New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-03
THE ELECTION NOT FAIR AND FREE
RecO gnitiOn Of Governor nellogg
Recommended.

congressional committee on Lpu:5iar
affairs, as signed by Messrs. Hoar, Wheci'
and Frye, and an additional report signe
by the Democratic members. It's extrem
length ior5ids the publication of but til
most interesting portions of the report
The former commences by stating tn
allegations u both political parties il
Louisiana. The complaint on the one han
that the State has fallen into control Of tn
negro population, under the lead of o fey
white persons, who have possesset
themselves of the State and loca
offices, witch they have admins
tered corrupty and wastfuiiy to
their personal gain, increasing taxation
and nearly destroying commerce; and Tax
charge ON the other side of conspiracy or
the part of minority to take possession by
force and fraud of the State government, to
drive all white men who will not join them
out of the State, to deprive the negro OF
legal and political rights, to reduce him to
a condition of political and personal dc.
pendence also that a vast number of muir.
ders have been committed to carry ont the
conspiracy, and that the enforcement of the
laws has ceased over large districts, and
that by terror, violence and fraud the hold
ing of fair and peaceable elections
and fairly ascertaining the result has been
rendered impossible. 1t is agreed that the
party now holding the State government is
not physically the strongest. That only the
national government keeps the State gov
eminent, the Legislature, a large portion of
Che local oflicers and perhaps the Judiciary
IN place for single hour.
The committee explained that they had
access to reports and evidence made and
taken by various committees since the war.
The report in the first place deals with the
question one of history. 1t considers
people w., were engaged in rebellion, a
dOminanr race of shareholders, who APP
proved and sustained slavery, and subject |
~."' Of slaves. The passions which led to !
Tar, and the passions which the war
a' ed. were left untamed. The negro in
III natural condition was patient, docile,
and ha d implanted in him the submission
10 tho whites taught by slavery. Reference
s5as made to the inadequate provisions for
schools, the difficulty of self government:
under the new condition of things, the
seeming failure to produce harmony by
national interference.
AS a matter of history, the report cites
1866, the unjust laws enacted tending to
degrade the negro to a condition little
better than slavery. IJ also goes briefly
nto the details OF tie riot of 1866, the
tassacres of 1868, ana that of COlfax in
S'3. Then comes an account Of the cam
,aign of 1874; how 1t was begun by :
Hhito mans party at Baton Rouge. and ,
continued by the Coushatta murders and /
he instruction of the fourteenth of Sep I
ember in New Orleans. What is said of !
he White League, the Returning Board, ,
nd the conclusions arrived at by the COM I
littee is given in the language Of the
eport: ,,
The White l. ague is an organization i
Which exists in New Orleans, and contains I
t least from 300 to 1000 mem bers, armed, t
rilled and Offered; and mill tary organ- | a
atoms bearing the same name extend b
throughout various parts of the State. 1t u
'as pretended that this organization in the b
lty was si'"ply as a volunteer police forca,
10 regain police force beng inefficient; t
nat it BIZ 40 connection with associations b
the iue name in other parts Of the | "
tate. and that these latter are mere politi 4
ii clu ba, without military organization or C
ms. y brief examination and brief ! II
'oss e Examination effectualIy dspeled this ii
retcn sion. Several of its mem bers and | II
Ulcers were examined before the com. n
ittee. 50 far as was shown this organiza- II
On IN no single instance performed police %,
notions. Its organization, equipment. Il
ill and discipline were wholly mill, d
ry. lis name was not appropriate to q,
volunteer police, but was appropriate to il.
association designed to put the whites of OF
Q Sta1c1n power by force. 1t had cannon. II,
| The .onrteenth of September il rose til
on and i'tacked the police of the city, of
preiuSt " the attack being the seizure pl
arms which it had imported from the
nth, ard having defeated them with con. f.l
erahle slaughter, it took possession of the oil
'te iuuse. overthrow the State govern. L,
mt and installed a new Governor in In
&c, nd kept him in power until the ell
tied SIates inteItered. This rising was til
nned beforehand. Its commanding tn
Ger. OEotn, published an elaborate and de
npous report of his military achieve
nts, aud Ia which he expresses his thanks WI
his aida and other officers for their tn,
portant aaG valuable services before and ia
ing the day OF action. In other parts of | en-
STATE organizations under the same tn.
ne existed. and we have no doubt that the
If purposes and methods were also M
ntIcal. In one parish their meetings lie
re- called by notices headed "Attention, lad
III" ~ que, ahu signed 10y an officer in emf
official capacity. Abeny, the leader of wo
oand AT Coushatta, when he sent off the of
publican prisoners under guard, gave Ser
iitarF oraer Tor supplies and guard to ! ella
highest officer of a club in another town, the
obedience 10 which, if his story were the
,, the ttety of the lives of the prisoners ! Mr
ended. Yet he protested to have no | tio
"a loi III man mat OF president of an Or VIII
airy Democratic club addressing the but
sidehf Of a subordinate and brother club Mr.
.hc same organization, M,
he " hite League of New Orleans itself out
and Is constant menace to the Re- tho
'llcanS "t the whole State. Its com by
nd'r an IN a few hours send bodies of Flo
a armed and drilled into any of the river moi,
ishe> or those on the coast, or into Mis- ann
ippl. Alabama or Texas. 1t doubtless ed
t2lEs many persons of property and in. tan
nee. Il also contains many persons of Gro,
different character. 1t would be exh
rous aad able TO overthrow the State syn
ernmeat at any time II not prevented nit
he power of the United States. They mill
retain more than lUoo stand OF arms IN p
'n iioAi tIe State ON september IL, and | spol
II returned. I sire
e can not doubt that the effect OF all SEQ,
3 thlpgs was to prevent a Iui, free the
ION, ana to intimieate the colored aud
RS and the white Republicans. The De
1oima, lon OF white mans party was the
mace of terrible import to those who seat
mberei ColtaN, Bossier and the CON afte!
ion. The press was filled with threats | rem:
oence. Inc agreement TO discharge choi
suggestion that wild beasts now
AIMED by hunger-waS evidence of the tiveS