New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-06
POLITICAL NOTES.

Alphonso TAFT, Attorney General, de-
clares with the sanction of the President,
that the United States is q Nation-with
great big capital N. Do the Democracy
realize what this. signifesG 1t means that
forcibly deposing Judges Davis and Dula
and other Republican officials shall no
longer be an immunity for crime. It means
that the American citizen. when aggrieved,
can appeal to the American governmsnt for
redress. It means that we hace an Ameri-
can government, God be praised
In this connection comes up naturally the
query, Have colored people rights in this
community against the aggressons of Demo.
cratic canvassers. The privacy of homes
is lnvaded-the sanctity Of the domestic
hearth violated by ruffisns whose sole au-
thority is an appointment from some Demo
cratic committeeman as o canvasser.
Be it understood that we desire no VIC
lator of the election laws to 60 unpunished.
We know, too, that the Republicans will be
grossly ewindled by the Democrats in this
election. That the Democratic wirewOrk-
ers can pile up immense and impossible
numbers in given houses, is fact which
the record shows, and which the Repub-
llcans have been far to lepient in punish
ing. But we most solemniy declare that,
"a Republicans, we would rather the Dem.
ocratic frauds of the past should be dupll-
Gated than that the custom should be even
temporarily sanctioned of the right Of these
rufian canvassers to force their way, upon
any pretext whatever, INTO the home Of any
citizen. We earnestly hope that all such
trespassers will be punished to the extent
that the law permits.
In reply to the Democrats weak and
blundering attack on our specifications OF
bloody crimes chargeable to the Democ-
racy, we can but call the attention of the
people to this suggestion, viz that vul-
garity is not argument, nor is denial de.
fence.
The only testimony against the colored
people of Ouachita has come through the
Associated Press, from . White Lacquer.
We have as much reason to doubt his story
of frir into white peoples houses as he
has to say that the firing was done by ne
groes. No evidence is adduced, while the
probabilities all are against the McCraine
theory.
His paper, the Telegraph, has been talking
about armed Republican gatherings for q
month past. Yet these Republicans, if
armed, hurt no one, nor was there dis
turbance. But Immediately that the White
League rifles reach the parish Republican
barbecue is violently intruded upon by half
a dozen ruf6ans, whose bravery over the
timid blacks is fully justified by the
mounted backing they had IN Monroe.
If these desperate Democrats so endeay-
ored to provoke conflict which would en-
able them to slay the blacks at their own
barbecue. why would they not 60 further,
after the first escape of their intended vic
tins, and fire some harmless shots into
their neighbors' houses in order to show an
apparent justification for riding coughshod
over the parishe
Republicans, beware The Democrats
have put premium on false registration,
and among the keen and cunning canvass
ers it is well understood and openly dis
cussed that the rewards will be proper
toned to the number of papers each can
secure. OF course this is premium upon
crime. but it can only be stopped by punish
ing the criminals. Be alert.