The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-04

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The Republican after counseling its follow
ers not to vote at the election yesterday be-
comes lachrymose over the "sad spectacle"
presented by the city of New Orleans-a
sad spectacle :" in that the Democracy.
the white people, the only people Of
Louisiana, were to be seen quietly
and resolutely exercising the right of which
Radical carpet baggers and recreant scalawags
have vainly schemed and conspired to cheat
them. 1t would have been joyous spec
tacle, perhaps, if the polling places had been
thronged with battalions of deluded negroes,
organized into voting parties by proving
adventurers, and marched from poll to poll,
as was the case last April 1t would have
been very exhilarating, no doubt, to "trooly
loil eyes, to see the large white majority,
constituting the people of New Orleans and
Louisiana, OVERCOME by servile mob,
welded by imported plunderers and ignorant
of everything but obedience to their "trooly
loil" Radical masters. But the day for such
spectacles is past in Louisiana. whether Grant
is elected or not. Not only have the Democracy
demonstrated their ability and their determi-
nation to control its destinies, but the negroes
have proved that they are utterly unfit and
incapable to contest the supremacy with
them. 1t is absurd as well as false to say
that they abstained from voting on account
of intimidation. 1t is false because there
was no intimidation because policy, as well
as every other consideration, would have re-
strained the Democracy from violence and
it is absurd because nothing can be more II
diculous than that great and powerful party,
claiming to be in majority, and capable of
asserting its rights, should cover in the dust
in the face of phantom fear. The Repub-
ican kno,cs that the full Radical vote could
have been cast in this city yesterday, and
that there would have been no interference
with any voter in the exercise of his legal
rights. That paper knolcs that the abstention
of the negroes from the polls was dictated by
their white leaders, and that it was die.
tated in order that pretext might be inven-
ted for perpetrating another outrage on the
people of Louisiana-that in short, it was
nothing more or less than a trick; subter-
fuge-the last resort of desperate political
gamblers to retrieve a game which would
have been lost by honest playing. Did not
Governor Warmoth vote yesterday? Did
not Colonel Sypher vote? Did not Colonel |
Sheldon vote? Did not all the Radical lead
ers voae? Did not the editors and attaches |
of the Republican vote? If these could |
vote, why not the black Radicals? If there is
> feeling of antipathy in this community
against the Republican party, it is directed |
not against the deluded tools, the blind and |
ignorant followers, but against the corrupt |
leaders, against the men who have schemed
and conspired to rob the people of Louisiana
Of their rights, and who are now contriving
% cheat them of their vote in the electoral
,ollege. If these men were safe at the polls
the black Radicals would have
been doubly safe.
II the Republican thinks that the trick
which has been devised to nullify the vote
If this State will tend to secure the ascend
sncy of the two or three hundred carpet
pagers and scalawags who have seized
lpon the government, it will discover that
t has previously erred. Its faction is
doomed by the voice of the people of
louisiana, and no expedients of legisla-
i've legerdemain, no congressional devices,
an ever resuscitate it. 1t has conclusively
'roven not only its weakness, but its non
nifty as a political element.