The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-12-05

4OCOS "AVA VAO AAVO4 VOAVAOA VI UAS
Christmas holidays and the rule
adopted by the Board not to pro.
mulgate the returns until the votes
of all the parishes are counted, it is
certain that when the time comes
for the assembling of the Legisla.
ture in January, we will have had
no official PRONUNCIATION of the vote
of the State and anarchy and con.
fusion will reign supreme.
Both legislatures will assemble
as required by law on the first
Monday in January, and we will
have over again the contest of 1873
between two State governments.
Meanwhile Congress will have been
in session one month, and there is
no telling what they will have done
to relieve their radical co-adiutors
from the consequences of their fair
defeat at the polls. The programme
seems to be that Kellogg, Packard,
Casey & Co., will now favor a new
election and attempt to get Con-
gress to order it. Failing in that
they will organize a Legislature
out Of the defeated candidates,
each house under the Constitution
being the judge of the qualifica-
tions Of its own members, Kellogg
and the Supreme Court will recog-
nize this bogus concern and then
they will appeal to Grant and Will
liams to sustain them. It isalready
reported that Grant is pledged to
sustain them with the Army and
Navy. The newly elected Demo-
cratic Congress does not assemble
until a year from now unles there
should he an extra session ordered
for March 4th, when the term of
the present Congress expires.
All the indications are that Grant
and the Administration will use all
the power they have during the in
terVal before the assembling If the
new Congress to Cypress and villify
the Southern States. His only
hope for reelection for the third
term and to save the Republican
party from defeat in 1876 is to
change the growing sentiment of
good will in the North to one of
fea1 and apprehension for the safe
ty of the Union and the protection
Of the negro, who is the special pro-
tege of the North. The "new re-
bellion" is to be the war cry of the
Administration and "a military ne
cessity" the plea for the continuance
in power of the party Of plumber,
hate and Unsuitable greed. A part
of their policy now clearly shadow
ed forth will be to goad us of the
South to acts of desperation and
then to raise their alarm cry of Gre
bellion in the South" If Grant by
sustaining the Kellogg Legislature
could precipitate a conflict between
the citizens of Louisiana and the
soldiers Of the United States he
would be we'll pleased, and if he
could only get a few negroes killed
by melting them first to riot and
rapine it would give him joy.
We of Louisiana are longing for
peace and quiet, we have submit
ted to every manner Of outrage and
we are now praying for a peaceable
solution of our difficulties, but we
have need of all the patience that
made Job celebrated for endurance
Of long suffering. Pursued by al
cold blooded malignity that will
not be satisfied with less than our
very death throes and clutched by
the ruthless hands of a set of foul
harpies who gloat over our mis-
fortunes and delight in seeing the
failure of every cherished hope of
redemption, Louisiana must needs
lraw heavily upon her capacity to
suffer and endure.
For Rapides we can say that
here is deep rooted determine
ion to await every possible peace.
lble means of obtaining the fruits
If our victory, but that there is a
feerer, stronger resolve to have
'air play at any cost. We won and
won in the face of every obstacle,
md now by the Eternal God who
Jules the world we are going to
nave our officers fill the places to
which they were elected. No trick
shall swihdle us, no delay of the Re-
turning Board shall wear out our