The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-18
irI,,l,ul,tl patrh,
]. : a. 7,,TI,p,AY !. !. N yEMBERs 10. 1876.
Louisiana.

80
IS yesterday mornings dispatches threw D g .
broad light on Louisiana. Ihes .ie..eI. y
6 sHEgaaN, GARFIELD, and tneir coaol W.
In deyilish partizanTy, tore she ssi,a' !.
Slp.NT,s ssfair count" aud showed tue
whole nrocceding to be designed 70 cneou-
,agss and sustain, the Returning Boandin
throsyine out and counting in votes to elect
tha HAYES electors. The letter Is o snarl
and sneer OF the Democrats who asked tor
a Joint arrangement by which both Radicals
and Democrats should be present and OBJ
serve the action OF the Returning Beard.
The Democrats are informed that their pre-
sence there at all, with any view OF any sort
Of Interference in the matter Of counting
She votes, is obtrusive and unwarranted.
TO this Il IS added by another telegram that
The Board win likely sit with closed doors
which we were satisfied would be the case
as soon as SHERIDAN was sent to New Or
iearls. &, Il. srj,3. s.fi!, ,ttsts,t'ti /
JOHN SHERMAN & Go. with their syonted
effrontry, say that had a board correspond
ing Id organization with that in New Or
leans been. authorized to pass upon the
fraudulent return OF the votes of New
York In 1862 such interference as that
proposed by. the Democrats in New Or
leans gtswould have been universally con-
demned.' 49, 80
The point made turns against the makers
OF il in this: that had the tyrannical Fede-
raj Administration at any time attempted
the military supervision of State elections at
the North as they have done in the South it
would have been universally condemned.
But the impudence Of partisanship of the
JOIN SHERMAN letter is further exhibited in
Juggling in the United States Senate in CON-
parison with the Louisiana Returning
Board. he; says if the duties Of the Can.
wasting Board were merely " ministerial .
like those Of the President Of the Senate In
opening and counting the votes for Presi
dent, ga different case would be presented
But the law which empowers the Board tx
elect the President, SO far as Louisiana Ii
concerned, must be obeyed. This is COO
and cutting. 1t must cut to the very hear
every noble citizen who has the soul to ap
preeiate true liberty and intelligent and fail
government to think that the wretchet
black-and-white Returning Board Of Louisi
ana may have the power to elect the Presi
dent of the nation. JOHN SIBERIAN chuckle.
at the idea that this the Board may do in tn,
exercise Of authority greater than that con
ferred upon Congress. He. fiouts it ut th'
Democrats. 4 ai;1 ,-c.~t -rt ~;
atThelaw is pitched into the face Of tht
visiting Democrats with a taunt, and the!
find that they are nobody in the bailiwicl
OF negroes and the Federal army will
SHERIDAN to control and direct the demeanol
towards men who had inn ocently presumed
that the; rules of civility would prevail il
New Orleans, and SO presumed because
General GRANT had invited civilians to bt
present at the count, and, furthermore, hat
inhis "orders''' expressed the hope "tha
REPRESENTATIVE and fair men OF both -partie!
would go to New, Orleans to be present Al
the count. The letter is quite in harmony
with GRANT's hypocrisy. Those who pre-
sumed upon this positive invitation are me1
with impudence, and plainly informed thai
the whole affair was fixed, and that the pre-
sence OF anybody except troops to defend
and maintain the Board in all its doings was
intrusive and ridiculous.
SHERIDAN is gently reported rs being al
New Orleans "simply in military capa
city" How innocent! Why should civil
ians look upon that as anything else but
harmless and happy! The report further
states that SHERIDAN lodges next to KEEL
Logo, and that the troops are at the Custom.
House, the Mechanics Institute, and the
State-Housel
A great blight is this upon the expecta.
tions OF some who supposed that GRANT
meant what he said. All that is left for the
Democrats is to gather outside facts and re.
port them to the nation. They will unfold
horrors that will startle all fair and intelli-
gent people, but will only amuse Radicals.
Thus will end the expedition to Louisiana.