New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-19
Those Iouisiapa Democrats.

The action of the people of Louisiana,
while awaiting the decision of the Return
ing Board, is not such as to commend itself
TO the appreciation of the s0ber-minded,
nor to attract sympathy at the North
However much they may distrust-and, of
course, they would dothing but distrust it
in any case-the action Of the board, it ia
plainly their duty and their interest to
keep as quiet as possible; to make no threats
aud NO charges until the returns are de-
clared. No person knows what the decision
may be. 1t may, perhaps, be in accordance
with Democratic expectations. and may
lead 60 the legal unseating Of Governor
Kellogg himself.
But. if any person imagines that the Lou
isianians are acting in the judicial. calm
and impartial manner represented in the
Democratic press, he is greatly mistaken.
We have been looking over some of the re-
ports of citizens meetings in various par
ishes of the State, and we are very free to
say that they seem to us to have been con-
Quoted in the worst possible spirit. The
old animus of revolt, Of prescription OF
anything Of Northern origin. seems as ram
pant as ever. Shreveport and the country
around seems especially excited about mat
ters and things in general and in particular.
If one might Judge from the language used
at these meetings and in the columns of the
Shreveport Times it would be fair infer
ence that we are upon the eve Of another
war. This. by the way, is the same paper
which, not long since, advised the assassin
alton of officers whose action should con-
trovert its ideas. And the worst Of it is
that this paper seems fairly to represent the
people. Il is q favorite sheet among all
Democrats and is held up as model tor
others to initiate.
Summey Grove is Q precinct of Caddo
parish, and its citizens have just been
holding q public meeting: They did not
confine themselves to political matters, but
dabbled with the labor and industrial in
terests, and this is the way they looked at it:
First-They resolved that. in making
contracts for the year, they would give
preference to those who voted with them
at the late election. Next in their favor,
all, and thirdly, they would 'utterly re-
fuse" to employ any Radical, black or
white, and finally, that they would recOg-
nize socially NO planter and patronize no
merchant who in any way gave Gid OF COM
fort to the enemy.
In pursuance Of these villainous resolves
they proposed the procurement and pub.
lication Of complete alphabetical lists OF all
the Radical voters Of the county. which
were to be circulated broadcast At the on
pense of the movers.
II only remains to add that all these propo-
sitions were unanimously adopted. The
same meeting also touched political matters
somewhat, and proclaimed that the Dem.
Ucratic candidates ehOuld be installed in
Caddo parish at all hazards.
We call the attention Of those people in
the North who have been disposed, of late,
to look upon the Southern whites as an
abused. Iamb-lik class. and upon Repub
licanisla in Louisiana. in particular, as the
Guintessence Of rascality, to these proceed
ings, and desire to ask them if there may
not be more than one side to the question.
The Post and Mail has. in more than one
instance, done full justice to Southern COM
plants. 1t now calls attention to Southern
impositions aud Outrages.-Chicaqo Post
and Nail.