Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-09-20
Kellogg, the Usurper, as the PET
OF MOrtOn-A Barefaced- At
tempt at WhiseWsshiHg
Radical Fillainy.
Resume, from a Fair and Candid
Republican Journal, Of the In
ceptiOn Of the Kellogg
Government.
INpIANAPoLIs. sentember Is

false principles. IcIssent from THIS statement
> e-trely. - far ss reeonsttuction has lalled
! u has b-eu by the conduct Of It's
enemies not because Of Intrinsic defects OF
The zystem- The resistance cnered % 10 Dy
uusoUud any more than the violation Of the
! criminal Jaw by falODs proves Il unsound-
The ~ sUen OF reconstruction IS based on the
Dr5adust D. lLnctp.es o. g1atlce' etudllly allI
( repuoIcaufsm. The fourteenth amendment
excluded a certain class ci rebels from hold
ing odice, but tIat class has been diminished
] Dg congress until IL zoe not number over one
] hluured and rfJy men. The resistance 70 re-
I construction grows out OF the fierce opposition
{ % the abolition OF slavery and 70 the elevation
I Of the uegrOes 10 civil and political rights.
The proposition TO esta, lish VII le mans
Z government excluding the negroes from par
4 TIA pa ion is al war, not only Win the system
Of reconstruction, but the fourteenth and
nuesnth amendments. Tue White Leagues
are al armed orga .lza5ion, having DuU \ = n
gle Principle, which i, that ali political power,
D -la-e and rational, shall be vested only ID
1 white men, excludlng negroes totally. Iney
] recoEnIze nc line OF demarkadon IN politics,
I except the color line. Their weapons are mar
der and perjury, and they point 70 their own
I deeds OF murder as evidence that the system
I Of reconstruct oa IS uusouno and a failure.
{ Lne receut Cuthurst OF murderUus violence,
I not only in Louisiana, but throughout most OF
The southern States, has, IN greaI part grown
1 Out of delurive notion that c President
would nos again inierpose % suppress violence
In the south and protect Lne lives ana llDerstea
OF the people, and ma main me state govern
/ ments in the -XerCise OF their authority.
| they we're mista ken, and the Presid at has
| again inuerpUSed. be mas dl,arHed the ln-ur-
/ r-CtiOn IN Louisiana, and mas notified them
Z u other states that he viii force The laws
Z Tor the protection Of life, liberty and proper
Z .y. This shows " hat would re the cOnd ton
] OF things in the south II there Was d Demo-
z cratic sdmlnisirauon al y washington, mat
would not interfere lOr Lne pEotectlon oI ne
I aud property. For Two months, IN a majority
! 1f the southern States there has been higl
I carnival Of murder. 4 reign OF terror has
| agsIn been esta ablished. the ike Of whicu has
/ not eXis. ed since the war. Bat q small part OF
Uhe crimes com .uititsi ars made known 10 the
and rrrfrf Ia
| Republicans are shot in drOve., We hear about
] &c with a / the excuses ard IustincuGOns tbal
| "a be offered, but OF the solitary killing and
] -hOolng OF legrOes IN the lonely nelds and
! woods, aud in ,heir cabins the public hear
| almost nothing. Tie men VINO send out the
/ news from The south are, WITH few exceptions,
/ democrats and gympathiZers with these
/ crime and sometimes partlcl pauOrss II they
/ 1--WE the news Of even the larger
/ 1nassacres, they accompany 10 with
] apologies and justtncaLions. The solitary
/ killings pas unnoticed; In many parts iho
/ south the newspapers dare not publish them
I The telegraph is loaded with reports lhal lhs
] negroes are rising and have couspired 70 eL-
! terminate the WB Jes, and thaJ the ~ nitss are
/ .tauliLg on the defenslTei oul when the facts
! dnaIly come 10 turns out that only net troes
J and white Republicans are killed These
[ stories are disgassIugly studied aud silly, and
! when northern newspapers rspablish and
| credit them they degrade t-elr own tntelu-
genee. We remember how the Negroes be-
/ naved during the W.tr when they knew their
1 masters were fighting for their perpetual
slavery. All the negroes ask Is 70 be let alone.
