The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-22

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my duty under section 4, article 4
of the constitution, / have recog.
nized as the government of tie
state.
1t Las been bitterly and persist.
emily alleged that Kellogg was moi
elected. Whether he was or not, il
not altogether certain, nor is it any
more certain that his competitor
McEnery, was chosen. The cleo.
ton was a
A GIGANTIC FRAUD,
and there are no reliable returns OF
result. Kellogg obtained possession
of the Office, and In my opinion has
more right to it than kis COMPETE
tor. On the Goth of February, 1873,
the comittee of privileges and
elections of the senate made a re-
port, on which they say they are
satisfied, by the testimony, that the
manipulation of the election ma
chinery by Yarmouth and others,
was equivalent to 10000 votes, and
they add that to recognize the Nc
Emery government would be rec
ogniZing a government based upon
fraud. In furtherance of the wishes
and intentions of the voters of the
state, assuming the correctness of
the statements in this report, and
they seem to have been generally
accepted by the country, the great
crime in Louisiana about which so
much has been done and said is, that
one is holding the Office of COVER
nor who was cheated out of 10000
votes, againt another whose title to
the Office is undoubtedly based on
fraud, and in defiance of the wishes
and intentions of the voters of the
state. MisinfOrmed and misjudging
as to the nature and extent of this
report, the supporters of McEnery
proceeded to disband by force in
some parts of the state the appoint
ees of Gov. Kellogg, and on the
18th of April of that year a butch
cry of citizens was committed at
CoLFAX,
which, in bloodthirstiness and bar
barity, is hardly surpassed by any
acts or ravages OF warfare. To
put the matter beyond controversy,
l quote from the charge of Judge
Woode, of the United States cir
cult court, to the jury in the case of
the United States VS.. Cruikshank
and others, in New Orleans, in
March, 1874. He said: "In the
case on trial there are many facts
not in controversy, and / proceed
to state some of them, in the pres
ence and hearing of counsel On
both sides, if state as conceded
fact a matter that is disputed. At
ter stating the origin of the diff
ficulty which grew out of an at
tempt of white persons TO drive
the parish judge and sheriff, ap-
pointees of Kellogg, from Office and
their attempted protection by col
ored persons, which led to some
fighting in which quite a number
of negroes were killed, the Judge
states that "most of those who were
not killed were taken prisoners fif-
teen of the blacks had lifted up
boards and taken refuge under the
floor of the court house. They
were all captured; about thirty
seven more were taken prisoners
the number is not definitely fixed.
They were kept under guard until
dark, when they were led out by
twos and threes and most of the
men shot to death. A few were
wounded, not MORALLY, and pre-
tended to be dead, were afterwards,
during the night, able to make their
escape. Among them was Levi
Nelson, named in the indictment.
Dead bodies of negroes killed in
this affair were left unburied until
Tuesday, April l5, when they were
hnFin6 hNy 6nnnfHr hoI aud oF
ficers of the militia from New Or
leans. These persons found fifty
nine dead bodies. They showed
pistol-shot wounds, the great ma
jority in the head, and most of
them in the back of the head.
SOME CHARRED REMAINS
of dead bodies were discovered
near the court house, and six dead
bodies were found under the ware
house, all shot in the head. But one
or two of them were shot in the
breast.
TIE ONLY WHITE MEN INJURED,
from the beginning of these troubles
to the close, were ITodnett and
Harris. The court house and its
contents were entirely consumed.
There is no evidence that any one
of the crowd of the whites bore any
lawful warrant for the arrest of the
blacks. There is no evidence that
either Nash or Cozado demanded
the offices which they had set up a
claim for, but the register continu-
ed to act as parish Judge. These |
are the facts in the case as l under
atand than ~ no ohmiffa6 -
To hold the people of Louisiana
responsible for these at
would not be Just /; but it is |
3 lamentable fact that insufferable |
distractions were thrown in the |
way of the punishment of these |
and the so-called conserv-
alive papers of the state not only |
justified the massacre, but denounc- |
ed as federal tyranny and despot- |
sm the attempt of the United States |
officers 10 bring the perpetrators to |
Justice.
FIERCE DENUSCIATIoEs
ing through the country about of |
and election matters in |
while every one OF tie |
Colfax miscreants goes uuwhipped |
If justice, and no way can be found |
n this boosted land of civilization |
md Christianity, TO punish the per-
Detralors of this
BLOODY AND INDUSTRIOUS CRIME.
Not unlike this was the massacre
n August last. Several northern
young men of capital and enter
Prise had started the little and |
town of
CoUsHATTA.
Some of them were citizens and |
under Kellogg. They |
we're therefore doomed TO death.
Six of them were seized and carried
away from their homes and MUIR
Tered in cold blood. No one has
been punished and the conservative
press of the state denounced all eff
Tort in that direction and boldly
justified the terrible crime. MUIR
1ers of like character have been
in individual cases which
cannot be related. For exa ample,
[. S. Crawford, Judge of the parish,
Ind the district attorney of the
Twelfth Judicial district of the state,
IN their way to court, were shot
rom their horses by men in am
push oh the Sth day of October,
1878, and the wife of the former. in
communication to the department