The sun., 1873-02-05
came out that the brNcH Board of state


Canvassers had no oficial election returns
before them when they certified that KEEL
LoGG had been chosen Governor, and that
the bogus body which sent the Republican
Senator to Washington was the genuine
Legislature. Unsophsticated MoRroN !
Everybody who reads the newspapers
knew this fact from the start and now
the astute Senator from Indiana tirns up
the whites of his eyes on proof Of the no.
toifous fact which is the very pivot where
on the whole case turns. This LYNCH
board was manufactured out of raw mate
rials by DURELL, the drunken United
states Judge. This board never had The
first fragment of "A genuine, official return
in their hands. The legal returns were all
In the possession of the other board, which,
with these returns before them, certified
that McENERY was duly elected Governor
and that the so-called Fusionists were the
real Legislature.
So MORTON, LOGAN, and the other Re-
publicuns on the committee, now clamor
for the papers on which the LYNCH board
based their action. And thus pressed to
the wall, PINCHBACK, and SYPHER, and
Brother-in-law CASEY, and PACKARD, whom
one of the witnesses, in reply to question
OF Gen. LOGAN, denounced as nothing but
u set OF cussed thieves" promise to bring
on papers" And IL they don't soon pro-
duce huge pile Of certificates, afiidavits,
and other trash, from irresponsible sources,
and thus afford the Republicans on the
committee some sort of an excuse for de-
Gliding in favor of KELLOGG, PISCHBACK,
and their venal followers, then forgery and
hav L. d., Ia
ketable commodities in the State of Lou-
siana.
Viewed from an elevated standpoint,
how revolving, how dcmorplizing, and in
their ultimate consequences how alarming
the undisputed facts of this wrctched Lou
isiana business appear; and the. saddest
part of the spectacle il that from the be-
| ginning of the controversy down to the
present hour the national Government,
and especially President GRANT, has been
on the side of fraud, of forgery, Of perjury,
of ballot-box stufling, and of corruption
almost without % parallel, and in their be-
half has violated the Federal Constitution
| and called in the bayonets of the army to
overthrow for the time being the legiti-
| mate authorities of the state of louisiana
| IL Is interesting to see how Jealous the
| Administration papers are in the condemnation
| or ConSHLrus WENDELL, Government Inspector
| OF the Union Pacific Railroad, who exacted a
brbe of S25.OO0 for reporting in favor Of that
road, and how silent they are in reference TO
| THNDDEUs STEVENS, Republican Represent atiye,
| VINO paid $4,000 for legislation In favor Of
| the same enterprise
| The Republican State Committee of New
| Hampshire has issued an address which goes to
| the marrow Of the ordinary voter. and makes the
| hair of the hesitating stand cud. The Con-
| cord organ approves the address, and adds "a
| leading article to tho burning intensity of its
| utterances. The address saws "stragglcrs can
not be permitted to impair the efficiency or de-
| feat the mission OF the Republican organiza-
| tion," which Is great and essential truth,
| though we do not know who the stragglers are
| who arc playing the deuce with the mission.
| Possibly IL Ia PATTERSON, who leaves public life
| with pleasure. The organ says, and we shud-
der at the bare possibility OF Its suggestion, that
| II the opposition gets into power 1.-THE work of
| developing our native resources and building up
| our home industries will be put back whole
| decade - also that II will he liable To "sound
| halt" to "the great national reform movement
with which the Republican party Of the nation
| Is now intrusted." Nothing could be more
|
| but II never can survive that sort OF thing.
| The knowing ones agree that Judge
| RICHARDSON, now Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury, will succeed Mr.. boutwell, when
| that gentleman is elected TO the Senate. Other
| statesmen would like to have the ofice, but
| GRANT Is going to give It TO RICHARDSON and
| his reason for so doing Is good. RICHARDSON
has not yet developed purpose OF running for
| ~,
not be wanted In the Cabinet until after GRANT
has served out his third term. IL they are then.
|
| We rise to defend the Hon. THOMAS
| MURPHY, distinguished of late as the Boss OF
| our Republican Legislature. The Witness at
tacks him unJustly, saying chat his special claim
| to public consideration is that he is n Roman
Catholic, and that n Ia in the interest OF that
Church that he endeavours to rule the State.
"Rome," says the witness, "is doubtless using
the Hon THOMAS MURPHY" Well, we don't
believe that Rome is doing any such thing II
| is false impression; and are sorry to say re-
| specting the Hon. THOMAS that he is not half so
| good Catholic wish he was. We trust
for his sake, both here and hereafter, that he
cares something for the religion he processes /;
but we fear that he chiefly cares for politics, and
that II IL were necessary for him 10 choose be-
tween Rome and his party, Rome would as GER
tainly go to the wall as II the JTiless itself were
| making the choice for him.
| Such attempts to confound religion and poll
tics ana to excite against a conspicuous poll
ticlan the bitter preIudices Of the Odium theO-
| 0gicum merit condemnation.
| IL is gratifying To know that the national
| debt-that inestmable boon TO the American
people-loses nothing of Mr.. BoUTwELLs ten
der care during the present crisis. Something