The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-25


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4. Tie oonriss.oceru of eiecao. and der1s.
l: ~ss agreed shat TIE registration AID cleo
| ton should be conducted aude. tho control st g.,
advisor! board. composed Of two troE eaci
psrss:, AID az acceptable EepueHcal "Rs agree
| upon Sc tie eth, or umpire cut upon tE3 Nos
Important question affecting the organization O
tie returning board, q board Of oanvsssers, slt
Conservatives claimed that three members Q
the board should resign, snd that two nenbe-,
should be Indicated b7 the Conservatives, ant
that the fifth should be elected Ia the same man
ner as the umpire OF the advisory board.
| This proposition was fatty refused BY the Be
publicans, who would allow but two Conserve
uves on tue board and the committee withdrew
| When it is considered that the five members now
composing the returning board are leading Re
| bubhcans and othce-holders under the Kellogg
| Government, ii will be seen that the mere plac
ing Of two Conservatives on the board would still
| leave the board absolutely under the control Of
the remaining three Republican Office holders.
The present returning board is composed o
| Longstreet, Casanave, J; Madison Wells, Ander
son and A. j. Kenner, although the law expressly
provides that the Senate shall elect from the diff
| ferent political organizations, showing gross
violation OF the statute and determination tht
part OF the Kellogg party to eject every adjust
ment OF fair character that our people NAV
| offer, and avail! themselves OF the odous regis
tration and election laws in the hands OF THEN
parisans to rob the people of the results Of their
ballots should they continue to participate IL the
election.
When it is remembered that the returning
board has the power to reject the vote Of any
ward or precinct, upon the sworn statement oil
three citizens that there was fraud or intimida
ton, and that it CAM in the future, it has done
in the past, declare elected those having a
minority Of the votes cast; that the Supreme
Court OF Louisiana has decided that the return
ing board is not subject to judicial con troll, and
that the PRONUNCIATION of the results of all cleo
ton BY that board is absolutely conclusive, SO
that it cannot be reviewed or questioned by any
tribunal, the significance of tue rejection Of this
pre- position will be manifest. And in further
illustration Of the tremendous power vested in
this board, it may be added that the Supreme
Court has also decided that there can be no title
to an elective office i'll Louisiana, otherwise than
through the PRONUNCIATION made by this board.
And here it is important to say a word about
body known as the "White League" and
which has been grossly misrepresented abroad.
New Orleans had been dsbanded their arms
taken from them, and an exclusively negro militia
organized in their stead. BY an infamous law
the Metropolitan Police, for whose support an
enormous tax is levied upon the city exclusively,
had been taken from under the control of the
Mayor, and made subject to the orders of the
Governor alone. This body was used to ntimi-
date and Overawe the citizens, to guard the resi-
dences and persons of timorous officials, and to
dragon the parishes, whenever any political
scheme required it,
The white people Of the State thus stripped of
every means of defense, were threatened more
over by formidable Oath-bOund league of the
blacks, which, under the command of cunning
md INSCRIPTIONS negroes, might at any moment
plunge them into what they were most anxious
to avoid, q Udr Of races. The incessant demand
for offices from the city, State and Federal Gov
ernments, for which they were utterly unfit, and
for which they proffered no other title than that
OF color; the development in their conventions
OF spirit OF prescription against white Radicals,
and even against honorable Republicans who had
fought for their liberation their increasing AFRO
gance, which knew no bounds; their increasing
dishonesty, which they regarded as a statesman
like virtue; their contemptuous scorn of all
rights of the white man, which they dared tres
pass upon; all these signs, as set forth in the
platform OF the Crescent City White League,
warned us that the calamity we had long apple
hended was imminent, and that must either
prepare for, or perish under it.
With the hope, then, as distinctly and openly
declared, that timely and proclaimed union Of
the whites as race, and their efficient prepare
ton for any emergency might arrest the threat
ened horrors of a social war, the White League
was formed; its object beng, as publicly setforth
to assist in restoring honest and intelligent
government to the State of Louisiana, and by
union with all other good citizens to maintain
and defend the Constitution of the United States
and OF the State, and to maintain and protect
our rights and the rights of all citizens.
DuL W OdtloucO Vi Uue ENTHUSIASTICALLY Oh
securing fair registration and election, and that
it was the settled purpose OF the usurper to de-
prive the white people Of the State Of Louisiana
81 the right to bear arms, right secured to
them by the Constitution OF the United states,
and in the existing state of affairs indispensable
TO their personal protection, a mass meeting OF
the citizens OF New Orleans was called to assem-
BILE on the morning OF Sept. 18th. At that meet
ing, the largest in numbers and the most respect
able in char 4cter ever collected in the streets OF
Or1a 1nf,n fcntk Ia,
liless wrongs under which We suffered were
adopted, and q committee of citizens was ap-
pointed to wait upon VIM. Pitt Kellogg and de-
nand his abdication.
At half past IL p. M. the committee waited upon
Mr.. Kellogg at the State House, which had al.
ready been converted by him into an armed camp.
Kellogg, however, had fled to the Custom House,
which he did not again leave until reinsthted III
The State House BY the Federal bayonets, ana
rom the Custom House returned answer through
member his staff refusing to receive or treat
with the committee. The committee so reported.
Instantly, and as one man, the citizens rose in
lrms.
Already in our streets and In private stores
lrms had been seized, III open day, by the po-
ice, and torcibly taken possession Of and re-
aimed. The owner Of portion of the arms so |
eized had applied to competent judicial tri-
,unal, and obtained an order for their release |
This order was disobeyed by the police authori- |
les, and when the court attempted to vindicate |
ts own dignity and the maiesty of the law by fine |
nd Imprisonment for contempt, w. P. Kellogg |
ntervened and pardoned the offenders, who were |
released.
At the m 'ment of the popular uprising, steam
hip lay opposite the Third Precinct Police Sta
ion, having on board arms and ammunition,
unsigned to private individuals. A large guard /
f metropolitan police, with loaded guns and
annon pointed, prevented all access to the
teamer, and the removal Of the arms by those
0 whom they lawfully belonged; and the citi
ems, ral'ying on the League, their only organized
ody, moved down to the levee to take possession
the property which was theirs by right Of
urchase.
At the head Of Canal street. the Metropolitan
riga lie, commanded by Gen. Longstreet In per-
on. intercepted and attacked them. The battle,
nus forced upon the citizens, was joined, and in
brief half hour this Pratorlan band, 80 long
lenace and a terror was swept away, and the
efeated remnants of the Kellogg usurpation-
oweIing fugitives from a government they had
refugees in the Custom House,
heltered beneath the folds of the American flag
here they were suffered to remain unmolested
What followed has passed into history, and is
latter of familiar knowledge. The lawful gov
rnment of the peoples choice, amid universal
sjoicing, entered, without opposition, upon the