The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-12
" THANKSGIVING."
Editor n. o. Bulletin:

man occupying the guoernatOrlal CHAIR
of the Safe of Louisiana, in violation of con-
stitutonal law, in violation of common hon.
esty and common decency-in full violation
of the simplest forms of true civilization
publicly, and in official form, calls on the
people Of this Commonwealth to render
thanks to Almighty God "for the many
blessings bestowed upon US, remembering
especially our immunity from pestilencs an
food, and the bountiful crops with which
Providence has crowned the industry of the
laborer throughout the length and breadth OF
the State" Aud he also calls on them to
"not forget to alleviate. as far as is in our
power, the sufferings Of the poor within our
midst"
Will not the wrath of Heaven yet descend
on the head Of the impudent utterer Of such
blasphemy?
Look, Mr. Kellogg, on the picture of Lou
come:
l. An usurper in her gubernatorial chair.
Not the bold and courageous usurper, whom,
despite the burden Of moral wrong which
weighs upon him, men do nevertheless hold
IN some favorable regard on account OF his
higher animal attributes; but the craven who,
flying before the wrath of the people he
Expresses, holds place only as a vsnal tool of
power his victims are too weak to success
fully resist A Governor q over her whom
every decent man, woman and child contemns
and despises, and who only holds his position
by virtue OF o power external to the State.
2. Another usurper in the position of Lieu
tenant Governor, propped and sustained and
continued in like manner. A man representing
a race yet to be civilized, pretending to lead
them upward, yet deceiving and sinking them
by claiming their appreciation of corruption
and dishonesty.
3. All the other elective offices of the State
held by usurpers-men never elected, but
put there by the unrelenting bayonet for the
vilest purposes.
4 Offices of appointment, made SO by vio-
lent seizure from the people of the primary
right of local self-governmeLt. and the offices
held by the vilest horde that ever cursed
civilization.
S. Awhole people taxed and impoverished
to that extent that their hearts go ever bur-
dened with curses for the taskm asters over
them.
g. Widows and Orphans robbed and impov-
ershed under the forms of law. Those over
whom every true man should forever extend the
hand of protection, now the especial victims
of the low political robber.
z. people known as an integral part of
great republic, governed by alien robbers die
tated by the bayonet.
s. Public schools degraded into despcable
political machines, whereby race experiments
may be made in violation of natures laws, and
peculation may administer to the appetites Of
low adventures
8. The elective franchise converted into a
bauble for the people to play with, and
aanacle for the usurper to WELD.
TO- The bench-the first aud last hope of
civiIzation-flled with political adventures,
and even with corrupt men,
IL. Justice gone, and generation growing
up without shadow of respect for law.
This is the picture, faithful in outline, but
far from complete in all the hideousness of its
details.
This man Kellogg calls on us to thank God
for freedom from "pestilence," and yet he
knows that we are writhing under moral
pestilence (of which he is the head), in
preference to which we will! take either
yellow fever or cholera. These latter infiict a
present blow, from the effects of which COM
munties more or less speedily rally, while
the loathsome disease he and his followers
have brought among US, is a hideous leprosy
that may descend to coming generations.
And, no doubt with the spirit of low mock
cry in his heart, he calls on US to remember
to alleviate the sufferings of the poor He
and his minions have ruined and impover-
ished whole people, and now, in the fash
| ionable can't and hypocrisy of an official proc
lamation of winning thanksgiving. he
asks the poor to take care of the poor.
Mock on, Mr.. Kellogg. ca to your trem-
bling knees on President Grants day OF
thanksgiving. Insult the Almighty with your
thanks for the same; but know that this is not
your people, that you are not of us. and that
we are not to be led or pointed to the Throne
of Grace by an outlaw who knows no re-
straint, human or divine. We leave to you
and yours Scribes and Pharisees-to stand
at the street corners and shout "thanksgiv-
ing ;" but our God is our God. Well wor-
ship, not insult him CITIZEN.