The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-03
TOROUEMADA KELLOGG.

History furnishes scarcely a single instanc
of usurper who has boldly announced tn
title of his tenure in the beginning. Title
unsupported by law or equity have been Sc
up, and urged by diplomacy and enforced b
law. A pretext, however fimsy, has been a
good as an argument, when force was tn
advocate. But usurpation and tyranny ono
established, disdain the longer support o
subterfuge.
| Grown confident by impunity for crime, tn
de .facto of this State no longer seeks to con
ceal his purposes. Through his organ h
boldly announces the objects of legislation
which no pretext can palliate, and threatens
all who dare to question its wisdom or expose
its infamy.
Yesterday, the Republican (whose name il
supposed to indicate its policy revealed thu
| true animus and purpose Of this pretended
liberty, equality, fraternity, administration
1t warned the press of Louisiana that the new
jury law arms Kellogg with inquisitorial pow
ers The mask is thrown off, and bold as
sertion Of power takes the place Of sophistica
argument When it suits his conscience, thi,
creature of Gods self-annOinted vicegerent
like another Torquemada will summon before
his tribunal all who dare to question the legal
ity of his acts, or arraign him before the people
for his populations in office. They are notified
that "Mere is q la,c, ,clich, IL, the hands of O
spitetM Governor" can silence the voice of an
outraged people, in the convicts cell.
The trial by jury is no longer trial by a
mans peers, but an inquisition, of which
Kellogg is the Torquemada. His puppets
can draw jury pledged beforehand to render
any verdict he may dictate. Let it 60 out to
the world that the right of trial by jury,
wrung from reluctant tyranny by an oppressed
people, and jealousy guarded as the bulwark
of personal liberty by eve.y constitutional
government, has been made mockery and d
farce by the negro Legislature of Louisiana,
and emigration will crowd to this Gland of
the freed" where barbarism, enthroned on
bayonets, dictates laws to capital and inteli-
gence. and letters the civilization Of the nine
teenth century with the shackles of iniquisi-
tortal persecution.
Let it 90 out to the world, and the swarms
Of over-crowded Europe will seek in the
loving rule of the negro relief from arbitrary
exactions and the distinctions of caste Pro-
claim the censorship of the press to our sis
an investment under the fostering care Of
barbaric legislation, and enterprise achieve
it's most splendid results under the benign
protection of "spiteful Governor, who can
At his will, ccnsign to the Penitentiary, all
who dare denounce malfeasance in Office
'' The little unthinking daiHes hare been in
he habit Of saying anything and everything about
his Ercellency ,chich promised to make the after
aoon edition pay, unconscious the whHe that he
possessed the po,cer Of the once dreaded Inqui-
sit;on over them. But there has been sudden
Weakening 10 the danger"
This deliberate proclamation of a censorship
# the press, this unblushing announcement
If power, is indeed sufficient to awaken the
press and the people Of this State to their
LANCER. All the rights announced in the
Magma Charta Incorporated in the Declaration
# Independence, and guaranteed by the
Constitution OF these United States are
icing tempered with and swept away by the
emi-savages who have ruled us for the lsst
tx years. Our endurance has been mistaken
or submissive acquiescence, and we are
aunted with our impotence, and threatened
nth condign punishment through the farce
f trial by picked juries. Let the Repubi-
an party ponder well one utterance of their
Ryan, and know the sentiment Of the people
Louisiana. 50 There has been sudden
,cakening to the danger" The '.White
has issued q new Defamation of
Of independence from Afri-
an domination and mongrel legislation, and
, the support of the doctrines it enunciates
re pledged the lives. the fortunes and the
4cred honors Of the intelligent white men Of
OviSiana