New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-10
Louisiana and the Democracy.

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journals will never cease to grieve over tn,
miscarriage of their well matured con
spiracy with Governor Warmoth, of Louis
lana, to carry that State in the autumn O.
1879 for the Democratic party, the electora
ticket for Mr.. Greeley, and the SenatorshiK
for the Governor himself; who would be ex
pected from that time forward to vote ant
act as the Democracy desired. All parties
to this bargain and sale knew that it could
constitutional rights. They deliberately
| agreed with each other that the voting
places should be so few and their location
| 80 incOnvenient in the strong Repub
lican parishes as to render it physi
cally impracticable for full vote to
be polled; that the officers in charge
of the polls should be in the interest of
the conspiracy, and Of such character as
would secure the needed result; that when.
ever and wherever found to be necessary
the negro voters should be deferred from
approaching the polls, or if they should
manifest SO much temerity as to do so that
they should be driven away by force and
violence; and. finally, that if, notwith stand
ing all of these prudential arrangements,
the admitted large Republican majority
should not be overcome by these appliances,
that the Governor, as president Of the can
vassing board, should so change it's compo-
nent parts by summarily and illegally ex-
polling State officers from their official
positions as to give the conspirators ma
jOrity of its members, thus enabling them
to count in when necessary their politica.
friends.
The only serious impeachment to the con-
summation of this stupendous fraud was
the enforcement by the United States
courts of q law enacted by Congress to
preserve the purity of the elective fran
chise, and to prevent fraud in the election
of Representatives to Congress and Presi-
Dental electors. Under this law it became
the duty of the judge of the United States
court to appoint commissioners to attend at
the polls, who, in this case, made faithful
return of the illegal and violent conduct of
the Governors appOintees and their abet-
tors. The facts recorded in the official re-
ports of these officers of the United States
courts formed the basis Of the judicial pro.
cess which resulted in the Inauguration
of Mr.. Kellogg, the Republican candidate
Tor Governor Of that State, in place of Nc
Emery, the candidate of this unholy and
criminal conspiracy; since which these con-
spiratOrs against the purity of the ballot
box and q fair election-these participants
in intimidation, violence, bloodshed, and
traud-in Louisiana, and their coadjutsrs
in the Northern States, who, with guilty
months in advance, predicted
the apparently impossible result of Dem
ocratic triumph in that State, have been as
violent in their manifestations of injured
innocence as a woman of easy virtue scOrned.
They feel the double humiliation of the
total miscarriage of their corrupt and Grim
inal designs, and the constant presence of q
guilty conscience.
This is the reason of their continuous
'harping" on Louisiana affairs. They are
in the condition of the evil spirits described
by the inspirited writer, which, being cast
out of man, continually wandered up and
down in the earth seeking rest and finding
none. Annoyed by their own guilty CON
sciences, gnawiDg like the undying worm,
they eagerly search for and earnestly crave
In opportunity to fasten on others the guilt |
which preys upon their own hearts. Hence |
heir inceasing and virulent assaults on the |
President, the Attorney General and on |
Judge Durell. 1t was on account of this |
udicial action Of this court that thew were
hwsrted in the contamination Of their
yigantIc crime against free government
The enforceme Mt of his decisions and orders
~ the executive officers of the government
urned the apples of their hopes into ashes
n their lips. OF course they now hate the
Judge as much as they have heretofore
,raised him, and pursue him with that per-
istent malignity born of disappointment
nd conscious personal degradation.
1t is passing strange that a Senator of
Ong family prestige and unblemished
equation in his intercourse with his fell
Dw-men, could descend to the authorship
f proposition to reward the authors Of
uch crimes as we have above described by
comforting on them high posi-
ions of honor and trust. Such an ex-
ibition in the highest council chamber of
be nation on the part OF SO good citizen
s Senator Bayard, illustrates the mar
elous effects Of political prejudice on the
rental perceptions and moral sensbilities
partisan leaders,
When such colossal criminals can be re-
arded for the abortive attempt to commit
lch stalwart crimes against civil liberty
Y an arbitrary act of the Congress of the
nited States it will be sad day for the
'public. Washington National Republican.
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