New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-20
,AL JOURNAL LOUISIANA.
ORLEANS NOVEMBER
The Shreveport Tiuaes.

The Shreveport Timess
At the risk Of affording this omiuous snd
1awless sheet the notoriety which is all it
Graves. we reproduce from ite issue Of the
fifteenth the entire article from v hich our
correspondent furnished some choice ex.
tracts to the REruBI1cAs Of 7 uesday morn.
ing:
The TRUE rOL1cr.
Mr.. Kellogg's expressions Of eolici.ude
to have fair canvass Of the election re.
turns. and OF q wish to have the Conserva-
tives represented on the Returning Board,
do not inspire any confidence among the
people III his sincerity or that Of his hench.
men. His suge eestiOn TO the board that the
party opposed to the Republican party be
alcared representation on it, is but Gun.
ming device 60 entrap our friends into some
sort OF recognition Of the board. and that
we may be in some fashion committed to
its action. We hope that our representa-.
tives will enter into no agreement with
Kellogg. Packard & Co. in this matter. We
have the same evidence Of the result of the
election at every polling place in the State
that the people have in New York, in Mas.
sachusetts, in Pennsylvania and in every
other State, and We emphaticaliy, without
any compromise or change. demand that
the results proclaimed at the polls every.
where be produced by the Returning Board.
This Ia the case in every other State in tbs
Union. and it must and shall be the case in
Louisiana.
II is we'll known fact tha: the Return.
ing Board is designed to be an instrument
OF fraud, medium to deprive the people
Of an expression OF their will at the b allot
box. and its members have been sagaciouely
chosen tor the dirty work they are to 40.
We propose to watch its proceedings from
this standpoint and in this light, and if they
attemp: to carry out the nefarious pur.
pose tor which they are now assembled
they must be promptly and vigorously
dealt with.
The New Orleans REPUBLICANS has init.
mated that parishes and precincts are 10 be
thrown out on the ground that intimidation
has been practiced and that tormalities have
not been observed. II there has been in.
timidatiOn that is a matter for the courts to
take care of; if formalities have not been
observed that is the fault of Mr.. Kellogg's
dirty tools; and besides, the right Of the
people to express their will through the
ballot box is an inherent and constitutional
right. and can not be taken away or
abridged by infOrmalities: nay, nor by con.
spiracies OF rascals, through fellow-rascale
styled Returning Board. To attempt to
deprive the people OF their constitutional
right to chose their own rulers at the ballot
box, either by arms or fraud, let it be dis.
tinctly understood, is revolution. ''and it
was revolution that made young Harry
Percy's spurs grow cold"
We want no representative on the Re.
turning Board-nO favors or concessions
from Kellogg and Packard. ANY compro.
mise we might make with them in this mat.
ter. any favor We might accept from them.
though neither legally nor morally binding,
would prompt the country, after we had
been. as we certainly Will be, if we had
been ewindled, as We certainly will be. if
We yield an inch to reply to our protests
that we had accepted the,stake, and that
having lost we have n right to complain.
We know the results of the election in
every parish. The Returning Board can
not change the cOun. OF single precinct
without perpetrating fraud and violating
the constitution and the most sacred rights
OF the people. Therefore we should simply
give the members of that board to distinctly
understand that unless they return the elec.
tiOns as they We're returned at the polls
they and those they seek to count in will
paw the forfeit with their lives.
We have NO appeals to make 20 our fei.
ioW-citizens of New Orleans; we know that
the men Of the fourteenth Of September
will do their whole duty as feemea and
kOulSlduiauS LtalOUS VI tuelE llOSrCleSs Duy
throughout the country parishes there
should be concert Of action, and that ac.
tion khould be prompt and emphatic. In
every parish where the otficers elected by
the people may be counted out by the Re.
turning board. the people should use hemp
OF call OF the defeated candidates. counted
in. To localize the proposition: If George
L. Smith is counted in over w. NJ. Levy. or
if Twitcheli ia counted in over Elan, let
Smith and 1witchell be killed; if johnson
and Tyler, in De Soto, are counted in over
Scales and SchuleP, as the New Orleans
REPUBLICAN, thinks, or if Keeting, Levisee
and johnson, in CaGdo, are counted in over
Vaughan, Horsn and land, then let John
son, Tyler, Keetlng. Levisee and johnson
be killed; and so let every officer, from
Congressman down to constable, in every
district and parish of the State, be served
whom the people have defeated and whom
the returning board may "count in
We can not afford to be defeated by a
ring of political scoundrels after we have
triumphed. There is not only $3.50, ,000, 900
worth Of property at stake, but also the
commercial and agricultural interests of
the State; and above all, the supremacy OF
law. the preserv alton OF society and of civil
liberty depend upon our action. Human
life may be precious; but the lives of all
these earpet-baggers and Radical politi-
clans in Louisiana, are valueless. compared
with the worth Of q single principle Of Jus
tice and liberty.