Published by Charleston Voice
The Tragic Era by Claude Bowers, 1929
Continuation from Louisiana I: Land and Year of Jubilee - The Real Horrors of Republican Reconstruction
Continuation from Louisiana I: Land and Year of Jubilee - The Real Horrors of Republican Reconstruction
CHAPTER XXI
MILITARY SATRAPS AND REVOLUTION
The conditions in Louisiana growing out of the election of 1872 had directed national attention to Cromwellian methods, and a revolution. The conservatives had elected John McEnery Governor over William Pitt Kellogg, the Republican nominee, but an illegal returning board had' given the victory to the defeated without the formality of canvassing the votes. The contest involved not only State officers and a Senator, but the Legislature. The legal De Feriet Board found. the conservatives triumphant; whereupon Kellogg had wired Williams, the Attorney-General who prostituted his position to partisan ends, that the fate of the Republican Party was involved; and the drunken Federal Judge Durell, with the trembling finger; of inebriety, had written his midnight injunction against the legal returning board, and instructed United States Marshal Packard, Republican chairman and manager, to take possession of the State House and prevent any 'unlawful' assemblage there of the McEnery legislators. The next morning, the city vibrant in protest, the besotted judge declared the lawful board illegal and restrained it from canvassing the returns.
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