Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-25
LOUISIANA.



board at 1880 a. M, counsel ofthe
democratic committee on the re-
turns filed q motion for copies of
pi otests, contests, &C., entered on
the republican side. The motion
was taken under advisement. A
protest against the rules ad ,p.ed
by the board was filed by the dem
ocratic counsel, When the board
went into executive session Gov.
r G Wycklife. elector-at-largo on
the democratic ticket, was exclude
ed from the room, notwithstand-
ing he had the day before received
a note from the president of the
board inviting his attendance.
President Wells said that Gov
Wyckliffe could only be present
in case of a contest. The latter
gave notice that he would file a
protest.
The board went into executive
session about noon, the following
named composing the democratic
and republican visiting commit
tee remaining in the room: Demo-
cratic committee-Messrs Palmer,
Trumbull, JUL in, G B Smith and
Bigler, Republican committee
Messrs Shermt IN, Hale, Stoughton
Garfield and Kelley.
The clerk reported that the re-
turns from IA parishes had not yet
been received.
The following parishes were cam
vassed to-day in executive session:
ST M .ry's, Tilden 1.485, Hayes q
407. st Helena, Tilden $40, Hayes
$40, Tensas, Tilden AGA, Hayes 81
POT, Terre Bonnie, Tilden 1892,
Hayes, 1870. Vermillion, Til
den 902, Hayes 277. Washington,
Tilden 5l4. Hayes 165. Lafouche,
Tiiden 1854, Hayes 1865.
The vacancy on the board has
not been filled, and it is not likely
any action will be taken on the
subject.
The board adjourned till II am.
tomorrow.
Red Hot Talk by u Southern
Democrat.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. Is The
Mansfield DE Soto Paris1 Repor-
ter, OF this date, says: "The pre-
tense of acting usurping Governor
Kellogg to re-enact the times OF
1872 and rs is too plain a frau | to
need comment. If his returning
board throws out the parishes Of
MOrehOuse, Ouchilla, East and
West Feliciana and East Baton
Rouge, thereby electing Packard,
ct a., by 800 or 800 majority, and
the Northern Democracy are will
ing to see US in Louisiana again
put on the rack after all we have
done to elect Tilden, then may the
devil fly away with them body
soul, and may an Emperor and
a tyrant rule them forever. Any
man that saysanything. to US about
Democracy or Northern sympathy
from that day on, we shall regard
as either a knave or a fOol,and shall
fight him accordingly. We trust
ed this monster Democracy once
in 1860 and they betrayed our
trust by killing more of our faith
ers, brothers and sons than any
other party, and now if they fool
us again, and allow the heel of
the usurper to be again put upon
our necks in Louisiana, we hope
God, in His Providence, will ever
lastingly blot out the name, the
fame and memory ofa party which
we have been allied to time out of
mind, but which alliance has
brought us nothing but destruction
and misery for the last 20 years.
This is their time to play now
and not ours, and if our people al
low themselves to be betrayed in
to the trap again as they were
upon the memorable assault upon
Fort Sumpter, they deserve no
sympathy from the civilized world
and no pity from the human fam
lily. Our Northern Democratic
allies had as we'll understand first,
last and all the time that we can
make nothing more than an enaeAe
in the South which will fasten the
Republican party and centraliza-
ton upon the country From
thence to an empire is but a step.
We have no money, no credit, no
meat and bread and nothing upon
which to make war, except plenty
OF willing souls as ever stood TO
the bIeech of a musket. They
arc most oil of the old blue hens
chickens and will be sure to fight
on one side or the other If called
on, and If 1t comes to business and
the Northern people don't know
which party they will fight with,
then they have not learned any
wisdom from history. Our people
want Mr.. Tilden to know, and his
Northern supporters to be perfect