New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-10
TRUE U5URpATIOH,

TRUE U5URPATlON.
Nj. Webster expressed sdmirstion a. a
voluntary and spontaneous government
Of the people established in California, at
! time when there was no enabling act
Of Congress. and no lawful municipai OF
State authority. II was manifestation
Of the American people 70 organize An
administrative and protective system any
where, and on the shortest ootice. Mr..
Webster would have been tar more sur.
prised at the missppication Of this prin.
ciple as at present displayed in Louisiana
Here we have one government. &C.
kuowIedged and sustained by the
federal executive pending tho decision
Of Congress upon its legality. There is
another government with its executive
head in the chairman Of q Committee Of
Seventy: Legislature in central club,
a Congress Of subordinate clubs. aud
an army subject to the orders Of this e1.
ecutive and carrying out the laws Of
the clubs. The treasury is filled with the
same spontaneous alacrity that inspires
a colo.ed man TO vote the White League
ticket. The treasury is dllsd by forced
loan as veritable as any that Santa Anna
ever drew from the most reluctant foreign
merchant. The treasury is filed by warn.
! ing Of patronage and custom to be with.
drawn. and is what has been known in all
ages and in all disorganized communities
as the prics paid fer peace. It is the trade
| license granted By the White League.
1t was entirely consistent that the club
Legislature should have enacted rules for
conducting the election, that men should
have been detailed 20 inspect the voters
and compare those registered with their
actual dom;cile. It was. however, not con.
sistens with this assumption Of power that
these comparisons should have been con.
fined 10 the voters Of one party while
those Of the opposite party were left to
their own devices. and allowed TO live
where they pleased and vote wherever
they could. But now comes the latest
act Of this usurpatio. The outside regis.
try commissioners and supervisors Of elec.
ton have reported the result according to
the unsworn figures furnished by them.
selves o. sent in by thei. own candi dates.
This they consider deinitive. and upon
this base the assertion tina. anything
contrary to these returns must be fraudu.
lent, and also the intimation that any Re.
turning Board Of the State OF federal su.
rervisos OF election which shall contro.
vert these returns shall be doomed to death
OF social prescription.
Thus stands the state Of affairs at
present: The lawful Returning Board with
the federal supervisors Of the federal elec-
tons. collecting and comparing the
vote according to the letter and order of
the law; the usurpation resting on its
arms to await the effect Of its threats.
If the Returning Beard and federal super.
visofs shall make return according to
the club registry and the club polls, they
can depart to their homes in peace aud
safety. II not. the clubs
''-Wili Go something
~ hat they are ye. know no.; but they shau be
1.-THE terEo. OF the earth
The Republican government and party
have endured this concurrent jurisdiction
over the legal government. They have
accorded to their opponents every privi'
lege to satisfy themselves Of the perfect
fairness of the reg;st.y and Of the election
compatible with the duties assigned the
State officers under the Law. These they
neither could nor would have conceded.
This fair and final act will declare
the will Of the people according to
the forms of law. At this solemn and
important act there can be no outside So.
pervision. Each Of these returning off.
GERS is the repository Of power too i'm.
portant to he delegated, too sacred to be
controlled. The Returning Board will
perform its duties without fear, favor or
affection. To that decision the Repub.
icans, as law-abiding people. will sub.
NIT, and to that decision all others will
submit OF array themselves against law and
right.