Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-05
8zilp &errsbef Jrnrnal.
Asgssts, Tuesday Morning. April S.


The LOuisiana Senators.
The Bourbon Senator from Louisiana,
Mr.. Jonas, assumed in speech made in
the Senate short time ago. that he was
the only representative which his State
had in that body. Since that time he and
the public have heard from Mr.. Kellogg.
and the general conclusion is that Mr..
Kellogg Is much better representative Of
Louisiana than Mr.. Jonas, and better en-
titled to speak for her in the Senate. Ger
tainly no man was ever more effectually
by Kellogg. The ignorance Of the former
in regard To the affairs Of the State he as
sumes to represent was most thoroughly
exposed by Kellogg. and 50 completely
was he beaten in the discussion which
took place that he became spectacle Of
pity as well as contempt to the listeners.
Both these gentleman were originally
from Illinois. OF them the Chicago Inter-
Ocean says: Both went from Illinois to
Louisiana, Jonas in 1885 and Kellogg at
the close of the war of the rebellion. Kel-
logg served through the war in the Union
army and Jonas in the rebel army. Kel-
logg took leading part in recognizing
the republican party in Louisiana, and in
ali the struggles that followed, while
Jonas was from the first identified with
the New Orleans clique Of Bourbons that
intrigued against the republican State
government.
Kellogg was elected United States Sen
ator in Is6s>by Legislature in which the
Republicans had a majority on joint bal
lot of fifteen. There was no dispute about
this. He was elected for his present term
in 1877, and so strong was his case in the
dispute that followed that democratic
Senate declined TO disturb him. Kellogg
represents the republicans who made the
fight for reconstruction, and who con-
trolled the State government until they
were thrown out of power through the
compromise Of 1877. Jonas was elected
Senator as the representative Of the Bour-
bons. who secured, the year OF his cleo
ton. the adoption OF a new constitution.
and debt ordinance regulating the
terms on which loans we're secured. lie
represents the party that scared power
through fraud and assassination, and that
has maintained itself by resort to ntimida-
ton and persecution
So it appears that both men were carpet
baggers. and it also appears that while
the term carpet-bagger was flung at the
one as vile reproach, it was no bar to
the other being raised by the Bourbons to
. seat in the Senate Of the United States.
The one was true to the sentiments which
inspired the State Of his birth in the strug-
gle with the slave power, the other went
down on his knees to the slave oligarchy
and his Northern birth was forgotten be-
cause OF his subserviency to the White
League. These two men represent we'll
the two parties into which Louisiana is
divided. and it must be exceedingly NOR
tifying TO the Bourbons of that State to
witness the great discontinue of their
champion by the representative of the
colored people and the despised white re-
publicans. What mourning there is in
the streets of New Orleans to-day where
the Bourbons do congregate. that Kel-
logg was not driven from the Senate be-
fore the republicans regained the ascend
ency!