The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-17
THE STRUGGLE In LOUISIANA:
Wednesdays Philadelphia Times.

THE STRUGGLE IN LOUISIANA.
Wednesdays Philadelphia Times.
Our special dispatch from New Or
leans, reviewing the situation in Louisi-
ana, is from a regular staff editor OF the
Times, now on special duty there, and we
regard the statements as the most re-la-
bic likely to be received by any Northern
journal. He is thoroughly familiar with
the CHIEF. actors onl both sides, and is ex.
perienced in observing the sinuOus ways
of the Kellogg Packard Piuchback
combination, whose studied perver-
sion OF the ballot in that state has
been pointedly condemned by both
branches of Republican Congresses
We therefore present his concise report
of the situation rs entitled TO the fullest
credit. 1t shows that the vote of the
State, as actually cast, is for Tilden by
fully seven thousand that the majority
would have been doubled had not the
Kellogg registration arbitrarily disfran-
chised thousands of legal voters; that
Kellogg election officers have purposely
committed irregularities to furnish a
pretext for rejecting the vote of polls or
parishes; that in some sections I'm.
proper illegal measures were en-
plOyed TO prevent the colored
voters from voting, or to make
them vote the Democratic ticket; that
the election was the most peaceable ever
held in the State; that New Orleans is
not turbulent or even excited; that there
is no apparent necessity for the sddi-
tional troops there; that the return
board can do as it will, and means to re-
turn the Hayes electors, unless restrained
by the omnipotence of the earnest desire
of the country Tor an honest election, and
that the army is there not so much IN the
interest of peace, as to defend the Kellogg
return board.
1t is now too late to question that the
vote of Louisiana, as actually cast by her
people, gives Tilden majority of from
seven to ten thousand. This vote, it
must be remembered, was cast in State
where Kellogg officers controlled the
election boards, and fraudulent voting for
Tilden was substantially impossible. 1t
is not pretended that the votes computed
for Tilden were not cast, or that they
were cast by Illegal voters; but it Is
alleged that the blacks were in
Inundated and the election made to
defeat the will of the legal voters by
compelling colored men 10 abstain from
voting. 1t was on this pretext that Rel.
logg set aside the returns in 1872, and Tor
the perjury and fraud that he employed
in doing SO, both the Republican Senate
and House of Representatives turned his
tainted commissions and their bearers
from their presence. In 1874 he again
made his return board set aside the re-
turns on the same pretext Of the intimi-
dation o. colored voters, and NJ. Wheeler
wcat there with other Congress
men, specially commissioned to in
Quirc INTO the kCiIC2g .ra.uQs, and
turned Uut of the Legislature the pre-
tenders who had been falsely reLurned
by the Kellogg Board, and who had been
seated by Sheridan's bayonets cleaning
in the very halls Of legislation. Thus
did two Republican Houses and two Re-
publican Senatcs teach the whole world
that the Kellogg Returning Board was
an unspeakable intamy, that commenced
its work IN unblushlng perjury AMI ended
il in the fraudulent subversion of every
attribute OF popular government.
If any, in the heat of infamed partl-
zsnship, still boubt that Kellogg is now
preparing the way for deliberate fraud
that shall overthrow the plainly express
cd popular will of the nation, let them
read his defiant statement to our cores
pendent yesterday that sail h-ll cannot
prevent Packard from beng Governor"
and then let them turn and carefully per-
Use the extracts we give from the Repub-
lican Senators and other trusted leaders
on the Kellogg infamIes of the
past. Ifthere are those who, after look
ing squarely in the face the system
attic debsuchery that Kellogg is about TO
summon to reverse the solemn verdict of
the Union, can hope for just return
in Louisiana, it must be because there,
AS elsewhere, crime will shrink from
light and truth and must bow to the
imperious demand of an honest people
for an honest award of the highest and
hottest trust of earth within the gift of a
free government We shall not despair
Of the triumph of right in this case, be-
cause to do so would be to despair of the
Republic.
THE Rochester Chronicle says: 1t is
estimated that ll,5O0O people have died
from disease brought on 5y being over