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lined to carry the movement into Mississippi 

 Southern Status in which the fouru-i-ntli 



itleenth amendments to the Constitution of 

 States are still respected, and to some 

 reed. In 1868 organized violence wasro- 

 r tlii.s purpose, and was only defeated t>y 



'iiu|.t action t' Congress. Fraud was em- 



i in 1*1-2, but this also failed to achieve the 



I result. In 1878 the unification dodge was 



The colored people were promised mixed 

 's, employment on street-cars, and in 1mm- 

 :ni.l workshops, eoual rights in all bar-rooms 

 da-shops, ana, in snort, moro than the strong- 

 . >o:it>' >!' i-i\ il rights had ever asked for them, 



implied condition that they would put the 



>-ratH in office. This movement failed, and 



i : -74. nil the principles of unification have 



reversed, and under the organization of a white 



party an appeal has once more been made to 



events of the 14th of September last are too 

 well known to need recital. There was no honest 



, no substantial cause, to justify that mis- 

 guided and disastrous movement. The sole purpose 



leaders of the insurrection was to obtain pos- 

 session of the offices of the State. 



Governor Kellogg then goes on to say that 

 wlii-ii the present State government cume into 

 ] ><>\ver there were outstanding, from previous 

 administrations, State warrants to the amount 

 of $2,800,000 in round numbers, and bonds 

 issued before and after the war, amounting to 

 $21,000,000. Since his accession to office, he 

 i^ned bonds aggregating $701,000, which 

 \vere authorized by acts of the Legislature 

 passed before his official term. The outstand- 

 ing floating indebtedness of $2,300,000, the 

 Governor remarks, " left by previous adminis- 

 trations, has been reduced under my adminis- 

 tration to less than $1,400,000. This reduc- 

 tion lias been accomplished by no increase of 

 taxation, but by an energetic collection of de- 

 linquent taxes, and an honest application of 

 the taxes so collected to the liquidation of the 

 past-due indebtedness of the State. The State 

 has thus been enabled to pay under our finan- 

 cial management more than $900,000 of the 

 old floating debt of the State with old assets, 

 and the delinquent taxes now due and unpaid 

 are sufficient, if collected and applied under 

 the policy we have inaugurated, to pay off the 

 balance of the old floating indebtedness." In 

 comparing the expenditures of his administra- 

 tion with those under his predecessors, Gov- 

 ernor Kellogg makes the following statement : 



1. The Democratic Legislature of 1865, 1886, and 

 1867, composed exclusively of white men, Mr. Mc- 



and others of my present opponents being 

 influential members, made appropriations of $17,- 

 129,554, while the total taxes during the same period 

 were $8,879,000; leaving an excess of appropriations 

 over revenue of $18,750,654. 



2. Governor Warmoth's administration made ap- 

 propriations for the current State expenses, exclusive 

 of school, levee, and interest funds, as follows : For 

 1868 and 1869, $2,700,000; for 1870, $2,185,920; for 

 1-71, $3,722,969; for 1872, $1,819,856: total, $10,- 

 878,745. 



8. Governor Kellogg's administration made ap- 

 propriations for current State expenses, exclusive 

 of levee, school, and interest funds, as follows : For 

 1878, $1,554,255; for 1874, $1,172,124: total, $2,726,- 

 879. 



As will be seen, the saving the first year of my ad- 

 ministration over the last year of uiy predecessor'* 

 wu $167,218. In the second year, a mill further 

 saving WM effected of $547,782. At the same rate, 

 during the next two years, my admiuUt ration will 

 cost $5,452,758, while the administration of my pn-d- 

 eoessor for the same time cost $10,878,745, and the 

 Democcatio administration of 1866, 1666, and lbC7 

 cost $17,129,554. 



A statement made by the Auditor, of this date, 

 now before me, shows : Bonded debt of the State 

 January 1, 1869, $9,888,562 ; increase of bonded and 

 floating debt during Governor Warmoth's admin- 

 istration, $14,250,685 ; total debt when Governor 

 Kellogg cume into office, $24,084,247 ; increase dur- 

 ing Governor Kellogg's administration by the issue 

 of bonds authorized by laws passed previously, 

 $701,000 ; reduction of the debt during Governor 

 Kellogg's administration by the redemption of past- 

 due bonds, funding operations, and the retiring of 

 outstanding floating obligations, $1,626,028: show* 

 ing a net decrease of debt, under the Kellogg admin- 

 istration, of $925,023. 



I respectfully commend the foregoing statement, 

 which is, of course, easily verified, to the considera- 

 tion of those Northern journals which have de- 

 nounced my administration as corrupt and oppres- 

 sive, and which yet profess to believe in fair play. 



To recapitulate the financial result achieved under 

 my administration : 



We have in two years paid off over $900,000 of 

 old floating indebtedness with the old assets of the 

 State. 



Wo have reduced the debt, by the funding bill, 

 from $25,000,000 to $15,000,000, not to be increased 

 until after the year 1924. 



We have reduced the State taxes from 21} mills 

 to 14% mills, not to be increased until after the same 

 year. 



We have provided that parish taxation shall not 

 exceed State taxation, so that the greatest amount of 

 taxation any one parish can be called upon to pay in 

 any one year is 29 mills. 



We have enabled the city of New Orleans to re- 

 duce taxation 5 mills. 



We have largely reduced State expenditures and 

 confined them strictly within the limits of our rev- 

 enues. 



We have reduced over $8,000,000 of contingent 

 liabilities. 



All this has been effected by us without aid from 

 those who arrogantly claim to represent all the vir- 

 tue and intelligence of the State, and while contend- 

 ing ajruinst violence within the State borders and 

 organized vilification abroad, and while the very ex- 

 istence of the government was being threatened. 

 This is the financial record of the administration 

 which our opponents assert has been so corrupt and 

 so oppressive as to drive the State into bankruptcy, 

 aud the people into riot. 



Governor Kellogg then reviews the cam- 

 paign of 1872, with the purpose of showing 

 that a large majority of the legal voters of the 

 State at that time voted the Republican ticket. 

 In order to prove that the entire body of col- 

 ored voters were in favor of his election, he 

 says : 



Mr. McEnery and myself were the only candi- 

 dates for the governorship. We both stumped the 

 State. I especiallv went into Bearly every parish, 

 making the first thorough Republican canvass ever 

 made in Louisiana. It was well known throughout 

 the State that I represented the Republican party 

 and the national Administration, and that an my 

 antecedents had been Republican. In my canvass I 

 advocated the Republican principles pure and sim- 

 ple, defending the reconstruction acts of Congress, 

 the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and their 



