New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-30

joined in this convention, and when we
look at what the White Leagues are doing
all over the State, driving leading Repub-
licans out Of the parishes where they live,
compelling Republican oficeholders to
resign, preventing the organization Of the
Republican party, collecting into unlaw-
full assemblages to effect their purposes,
and openly avowing, through ther news
papers and public speakers, their designs
to drive out the carpet-baggers and
scalawags, and to carry the State at
all hazards, AID defying the State
authorities, how can we believe
in the sincerity of these declarations? But
when We look at the latter part of this
resolution in which they object to the
military force of the United States being
sent to the State to suppress such out
RACES, saying that the object Of the United
States military is ''to cverawe the people
and perpetuate the existing usurpation
and subversion Of the true true principles
of government" the disguise is thrown off
and the cloven foot of the animal appears
Now, if the Peoples party do not in
tend to attempt to carry the election by
violence, what objection can they properly
have to State or United States troops be-
ing sent into those parts Of the State
where riots and unlawful assemblies and
all manner of violence has been and is
being perpetrated to preserve the peace
and suppress domestic violence. Do the
Peoples party not know that all those acts
are intended to influence the election, by
driving out leading Republicans and in
timidating the others? What will be the
effect of sending United States troops into
those parishes? Will they interfere with
any man, white Or colored, voting, and
voting just as he pleases? In fact,
the effect Of their going into the par
ishes where intimid alton is being ex-
ercised, will be to reno We this intimida-
ton and give the voter the right the law
awards to him, to vote just as his sense
of justice designates. They do not over
awe the law-abiding people. They will
not in any manner int erfere with them or
their business. It is only those who
have committed crimes or are acting in
violation of law that will be interfered
with, and them only so far as to preserve
the peace and suppress domestic violence.
Can any good citizen, or any man who
desires to see fair and honest election,
object to this? The very fact that the
Peoples party object to troops being
sent into the country to preserve peace
and suppress domestic violence, shows
that it will prevent their forcibie and
fraudulent purposes from being carried
out in the election. They can not be
otherwise affected by it. The idea that
the presence of Unit ed States troops will
be to enable the Rep ublican party to
commit frauds is absurd and ridiculous.
They will have nothing to do with the
election whatever, their only purpose be-
ing to preserve peace and suppress do
mostic violence.
Suppose, as this resolution contends,
that no such thing as breach of the
peace or domestic violence, such as would
justify troops to suppress, existed in any
part of the State, what injury would re-
suit if troops were sent Would they en-
tail any expense on the State? Would
they intimidate any person to do other
wise than he wished? Would they pre-
vent any person from voting as he wished?
Would they in any manner interfere with
the election? Certainly not. What in
Jury, then, could they be to any one?
The whole oppositi to troops being
sent into the State then evidently is that,
f they are sent, it will defeat the unlawful
md violent means the Peoples party ex-
oect to use to carry the election this fall.
There can be no other reason for it, and
We call on the authorities to mark this
act, as we think no more conclusive argu-
nents can be found of the violent and |
fraudulent intention Of the White Peoples |
party to carry the election this fall by |
7iolence and fraud can be found.