Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-23
NEW ORLEANS.
Further Protests Against the
Returning Boards Ras-
calities.
The Conservative Majority in
the Legislature Reduced
to Two.
An Address to the Country Of
the Committee of Seventy.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2.-The Return
ing Board recOnsidered its action Of yester-
day, resarding St. Tammany Parish. The
Conservatives gave notice that they moved
70 file the affidavit Of Mr.. Haufts; showing
that Mr.. Cousin, of St. Tammany, Replb-
lican candidate for the Legislature, who
WAS counted in on Monday by the Board,
came to him in the Returning Board
roOm aid asked for the return
from the parish, stating that he had
been beaten thirty votes, and he and
Col. Lowell would fix matters up. Mr..
Arrays, a member, protested against the
action of the Returning Board in throwing
out polls five and six in Natehitoches parish,
which had given the Conservatives 291
majority; also against the rejection Of poll
three in Red River parish, where the
Conservatives had seventy-six Majority al
so against the action Of the Board in al
lowing all The Republican candidates a
hnndred and fifty majority at Evergreen,
Avoyelles parish, where the box was stolen
before the votes wers counted.
The Conservative Majority Almost
Gone.
During the session Of the Returning
Board to-day they threw out poll four of
Assumption parish, which had given the
Conservatives 103 majority, thus defeating
two Conservatives and electing two Repub-
lican members Of the Legislature. The
Conservative majority in the House, 1t is
understood, has been reduced to two. The
eleven parishes yet to canvass elected
eighteen Conservatives and one Republican
to the House on Nov. 2.
Address Of the Committee Of seventy.
The Committee of Seventy adopted an
address to the country, this evening. in
wi ich, after detailing the wrongs under
which the people of Louisiana are suffering
and the gigantic. frauds committed by the
Returning Board, they say.
Having failed in our appeals to the JUS
tice and patriotism of the President and
Congress, we now, as a last resort, appeal
to the source of all power, the people Of the
whole country, whose moral influence we
invoke, in the hope Of awakening that SYM
pathY with our wrongs and sufferings, al
ways accorded to a brave and free people
struggling for liberty, in the con-
fidence that a virtuous public SEN
timent may compel the unprineipled
men who are preying ON the vitals Of the
State, to let 60 their hold. We hope it
may react on the Executive and Congress,
and compel them to grant us that relief
which neither their sense of jus
tice nor regard for the fundamental
institutions of the country has been able
to effect. We make this appeal in advance
of the final cOnSummEiOn of the great
wrong about being perpetrated upon the
people, as We are positively assured Of the
intention of the returning officers to de-
fraud the people Of the fruits Of their politi-
cal victory, as if the act had
been already consumated. We are not
clamoring for party purposes, that one set
of men should be substituted for another
as public officials. Our repugnance TO Re
publican rule in Louisiana Is not based
altogether on the fact Of its being a usurpa-
tiOn. Valued as great principles are, and
grossly as they have been violated, it is not
for that reason alone that the
people Of Louisiana are clamOring
for relief. The people demand
that those elected by them shall be re-
lieved from oppression; that taxation,
lighiened; that hideOns and widespread
poverty and distrust may be removed, and
that they may be permitted to live by honest
industry; that an honest government for
protection may be substituted for systema-
tized robbery. For these reasons, We, the
down-trodden people of once free LOuisi-
ana, now call upon the people of
the free States Of America, if you
would yourselves remain free and retain
the right Of self-gOvernment, TO demand, in
tones that cannot be misunderstood or dis
regarded, that the shackles be stricken from
Louisiana and that the power of the United
States army be no longer used to keep a
horde Of adventures in power.