The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-08
THE LAST OF THE OUTRAGES.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l

| From the Cincinnati Enquirer
The Louisiana outrage has been completed,
by the telegraphic orders of the President, by
the presence of the Lieutenant General of
the armies, by the menace of eighteen hun
dred United States infantry surrounding the
State-House, by the presence of two sloops-of-
war and monitor lying in front of the city,
and by the concentration of the metropolitan
police upon the approaches to the State
House. This is the crowning iniquity OF an
Administration which has not been wanting
in iniquities. Practically the entire army and
navy Of the United States were summoned to
support the acknowledgement frauds of the
Returning Board, the President of the United
States, seeking third term by military vio-
lence, thrusting the lawless finger of power
| into that troubled State Capitol to uphold the
enormity.
This is an outrage unparalleled in this
country IN time of peace. For six perplex-
| ing weeks the Returning Board occupied
themselves in the difficult task of counting
out majority of nearly forty members of the
Legislature and in counting in the minority.
The work could have been honestly done in
week or ten days. Various expedients
failed. The first attempt was to more or less
honestly count the votes of a large portion of
the State, leaving some populous Conserva-
tive districts amounted till the last, when
they could manipulate them. The maiorities
throughout the State were too heavy for the
success of this trick. Then the Board LETT
matters in the hands of the clerks one day to
give them opportunity for sweeping falsifi-
cation of returns.
The clerks did their duty to their employ
ers too faithfully. They counted more votes
than there were here and less than there
were there, SO that the obviousness of the
frauds led to exposure. It was not dreamed.
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the audacity and shamelessness to support
that villainy. But on the assembling OF the
Legislature yesterday this was done, by what
force OF arms we have already named. The
wicked flee when no man pursueth The !
people of Louisiana, the Conservatives, GER
tainly, would have accepted an honest organi-
cation OF the Legislature as peaceably rs the |
people of Ohio look upon the organization of |
its Assembly. Vide the other Southern Legis- |
latures.
But Grant sends the army and navy and |
Sheridan to maintain the matchless wrong.
A President of the United States telegraphs |
to the Legislature of "a sovereign State that he
will not recognize Speaker Of its House
elected by members peaceably chosen by the
people! The King Of the Sandwich Islands
might as properly send such dispatch. In
the Kellogg usurpation Grant
had the decency to hide himself behind iu-
hclal decision from Louisiana. But it has
come to pass that the present Comander-in
chief OF the army and navy of the United
States. by the wrath of God quartered in the
Vhite-House, if Witt is elected Speaker of {
he House in the Louisiana Legislature or Con-
verse in that of Ohio, can telegraph to New
Orleans or Columbus that he will not recog-
NE Converse or Wilt. An usurper in l
louisiana, whom Grants bayonets make Gov- |
rnor, backed by Grants army or navy, calls !
hs Legislature of the State a mob, and the !
lrm OF Grant & Kellogg treat it as such. A i
awfully elected Speaker of the lower branch t
State Legislature is elected from his seat U
i-et-armis by telegraphic order of the Presi- r
ent about two hours after his election The s
etails of this unprecedented usurpation will
e found in our telegraphic columns We
annot better close this protest against the S
Ugh handed villainy than by echoing the o
oble plea of Gov. McEnery to the people to il
e calm and patient, the wisdom of which we p
ave often urged. O