The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-04

State. It's commander can. in a few hours,
place bodies of men armed and drilled in any
of the near parishes those on the coast or
into Mississippi, Alabama, or Texas. It doubt
less contains many persons of property and in
fiuenee. 1t also contains many persons of very
different character. II is desirous and would be
able 10 overthrow the State Government at any
time If not prevented by the power of the Unit
ed States They still retain more than l,001
stand Of arms taken from the state September
l4th, and never returned.
We can not doubt that the effect of all these
things was to prevent full, free, and fair elec-
ton, and to intimidate the colored voters and
white Republicans. The very formation of
white mans party was menace of terrible
import to those who remember Colfax and BoS-
sier and the convention. The press was filled
with threats of violence. The agreement to
discharge Iaborers-the suggestion that wild
beasts are tanned by hunger-was evidence of
the same spirit. The overthrow of the State
Government by the White League the 18th
of September; the turning out of large num-
bers of parish officials in the country, compelI-
ing them to flee for their lives; the fearful les
son of Coushatta; the formation, arming, and
drilling of the White League, the natural sue
cessors of the knights of the White Camelia-
these things ina community where there is no
legal punishment for political murders. must,
in the nature of things, have filled with error
people timid and gentle like the cololed pop
ulation of Louisiana, even if we had not taken
abundant evidence as to special acts of violence
and crime, and their effects on particular neigh
borhoods
In view of these facts, we do not hesitate TO
find that the election of 1874 neither full,
free fair; that in large portions of the State
the usual means of instructing and persuading
the people of organizing and conducting cam
paign could not be carried on by Republicans
without danger to their lives; and that many
more voters than were needed to give the Re
publican party complete victory were prevent
ed from voting at all, or awed into voting the
white mans ticket
Now look at the means used to elect
rebels, or what is the same thing, Demo
coats, in Louisiana, and look at the re-
suit. Read the closing paragraph. The
committee assert that more than enough
Republican voters were kept from the
polls by violence, to have given the Re
publicans the victory, yet this committee,
composed of learned Congressman, go on
in the next paragraph, and continue at
great length, in condemnation of the
Returning Board of the State, for count
ing in the candidates thus kept out by
fraud and violence, and send to Congress
the following resolutions:
| WHEREAS, Both branches of the Legislature
of Louisiana have requested the Special Com
mittee of this House to investigate the circum-
stances attending the election and returns
thereof in that State for the year 1874 and,
| WHEREAS, Said committee have unanimously
reported that the Returning Board OF the State,
in canvassing and compiling said returns and
/ u;lti no 1nnlieC
an erroneous rule of law, by reason whereof
persons were awarded seats i'll the House OF
Representatives TO which they were not enti-
tied, and persons entitled 10 seats are defrauded
of them.
| ReSotred, That it is recommended to the
House of Representatives of Louisiana to take
immediate steps to remedy said wrong, and TO
place the persons rightfuI1y enrolled in their
seats.
The persons this committee recon-
mend to be placed in their seats in the
Louisiana Legislature, and who they say
are "rightfully enrolled are the very
men who were elected by keeping Re
publicans from the polls by violence and
intimidation.
Is this the rule to be adopted in this
country? Can the Republicans in Ohio
next fall arm themselves in the strong
Republican counties, and by violence
keep enough Democrats from the polls to
elect majority of Republicans to the
Legislature, and shall the Republicans
thus elected be said to be properly en-
rolled, and entitled to seats in the Leg
islature? Is this to be the mode of con-
Quoting elections in this country here
after? II proper in Leuisiana,- why not
in Ohio?
If our country is to be governed in the
future by mob, then let Grant, or some
other man of military renown be elected
to the chief magistraey, not only for the
third term, but for life 1t will very soon
come to that, if anarchy is to rule. 1
have-some objections to President Grant,
as my readers we'll know; yet l would
infinitely prefer his absolute rule. or
even the rule of his half witted son Fred,
| to the rule of an armed, drunken mob.
would prefer the absolute rule of JEFF.
Davis, or even the rule of the lying rebel
John Young Brown, TO the rule of anar-
chy, although the ruling mob might be
composed of Republicans.