New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-02
Keeplnr Thelr Conrnrs rn,

The telegraphic dispatches from the
South, particularly the States where cleo
tions are being held, are just at this time a
study. The command of the telegraph
throughout the South seems to be in the
hands of ex-rebels and of those who sympa
thize with them and the result is that ell!
the reports sent North are colored for the
special benefit of their friends with the
most positive and cheering announcements
of success for the antireconstr lCti9nists.
If these dispatches tell the truth the new
| Constitution will be rejected everywhere,
| and the "Satrapies," about which these
highly oppressed persons whine, will be
kept up in all their arbitrary and demoral-
izing outrages. The manner in which this
is to be done is by means totally unexp.ct-
| ed. The negroes, we are told, are voting
against themselves in the most gratifying
manner. In the Stump Sound precinct,
south Carolina, out of fOrty.six black men,
only one voted the Republican ticket or in
| favor of the Constitution. Twenty negroes
| voted in Columbia county "With the Con,
servatives.n So in Georgia ''many negroes
| voted the Conservative ticketn In Savan-
nah "the Colored Conservatives are active,
and in the three districts North Carolina,
| Georgia, and Louisiana, everything is going
against the real interests of the people.
South Carolina alone is given up to the
Republicans, a concession which, perhaps,
is to be ascribed to the fact that the election
is over, and because lying will do no good.
But, after all, there are yetto come the ofii
cial returns, which, somehow or other,
usually vary from the telegraphic reports
which come from extremely biased and
reckless persons who do net attempt to dc
| their duty conscientiOusly as agents of the
| Associated Press. We had precisely the
! same stories from Arkansas, The telegraph
| told us that in that State the Conservatives
"swept everything before them.n If they
did they only made the Way clear for the
Republicans, who walked over the course
So 1t will turn oHt, we imagine, in the dis
| tricts in which the election is now taking
| place. The immense Conservative enthu'
siasm, which the telegraph assures us noN
exists, is new born. It can only hope ioI
success by enlisting the efforts of culored
men against their own interests. They ate
| simple and ignorant, but nothiug las yel
| occurred in the history of Southern tr4usac
tions which shows that they do not know
ION which side their bread Is buterrd'
whenever butter is to be bad. Phiddeptid
/ Inquirer.
The Louisiana election was reported In
the same manner as those above noted
Dispatches were sent from this city stating
that the Constitution had been defeated fol
three or four days after our published re
turns showed It's adoption by at leas
twenty thousand majority. The opposition
papers kept up the strain as long as it wa
possible To do SO, and professed to be il
great doubt as 70 the result all last week
Since then they have eeeE quite re iceu
on the supjcct. At least none vi them havi
corrected the erroneous statements they
first pnnilshed, although nearly every da!
has added 10 the previously ascertsinet
majority for the Consultation and the Re
puslicaa state ticket.