New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-17
MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR KELLOGG.

y" This document is very temperate in it
& tone and sanguine in anticips.ions whicl
we trust will be realized There will re
}. main, however much to do and to be un
done by legislation before we can attain
Fl the happy condition to which all aspire
The first condition indispensable to tn
results anticipated by the Governor hal
been attained. 1t is the cooperation o
at least sufficient number of representa-
% tives to secure proper enactments and the
restoration of q state of social feeling
o which will allow members of opposite
parties to cooperate without subjechne
, them to obloquy or suspicion. This CO.
operation is, We repeat, indispensable to a
restored prosperity. If three lowers on one
side urge the boat in one direction and
three others on the opposite side exert their
. force to compel it in another, the progress
of the boat is arrested and its safety put
in peril. 1t is precisely so with the course
of community, and this consequence
has been demonstrated by the intolerant
conflicts of Louisiana for some years
past The Governor attributes the length
and bitterness of these contests to diversi.
ties OF race, religion and language as
well as to 'imprudent and oppressive
legislation We are aware that there
are gleater diversities of race and Ian
guage here than exist elsewhere in the
United States.
While We have no theory to account for
al undisputed fact, we are convinced that
the safety of ociety will depend upon the
adjustment OF. political differences and
the cultivation of respect for the rights and
feelings Of all members Of society, with
out regard to their opinions, either civil
! or religious. We can very soon see how
far these results, SO desirable to all, will
be promoted by the approaching legisla-
ton. There are indications that a ma
jority Of the opposing parties favor the
compromise truce, but it can not be dis |
guised that there is an element still dis |
affected and ready to employ any incident |
to defeat the entente cordiale, and restore !
the hostilities which have been interrupted |
by the Wheeler Intervention. The force
of this distu bling element must be meas-
ured before the hopes of the Governor can
be either realized or refuted.
The array and enumeration of these
measures to which the Republican execu-
tive has been "a principal promoter, will
tend to strengthen further tho growing
antilles of patriotic men. The steady
reduction of the State debt encourages
the hope that an application of the same
or an equivalent principle to that of the
city and parishes will probably be produc-
tive Of similar results. These reforms
and economical facts must greatly
strengthen the friends Of order, for they
will furnish them with justification for
their conservative acts, and redeem them
from the imputation Of having abandoned
either their principles or their country,
The Governor makes. perhaps. dis
tinction between the reform measures of
his own admi nistration and the alleged
mprudence OF his predecessors. While
this may be rather personal than party .
we may perhaps admit that
The extraordinary obloquy and assaults to
which his exc cheney has been subjected
will authorize him to claim the merits of
If his own ADM nistration as an exculpa-
ion of the responsibility attempted to be
'ast upon him. 1t may be stated thus:
Jnder the administration of his imme-
late ''predec essor" there was given
mount expended. Under his own adj ;,
there was less amount ex-
'ended. Those who would hold Gov
mor Kellogg responsible for the
ebt and taxation resulting from the
cts of those who preceded him are =,
that they have condoned with
be authors of these abuses, and are
old that these abuses are in process of
eform. This would show that the Re- =
ublican party, in installing a reform ad- :.
has shown itself capable of -
,e highest political courage in correcting =
legged abuses and delivering over the au-. .
lors to public condemnation. :"
The message indicates that very AMIGA =
lie relations have been been established Q;
etween the executive and the real bust y.
ess interests of the city and State and y,
e can not sufficiently call to public at :.
,ntion tho confidence reposed in these y
,terests when the Governor commits to :,
lem the preparation and presentation of -
'rious measures of public good which he =,
ould otherwise have presented himself. =.
his confidence will impose very honor -
,le obligations upon the business inter- -
IS referred to. The measures thus be-
me their own, and they must father -,
I'd fight for them. The executive stands :.
lard over the field which they cultivate. ~. y,
We must congratulate the Governor on -,
e improved aspect of affairs and upon g
e success of those efforts which have
sposed the people to harmony. The =,
ndency to acquiesce in adjustment is, ha
weyer, greatly to be attributed to a ~
pular conviction that very little is to be n;
pected from the outside Intervention of ~
litical parties. The extremely frigid ~,
builder which the Democracy of the ~,
nth have turned toward all sorts of ,ot
hnical '.ins,lrrection" and to all appeals -;
ancient political brotherhood have A.,
no mnch tn abata opnosition If not m