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January 1873
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February 1873
The Comus parade is blocked from Canal Street by a wall of people. The theme is Charles Darwin’s Missing Links. It is constructed entirely in New Orleans and draws apologies from the governor to Washington when familiar political figures are portrayed as mutated animals adding missing links to Darwin’s Origin of the Species. Darwin later writes a note as to how his theory was mishandled. The Krewe of Rex has its first ball and queen. |
March 1873
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April 1873
On April 13, 1873 the Colfax Riot occurrs in which three white men and 150 blacks were slain. This event and its fallout marks the beginning of the end of the carpetbag misrule in the South. |
May 1873
May 22 Grant’s executive order names William Pitt Kellogg of last November’s gubernatorial election as the winner and he chooses a house on St. Charles Avenue for the executive mansion. Most Louisiana citizens refuse to accept the results and refuse payment of taxes. Lawlessness reigns outside of New Orleans and Kellogg is the object of an assassination attempt. Kellogg spends most summers during his administration taking lengthy trips north to avoid the fevers. |
June 1873
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November 1873
Louisiana Unification Movement is a short-lived alternative political party which included rural planters less affected by Reconstruction and New Orleans business men whose message was conciliatory toward blacks and carpetbaggers, but still held the conserviative line fiscally. They would back Francis T. Nicholls solidly in the 1876 elections. |
December 1873
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The panic of 1873 causes additional turmoil in the state. James Madison Wells is appointed chairman of the notorious State Returning Board by governor Kellogg. |
A 17 page outline of the code duello entitled The Code of Honor, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in 1873, Adopted by the Best Clubs in England and America Embodying the Most Discreet, Moderate and Humane Rules Ever Used in the Management of Such Affairs. It is published by J.R. Quintero, a Daily Picayune reporter and accomplished duelist. | ||||||||||
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