National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-01-28
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sotics viii be given of the removal Of thi
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THE LOUISIANA QUESTION
BONE Louisiana Democrat is industrious
here at the capital at furnishing the metro
politan press Of the country with announce
.ments that the conscieaces Of Congress ane
thr President are pricked with the neces
sity of new election in that unhappy
State. We suspect that the instigator o.
such gratuitous reports is the same mar
who was hoisted by his own petard las
winter there, and is now without party
asylum. We know that the Democracy q
Louisiana consented to employ him as a too
In the 70 election, but not to elect him q,
its exponent to the United States Senate;
but it would now seem that his services ART
% unwelcome to that element as his teieii
graphic insinuations are false. There il
but one journal of English print at New
Orleans that has been inirnical to the Kel-
logg government-the PicdyaSe. Its two
editors are old Louisiana Journalists and
contributed their best yigors to tire Me-
Emery project, yet the issue Of the 21st in
slant of that sheet thus discountenances a
new election and Mr.. Warmoth's missives:
1--WE don't intend resurrection, not by
any means. We fear the new election is 9
corpse very respectable, first class, but q
corpse after all. The fact is, our attention
has been called to fresh rumors from Wash
ington-private telegRms, reliable infofma-
ton, and all that sort of thing and we are
conscious that another little stir is attempt
ed apropos of q new election, but that q
new deal is to spring from this docs not
strike the average mind as necessary or even
probable" - ..... - s-T
Since then the leading Democratic organ
of the State and some four hundred Of her
leading citizens, composing the New Or
leans Chamber of Commerce, view q new
election with disfavor; since the fragment
called the McEnery legislature has dis
banded as such and fused individually into
the Kellogg body; since every department
of the administration, from its executive
down to its last constable, is in wholesome
accord; since the whole public opinion Of
the State demonstrates against Federal dis
turbance of an accomplished fact, 1t might
be well for Mr.. Warmoth to indicate for
whom he speaks. The Democracy have
refused him credentials in any capsoitys the
Republican party revoked theirs in his ease
nearly three years ago. As there are no
other parties in tile State, we. confess our in
ability to solve the conundrum. 1t is be-
lieved that an Executive message will be
submitted to-day to Congress in relation to
Louisiana, and we suspect that nobody will
be disappointed Herewith except half a
iozen Bedouins, in whom LouisiansT feels
no interest except that they may never cross
aer frontier again. III . ,.-.t \
Not only are the people of Louisiana sat \
listed. it would SEEM. with the exemplary
character of her Republican administration,
but they are persuaded that q new election
would not and could not assure to her
Democratic rulers. 1t would requirca long
succession Of Colfax massacfes and all the
aFithnctical temerity Of Warmoth, at
election returns, to neutralize the large Re
publican majority that will never surTeader
the State. it is to be hoped to. the Demoe-
rscy. The registration by her late Cover
nor. despite its alloy in the Democratic in
terest, could not impair this fact. while in
the election it is notorious that even tomb.
stones were on the poA-lists "a. Democratic
suffragans, and that thousands to whom not
only death but even birth bad not been
Houchsafed found snticipatofy baptism on
that list and diligent proxies at the polls
That citizenship should antecede nativity
and survive even the grave mold, was never
enunciated before November. 1872, in
Louisiana, but when it shall command gen.
sral popular sanction we can readily con-
ceive freemen viii hold it less in disesteem
than now, and insist upon leaving the womb
Just before and the world only Just after
An election. 1t is not every Governor that
can boast the inventive talent to devise
aliases ;ad li1itum, and inspire numbers Of
ais fellow patriots TO vote each dozen of |
:hem. The average executive Is not 80 alert
TO discharge duty alike to tie dead and to |
, probable posterity. That the Louisiana
Democracy is convinced that too liberal o.
compensation was titus made for the leaks
and increment in the census Of that State;
nay. that the whole election project of the
then SSate authorities b nov denounced byl
thousands Of that very party .as . swindae, j
8 notable. And they are the more Violent
In their epithets Cor the reason that they are1
s6ashed at the scandal of their association
sor the nonce with an executive againH
whom for three years before, the whole]
Democracy had honestly and persistently
Reclaimed. When sangline men lose an |
Aection, the self-respect staked for it. and |
finally, upon disclosure of, the frauds piled
turing the alliance, their credit ss repu.t
able citizens and partisans, need we marvel
hat they should numerously diayow thsI
Ihameful purpose of the bargain sealed byI
heir old leaders with the late administration
That they should now address themselves
y heartily to the maintenance Of the pres.
snt State administrator, as if to scauit
themselves before the country Of all suspi-
zion of having shared in such purpose, and
should follow toward catholic endsthe lead,
not of mischievous cabals longer, but of
such a respectable body as the New Ofleans
Chamber Of Commerce, is certainly worthy
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