The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-18
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
A Resident OF wheeling at the Seat
of war-His Views-The Infamous
Returning BOard--Mendacity OF
kellogg and Sheridan--COrrupt Ju
diciary--A Description OF Matters in
General.

General.
Editors of the Register:
New ORLEANS, Jan. 10, 1875,
A noted swearer going to market witt
wagon load of apples, was asked why
he did not swear upon discovering that
the tail board of his wagon was lost, anc
his wagon load Of apples distributed over
the last mile of the road His answer
was:
gentlemen, l can't do the subject JUS
tice.'
If | was asked to express my views in
relation 10 the scenes enacted in this city
on the 4th of January, for want of words
to express my disaprobation of the course
persued by the military in driving out OF
the State House at the point Of the bayo-
net. the legislature of this State my ans
wer would be that of the apple man:
| cannot do the subject justice.
1t is well known here that Kellogg had
packed the State House with sergeant-at-
arms and metropolitan police, for the
purpose of raising tumult and disorder
when, in accordance with his tactics, it
was necessary to have tumult and disorder
in the legislature.
These men raised the political h-T
las termed by the Cincinnati Gazette cor
respondent in the lobby of the House,
and the Sergeant-at-Arms appointed by
Speaker Witt being excluded from the
State House by the military. Speaker
Wilt requested General De Trobriand TO
speak to those men in the lobby and ask
them to be still, which request being COM
piled with, the lobby quoted down. The
Speaker made this request of De Trobriand
the same AS he would have requested any
other citizen who would or could have
any influence with Kcloggs HI raisers
in the lobby.
Speaker Wilt testified under oath
before the Congressional Committee III
my resence to these facts, substantially
as | here state them.
There is now, and will be rs long as
this question is before the people, de-
termination to throw the blame of first
calling in the military upon the Con
scrvatives, when such is not the case.
NV opinion ia, that the organization OF
the House was illegal, because there is u
Speaker shall be taken by ayes and nays.
Speaker Witt testified before the Com
mittee that he was not aware, at the time,
of the existence of that law; which, how
ever, is not q sufficient excuse. As an
offset to that error on the part of the
Conservatives, the Radicals made the
mistake, organized the House in the
same manner, and to-day ii so stands IL.
legally organized.
In 1868, the House was organized by
the Radicals in the same manner as or
ganized on the 4th of January.
However if that pretext had not offer
ed itself, some other would have been
found to perpetuate this Illegal, most in
famous and corrupt force of u Kellogg
usurpation, upon this long suffering and
fore6aring people, who have appealed to
their fellow cOuntrymen in every manner
known, to relieve them of an oppression
that would not be tolerated by any other
people and only tolerated here because
these people are under the ban on ac-
count of the war, and because they are
trusting in the justice due them from
their fellow countrymen of rlghting their
wrongs bv rebuking the authors thereof
One hundred years ago the people of
the United States went to war with Eng
land for one quarter the oppression that the
Louisianans are now suffering under, and
have no hcsitancy in saying that if one
the Of the thirty odd laws of this State
1 were upon the statute books of West Nir-
| ginia, IT would Consign the party enact
ing such law to political obscurity in 4
very short space OF time.
The great cause of complaint is that
the elections have been set aside and the
same thieves returned by that infamous
continuance called Returning Board,
created to perpetuatc the same party III
power, and from lChose decision there as
no appeal.
Before the election a Radical Judge
declared some six thousand foreign born
citizens not voters, many of whom had
been voting from Is to 20 years. This
is another evidence of the RIGHTEOUSNESS
Of the pow RS that be.
The last State election was quiet, Or
DERBY and peaceable, and large major
ity of intelligent Conservatives elected to
the Legislature, which did not suit the
Kellogg party, who knew that they
themselves were never elected, and that
they would be turned out of office by the
Conservative Legislature. Their political
salvation depended upon the complexion
of the Legislature, and the Returning