New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-03

equdHt true Inat as large mum OerS OF voter
! OF Louisiana believe Kellogg and his asso
l crates to have been lawfully elected, an
: that II McEnery were established in powe
ne would be usurper. the difference be
tween the two parties being that the latte
, 90 not propose to settle questions of law b.
| bloodshed. 1t is further said that this is
question which concerns the peopl
, OF Louisiana alone, and that they should b.
Ieit 20 night out the question among them
serves. But this is an erroneous view
both OF the rights and duties Of the peopl
OF the United States under the constitution
lney nave an interest in the question
WGether Senators and Representative
Unjust INTO their seats by illegal mean
SHOULD SIT in Congress to make laws fo
them, ana whether electors, gaining thei
oiflce III like manner, shall turn the scale il
the choice OF u President Of the United
States. The President and Congress are
pound TO recognize, and if need he to sup
port the true government OF Louisiana
against all usurpers, and the American
people Will abandon their rights and finch
from the performance of their duties when
they leave questions to be settled either by
the mob OK the assassin
| We are o. opinion that the union Of near.
~ all the blacks in one political party and
nearly all the whites in another is q fact
deeply to be deplored. Party spirit bears
eVll fruit N abundance when animosties ST
race aud Class do not mingle with it, But
we can not doubt that, whether the white
Republican leaders have strength to foster
| thls clsaension on the color line or not, it
would Tong since have disappeared if the
| leaders OF the white people of Louisiana
had not hammered and welded together the
masses OF the colored population by sys-
tenn OF conduct calculated to excite in the
| hignest degree their fears for their freedom
| or their political and social rights.
| 1he people who wOnld persuade us, and
| TO some degree persuade themselves. that
| they are wiling to give the negro all his
! rights uader the constitution seem to lose
| all their understanding of what Justice ard
| equality really mean when the negro is con.
cerned- lacy think, and very justly, that
IL Is il great evil to mass all the cOlOred
votes on one side. Ii never occurs to them
that ii Is an equal evil to mass all the white
votes on the other. On the contrary, their
amnesty IS specially directed against those
whites Who act with negroes They have
little repro5a:ioa for those leaders who adj
wise the whites TO band together in an agree
ment rot to employ negro laborers
who vote the Radical ticket, or for the
planters who follow the advice. The life
OF no man would be safe, as one of their
witnesses very frankly admitted, who,
when 1T was tine to gather the cotton crop,
should advise negroes TO refuse to work for
'"C NA'' Aiot hSpuUHCduH. Inc
white who kills a negro goes UNPUBLISHED. A
fearful vengeance overtakes the negro who
snaps cap at II white man. In parish |
after parish the whites turn out public |
officers whom they dislike by force, and no |
punishment follows. The assembling of a |
body OF negroes, at the command of the !
sheriff to maintain his lawful authority, is |
followed by the Colfax massacre
We were unable to make any direct and
lnDrOuVn investigation pf fh,4 afout;nD
49,. it Is apparent from the facts stated
IN the report Of the Senate committee (Sen.
ate Report Third Session. Forty-second
Congress, No. i57,) that the return of the
officials was so tainted with fraud and lie.
gailty that the action of neither of the pre-
tended returning boards or the certificates
OF the local election officers can be relied on
IN the least as a basis for making I'D an
opinion as to the true result. Indeed, this
Is conceded by several of the most intelli-
gent OF the Conservative Witnesses II |
would be impossible at this distance of
time. and probably at any time, to 90
beyond the returns and ascertain the true
expression OF the peoples will. But our
pest Judgment is that Governor KELLOGG was
elected; We find that many OF the more mod
rate OF his opponents cOncede his election, !
mere Ia 10 argument 20 show the election |
" McEnery which is NOT met by one equally |
trong III proof OF the election of kellogg.
The registration shows a considerable
majority OF coored voters, and it is not |
tented that Kellogg received substantially
III the cotored votes, besides some thousand |
whites.
Taking the Democratic returns in 1872 for
III the parishes except four, for which the |
etUrns are conceded to be torgeries. and
TX others, from which they threw out the
etnrns Tor fraud and violence, and get at {
rue vote IN those parishes in any way YOU 6
an-by canyasSing the vote with the regis I
ration of white and colored voters. or by q
ikny the Republican and Democratic
otes at the election Of this year, and it a
ives Kellogg majority Of several thou. v
and. Besides Kellogg is now in Office. U
he frauds which make it impossible to
;certain in any better or more satisfactory ],
ode the true will OF the people were per II
7trated by the appointees of Narfnoth in Il
Re interest of McEnary II
On the other hand. the order of Judge | I
urell and the so called canvass by the Re t,
rnlng Board IN the interest OF Kellogg | "
EN- to us to have no reliahi ify and to be- | D
titled to no respect whatever Il
We concede and declare emphaticalIy as
y body can desire the unsatisfactory char | m
ter OF the methods above adopted for ia
ilYlng at this conclusion. There il, in our n,
dsnent, " hatever may be the opinion we -
~ form from the statement of men IA n,
liar with the campaign Of 1872. or from the b,
s1stratlon of whites and colored voters,
legal evidence whatever which will war | ~,
nj the declaration that either Kellogg or Ia
Emery was lawfully elected nc
We have devoted much anxious reflection ~
the question Of remedy tor these evils. vi
IS question IN considering which no tif
rson il Louisiana on either side has e.
cred us any valuable suggestion. The ar
hedy, in great decree, lies out of the ac
age of our powers, This great movement
the public mind in great States is not to
dealt with as II it was street riot. You =. ~
! not change great currents of public ~
ltlInent, or the HABITS of thought and feel. W.
OF great bodies Of men by act of Con eA
a republic sou eau not long or perma- SUI 81;
1tiy check their manifestation BY the 81
'Icise of national power. Until the w
at body of the white people of Louisiana no
III learn TO obey the law, to submit to the en- {
stltution, to respect labor, to base their Nv
titu'ions II liberty, equality and justice, a aa
Y can enjoy neither prosperity nor peace. Ihe
he history of their State nust he madam ast
exhibitions of tumults, violence and Wis
ne, alternating with extraordinary exer- /
is OF national authority to repress them, be:
ween the two everything that makes a sy'
pie prosperous, happy, or honorable to
st go to decay. Ii the whites of Louis wo
a. with all their superiority of intelli- ant
&C, spirit and energy, choose this course, pu
lr right to do so is safe from all enact. wit
ats herein" to
he public sentiment OF the rest of the do1
ntry, more potent than any legislation, ian
hit stop the whole trouble in a month. all
instead of seeking to gain partisan adj err
tase from evils which are running this ant
State. the two parties of the North will
Id eacn resoiutely set its face against exc
evil done By its own side, tile would viii
ain for Congress or the President The see
Guilty of tho Southern problem would | bee