New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-29

sentatiyes, and deprive III. George W5ah-
ington, his opponent, Of his Just dues, in
order that ballot boxes may not be stuffed,
apd IN order that men shall be returned a.
elected who have received majority Of the
votes. The Republican party claims that
isiana.. IT such is the case, it can not Coz
sistently object to the repeal Of the present
election law. AS long - these laws exist
in the statute books there can be NO fair ex-
preston Of the will Of the people at the
polls, and the time must come; event
,1aliy when they viii work against Re-
publicans az well - pensocrats. These
tisan ends, and, not, 10 the interests of
the people. There, are men occupy ING
seats in the House Of Representative 70.
day who have never been In the State .
year, and who know no more about the
wishes and needs of their constituency
than / know About the inhabitants Of the
moon. l ask what objection can there be
to the repeal 81 these lawsi i would like
for some Republican senator to tell me Why
it 10 you dread a,faif election in tho 6tsts Of
Louisiana. Your caase must certainly be
An unjust ono. "A cause which has sus-
tanned and fostesD6 corruption and fraud
must fall. "A csaS1 which il sustained by
the strong arm Of eosTups power must falf.
because there 10 . pgwer greater than thst
which shstains il. The people have 8 voice
in this nattery and they viii be- heart,
Any ettempt : tsIn perpetuAte that
RBo owfs ls Tfsl. must fail
iiricsi power ~ ierislatiys efsctmenKtS.
There never VIII Se such party, because
the people viii regard more the preserva-
ton Of their liberties than they viii the
power of selfish men who are elected for
purely selfish ends. There il no law which
is passed III tho interest Of partisans, and
which il not founded in justice and In right
that will not recOil upon the heads of those
that passed it. Tho old italian provetb
that courses, like chickens, como home to
n e. said ia Sc AfE$sPig tsa Is R :9s!
us in the commepcement Of this
the election Law now in force in
order to get, gid on, its most obnoxious
features. We told them We would do 90;
but new Isee those very gentlemen taking
q backward track, Why has this great
change taken place 2 Do these gentlemen
the election -law!, Why, the, very legis-
lators that plAcetl the law upon the statute
books, fondly expected that it would be
used as q means to secure their own re-elec.
ton; and how terribly have they been dis
app0inted. / hope the Senate will take up
this bill Immediately and consider It
fav0rably. ~. .-.i... ~. .'
cuss the merits of this bill, uor even
distinguished gentleman from Claiborne
(Mr. Blackman), because, if judge tho
temper Of the senate correctly, it is not dis.
posed to debate this measure at the present
time. The gentleman has alluded to the
old italian prOveRb ab0nE courses like chick.
ems coming home ID r0Cet.' There is an old
Scotch proverb, which runs something in
this wise: ,,,e ,r',, ~ 49, :,
He dug pit. he disgd It deep, ?" tlti
He tuNblsd and Hin the pit, ia' '-e
70 That he dug for his brother Z.
Mr.. Blackman: You are just falling into
that pit. DaG e7''. =
Mr.. Campbell: The gentleman (Mr. Black.
mani has already fallen into it. Now, Mr.
President, tits the intention Of the people
Of Louisiana, De- represented by the General
Assembly, that the election of 1872 shall
not be conducted in the same way ana
under the same rules as'the election Of 1868
was held. am somewhat surprised that
the gentleman (Mr. Blackman), represent
ing the party that, he does, should have the
courage II had almost said audacity) to
stand up here atid epeak Of election frauds,
when the last Presidential election in this
State is atill fresh in our memory. / have
listened with careful attention to all that
the gentleman has said. in regard to the
frauds that hs alleges to have been COM
mitted under the election law of 1870, and l
am forced. to the consolation that, admitting
true net only ill that has been proven in that
respect, but every assertion that has been
made throughout the State and tina United
States. by the Democratic newspapers. from
the New York Day Book and POmeroy's
Democrat down to kindred sheets in this
State. and all that alleged corruption and
villainy piled mp together would not begin
to compare with the. outrages and frauds
which were pesPetrated upon the people Of
well as Republicans, who know that what
say is true. ALI that saved this city and
State during the last election from repeti-
ton of the bloody scenes Of 1868 were these
very election, and registration laws, which
the gentleman denouncesin such Oppr0bri0us
terms. say to Republicans, to whom the
gentleman has appealed in such eloquent
language. that the mere question whether
one Republican or another shall be elected
to any particular position, is small, infintes-
lmaily small, when compared with the
city and State. reply to the gentleman,
when he asks why we wish to retain
these registration and election laws on the
statute books, that we do not desire to
again see the parishes of Claiborne, De
Soto, Natchitoches and dozen others that
| could name, in which there are thousands 4
Of Republican voters, returned as over
Democratic, and as polling in
some only one solitary Republican vote
has
in 1868. We want to protect the people in
the privilege Of toting tor whoever they
choose, and that can only be done by the
retention Of these laws. Now, as to the
question Of fraud, / venture to assert that
he only fair election held in this State
,ince the war was the last one. The cleo
lion held under the rule. of Sheridan was
bad, because the voters did not turn out.
The Democratic party asserted that the first
election in 1868 was foul ON their side. and
We believe it to have been 80 on ours.
Enough outrages were committed in this
State in the fall of 1868 to fill volume,
WHICH no one has the lardihood to deny,
md before the day of election arrived the
Seople were in tuch u state Of terror that
air election was impossible. We will have
mother election two years hence, when an
lther GenhraL Assembly will he elected by
he people. When that General Assembly
meets. we VIII then be prepared to discuss
The question whether it Is not better to
lllow this power to remain in the hands OF
responsible few than in the hands OF an
Irresponsible mob. ! now move that this
bill be laid upon the table. Garfield
RED RIVER RAFT COMPANY.
Mr.. Hunsaker, in calling up the bill rela-
i've to the Red River Raft Company, said |
here could b NO reasonable objection to