New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-05
party. but to the government whose execu.
tive officer am
Am, sir, respectfully yours,
J. R. G.. PITKIN,
United States Marshal.

ROoxs SrArR CENTRAL CoxMITrER.)
Denocrst e Conssr Va i've Party, }
New Okans, November 4, 1875
Hon. J. 4 G. Pitkin. UIited States Marshal:
SIR-Your letter If this date, declining
to appoint special deputy ms-shals at the
various polls of election in the city of New
Orleape. under the Revised Statutes, SEQ.
tion 1921, q list of suitable persons having
been furniehed you by us for above purpose,
has been received. Its decision and it's
tone eau leave no doubt on the mind of any
rjudiced person of thu methods by
which your party proposes to defeat the
will Of the people OF Louisiana on the
seventh of November, and read in connec-
tion with your infamous registration frauds,
and by the light of the pact history Of the
Returning Board, it will convince the
American people every where that in 1876.
as in 1872 and 1874, Louisiana has no public
life save at the caprice of usurpers, fastened
upon her in deni Il of the laws and of the
constitution by Federal bayonets.
Such simple protection as we have asked
has never been denied before in the history
of the State. But the story of our wrongs
and our sufferings is now thoroughly under
stood, and thank God, in two days more.
the American people at the polls will have
answered your ISLANDERS and your crimes in
u voice far more potent than the vile CAM
paign bilingsgate with which you think to
stifis our de mand for the bel lest justice.
When that day shall have passed, and
that verdict shall have been rendered, we
hope and intend to bring to swift and con-
dign punishMent-thrOUgh the law and un-
der the laval those who have, in it's def.
ance, dared to outrage the rights, to which.
under the constitution, We believe the
meanest citizen to be entitled
Very respectfully.
President Democratic. Conservative State
Central Committee.
NEW ORLEANS, November 4. 1876.
Hon. W. Patton. President Democi attic Stat Cen
trail COMMITTEES:
SIR-Your communication of even date is
at hand. My letter, to which it purports to
reply, recited simply what esteemed, and
still esteem, material PERSONS for my course
of deputy marshals. have no desire to
enter into partisan argument. To what
ever extent one party or the other may be
arragned for Islanders and orimes," look
with no less cheerful forecast than you do
to the result next week. / rejoice to SEQ
your announcement of tardy solicitade
for "rights to whioh, under the constitution,
we (yOu) believe the meaneet citizen to be
entitled" Had this solicitude been exhib-
tins under the sod of Louisiana. Since
your late clandestine circular, distributed
among your partisaus, declared, You can
not convince Q negrO's reason" and then
cou seled horseback rallies Ito impress
him with sense of your united strength"
every bullet that has laid q political victim
low, whizzed 6rst through cause, which had
too often been the sport and scoff of many
of your psrtisans
l trust you will preserve in the resolve
you communicate, ito bring to swift
and condign punishment all those who
have dared to outrage their rignts.'
You will thus disburden the United States
government Of the serious task at frequent
periods in preserving the peace of Louis.
lana. I am indebted to you as the central
authority of your party for corrobative
evidence in the letter before me of a spirit
which, as it doubtless animates those whose
names you submitted for deputyships
denotes them to be wholly unit to assist
me in maintaining the public peace.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
j. r. G. PITKIN.