The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-12-19

The organs Of the Administration
throughout the country are boosting
that the State of Louisians was car
ried for Grant at the late election. In
the same manner might they have car
ried any other States had it been pec.i
essary to have done SO as to have per-
Epetuated their power; and who can
doubt, in view OF the transactions in
Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas,
that they had laid the ropes to hold
on to the reins of Government had
the verdict at the polls been against
them. The. following from the Ea-s
auirer tells how the GRANTEES carried
Louisiana sod eaf SIS a., - y
at the late election Louisiana gave
nearly 10000 majority for Greeley and
Brown, and by the same vote elected
i Democratic and Liberal State tick
ct. 1t also chose Liberal majority
in the State Legislature, which has to
make choice of United States Sena-
tor. No fairer election was ever held.
The vote in New Orleans, which gave
1900 Liberal majority, was very
heavy, and concidsiveiy indicated that
every body, white and black, had vo-
ted without fear or noIestation. But
the carpet-bag or Custom-house clique
determined not to submit, and had the
audacity to appeal to the Federal Gov
eminent for aid. They determined
to throw out the parish OF New Or
leans. BY thus disfranchising $1,000
citizens, robbing them Of their votes,
they could count themselves in. They
introduced upon the scene q defunct
Board of State Canyassels, whose
terms of Office had expired. When
this Board was resurrected they went
to United States Judge of the Dis
trict Court, and, he being a tool of the
Administration, gave his decision in
their favor. The legal State Canvass
ers were elected and the illegal ones
put in, and they then threw out votes
enough to give. the custom-house
clique the ascendency. BY the man
date OF a Federal Judge the State
house of Louisiana was seized by q
detatchment OF United States troops,
and its State Government was virtu-
ally deposed The electors for Grant
and Wilson, who had been beaten by
IA large majority, met and sttheir
votes for those candidates, and they
| will, doubtless, be counted at WASH
ington. Mr.. kellogg, formerly q
member of Congress from Illinois,
who is now Collector at New Orleans,
is to be put in possession of the Gov
ernor's Office, to which it is notorious
he was not elected. A State Legisla-
ture, made up of bogus members from
the minority, is to be duly installed.
Thus Louisiana to-day is a conquered
province, by force from Washington
a State Government is imposed upon
| her, which she not only did not elect.
but, rejected. What is the use, after
this, of having elections in Louisiana? ?
1t is base mockery to Invite people
| to vote, and when they have voted,
| to set the election aside. The time
once was when such conquest of q
State was impossible; when it would
have been resisted by the people to.
| the last extremely. But the latter are
now subdued, and this last act Of viii
lainy will hardly create q sensation.
| Is it any wonder that those who wit
ness this scandaloush proceeding be-
ilieve that the men guilty of it intend
to conyuert this Government into an
fempise? 2i4Aa hssts s'zis .3tatsssf'
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