New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-01

| garded as material to the defense, had not
| vet reached the city, and as their examina-
| ton can be speedily concluded, the counsel
| moved that the case be continued until to-
morrow.
The court then adjourned until twelve
o'clock to- day.
General J. I'll. eypher.
This gentleman started for Washington
last evening, to take his seat in Congress as
the representative of the First Congressional
District of Louisiana. 1t will be remem-
bered that he was elected to the Fortieth
Congress, in April, 1868, at the first election
held in Louisiana under the reconstruction
laws, and was again renominated by the
Republicans of his district, for the Forty
first Congress, in the fall Of 1853. In that
memorable campaign he made most
gallant fight, at great personal ex'
pense and peril, and would have
been triumphantly elected, as the
result of the recent election abundantly
proves, if the Republican voters had not
been prevented from going to the polls
by the violence and terrorism inaugurated
throughout the State by the lawless ruffians
Of the Democratic party. Not willing to
allow the Democrats to profit by their own
wrong, and misrepresent the district which,
at fair election, would have given Re-
publican majority, General Sypher went to
Washington to contest the right to seat in
Congress Of his opponent, and after long,
tedious and expensive contest, he succeeded
in defeating the claims of his opponent and
was himself declared entitled to the seat by
seventy-six Republican votes.
The Democrats in the House began to
filibuster to delay his admission. They
made motion to adjourn (which is always
in order) and called for the yeas and nays
before the Speaker Of the House had time
| to administer to him the oath, and in the
meantime circulated report among the
| free trade Republicans that General Sypher
was protectiOnist and was pledged to. the
| Pennsylvania iron interests.
| The facts that General .Sypher was a
| native Of Pennsylvania, aud had many
warm, personal friends among the members
| from that State, and his strenuous oppOsi-
ton to the proposition pending at the time
in Congress, to reduce the tariff on sugar,
| lent plausibility to the slanderous reports
so industriously circulated during the call
| ing of the roll on the motion to adjourn.
As soon as the result of the roll call was
| announced, Jesse II. Moore, of Illinois, a
free trade Republican, who had voted
for the admission of General Sypher,
changed his vote and moved to recon-
slider the vote by which ne had been
| voted in and this motion was carried by
three majOrity-the Democrats and about
fifteen free trade Republicans voting to-
| gether. This is the history of General
| Sypher's defeat last winter. He returned
home at once, and the Republicans of his
district, considering themselves unjustly
| deprived of representation, and that an out
| rage had been perpetratea upon their
worthy representative, renominated him
for the vacancy in the present Congress and
for the forty-second Congress, electing him
| by over five thousand majority in district
which the Democrats claimed by over
| twelve thousand majority in 1868. Thus
the Republicans have redeemed their
| district from Democratic rufianism
| and violence, and their chosen repre-
sentative has triumphed over all his SLAM
derers. General Sypher is an honest.
intelligent and energetic gentleman, a popu-
| lar and fOrcible speaker, and in the recent
campaign made the most vigorous canvass
of any man in the State. He ran ahead Of
his ticket over five hundred votes, and his
district shows the largest Republican gains
of any in the State. He possesses the en-
tire confidence of his constituents as we'll as
that of the Republican party of the State,
the interests Of Louisiana will never be
neglected while they have 80 able, honest
and fearless Representatives. in Congress.