Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-04

out Of their seats Is in the best vein
Of Radical piety. In the fall Of
1858 the Democrats Of Louisiana
put the best foot foremost, cult.
waited the man and brother with
barbecues, filed him with free
whisky, clapped a ballot in his
hand and voted him straight
through; whereby it happened
that the State went for Seymour
by 10000 majority. and full dele
CATION Of five Democratic Repre-
sentatives was elected. Foresee-
ing, from the pleasant manner in
which the man and brother took
to the barbecuing administered
unto him, how the thing was like
to go, some OF the Radical wire.
workers te~legraphcd on to Wash.
ington, just prior to the election,
for instructions. The word came,
"Outrages !" but. stuffed full Of
roast.pig and good whisky, the
negro was if anything more gen
tic thar a lamb and as little in.
clined 10 fight as a she.doye.
Outrage then, being out ofthe
question, again the word went
forth unto Washington for in
structions, and in response there
came an order to keep the blacks
away from tine polls, the design
being TO plead rebel terrorism
as the cause. This met indirier.
eat success. Where the barbecues
had been plentiful. and the
whisky loatcd free, there, dis.
regarding the voice OF the
charmer, the black man voted
for the Democracy and only in
such places as had not been per,
fumed with the aroma Of shoat
and bourbon did the staying,away
plan prevail. As o consequence,
though the Democrats carried
every district, an exceedingly full
vote was polled in some and only
a moderate vote in others. To
turn all the Democrats out, there.
fore, on the plea of rebel terror.
rorism' having kept the negroes
from voting, was out o.! the ques.
ton, since in most Of the districts
the returns showed that they hal
voted, and voted Democratic al.
most en- masSe. III despair at this
state Of affairs, the reconstructed
State authorities nibbicd off q
thousand votes here and a thou.
sand votes there but, even this
not materially changing the sweep.
ing Democratic maiorities. it was
found necessary finally to give
them certificate, Of election: and,
as the electoral vote Of Louisiana
was soon after counted for the
Democratic candidate for the Pres.
idency, i; was thought that settled
the question for CoAgrcssmcn, too,
and That Louisiana would reap the
advantage VI her a>siduous barbc.
cuing Of the man and brother by Il
iuI. Democratic delegation il the
House.
Congress, however. was cQua.
to the cXigency, and as soon as
it met last year opened the play
that has just in these few
days past reached the grand trans
formation scenes. Objection was
made to the Louisiana members.
and their credentials referred to
the Committee or Elections, which
committee took a comfortable nap
Of some months thcreupon. and
then walked up and referred them
to q subcommittee. and then all
hands went 10 sleep again. Then
after al immense amount Of prod.
ding, the sub committee walked up
and reported TO the committee
proper, and the committee proper
took testimony" This necessi.
tating Il pleasure trip to New Or.
leans, and pleasure not being n
thing that admits haste, some more
months passed. Then came up
this terrible Georgia 70 set
everything at loose ends and,
what with PASSING condition pre-.
ccdent one day and taking it back
the next and q due time spent in
hopeless muddlement at the case
upon the merits, something over a
year was gotten rid OF, and then,
not being able to to anything else,
the committee reported in three
cases, In the first OF these it ap.
peared one Hunt, q Democrat, re.
ceived 1880 votes. and one Shell.
don, a Radical, S,j03, Or Just
l0,S47 less. To admit that's
Radical could be thus badly beaten
was to admit that reconstruc.
ton was q failure, and the com.
could not 10 this. Neither
could the House, and accordingly
voted Hunt out and Sheldon in bv
Ia to 81. In the second case
McCrainic, a Democrat, received
1916 votes Morey, q Radical,
3,l24; and Kennedy, another Rad.
ical, 3O76-the Democrat again re.
ceiving more than 10000 majority
over either Of his competitors, or
1915 over both. This was, the
committee thought, q worse case
even than the other, and had there