The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-29
DoUBLE-BARRELLED BALLOT BOXES.

The shrewd but transparent attempt on tt
part Of Kellogg to dishanchise the thousand
Of naturalized voters in this city, by extortlnl
form his poor, inirm and weak-minded At
torney General, an opinion which is in direc
canflict with common sense, and in fagran
disregard of the expressed opinion OF ever!
member Of fine bar in good standing in New
Orleans, has met, as we felt sure it would
with an outburst of popular indignation which
must result in its flat rejectioe.
The indignation thus aroused is not fell
alone by the gentlemen whom Mr.. Kellogg pro
poses to disfranchise, but is fully shared by
every native-born citizen who has not sole
himself to the usurpation and bartered away
his right to express an opinion on the subject
They all feel that the attack thus covertly
made is not only directed against particular
class Of voters, but that it is blow at the
right of every citizen, and palpable attempt
to smother by an ingenious device the voice
Of the people at the ballotbox.
1t does not lie in the power Of Mr.. Kellogg
nor of his plant and subserviant tool. the
Attorney General de fdcto, to strike from the
rolls as voters even one of the many thousands
of those of our citizens who have been natu-
rallied according to law, and who have voted
at every previous election unchallenged. These
gentlemen have conformed to the laws made
and provided for their cases; they have for
series of years performed every function and
enjoyed every right of citizenship; have
sat on juries, helped to hang some
men and sent others to the Peniten-
tiary; have aided in building up the
industries of the State; and now because for
sooth, it is discovered the large majority Of
them are acting in concert with the true peo-
pie Of the State and in opposition to the cor
morants and carpet-baggers who are devouring
her, doubt is expressed as to the jurisdiction
Of the court from whence they obtained their
papers, and the usurper coolly proposes to
cast out all their votes as tainted with suspi-
cion of illegally.
Was ever a more monstrous outrage at
tempted to be perpetrated upon an intelligent
Was ever before high spirited
people called upon to submit to so gross and
injurious fraud? The thing cannot be tol-
Grated, and our naturalized citizens very
properly demand that their votes be placed
In the same receptacle in which every other
citizens ballot is deposited, or that they be
rejected altogether.
We shall see whether this man Kellogg,
this fellow made of brass and maintained by
bayonets, dare say to more than eight thou
sand Of our best citizens that they shall not
deposit their ballots unless they will agree to
poke them in some special receptacle provided
oy himself, but never even contemplated by
he monstrous laws manufactured to order by
lis own Legislative menagerie.
If in the very insolence and recklessness Of
power he have the effrontery to carry out his
lesigns, then he must bear the odium and
MANY attaching to the shameful proceeding.
Let him face he can the virtuous and ter
IDLE indignation Of the people and the COM
aunity he has wronged and defend himself if
e can with that brittle and worthless weapon
he opinion of Attorney General A. P. Field.
The bayonets of the central power have in
used species of daring into this naturally
'eak and timid man, and it would really
eem as if, relying upon their sharp points for
rejection, he had grown utterly reckless and
losed his eyes to the future. As he sows SO
1t him reap.