The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-29
THE LATEST GREAT LOUISIANA OUT.
RAGE.

Although the Louisiana election was heli
on the I'd of November, neary two months
ago. the Returning Board but yesterday com
pleted their canvass of the votes. They hat
proceeded so far, however, toward the con
summation of their meditated villainy thai
the Conservative committee withdrew in dis
gust on Wednesday, the frauds perpetrated
on that day being SO gross and monstrous a:
to prove that the board had abandoned al
shame, and the presence Of Conservatives te
watch the proceedings would be no check
They presented a protest against the extin'
punishment of heavy Conservative majorities
in several parishes by throwing out lega
votes. To this protest the board refused to
listen, SO the Conservative committee put l,
on file and washed their hands of the whole
business by Withdrawing from any further
attendance on the proceedings.
shameless purpose of multiplying the election
by counting in q set Of candidates whom the
people rejected by their votes. Out of a
clear and decisive Conservative majority they
have manufactured q Radical majority,
making the members of the Legislature stand
"a Republicans to 50 Democrats. The con-
sequences Of this wholesale Justification of
the election returns no one can foretell, but
it is to be hoped that the people will act with
GOODNESS and foresight as we'll as determine
ton and be hurried into no blunders by mere
impulse and passion.
The source of this chicanery is the inter-
ference and coercion of the Federal Govern
ment, and nothing can be hoped for save from
the people of the whole country who have
already made so much progress toward put
hands. If this INSCRIPTIONS Returning Board
had not recently received fresh assurances
that their action, whatever it may be, will be
upheld by the President, they would not have
dared to perpetrate this great outrage on the
rights of the people. How glazing the frauds
have been will be learned from the resigna-
ton of one of the members Of the board.
Resistance by force to this startling out
rage would be worse than vain, for it would
enable the Republican party to suffocate the
real question under a new issue. 1t behooves
the people OF Louisiana to keep the great
subject Of their wrongs naked and distinct.
They must not permit it to be encountered
and dwalfed much less must they assist in
encumbering and dwarting it by stirring up
the excitement that would arise if they
should resort to violence. They can not az
ford to be put in the position Of rebels against
the Federal authority, which would fatally
weaken their defenders in the North. Their
redemption depends on the impression their
wrongs will make on the Northern sense of
justice and fair play, and the fall elections
afford sure pledge and guarantee of redress,
if the people Of Louisiana do not themselves
confuse and obscure the issue by bringing a
different order of questions into the fore
ground, as they would do in attempting to
rectify their wrongs by the rude hand of vio-
lence. That deep sense. of depression should
prevail among the Conservatives is not to be
wondered at or that Kellogg in his interview
with our correspondent should apologize in
advance for the infamous Returning Board by
his naive assertion that the Conservatives had
still strong minority if not all they were en-
titled to, for this is fair construction of his
comment. Truly sinister Christmas present
to the shattered South.-N 7. Herald, 25.h
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