New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-10
500 eolorsd, . msjority of the latter 4

22,3l4.
II was we'll known that If left free to vote
uninduenced BY violence or intimidation
| the blacks would be almost unanimousl,
Republican, ana that with the white Reput
lican votes the majority would be abou
| equal to that above indicated. The plal
| appears to have been to select for the pun
| poses Of intimidation and violence ~ FEY
| parishes - possible, for in forty OF fifty
seven parishes where these were not en-
| pl0yed the Republican majority was COG
| but to select those in which the colore,
| vote, q compared with the white, would b
large unless unlawfully prevented, for il
| 30 doing it might be expected that shout,
| any majority they could thus obtain in sucl
| parishes DO rejected, they would, neverthe
less, attain their purpose by the suppres
sion of large Republican vote.
In pursuance of this plan, five of tn
| parishes selected in which the greatest vic
1ence and intimidation were practiced wer
East and West Feliciana, which Dor
der upon that portion of Missie
40 prevailed during and preceding the cleo
ton as substantially to prevent any Re
publican vote; East Baton Rouge, whicl
borders on the southern portion of Eas
Feliciana; Morehouse, which adjoins tn
State of Arkansas, and Ouschita, which
adjoins and lies directly south of More
house. The geographical position of these
five parishes was we'll suited to the purpose
to be attained, for it was easy for member
of clubs to be formed therein, and who
usually perpetrated their outrsges witt
masked faces, to pretend that they were
committed by border ruf6ans from Missis
sippi and Arkansas, where like outragee
had been perpetrated.
The location of these five parishes wal
not, however, better suited to the plan to
be accomplished than was the great dispro
portion existing therein between the mum
Der of white and colored votOra. The for.
mer numbered 5l34, the latter Is, 244; ma
jority of the latter equal to more than one.
third of the entire majority of colored
voters in fifty parishes of the State.
The returns of votes actually caet in
these five parishes suggest that clubs, to
whom was assigned the tack Of securing
Democratic majorities therein. had per-
formed their work of violence and intimids.
ton effectually, which proof discloses, brief
summaries of portions of which are hereto
annexed, that where violence and intimida-
zion were insufficient, murder, manning,
mutilation and whipping were resorted to.
Instead of q majority of 5000 or 1000, which
the Republicans should have had in these
parishes upon fair election, there was &C.
tually returned to the Returning Board .
Democratic majority for the parishes of
Ouachita of 1878, and in East Feliciana,
where the registered colored voters number
2l27, not Republican vote for elector was
cast. In East Baton Rouge, containing 1852
c0lored registered voters and 1901 whites,
the Democrats claim . msjority of 6l7,
which, but for the rejection Of several polls
by the commissioners and supervisors of
election, would have been returned to the
Returning Board as votes actually cast.
If to the Democratic majority from the
four parishes, Is above stated, We add the
6l7 thus claimed and insisted upon before
the Returning Board, . Democratic majority
of 4495 il the result of an election in FIVE
parishes containing l3,244 colored Repub-
licans and 5l34 white Democratic voters.
The conclusion that intimidation and vio-
lence alone could have produced this is a.
most irresistible, and that such influences
were employed and was supplemented by
murder, when that was thought necessary,
is established by the proofs already referred
to. 1t but confirms this conclusion to refer
to the vote cast in these five parishes in
1874, when, no special motives existing for
The use of cruel means to influence the
election. the Republican majority therein
was 1879. The result is also suggestive of
and intimidation obtained by
means most terrible and revolving. Or
yanized clubs of armed men, formed as re.
by the Central Democratic
Committee, rode through the country at
night, marking their course by whipping.
shooting, wOunding. manning, mutilation
md murder of women, children and defense
ess men, whose houses were fOrcibly on
cred while they slept, and their inmates
led through fear; the pistol and the rifle,
he knife and the rope, were employed to
10 their horrid work. Crimes like these,
estiied to by scores of witnesses, were the
means employed in Louisiana to elect q
President Of the United States.
BY force Of large mass of testimony
lpon which that adjudication has been
cached, members of the board, citing I'M
Ter oath, were bound by law, if convinced
" testimony that riot, tumult. acts of vio-
ence or armed disturbance did materially
Interfere with the purity and freedom of
he election at any poll or voting place, or
lection thereat, to reject the votes thus
ast and exclude them from their final re-
urn.
Of the effect of euch testimony the board
vas the sole and final judge, and if in reach
ng q conclusion it exercised good faith and
vas guided by an honest desire to do jus. |
ice, it's determination should be respected,
ven if upon like proof different conclu- |
ion might have been reached by other |
tribunals or persons. To guard the purity |
f the ballot, to protect the citizen in the |
Ote, to secure him against violence, intimi- |
alton, outrage, and especially murder.
hen he attempts to perform this duty, |
h0uld be the desire of all men and the |
inn of every representative government. |
political success ehall be attained by /
1ch violent and terrible means as were re- |
'rted to in many parishes of Louisiana,
)mplaint should not be made if the votes |
,us obtained are denounced by judicial
ibunals and all honest men as illegal and
Did.
JOHN SHERMAN, Ohio;
E. w. STOUGHTON, New York;
j. H. VAN ALIEN, New York;
EUGENE HALE, Maine;
j. A. GARFIELD, Ohio;
CORTLAND PARKER, New Jersey;
w. D. KELLEY, Pennsylvania;
SIDNEY CLARK, Kansas;
j. C. WILSON, Kansas.
In the Matter of SneezinE.
For some time past the Partisan press has
,en discussing with great gustO various
NEEDLES suggested for the vice of snoring.
aving got tired of this subject without ar
wing at any useful conclusion, they will,
,rhaps, be inclined now to bestow some of
cir philosophic attention on the bad prac-
70 of sneezing. Every excuse for doing so
afforded them by q case which is just re-
'rted from the Faubourg St. Honore. A
Jung lady inhabiting that aristocratic
larter was;suddenly seized q few days ago
it'll violent and prolonged fit of sneez-
g. Her relations, her nurse, and finally
arv ono in fha hOuao haOan IN ha a a rma1 |
10 orthodox "God bless you" had been
outed and reiterated in her ears, but the
mon of sneezing refused to be exercised,
d the doctors had to be called in. BY
cir advice chlorOform was administered,
d the sufferer thus relieved for time |