New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-08
A FALSE PRETENsE EXPOSED.

SeuaCOI 1uSIaUaUl IN nominating SeL-
ator COPELAND for President of the Senate,
pretended to speak in the name Of the
Republican party of Louisiana. In this
little fraud which he attempted to perpe-
trate he was sustained by seven Democrats
and nine boilers from the Republican
party. 1t is pleasant to be thus able to
expose an attempt to cheat on the spot.
The Customhouse clique have been guilty
Of counting their chickens before they
are Matched. For they not only do not
represent the Republican party of Louis
lana, but they are unable to bring enough
strength to the Democracy to defeat our
party. 1t thus appears that whether we
regard the Democrats as our legitimate OPP
ponents, or the boilers as such, neither
is able to hold the balance of power.
"Let not him that girdeth on his harness
boast himself as he that putteth it Of.
It is reported that the Customhouse and
other federal employees we're bled to the
tune of forty thousand dollars, thistund
being raised to defeat the Governos and
his friends in the election for Lieutenant
Governor. As not single friend of the
State administration wavered for an in
slant in his allegiance to the Republican
candidate, no suspicion Of being zap
preached" can lie in that direction. Of
course, the Democrats, who are perfectly
wild for reform, would not take any, even
if rendered. The ring could not GER
tainly have been forced to pay their own
men to keep them in line. Ingraham, at
least, could not have shared in the "di-
vide, if there was one, or he would not
have voted to continue in session an "un-
body, no matter how high
the rate Of per diem. Then what has
been done with the forty thousand dol
lars? If expended, how? If not, will the
poor Customhouse clerks and laborers
have this forced levy refunded?
The Memphis -iUalanche says: The
man who deliberately perpetrates false
hood upon his neighbors, and insists
upon declaring i. in the face Of the truth,
should be driven out of respectable socie-
ty." So far so good. The Aralaache,
being the same paper which states the
above proposition, declares that the debt
of the State of Louisiana is siXty-six
millions of dollars, which deliberate
falsehood it publishes to the world in the
face of the truth that the debt of the
State does not amount to more than forty
counting even all the doubtful
and contingent claims that exist to swell
it to that amount. This falsehood, so
told, is aimed at whole
State and struggling people, and Injuries
friend and foe alike. We submit if the
Judgment which the Aralanche delivers
against itself ought not to be enforced?
One of the lodges taken by Senator
Blair in favor of his lawless friends in
South Carolina is this, that the evil deeds
which they have committed, and which
they are now under arrest for, were per-
petrated before the law that provided for
heir trial before the United States Dis
trict Court was passed. This exception
admits the guilt Of the parties, we be-
ieve, and only seeks to save the Ku-Klux
by virtue technical objection.
The Senate of the United States is the
asst place that such motion should have
been made; and a Democratic Senator,
who has certainly denied the guilt Of the
is the last man who should have
iled an argument that admitted the un-
ruth of his general denial.