Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-14
NEW ORLEANS.
The Returning Board In Preparation
for their Work TO-Day-LOngstreet
and the People.
JEFF Thompson and the LeTees-NO
Politics for Him-Effeets OF the Late
Triumph-EVerYbody clad
Returning Prosperity.

Special Correspondence Of the Appeal
NEW ORLEANS, November IL, 1874
If there is anything In the world thR
the citizens of New Orleans keep an eye
on more than on anything else, 1t is th'
returning hoard. The Democrats o
Louisiana, after hard and hotly-con
tested fight, feel that they have won {
victory over the Kellogg government
and they are 80 certain-Rnd with rea
son--that the State has been carried By
them, that If the returning board doe
not honestly perform its duty there may
be another fourteenth Of September err
long. The white league has not in any
way inteIfered with the workings o.
this board. They have sdmonished it
members that the time has come wher
an honest count is expected and de-
manded; they have given Longstreet
Anderson, and the other members o.
this board every reason to fear them il
they should tamper with the votes, cut
they have made no threats, and no vic.
Ience is countenanced by the officers ol
the league. They are waiting quietly
for the result, and as they have q record
of every vote cast in Louisiana, should
any Of them be thrown out it would be
advisable for every member Of the
board to commit suicide. To-day they
have been crowding into the statehouse,
watching with anxiety the preparations
being made by the board for its sitting
tomorrow.
GENERAL LONGsTREET
came down this morning. He is in q
yerv Door state of health indeed. His
right leg is crippled with the disease
which has kept him indoors for q
month, and his face bears every evidence
of anxiety and suffering. The excite
ment of the fright on the fourteenth of
September did him no good, and bis for
| tunate escape, a ball having passed
through his coat and vest-barely strik-
| ing his chest-must have proved a re-
minder to him of other days when the
/ balls came from another direction.
| LonRstTeet is by no means a popular
man. His relations with Grant, and
his evident desire to perpetuate the kel-
| lOgg government causes people TO forget
what be was, and look upon him as he
| is-a traitor to his party and his people.
| he defends his cause with very good
argument. All Of the southern generals
who have "turned over" do the same.
| But the argument is rather tOO old now
and the causes which prompted him to
espOuse the Republican cause are re-
moved and have been for two years.
He talks but little and seems 70 take no
interest IN politics since the election.
Last Saturday nights proceedings
| If he saw il, (and / think he did,
was enough to make him heart-sick.
There, in line two miles long and from
eight to sixteen ranks deep, were his old
comrades and officers; men who had
fought under him for their rights and
liberties; men who had looked up to
him for advice, and men who had sent
forth the yell he loved to hear on the
battlefield; men whom he had taken
from their mothers, wives and children
to fight for the flag he fought fOr-a1 Of
them his enemies now, all of them de-
deal physically, but how much he suffers
mentally your correspondent does not
know.
JEFF THOMPSON,
better known by his old comrades up in
Missouri as the Swamp Fox" is not
taking a very active part in politics.
| He is q man respected by all, Dem Ocrats
and Radicals. JEFF left his party about
Z II ~ raN
others wrote that letter accepting the
situation" He came to the honest con-
clusiOn that the best way to settle dii-
/ ficulty was to settle it, and as there was
no way of settling it as he wanted to,
| the best plan was to settle it as the ma
| jority of his people wanted it settled.
| He thought that "if we must
have the nigger, we might as
well make a friend of him."
as he didn't like to have any enemies
for his neighbOrs. He has been abused
by his old friends; but such abuse does
not hurt him, as those who kick JEFF
Thompson, as it were, stub their toes
every time. He has not expressed him.
self openly on the present condition OF
affairs ia this State, but IL you ask him:
General Thompson, what do you think
OF the Louisiana trOuble?" "God damn
the Louisiana troubles; it takes all my
time to attend to the levees." And 1t
does.
KING KELLOGG
has been very sick since the election.
| The Republican called his sickness
| c. MOrbus; the Democrats here never
knew it was called by that name before,
so they carried some transparent tomb
/ Ia4, av,A oof4ao yyifh inearinfinna like
these:
PITT IS SICK AND WE ARE HAPPY.
Another one stated that the white
league had sent to Boston for some OF
Buffers soothing syrup; and another
wanted to know,
WHO WILL CARE FOR DURELL NOW?
| kellogg, however, is around again,
and his room at the statehOuse is filled
| from morning till night with Ignorant
dsrkies and paid supers. The way some
of the white men hang around this man,
fiatter him, crawl before him, and draw
money out OF him, is disgusting, and
would not be tolerated by any other
man in his position in the United States.
But il is fIom such vagrants that he eX'
meets support at the ballot-bOx and on
the street. He is hated by his own par
ty-at least the respectable part OF it
despised by the Democratic party, and
treated with contempt by the society o.
New Orleans. He has no real friends
he has thousands Of bitter enemies. Kel'
loRg might have made himself posi-
ton Of honor here, had there been any
manhood in him. He was asked by the
people of New Orleans, the best people
in the city and State, to resign his posi-
: ton: he saw that he was moi
the choice OF the people - tha
they demanded his resignation; ht
said that his refusal to resign woulC
, cause bloOdshed on that day, but, like {
stubborn brute that he is, he held on
. and the result was the slaughter of thu
: fourteenth Of September. Whateye
can be said of the election by partisan
naners. nearly all admit that it was {
faiF one. Both sides were SO earnes
4 that cheating became matter OF i'm
Utility. and il there were any fraud
P, Smittsd they were committed by tn
con; con-, VI party. BY far the most nsgran
hsdIc. the recent election are ehsrgei
irSuds IL '~otion Of the Radical part,
by one Il >ther. Thus the friends
Mr.. Ola, @RED MAN
.,..,..,o.;.I T di.,, 'ot of Carroll, hav
in the senatorial sfsi OasI av q stupendeu
frauds in that and the adJoin. os r.. tiol
against Benham, the admi. Nssl ~ Glo
candidate for the senate, opposed W ~, e;t,
! The latter gentleman is now IN thle, ois, ~
with the evidence of these frauds, whl,
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