New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-03
Marshall, of the Hoar branch of the COM
mittee is as follows:

Marshall. of the Hoar branch of the com
mittee, is as follows:
The resolution recommending the recog
milton of Governor Kellogg is based upon
general impression, not upon evidence. Or
this point no testimony was taken either by
the committee or any part OF 1t. Kellogg
| may or NAV not have been elected Ill 1917
but there is no evidence to show the fact
| or if there be it has been neither sought nor
| found by this committee. Messrs. Foster
| and Phelps think that the popular belief,
! taking both Conservative and Radical cir
cles, inclines, on the whole, to justify kel-
| lOgg's and PENIS claims, and that as
| Kellogg is aud has been tho acting
| Governor of Louisiana for the past two
years, to deny his right and ~
stall another in his place, after this
lapse OF time. might involve incaicuiaOie
| mischief to the legal and political lnterests
| of the State. To avoid the mischief and
confusion OF charge, a majority OF the cltl'
| zens of Louisiana seem willing to accept as
| a compromise. kellegg's recognition, and
the restoration of the Conservatives to the
| control of the lower house For these rea-
| sons, Messrs. Foster and Phelps do not wish
to oppose the recommendation that the al
ministration of Governor Kellogg DO recog-
nized; neither, in view OF the fact that they
know nothing of the merits of the case, as
judged by competent evidence, do they wish
to be understood as urging 1t. They
only wish to record their agreement
with those of their associates who
believe that such a compromise might,
by making termination of the
uncertainty in Louisiana, be on the whole
less intOlerable than the present situation
of that distressed people. Bat to any resO-
luton recognizing kellogg, Messrs. Potter
and Marshall are utterly opposed. They
find nothing to Justify the belief that KEEL
lOgg was elected. That he seized the gov
eminent by the aid Of federal troops through
a void and fraudulent order, which pre-
vented the counting and return of the
votes. should he a standing presumption
against him. When the people, outraged
by the abuses Of his government, had |
successfully regained the office he had !
usurped, he was again reseated by fed |
eral power. Through the forms of law |
by which he had intrenched himself, he |
once more sought to nullify the choice of
the people at the late election, and to that |
end called in the federal troops to break up
the meeting OF a Legislature. For Congress
to recognize usurpatiCn so gross and so
oppressive is, they think, to establish
precedent by which, under pretexts that
can readily be found, any State government
may be Overthrown, the will If the people
nulliied, fraud and violence made perma-
nent and Republican forms perverted to
destroy liberty.
In their judgment all that is needed in
Louisiana is to withdraw the federal troops
md leave the people of that State to govern
themselves.
Ii it we're possible at the second trial of
person for murder to allow those who were
or acquittal on the first jury to sign with
he obstinate twelfth man of the second
ury, it is possible four ,nen could be found
or ac1uittal in an ordinary case. If it is
laimed the Democrats made a majority
eport, it should be remembered that
lessrs. Foster, Phelps and Potter did not
ear, and perhaps did not read the evidence
dduced by the more thorough investiga-
on which inf lenced Messrs. Hoar, " heller
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