The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-19
A FEW MOROEAUX FROM THE Be
PORT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE.

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: rect. We all knew here that we we're
frauded out Of our rights by the infamol
d rulings of the Returning Board.
50 in the parish Of DeSoto, the returns sho
J, Conservative elected by over one thousan
/. majority.
: And yet the Returning Board refuse
to count the vote of that parish. W
are deprived of Representative from th'
parish in the Legislature, and also of or
thousand majority for our candidate ft
Treasurer, also for our candidate to Congress
There is no evidence Of intimidation and d
changed the result
To prove that no intimidation was resorte
to by the Conservative party, We quote as fol
lows from the report:
OF all those who testified to intimidation
hardly any one who, Of his own knowledge
could specify "a reliable instance OF such acts
and Of the white men who were produced t
} testify generally on such subjects very nearly
all, if not every single one, was the holder o
an Office Throughout the rural districts O
the State the number OF white Republicans
are very few. 1t hardly extends beyond those
holding Office and those connected with them
No witnesses, we believe, succeeded in naming
in any parish five Republicans who supported
the Kellogg government, who were not them.
selves ofice-holders or related to ofice-hold
ers, and those having official employment
On the other hand applications to United
States Commissioners in the various parishes,
not only for alleged crimes, but because Of
alleged threats Of discharge, unemployment,
or other interference with political preference,
were frequent. Upon these applications war
rants were often issued and white citizens ar
rested and bound over for trial
The report establishes the fact that there
was no direct and positive proof, in single
instance, that any one was prevented from
voting by any menace Of intimidation. The
proof on the contrary, is that the whites
were inundated, and kept out Of the way
for fear of arrest upon warrants issued upon
no grounds whatever.
And in further proof that no evidence was
produced to make out a case of intimidation,
we make the following extract from the re-
port:
Certain witnesses, themselves every one
Office holders, testified generally to such ac-
ton, but hardly any one was able to specify
single instance in which he had heard any
employee so threatened or discharged, or
knew of any employee being SO threatened
OF discharged. Not a single colored man
throughout the entire parish was produced to
testify either to such threat or to the exc
cution OF such purpose, either before or
after the election.
There was not one colored witness called or
brought to the stand to prove intimidation
If the blacks were deferred from voting by
threats of violence, why were not some Of them
called to prove how they were intimidated,
and how they were terrified to stay at home?
OGice-holders under Kellogg alone testified
to intimidation. The Kellogg family seem to
be as numerous as the Grant family, and his
family influence appears to be the chief sup
port Of the Administration. Another extract |
from the report will prove this ::
In New Orleans the assessors are paid
commission on the amount assessed, and |
houses and stores are to be had there for the
axes. In Nachitoches the taxation reached
bout per cent Of the assessed value on the
property. In many parishes all the white
republicans and all the ofice-holders belong
o a single family. There are five of the
ireens in Office in Lincoln. There are seven
f the Bouts in Office in Nachitochos. AS
ne people saw the taxation increase and pros
Gritty diminish, as they grew poor while Off
lals grew rich, they became naturally sore
nat they loved their rulers cannot be pre-
ended. Ia
Only five Green's and seven Bouts in office, !:
1d all Radicals, and all ready to swear up to
lie requirements Of Kellogg. We have not |
10 list of the Grant family in office, but as
lese Greens and Bouts followed the example
the President, they must be in great favor.
Our next extract is to this point It de-
onstrates the reason Of the presence OF the
my. Conservative majority of twenty :,
me in the House of Representatives? I'm n
'ssible, says Grant, and the army is called in ;
rectify so gross an error. Gen. De Tro- r
land steps in with his staff and with bayo- :,
It's, takes out this Conservative majority, and =
force strives to show Radical prepon- r
rance. .a =;
The returns by the Commissioners of Elec- :,
N, compiled and forwarded by the Super :
;ors Of Registration, gave the Conserva- q
es q ajority of 20 members out of q it
al Of Ill members. Is,
A majority of 20 out of total of Ill mem re
RS Is there any fact more clearly proved h.
an this that the opponents Of Kellogg and th
ant had a majority of 20 in the House of til
representatives.? ii
Is there anything clearer than this, that by st
3 infamous action of the Returning Board oy
d by the illegal intrusion of the army of the le
lited States, the people were defrauded and an
Gated and by bayonets deprived of the 80
jority in the House of Representatives in
md we have no immediate redress unless or
resort to force, and force would be con- of
ued into rebellion. The courts established vi
Kellogg are opposed to US, and to prove M
S we again quote from the report as follows: fri
BY the abolition Of courts, with the election in
judges, and the substitution of other or
lrts, with judges appointed by Kellogg in y
LATIoN OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE. Ill
new court was created by the Warmoth -