. IlrF Know very ~ Gil LnGL LlGF cannot cope
aiJh the whites In any struggle with arms
! hey have little property, aud comparatively
| -ew arms. They are not able 70 defend them
Sc YES. These WICKED caluInnles are maze |
/ The pretext fOr assassination in every part Of
/ thesouih. The Whlte-Leaguers, OF the kukluG 1
for they are the same hing, 90 cunning for I
legrOes. They hunt them ike squirrels. /
they murder them singly an by tne sc0rf 1
upon false preteXt-, or mons al al In many I
cases " hl-e Republicans are murdered 9 = I
not var Of races II Is a war Of one race up 4
on another, and, broadly II Is war against /
ne Republicans o. Ine souLh, white anu 4
Jiac IL IS not rom ApPrsheuhlonb OF I
-Ocial eQua ity OF fear oi the clN I-rlsht' I
.uu but - make this white mau s govern /
ment and reduce the negroes, As nearly I
a possible 70 slavery. You have heard Of The I
ouJcheries recently committed IA tennessee, I
Alabama and her ta1es aud have not me I
tIrne or sIrr myth 20 eDumerate them a ne re-
cent outbuFsts nave no been confined 70 one /
-t4te. they run through nearly the whole /
nth. Louisiana IS QsL now attracting more
tt4niign than any OLnsI- On AOnoay, lh-
White League con-pracy uroke out IN LOUIS
Iaua, overturned the state government and
tempted TO establish new one. IN Tue con-
dict al New Orleans. thirty men are reported
lIIled and ff y wounded. To uldrTrtand the
Igndifiou OF Louisiana, we must go back
eight wears, during which time the state has
Been ma ie one vast slaugh terhou-e, the muir
GERS extending 70 almost every FlanIa ION IN
1865, the Republican,, In a convention at the
IechAnlcs' institute 20 propose am no liieLilS
10 the constitution, were set upon By The pO-
9 ce and a vest mob u arin 70 ms, ana
more than two hundred Killed alu WOuuueQ
"a ie-s than tn riy minutes. The details Of
-ust hutcnery. gwen by the committee that
Iuvestigatel f., were sickenlDg, aud never eX-
oeeded in atrociJy. In the spriug of leb5, the
tale being reconstructed, an election wes
Isld under the protection Of the COVER nent
III the L Uuited II tes, fessrsd ny all 10 be
.sir c ect'on, and the Republicans carried he
sac By tWtnty-sIE thousand maj brlty- In IN
summer the kukluN we're 0rstl.Iz',1' helHesh
september iht aud the November eieclonf
hey kille1 aud woundei over Two Thousand
ersous mostly negroes, as SHOWN by the re-
port Of the committee OF congress me cfuel-
es u.srUgtra ed we're never eNceeded by the i
Indians, Nor did tina committee tXHIni Inc the
ghDIe state A r.ign Of terror was created.
4epu n leans were kept away from the polls,
nd the Demo rats carried the NoFemDeF
election by iOriy-on Thousand MAJORITY
making change OF sixty-seven Thousand
votes. In some parishes ihe tepuoiicals
cast not d single VOt 81; IN othera two; IN Otler7
en-. After that tne negroes Tor some uine
we're not shot down In drOVesi Dut me
tream of solitary dropping Sur9hTs lied
IN. WarmOth, then a 20 ing man OI character
and prOmIse, bad been elected governor y the
|Dring bv ihe Republicans, but be turned out
aorrupi, and engaged IN many schemes OF
rauds III Whlcn mOal Of nts partners were
Democrats. Ia 1874 the sepublicsns cast MIN
on The adm .straoon al Washing,on re-
iecfed sim. Then he Democrats WHO haQ
-ie iesouuced him ~ having ruined the state I
COX am TO their embrace ana formed
Coalition. b. which they we're 70 carry tne
: ate-and he 20 be made Z nited btabes senator.
Tue ba gain for bis coutoi oi the IA neh hlnsTg OF
e ectiou. which was al In nLs hams A. gov
ernor, IVES counted equal 70 twenty thousand
,0iez- LOUISIANA Vas uOs'ArlCgSif I's PI"44ga4l .,
as clearly As Vermont or Ml-slssl ppl, me 4
Democrats believed thai Marnoth could COM
nit frauds enough 20 overcome that majority, ,
and their entire hopes Waze DAzs on Hauu.
