The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-17
HOW WILL LOUISIANA BE COUNTED ?

Sno IstpuDucaub IN NOVeLuDeE VI AeAt yoo
That is the way the New York Sun classif'
:. our State in calculation which gives eightee
ID Democratic States with 1856 electoral vote
~ against nineteen Radical States with Il
votes, which is rather closes having. TIL
y calculation is made upon an estimate OF tn
returns Of the late State elections, in whic
the Democrats lose 112, 900, as compared wit
the result last year, these States being repre-
d scented by 1913 members Of Congress, tn
average loss being $40 votes in each Congress
!, sional district. The Sun supposes that az
L election had been held in all the States in
: stead of ten, and that a proportionate Demo
cratic loss had been suffered in each, anC
then gives its tables resulting, as above, in 6
Democratic majority of four electoral votes
out of total of 366. Among the many
who are calculating the chances, the Sun
seems to have adopted the theory nearest to
correctness, and the result may not vary in
any large number from the estimate which it
describes modestly as a calculation which the
coming twelvemonths may materially change
The Sun concludes with this remark
NJ uOuUb tH6 ue3t CALL tdlSu Will Do ldrgeiy
! Influenced by the character of the candidates
The elections Of this ear have made terri
bic slaughter Of aspirants, and We fancy that
the name at the head of each ticket will turn
! out to be one not now much spoken of AT
all events, according to the precedents, the
man who is successful at the ballot boxes is
! pretty sure not to be one whose pretensions
have been hawked around the country, but
some fresh, unobjectionable, inspiring name
that may be taken beforehand as in some sort
presaglDg victory.
We refer to this estimate with the purpose
of protesting in a very mild way against the
insertion of the name of Louisiana in the list
OF States that are not going TO vote for some
good and honest Democrat for the Presidency.
Even the census of 1870 gives us the credit Of
having white population Of 362,OO against
black list of 364,OOO. The ratio of whites
to the colored has not materially changed,
the false, imperfect, fraudulent and garbled
statement of the census takers of Kellogg to
the contrary notwithstanding. The Demo-
Gratis won in the elections of 1872 and 1874 by
a majority of many thousand votes although
cheated out OF the results by the knavish and !
felonious action Of the Returning Board, un-
der the cover of the vilest fraud, cheat and |
swindle that ever befouled the pages OF a
statute book.
The election Of 1876 will be held under no
such law, and the returns thereof will be
by no such foul hands as those
which detied the ballots and lists Of 1874.
When the will of the people is recorded by
their votes next November, no recreant
no rascally malefactors, no black
guard vagabonds or knavish culprits will be
suffered to pollute the sacred urn with their
harry talons. Whatever the vote of Louisiana
may be, it will be counted as it is given.
There will be no interference by Grant and
his soldiers in our next years campaign.
That maneuver, always foolish, will be SO
odious, that it would cost the Radicals
hundred votes in the North where it would
gain one in Louisiana. Whatever hap ]
pens, there will be no soldiers in our election.
Had Grant sent two regiments to act under
he orders of the vagabond Governor Ames,
n October, the act would have cost to the
Radicals the loss of Ohio Pennsylvania and p
We have the satisfaction Of knowing that ]
rmed interference in this State or South Ca \
olina next year will be the cause of the GER '
ain defeat of the Radical nominee for the
Grants Louisiana policy has n
amaged the Radical party already more than
ny one thing, except the scoundreiism of ~
.adical place holders and politicians. The !
lpient and shrewd Moron and other advi5. E,
IS will not suffer such folly to be repeated in
376. Now that the people at large understand !,
le Louisiana question, military coercion
ould be mere suicidal folly Q,
We think we can promise in advance that
white men in this State will vote the anti D
adical ticket, with the exception of very =.
Y office holders, hangers-on, dependents,
b hunters, and spectators. We think we .,
n furthermore safely promise that the col
ed voters will have the full and unimpeded al
,ht to vote as they please without fear of th
resolution in any case. We know that it is y. ~
g settled resolve of leading white men all Il,
g utmost kindness and fairness, without the ev
lst attempt to control their votes otherwise ~
an by persuasion, and q true represen- ia
ion of their interests. Our Conservative by
liens have been and are still winning the al
nfidence of the negroes, and while they W W
II in no wise interfere with their voting IA,
ey will have more influence upon colored an
ters than ever before. The fact is that the
groes as class, and especially the more
ellgent among them, are fast learning to en- "a,
preciate the average white ran ) spirit of
ticc. They know and feel that white gen.
men, such as they used to belong to, will
t cheat them or abuse them or lie to them,
4 they are beginning to find out the false
aracters of the peripatetic white knaves 81
10 have SO long lived and fourished on
gro votes. Their experience in both re-
ects will have telling effect next Novem-