The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-05
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as expressed bv them at the polls on the Sd f
| November, 1874. The people then elected to
| the lower house Of their legislature a majority
| Of conservative members. A portion Of the
| conservative members thus elected were re-
| fused their certificates. This is an act Of
| great injustice to the individuals, and OF grav-
| est danger to the state and free government,
/ and ought to be Immediately corrected by any
| power competent to correct it.
| The resolution recommending the recog-
/ milton OF Gov. kellogg is based upon the gem
| this point 10 testimony WAS taken either by
| the committee or any part of it. Kellogg may
| or may not have been elected in 1872, but
! there is no evidence to show the fact or if
| there be, 1t has been neither sought nor found
| by this committee.
Messrs. Foster and Phelps think that the
| popular belief, taking both conservative and
| radical circles in view, on the whole, justify
| Kellogg and Penn's claims and that as Kel-
| lOgg Is and has been acting governor Of Lou
isiana for the past two Y ears, to DENY his right
and lnstill another in his place. after this lapse
| Of time, might involve incalculable mischief
to the legal and political interests Of the state
| To avoid the mischief and confusion of q
change, majority of the citizens of Louis
lana seem willing to adopt a compromise
KellOgg's recognition and restoration to the
conservatives of the control Of the lower
house. For these reasons Messrs. Foster and
Phelps do not wish to oppose the recOmmen-
dstion that the administration Of Gov. Kellogg
be recognized. Neither IN view or tBe fact
that they know nothing of the merits of the
case. as judged by competent evidence do
they wish to be understood as urging it. They
only wish to record their agreement with those
of their associates, who believe such COM
promise might, by making termination Of
the uncertainty in Louisiana, be on the whole.
less intOleTable than the present situation of
that distressed people. But to any resolution
recognizing Kellogg, Messrs. Potter and Mar
shall are utterly opposed They find nothing
to Justify the belief that Kellogg was elected.
ThEt seized the government, by the aid OF
federal troops, through void and fraudulent
order, which prevented the counting and re-
turn OF the votes, should be a standing pre-
sumption against him. When the people out
ragged by the abuses of his government, had
successfullyregainedt the Office he had dusuTped,
he was again re seated by the federal power.
Through the forms of law, by which he had
iutrenched himself, he once more sought to
nullify the choice of the people at the late
election, and to that end, called in federal
troops to break up the meeting of the legisla-
ture. For congress to recognize a usurpation
so gross, so oppressive, is, they think, to es-
tablish precedent by which, under pTetexts
that readily be found, any state govern
ment may be overthrown, the will of the peO-
pie nuliified, fraud and violence made perma-
nent, and republican forms perverted to destroy
liberty
In their judgment, all that is needed in Lou
isians, Is to withdraw the federal troops and
leave the people of that state to govern them
selves.