New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-16

Throw the Stats government, ~ on D
former occasion. Why is this probable?
Because neither the credit Of the city, nor
the wages of labor, nor the rents of
houses, nor the ability to pay rents,
have been improved by the election. Be-
cause thousands who expected to have
drawn prize in the lottery Of e4ice have
been disappointed, and find they have
been made to play the hounds of the
ofce-hunters. If these men are banded
together again it will not be for political
violence. How far the teachings Of the
past six months will incline mob to be-
lieve that they have the same right to
seize upon bread for themselves as offices
for other people, is a question which we
hope will not be solved as it sometimes
has been in other cities. We do not say
that if the attorneys employed to assist
the Returning Board should arouse their
ofice-hunting clients to assassinate any
number of persons; that braves might not
be hired to do it; but We have no appre-
hension that the men of this city, disa.
bused Of their delusion by the result of
the city election, can be marched to at
tack the State government under the pro-
lection Of federal troops.
The Picayune. writing very much as the
lawyers who are now baying the Return
ing Board might be suffered to do. is now
attempting to exasperate the people
against the Returning Board by an article
equally offensive and unjust. 1t is as
sumed that four citizens of Louisiana,
acting under oath, are wholly unworthy
Of trust and credence, but that list Of
attorneys, who are not sworn, but who are
professionally bound to save any burglar
or murderer, are worthy of implicit trust
in every representation which they offer.
!. The Picayune complains that the de-
lays of the board are evidences Of delibe-
rate fraud. It charges that these delays are
greater than in States connected through
out by rail and telegraph.
This board is acting under its own
sworn construction of the law. It must
take time to investigate the charges made
by contesting members, and listen 10 the
arguments of attending counsel.
q The board is charged with lending
itself to defraud the will Of the people,
through law framed TOT that purpose.
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It was enough to know that this law,
formed in mockery Of every principle recOg.
nized as sacred in other communities, was
which existed by virtue Of an infamous
usurpation, and which reposed on basis
Of violence, falsehood and fraud.
This law. framed in mockery Of every
principle recognized as sacred in othe.
communities, owes its vitality to the COM
peers of the Picay,ne. It is added:
Everybody knows that these powers
we're vested in them in order chat they
might be used for the benefit Of the Repub-
licaa party.
This law was bill. It was framed to
supersede a Returning Board, which
vested the power to determine tie cleo
ton in the fingers Of the Governor. It
would have slept impotent had not Gov
ernor Warmoth, rs the ally Of the Plea.
yune and its compeefs, given it force by
his signature. So far from frolo it hav-
ing been intended to be ''used for the
benefit of the Republican party" it was
designed to defeat and destroy the Re-
publican party. It is Democratic law,
signed for the benefit of the Democratic
party. The ''despotic powers were con-
ferred on the opponents of the Republican
party. This legal agency, which was in
vented for the purpose of suppressing and
classifying the legal records of future
election, was the work Of the Fusion
party, and the Returning Board is hon.
estly carrying out duties which are
imposed on them, not by their demand,
but by the letter Of the law.
The article to which we refer is a part
of the programme Of organized opposi-
ton to law. 1t is the brief of an attorney
left over after the walls of vituperation
had been poured over the tribunal which
the law has appointed.
The article does not counsel the people
to hang the Southern planters and mer'
chants who comprise the board. Oh no.
1t merely teaches that they are the wicked
agents of an infamous law, and accuses
them of purpose to defeat the will Of the
people by employing fraudulent agencies.
Are the people Of Louisiana willing to
force their State into n Territory to en-
able these attorneys to earn their fees, or
these Office hunters to secure ctfices tor
themselves?
THE FREEDMAN'S SAVINGS BANK.