New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-09
COMING.
b.Committee Of Good and True
Men.
'aOM TIE SENATE OF TIE UNITED
STATES
. Insure that the Flag Shall Not be
a Planting Lie in Louisiana
They will Leave fol. New Or
leans on Monday Next

The REPUBLICAN of yesterday published
lac full text Of Senator Edmunds' resolu.
ion, which the agent at Washington. who
berverts news and furnishes opinions for
HE Associated Press, did not think well to
telegraph to the Associated Press Sontt,
hough it dire ely affects in the most Vltsi
hammer Louisiana, Mississippi, and other
Soutbern States. Briefly summarized, this
resolution, which has been adopted by the
6erate, recltes that in the States OF South
carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louis
ana aud Mississippi, the right OF the
kitizens Of said States to vote at the late
Elections of electors for President aad Vice
President of the United States. and tor
Representatives in Congress-, and for execu-
live and judicial officers of such States, and
kor members of the Legislature thereof,
has been denied or greatly abridged. The
|committee are clothed with foil powers to
Institute thorough investigation upon the
following points, and also as to the eliRi-
bility of many of the unreconstrucsed Con-
ederates claiming to have been elected
presidential electors from the Southern
States:
Fi1st-Whether in any of the elections
named in eaid amendment in eaid States IN
the years 1875 or 1876 the right OF any por-
ton of such Inhabitants to vote as afore-
baid has been in any way denied or
abridged.
Secopd-To what extent such denial or
abridRment has been carried.
Thirdly what means such denial or
kbridgmenr has been accomplished.
Fourth-By whom such denial or aoridg-
neht has been effected.
Eifth-With what motives ana tor what
purposes has such denial or abridgment
been carried on.
Sixth-By what authority or pretended
AUTHORITY has such denial or abrldgment
been exercised.
This resolution plainly includes in it's
scope the pretended election in Mississippi
Rast wear, by virtue Of which Mr.. l.. Z.
G. Lamar claims q seat in the United States
Eeaate, and the still more faIcical election
bt this year in the same State. by which
seneral Fort Pillow Chalmers claims to
have been elected to Congress by volun-
tary negro votes in an overwhelmingly ne
gro district, in opposition to Congress man
I,ynch, the most popular colored man OF
mississippi. II also strikes at the Sena-
|eoral question in Georgia and Alabama,
land indicates plainly that Senators elected
Hby murder and fraud are not desired IN the
United States Senate. Coming down to our
own State, it conveys the assurance that
the truth o. the outrages which white and
black Republicans have so long endured
for opinions sake will at last be made
kno wn to the world, and that the wisdom,
Justice and necessity of our election law,
which some ill-informed and timid North
eru Republicans have heretofore dobted,
will be abundantly established. The South
ern question is no longer question to be
speered at, as made up of "bloody shirte,
car pet baggers and scallawsgs." By the
force of events it becomes the great ma.
tional issue, on the decision of which the
future of the country depends. The ballot
Of the freedman, as Abraham Lincoln half
hesitatingly, in those eaIls days, predicted,
has become the one safeguard to preserve
the Jewel of liberty in the family OF free
dom. If free thought, free schools and free
labor are stricken down in Louisiana. they
will fall in many other States in the Union.
The Senate committee and subcommittee
authorized by Senator Edmunds' resolu-
ton at first intended to hold their sessions
in Washington. During the last few days
Governor Kellogg has repeatedly tele'
graphed, urging the desirability OF sub
committee visitiug1 New Orleans and In
yestigating the facts on the spot. Yester-
day he received the following gratifying
reply:
WASHINGTON, December s, ) L. h.
TO Governor Kellogg New Olleanl:
A committee will be sent to New Orleans,
and will start on Monday night.
O. P. MORTON, Chairman.
Every true Rspublicsn will receive
this assurance with unfeigned grati
fcation. Whatever happens, the truth will
at last be known about Louisiana, and the
truth thus made known can not fail to
secure to Republicans of Louisiana
warmer sympathy and more just judg
nent than they have hitherto received
from their brethren North.