The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-04-05
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The Outrage ON Louisiana Citizen
n. O. Demncrat1

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y. O. Democrat.l
For many months the offices of the parish
of East Baton Rouge have been in the
bands of as incom petent and corrupt a sci
of parOchiai officials as ever gave license t.
robbery, arson and murder, even in Louisi-
ana. The consequences are tina, lawles--
ness has superseded order and law /; the tur-
bulent element of the population, until re-
Gently. reIgned supreme, filing th1 paris
with alarm and insecurity. This state Of
things finally became intolerable, and on
the nineteenth of January last the citizens
of the parish, white and black. assembled in
Baton Rouge in mass meeting To take steps
TO protect society from the ruffians who had
! taken possession of the parish. The imbe-
ellie usurpation of Kellogg lifted not finger
to bring the marauders to Justice; on the
contrary, the parish officials of THAT usur
patton, impotent for good. We're the patrons
OF all the iawleSsneSs which reigncd in The
community. Kellogg, "squat like a toad il,
New Orleans, guarded by Grants bayonetS.
and surrounded by the vermn of thieves.
who constitute his partiSans and officials
| looked on nnmOved. In this crisis the peO-
| pie were forced to act for themselves. and
no such meeting as that OF the 18th of Janu-
airy ever took place in the parish before.
The white men from every district of the
parish were there; the negroes, despairing OF
of protection against the regulators from
the Wretched Governor they had aided in
]
ards and thieves they had aided liz making
parish officials, gathered with the white cit
izeDG is their last and best hope ofprOtection
| There was 30 violence; there were no
| threats; but there was a resolved purpose to
stop the career OF arson, robbery and murder
The meeting required the Sheriff, the Tax
Collector and the Parish Judge to resign
! the offices they had disgraced. A commit
! tee, composed of conservative and repre-
sentative men, was then appointed to visit
Mr.. Kellogg to request him to accept tn e
designations, and appoint competent and
worthy men in the places of the retiring
officials. And, finally, resolutions were
| adopted pledgiug the faith of the citizens to
| a suppression of laWleSSnesS and a reStora-
ton of peace and law, if Kellogg would
comply with their request. Let it be borne
| in mind that this wa. not a political meet
ing; that il was not Il white mans meet
! ing. 1t Was q meeting of the citizens, ir-
| respective of race, color or previous condi
| ton and Irrespective of politics. The com
| mittee appointed by this meeting to visit
| Kellogg arrived in this city few days sub
scquent to The meeting, called upon him
| and requested that lie would accept the
designations of the objectionable officials
and make fitting appointments in thelI
| stead. Mr.. Kellogg seemed to be fully 1m
! pressed with the grievances the people OF
J Baton Rouge had sustained lie evidently
| thou4nE they were justified in their action
| he certainly did not thing that any violence
had been done by the citizens, or that they
| had perpetrated any outrage upon the OIL
! cials. He told the committee he could moi
make ting require appointments just then
| because the inHuence or senator Kurct
| would defeat their confirmation in the Sen
ate He assured the committee, however, that
| at the earliest moment he would do all Ill MS
power for their constituency. Kellogg, as
| usual, failed TO keep his pledge; and within
| the past week the citizens of Baton Rouge
| have themselves taken the proper steps &c
cause the Objectionable officials who re-
signed on the 9th of January, but who have
| persisted in holding on to the offices, TO ao-
| dictate.
One of the most corrupt and objec ton able
ofthese officials required to resign is one Geo
| L. Davis, Parish Judge. This fellow is car
pet-bagger of the first water; with some ca
! pacity and a finished education, he is. at the
| same time, creature of the lowest, basest
and most bestial instincts. Corrupt in the
! administration of his office; coward OF the
meanest sort; depraved in his social life, he
| has made the parish judgeship an lnstru-
ment OF oppression ana fraud. lie has used
| it to afford immunity to cattle, hog and cot
ton thieves, and not unfrequently he has
dismissed confessed negro criminals from
custody with the pious injunction, "go and
sin no more. p" This man has done more
than all others combined in East Baton
| Rouge to encourage the negroes in depend
ing upon the cattle, hogs and cotton of the
more honest and thrifty blacks, aud upon
those of the whites. The parish judgeshlp
! in his hands has been an agency OF de-
! bauchery. His social life Is, IT possible,
more infamous than his official record
| When DAVIS arrived at Baton Rouge ne
| brought with him his wife, we are told, an
| elegant, lovely and accomplished woman
| This lady he soon began to neglect Tor ne,
| gro wench, whose affections he succeeded
| in winning from her dusky lord. Iht sadie
husband first threatened the seducer with
death; but the matter was amlcably adJ Just
ed. A divorce suit was then entered IN
| DauiS' court DdviS pronounced tAe judgment
! Of divorce 5ettoeen the negro man ana ms tcVe
| then took the woman himself, and has llved
! in open concuhinage with both her and her
| sister ever since. One of the women accom-
! panied him to New Orleans last week
| when he came down to tell the story OF ms
sorrows TO Boss Packard and heiiogg, ia
| vis's wife, >mitten with grief, INUNDATED
| aud hear6-broken, attempted TO COMM
suicide by taking morphine, but was saved
| bv her friends. She then returned TO heI
friends in the North.
| Now. this vile creature, this "rag OF non
| or" this debaucher of negro morals, TINS
| adulterous beast, this corrupt Judge, beside;
| being Parish Judge of East Baton RonSe
has for; several years pas1 been q cIerk IN
the United States Revenue once In oaLoi
| Rouge. AS our SpoHdentstateS, when
ever he has been charged by the people VILE
holding State and Federal office, in con
| travention of the law ard his solemn oath
/ he has declared that he was not Feoefa
/ official, but a mere Cl6IN IL btO ~
office, subject to be discharged az any mo
ment' by the deputy collector. 1t IL eyloent
| therefore, that Davis is either not Il Cnltee
States official. or that he is per1urer. how
ever this may be, the citizens meeting con
fIned their demand upon him to the reslg
| nation of his State office OF Parish JuoSe
| In the presence of the Deputy United states
Collector he was told by the chairman
the committee which Mai i.s., upon HIM, tina
in resigning the judgship. he was perfectly
safe from mclestatiep that te eoniq rem an
in. or leave, baton Rouge, as pleased nm
that If lie remained and behaved himself; n
| would receive the same protection as otne
citizens, Davis - coward. corruptlonist
periurer-thought proper to leave, unde
the living preteNt that he was forced 20 a.
so to ,preserve his lie.
And on this nimsy oasis, on this mlsera on
nrdfext. the United States Grand jury ma
Indicted. at the dictation of Packard. ten Q
the principal and most conservative clIlzs =
of Baton Rouge, who took part In the CT,
zens' meeting, on the charge that they rig nI
$ conspired to induce an officer OF tne Gnl
ted States Government to leave inc pa
where by law he was required TO perIorn
the duties of his Qhlce,n
JUST in, five cases new style Calico
Stadeker'ss W"sa'