The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-07
The Liberties of the State are
Threatened by Our Own Rep
reSentatiYeS.
They Propose to Recognize the
Kellogg UsurpatiOn.
Grand Mass Meeting Tonight to
Protest Against the COnsum-
nation Of the Outrage.
from our Evening Edition of Yesterday |

yesterday morning that the Conservativ
" members of the Legislature, in caucus assem-
. bled, had accepted the proposition tendere'
,, by the Republican members Of the Congress
sional Committee, which contemplates the re
"a cognition of the Kellogg usurpation and Mi
chael Hahn as the legal Speaker Of the House,
created the most profound amazement anG
disgust.
The fact that the announcement was not
made in any other paper led many to hope
that it was unfounded-a sad and horrible
mistake but inquiries soon proved that the
BULLETIN had not told even half the
dreadful and humiliating truth.
1t appears that the matter is even worse
than we imsgined-that thirty-eight persons
elected by the people to represent their in
terests and to combat to the death the infa-
nous usurpation set up by Grant, Williams,
Morton, Durell & Co., have solemnly agreed
to vote for joint resolution
\ Recognizing the Usurpation,
and aequiescing in the same the balance of Kel-
logs term. They further have solemnly agreed
TO abstain from arraignipg Kellogg for any of
his actions in the past; in other words, they
have consented to condone his crimes, how
ever outrageous they may be, and great as we
know them to be, and to walk into the
Bnrrcnded Stnte-Iouse
virtually hand.cuffed to take seats in House
presided over by Michael Hahn. These are
the plain, unvarnished facts; this is the shame
full action Of men in whom the people of
Louisiana reposed faith. and inwhose keeping
she believed her fair fame and honor were
safe. The thing-the odious thing which
the Radical caucus in Congress declined
| to do by an overwhelming vote-the recog-
milton of Kellogg as the Governor of Louis
lana is contemplated by the maj ority of the
! Conservative members of our House.
The people will not submit to this action,
but will
Repudinte II
and hold the men who have done this thing
accountable for their acts 1t is gratifying to
know that Gov. John McEnery, Speaker Il.
A. Wilt, and Representative Edward Booth
fought strenuously against the humiliating ac-
ton and plead with the members earnestly to
recedc from the position they had taken.
In the name Of the white people Of Louisi- |
ana, in the name Of the fair-minded people of
the country, who have nobly made the cause
of Louisiana their own, in the name Of all
that we hold dear, we demand that the |
ACTION SHALL BE RECONSTRUCTED,
and that Louisiana be saved from the deep
damnation Of this fatal act.
Preparations are making for
A Grand Mas, Meeting
to protest against this, the most monstrous
outrage of the age, and there will be such an
outpouring of the people we are convinced
as will show the world that however indi-
vidual representatives may act, that the people
at least are
Truc to Themselves,
and will maintain their honor unstained by
any act of compromise with usurpation
which not even its shameless authors dare
maintain or even PALATE
Citizens of New Orleans, you never were in
such imminent peril before. No, not even
when you confronted the cannon and bayo-
nets Of Northern soldiers upon bloody battle
fields. There your lives were endangered,
here
Reputation and Honor Ii
are at stake, and an act is about to be con-
which if sanctioned will and ought :
to sink us where the plummet Of whole d
peoples contempt can never reach us.
Those you trusted have failed you in the
hour of your EXTREMIST need, and from the
proud position which you have occupied be- a
ore the world, position won by long suffer- '
ng and by the blood of your fellow-citizens,
'ou are about to be cast d.wn to the depths
# ignominy and disgrace.
Let us Rally
S a determined and tree people !
nd utter a protest which will ring over q
he country and tell to our brethren S
f other States that we have had Z
o part in this monstrous
usiness, and whatever few of our servants s
lay have done in defiance Of our known Q
fishes, we pledge them undying opposition t
, despotism and usurpation in whatever form Y
hey may present themselves.
1t is the voice Of the people which we echo
mot merely our own thought and sentiment - -
he action of the betrayers of the citadel and il
entral stronghold Of civil liberty is beyond o.
Spression ignoble and unmanly. From u
le Spartan band, who, as we thought, r
God like a brazen wall, firm as adamant and n,
ure as snow, such retreat from their noble A
and, such falling away from their lofty and - -,
oquent declarations such bowling down b,
efore the sceptre and patronage of the usur-
er, was the last thing dreamed of by their tr
ountrymen. IL
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