The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-31
KELLOGG AND TIE BULLETIN.

In the investigation now progressing at tn
Custom-House, Kellogg has an interest 81
great, immediate and direct that it ought Il
work his disqualification. His testimon,
ought to be ruled out on the score of bias, a,
it would surely be in any court in any cast
where his money interest was one 1.-THE Of
what it is in his present Office. Yet large
part of the sixth day of the investigation was
taken up by the "Governor" in reading a
statement of political and other matters, be-
ginning in 1865 and extending to the fourth
of January last
He made repeated references to the BULLE-
TIN, reading numerous articles or parts of
articles, SO disjolned from the context as to
convey wrong impression and SO interlarded
with his own comments as to give to our
words false coloring.
Kellogg's purpose was to make the BULLE-
TIN seem hostile to the negroes as class, an
instigator Of aggressions upon them, an ag-
tator intent upon producing collision of
races and an advocate Of armed violence to-
ward our political opponents. All this is I'M
true, but what are the facts!
About the beginning of the campaign of
1874, in June, marked and manifest spirit
of turbulence and violence prevailed among
the negroes Of New Orleans In broad
daylight, on our principal streets, ladies were
every day assaulted, insulted or robbed
Many negroes were on the metropolitan pc
lice, and many of the white men of the same |
body were overbearing, insolent and brutal to
the last degree. The ruffians in uniform were |
a terror to ladies and children in all parts of
the city. " ...
In remote sections, and wherever negroes
were numerous, it was not safe for ladies to
appear by day, or for any one but q negro by
night, unless he was policeman or known
Radical. Gangs of armed negroes paraded on
the wharves, driving away white laborers.
The police were militia and were completely
armed. The negro militia numbered several
full regiments, all completely armed at the
expense OF the State.
SO great had become the turbulence and
violence of these leagued and drilled negroes
that the Radical white leaders themselves
became alarmed. The General then in com.
AAAoAu " eLO 'oehtc \CultHy negroes ana
policemen) advised the prompt organization
and arming Of the whites, saying to us that it
would be impossible for the officers in CON-
mand of the negro regiments to control them :
in the event Of a rising Of negroes, of which |.
there were then general and well grounded i
fears.
For these reasons we approved urged and !
aided the arming of our then utterly defense 1
less white citizens, to secure their property 1
from plumber, their families from assault, in /.
'ult and brutality, their houses from robbery
md fire and themselves from assassination. a
Events proved that the arming Of the whites
vas not day too soon. The agency of the m
BULLETIN in all this was active and emphatic CT
n advocating measures of self-defense we \
Employed no argument or means of which the :.
White gentlemen of New Orleans have then or f.
ince disapproved. Ell
In the articles referred to, and in those in y
which the BULLETIN advised the employment -
4 white laborerS, no unkindness was ex- al
ressed toward negroes. We desired union or
the whites for seifprotection and we tn
armed our friends only against harboring ~ y.
nd helping such as would become their M
rmed enemies and aggressors in the hour of hi
eril, al