The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1877-02-28

Altet the rulings OF lhe Electothi
Commission in the Florida case, by
which il was decided not TO receive or
consider evidence Glimde and that d
governors certificate was conclusive
where it accorded with the declaration
Of the State Canvasing or Returning
Board, the confidence of the country
in the great unbiased and "pure"
Supreme Court Judges at once abated,
and the popular belief at once pretty
generally obtained that notwithstand-
ing the Democrats carried Louisiana
by ten thousand majority, which de-
cisive and emphatic expression of the
will Of the unhappy people of that car
pet-bag, cursed and theft infested State
had been stiAed by the dishonest prac-
tees of a set of political criminals,
who had escaped conviction by reasc:l
Of the protecting arm of corrupt and
usurped government upheld BY mill
tary power that the fraud was to be
sancti6ed by the partisan action of Il
majority of the Commission in refusing
TO receive or consider evidence of the
fraud, but on the contrary by a strict
party vote, the Radical majority de-
cided that the only duty of the Com
mission was to count" and to count
for Hayes. Four years ago, the Elec-
toral vote of Louisiana was excluded
by the concurrent action of both
Houses of Congress, both then Eeir .
Republican and there being then two
lists Of Electoral votes sert DIP from
that State, and both li:ts ,6ere reject
ed by the two Houses acting separate.
ly, but concurrently, the reason assign
ed that LouiSia.na had not at that time
. Republican form" Of government.
1t that time Kellogg was the usurp-
ing governor of that State, having
been indicted into the high Office, by
the United States Marshal acting III
obedience to the famous midnight or
der Of the infamous drunken judge,
Durell, an order issued out of court
time, in an action then pending in
the federal court for the district of
Louisiana, wherein, VIM. p. Kellogg
and others were plaintiffs, and John
McEnery.. the, Democratic governor
olect, ana others were defendants, and
the suit having been fled for the os-
tensible purpose of perpetuating testi-
nony. 1t was in such a suit, at such
an hour and in the presence of the
plaintiff Kellogg and his counsel, and
his plant tool, Packard, (whO then
disgraced the Office of United States
Marshal, by his incOmpetency of that
position, and who now seeks to dis
grace in a similar manner, the Office
of governor of LOuisians), and in the
absence of defendants and their coun-
eel and unknown to them that Durell,
without warrant of law. but in prosti-
tuition of every principle Of justice, is.
sued an "order," commanding Pack
ard to tate possession of the State
House Of a toveirgn state. The out.
rageOus order was promptly Obeyed
by the servile minion of usurpating
tyranny to whom it was addressed and
thus was Kellogg, whose name, togeth-
err with that of r. b. Hayes will in
the future Of America be q synonlsnl
for usurpation, indicted into the Of
fee of governor Of State, whose peo.
pie had rejected him at the polls by
twelve thousand majority against him
and how the usurpation was sustained
by the unlawful use Of federal hayo
nets, furnished by a coarse and igno
rant President the country is already
familiar. Under the fostering cart
and protecting power Of this gross
usurper, who was virtually so decided
10 be such by the U. S. Senate, and
in which decision, acting on the re
port Of VIM. A Wheeler and his as
sociate committeeman, the lower
House Of Congress eoncurred, tho
vile creatures Of the Louisiana Re
turning Board, headed by tho perjurec
murderer rfsinuous" Wells, and want
ing in every quality Of constitutional
and lawful organization, numerical
political and all deliberately proceeded
70 duplicate their dirty work of foul
years ago, by counting out the mer
elected by the people and counting il
the men rejected by them. Witt
what deliberation but shameful ant
persistent indecency, they consum
mated the great crime against popular
liberty and the purity of popular
election is known of all men. i
was to inquire into this and the FlOri
da fraud of like character and tht
DOUBLE return from Oregon that 'th'