Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-03-30
louisiana Affairs in the Senate,

During the debate in the Senate yesterday
upon Virgais politics and Ri3dloberger's elec-
ton as Sergeant at Arms. Mr.. Jolss. OF La. as
stated 10 the G:z,ttc, incidentally alluded 10
the elections 10 Louisiana. wheleupop,
Mr.. Kellogg said that his colleague M.
Jooasl had auimadVerted on the courJ, OF the
Senator ir,m South Carolina Mr. Hampton]
10 voting in his (KelIcgg'sl behalf at the last
Session ct Congress. He had refused 10 be
c,mt0r;e3, because be had not been eble TO uns
scat hin. He lkellcgg) had seen a paper
published 10 L5u!sana-and not a republican
paper-calliug his colleagues attention 10 the
fac; that he had done nothing for tho State of
Loulslsne; and that tho democratic party had
really 10 representative on this flor. lie had
thought that his colleague would have stated
when he was on tho floor that tho debt of LOU
Isi,na had been repudaed by the 50 chilled carr
pet bag government, and ho would have gladly
met that issue. No more inexcusable, no more
unprecedented, no moro rasoaly act had ever
been perpetrated than that perpetrated b7 the
democratic party 10 regard to the debt of that
State. His colleague had stated that louisiana
bad bu. one representative 10 the Senate,
meaning himself. Had he timo ho otu'd COD.
ciu:lvc|y IroVs that he represented msio,ity
OF the DeoI b OF that State. DID his colleague
Wish him to invoke the proof, manifold and il
rtsistiblt? Did ha wish him to show the mode
aud manner by which the ms GRITTY Of tho voters
10 1876 AID 1878 had been 6uppre ssad2 Did he
Wish hin 10 state how the party to which be
belonged, born in tlibulalion ard baptized in
blood. had been o7erthroTn by violence and
fraud a1d open corruption and bribery? He
did not hesitate to 90 into the question Of
whether L,uisl3na was republican State.
He asserted hers that the business men of Lou,
i:iala would sly that they believed, as honest
men, lhst the republican party in Louisiana
had an honest aud fair msiority 10 that State;
that this administrator bad beeu vastly supes
rior to tho PRESENT one. srd that never had
there been time when riot and corruption AID
and mlsTul. had TtisDed as it did to day 10 that
State.
Mr. Jonas said that his colleasu, bad at last
sought the opportunity TO bring forth all the
bile. oil the malice, all tho vituperation which
be had long hold in bis soul against tho people
whom be claimed to represent. Flo referred to
the period during which The Senator kellogg
had claimed to be Gou.rnor of Louisiana as
period covered With infany. The Senator
Kellogg tad been oItc:ed by q mere mob,
which had net the slightest right to elect
Senstor. lie was horo. and now, when be
louuu Elmselt mere 10 safely, nc arose
tor the hrst time aod waved Tho bloody
shirt. In allu5on 10 40 extract read bv
kellogg 80 70 the murder OF two colored minis.
tiers in 1872 The election in Louisiana he
Jones' asserted to be IS fair and free as any
held IN any State Of the Union and no advised the
republicans that they could no longer calculate
On tho color line, declaring that many colored
men in Louisiana voted willingly and gladly
for the democratic candidates.
:, 4 eiioRg denied this statement, and asserted
that during his administration he approved hii
authorizing tho isauect 81 OF bonds OF warrants.
he stated that ex-senator Barnum, the chair.
man the democratic national committee. had
declared 70 him that no more rascally set of re-.
pudlstors existed on the face of the earth than
the democratic party of Louisiana. He denied
the statement that the colored people HilIjnpiv
voted the democratic ticket. Humbugl There
Sss no man that Gid not know that that was an |
assumption that was simply ridiculous and nre. |
posterous. ''1