New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-26

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iehes. And nov tho country 10 threatenef
l nect Office or have hets pending II The
fraudulent votes of those bullbozed par
| iahea ara rejected and Tilden thereby Iosei
the State Of Louisiana!
The illustration is q forcible and true
one in almost all particulars. but it lacks
one very essential feature which belongs
to the real case as it exists in Louisiana.
will complete the illustration Of the
Chicago Tribune by adding the missing
feature: Suppose that in Bridgeport.
some twelve months before the election,
Tom Foley should have been hung by q
Republican mob in the public square of
the city. And suppose that Mike Evans,
while on q visit to Peoria, had been kid
mapped BY mob of Chicago Republicans
ct night, under the pretext of q pretended
warrant, and had been bound and tied
to horse and carried by his captors out
of Peoria on the road toward Chicago.
And suppose that while on his way to
the latter city in the hands of his captors,
another mob of Chicago Republicans,
having come from that city for the pur-
pose, should have taken him from the
hands of bis first captors and tied him to
q tree and shot him to death with hun
bred bullets?
Suppose, then. that the Chicago Repub-
licans had organized themselves into
secret military organizations, with cap
tains, majors and colonels, and with rifles
and ammunition. Suppose, then, that
they had driven every Democratic Official
in Chicago out of the county. after hav-
| ing forced them to resign their Offices?
Suppose, then, that these Republican
bulldozers had ridden through Bridge
port in armed bands nightly for twelve
| months prior to the election? Suppose
| that during these night rides they had
shot thirty or fifty Catholic Irish; had
whipped couple of hundred more; had
| driven from the county Perry Smith,
General Cameron, Miles Kehoe, Captain
| Connect, Dave Thornton and every other
| prominent Catholic Irish Democrat in the
city?
Suppose they had broken up every
Irish Democratic club?
Suppose that they had burned several
Irish Democratic houses?
Suppose that they had united in
league to refuse every Democratic Irish
man employment
Suppose that they had threatened to
discharge every one of them that were al
ready in employment?
Suppose that they had sought to COM
pei them to join the Republican clubs by
making that q condition of their inn
munity from further persecution, calling
this protection.
And then suppose that the Republicans
owned all the property, tie stores, the
banks, the railroads, the telegraphs, the
newspapers, the schools and everything,
And suppose that the Irish Catholic
Democrats were ignorant, upeducated and
poor, 40 poor that they were in absolute
dependence from day to day upon their
employers for their rations of bread and
meat.
Add this to the illustration above,
and it will be somewhat of q parallel with
the cases in East Feliciana and some other
parishes in Louisiana.
may be allowed to add that in my
Judgment the gravest feature of the situa-
ton as to our State and the whole coun-
try is this: The issue, to my mind, pre-
sented by the two political parties in
this section of the country to the rest
of the country is this: Shall two
political parties be allowed to SUBJ
sist in this State upon the same con-
ditions that they exist in other States
that is. shall the right of every citizen
and suffraGan to participate in the gov
eminent on election day, to assist and Co
operate in societies and clubs and organi-
cations Of his political party be recog-
mixed, guaranteed, and made an honest,
actual fact, so that whether it be white
man and Democrat, or black
man and Republican, each one shall be
allowed in the most perfect freedom and
security to join and act with his political
associates, as his own interest and wishes
or prejudices shall induce him, without
other influences being brought to bear
upon him than are brought to bear upon
q citizen and suffragan in any other Slater
In this case the black voters would be
treated just as the white, Irish or German,
or Scandinavian voters in any Northern
State. No extraneous pressure no conspir-
acy to force them to vote against their |
predictions or wishes; no attempts to |
compel them to vote against their wishes |
in the interest of their employers would |
be allowed. If not allowed, this State,
and several other Southern States. are /
honestly and lawfully Republican by
large majorities.
On the other hand, if the attempt of
State in q manner similar to that in which
the control of Mississippi has been gained
should be successful, We shall have then |
the spectacle before the country Of
solid white vote marshaled and led bv
the most extreme and bitter elements Of
that vote, and having under their COM
plete control q dark mass of semi-serf.
black voters, voting under orders as they
IN ND t. l
to this. that control once having been OBJ
tanned, we will also find large respect
able white element, composed of conser-
vative, law.abiding, peaceful white bust
ness men and citizens, who by the same
order of terror which drives the negro
to vote against his wishes and for
his master, will also be compelled
10 keep silence and tacitly to submit to q
of things of which they hon
estly disapprove.
Should this latter condition Of affairs
obtain, there will then be solid white
South governed by the leading ultra
spirits of that section, keeping in hand
md under subsection the white conserva-
i've element by threats of ostracism in
business and society, and having under
perfect mastery and control a solid black
south, voting, as they used to work, for
heir masters and owners. And
his combination will dictate to
he Democracy, and the Democracy will
lictate to the country, and the solid
White South with the solid black South |
will govern the country more absolutely
han it did in the palmy days of the slave
mpire.
Respectfully yours,
HUGH J. CAMPBELL.