Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1877 — A SCURVY SENATOR. [ARTICLE]

A SCURVY SENATOR.

THE CHARACTER OF KELLOGG , OF LI SI AN A, GRAPHICALLY PORTRAYED,

The Infamous Wretch the Rods Have Invited to the Senatorial Councils—Birds of a Feather, Etc-

[Philadelphia Times.] If the man whose claim for a seat ■ In the Semite us a representative of I Louisiana were not the notoriously > unscrupulous wretch that he is, the i republicans who appear in his behalf ! w ould be in a less humiliating posij tion, worthless as his credentials are. i But the story of plundered Louisiana | has been given to the world in all its i sickening details, and is familiar to ; every newspaper reader. There is no | part of that story in which the name of this carpet-bag adventurer does not appear in a discreditable light. A leech that fastened itself upon the btnte in the beginning of its trials, ho is the last to drop off, though gorged | with the spoil of his victim. As a ■ federal officer, as senator, as a federal : officer again, as governor and as I claimant for senatorial honors a second time; he has never relinquished one good thing until his hand was upon another, and either the national or the state government has always had to foot the bills contracted by his greed and ambition. Backed by the army and navy of the United States, formally pluced at his disposal, he achieved the feat of bolding a governorship. to which he had uever been [elected, over a people whom he devoutly hated and has publicly branded us thieves and assassins, although forced to eat his words. The laot years of his official life were devoted to paving the way for the preposterous claim that he now presents to a nauseated country. Packard was to be governor by fair moans or foul, and Kellogg was to be senator by fair means or foul. To this end the great machinery of fraud, invented with th * ingenuity of the devil by the car-pet-baggers, bis children, for the per petuatiou of their power, was set in motion. Race prejudice was studiously inflamed; the negroes were organized into secret societies and drilled in lying; executive clemency was made a political perquisite; jail-birds and blaok-le»s were commissioned to register the voters and receive ballots; repeating was made a trade whose whose profit was impaired only by the number of people engaged in it; bloodshed was courted as a means of inflaming the north; the’affidavit mill was kept in perpetual motion to supply the increased demand for outrages. and when, in spite oi all, a democratic legislature was fairly elected, a republican legislature was counted in, In contemptuous defiance of a law that, literally execute!, was broad enough to cover any species of rasi eallty. The man who was at the bottom of all this deviltry, and for whose sake it was done, is William Pitt Kellogg, for whom Mr. Conkling and Mr, Edmunds have now taken up thecud- ! gels, because they believe his dirty | vote in the fight they are making I ugaiiiat reconciliation and reform is ' required. Bui if Kellogg’s character is notoi riously bad. his claim to a seat in the I senate is no less contemptible from a legal poiut of view. Pinchback was rejected, and yet Piuehback’s title was infinitely better than this man’s. Pile assemblage called a legislature that went through the form of making Kellogg a Senator came into existence for that purpose, and when that purp iso was accomplished so far as it could aecomplis i it, the body would have given up the ghost with' out more ado but for the fact that they were kept under lock and key by Packard’s police and fed with Pack ! ard’s victuals in order that his share j of the spoils of office might be sei cured. As t was, the alledged legis- | lature never performed a single iegisla ive function; thei’e is no trace of its existence on the statutosjof Louisiana. Packard signs the credentials, and when was Packard culled governor, except by courtesy? Defeated ! in the election by a majority of thousands, he attempted to set up a government of which the bogus legislature was a part, but his jurisdiction never extended for a moment beyond the dirty rooms In which that body sat and the sidewalk in front of the , building guarded by the police that | prevented its dissolution. He was ; never owned as governor by the courts ; or people of his state, or recognized as governor by any branch of the federal government for any purpose whatever. In the language of Mr. Conkling when he was in a different frame of mind from that now exhibited, “ho stands utterly Diked of any species of recognition from any department of the government, or from any representative of executive, legislaii/e and judicial power.” On the contrary, Nieholls, who certifies Mr. Spoffords election, has been in j tiie uninterrupted exercise of the exI ocutive function from the day of his j inauguration to the present moment, j Mr. Packard’s certification is worth no more than the paper on which it is written, and hut for the 3traits to which the republican party in the senate is reduced it would never have received serious sonsideration. Sore as these straits are, however, and blindly partisan as the senate has ! showfi itself to be in these latter days of the extra session, we can not belnvo that there will not be found republicans who will unite with the ! democrats in giving Mr. Spofford the I 3eat to which he was elected and showing the Pinkston claimant that his impertinence is understood as [ well by the senate as by the people of I the United States. If not, so much ! the worse for the republican party.

Dr. Loughridge has resumed the practice of his profession, and has as much to attend to as ever. The doctor is to be congratulated at the intense feeling and sympathy existing amor g the people during his illness. It was an exhibition of the confidence reposed in his capabilities as a physician and his standing as a citizen.