They went iutO the election VIII ia!l know
edge that they could only succeed ~ ii&pp,
and D. Nas the mlsi fraud uIent election ever
held 10 the United ~tisies. oena- or 1ar peltef
aud he maj Urify Of the senate COMMITTEE de
clared 60 an oTgsnized fraud and void. Lhe
Republicans went into it knowing they were
fo Sc swIudled. Whl q the election was over
tuey Sill claimed that they bad carried the
ls.e Dy 5our oL nv tuousaia' @ al - y =
havs had fifteen OF twenty thousand majority
u proven before the seua committee
that the returns from seven parishes that
were relled upon % elecs AcEnerys were I
DrEeries out aud out Ihe majority Of the
-eua committee, through Ar. Carpenter, re-
ported Dill 70 prOyi8e fora new election, and
tuat uabO4v was e ected. I made Z fnfDorilv
report iu,istls Z that kel Ogz WAS elected he
having a joIIty nots.itis ssauo d lng IN frauds
IL seems 10 be- uudefs God ny many, that the
msjoIity reported IN favor o. McEnery. hey
did DO such Thing, hey reported that ne was
not elected. 30 not say that the Rrpubli- /
cans did mol aihO coninlL tfaud. To use tho
language Of the committee. they atremBted
- fight the devil with Ore. The senator thsn
proceeded q alhcu - the composition and pro-
eediugs % the returning board that counted
fhe voies and The supreme court. Three Of the
four members which had DeeH elected ]
for four years before, and were not
connected IA any way with these troubles. ]
fgclared That the Lynch returning board was
he lawful board, and that their decision that
kellogg Was elected wa c0ncl usive. The sen
ator uescri bed the Interference Of United
j
justify the interference Of Durell, nor the ir
regul -rities OF the Lynch board, hut that in
difference did not change the question %
right nor lufalioals what haa necn zone.
fne supreme court has repeatedly decided /
that the kellogg eogerument D. the sSiul
government. Gne President, In i've differeni !
ways, has recOgniz u it. The house Of repre-
sentafiVes reCok al red Il by admitting mem
Ger on Kel, ggis certificate. The sea ste did 4
% by repeatedly refusing 10 pass the bill Tor a I
new elect on. Tue senator reviewed the Col /
fax massacre, whore one hundred colorsd men i
afrocity. and only one white Wa bprt. 4
he then 6ketched the Coushatta murders /
For all these nu dsfs no, man h'a been I
punish d ! am no adVOcate OF heiugzs ont i
i is only jua ice TO say that he has not BE- 4
iouged 10 any Of tbs plunoerius rims, snd no /
robbery or stsalinl iias been brought home 70 /
him. The heput iicsus Of ioui lana are not
re-, gforn frauds. I have no apology for thern,
i,,t ti,ey are trivial Wnen compared with the |
systsm OF murder by which the ranks have
5eeu deumated and the whSle Stale demoral- ]
izsd A reign of teTroI destroys the integri- 4
IN of men as well as their courage. Their en-
syr,ie,s III Louisiana claim that the charges OF \
corfu ptjon and misgoYernment v hlcu they /
make against he Republcans shall obscure l
ana hide the fact that LOU lana Las
been Ous vast scene Of murder for eight J
wears II the pee le OF J. uisiana /
xould not have their state blightsd they mu-t 4
Sop tbs murder buslness. They cannot z /
s,ct honest gov rament. We nave got past I
me point where % wos necessary 20 inquire i
,rIt, .rae elected. A government cannot exist I
ia any State without there be some Tribunal !
to determine WuO has been elected, without 4
some things can be Considered a. settled. The 1
Kellogg government sifis gone ph nearly tHo !
years. r6e seizure o. the state BY the MeEnery I
iacssou was tn the nature OF 8 Mexican pro |
nuncIanEnto. II 4 Is tolerated in one Stale 1
n sEilI be adopted ia 0thars: and it would be /
the Introduction Of Mexican politics. There I
j. but one salvation for the south. The re- !
cogultion Of the equal, CIVIL asd political !
rights ~ The cCi0ied people. and the pnOteo- I
tion O. lie, liberty, and properly There Enust I
fe loisrat Tor all opinions and for all I
parties ]; must be ak safe ior Repu0Iicans as 4
ior DsunocI ats. Whatever may be said OF the /
frrr guiarlfies by which the Kellogg govern I
rle1r was established, and i Is undoubtedly /
tue that is cpresented majority of the pe0- I
! 81 the state; 51t. II McEnery had been piEced |
ia once 4 would have been BY a fraud On.
acualled ia extent and Nickedneaf. To h6re
esrrsclsd he Republicans Of Louisiana 30 OBJ !
serve tic laws strictly and 70 MAINTAIN
ere bflnz Murdered ur0n erary
haIzf Fas a1suro. Two apologies e1e odsEaa
III 81 mrffef of blaek anA NAlts Kspus3-