behalf OF that State9 Does that wipe
out the guilt OF the Administration Does
it wipe out the guilt of Williams? Does it
wipe out the guilt of Durell? Does it
change any truth that is stated before the
people unanimously by this COM
mittee to whom the subject has been COM
mited' No, Mr.. President. If there has
been an acquiescence by these eighteen men,
it is their individual act, and against their
acquiescence l produce the voice of thou
sands to show it is not the temper, it is not
the will of the people Of Louisiana to say
that is'right which in their souls they know !
to be wrong, and that is just which they |
know is the very quintessence of injustice
and wrong. Nor can undertake, for | do
not know the names of those individuals !;
nor in the course of discussion such as
mine, embracing vast body Of facts, neces
sarily passing over them somewhat curso-ily, |
can do more than take the main features
of this case and submit them to my fellow
more out of this chamber than
do to those within.