New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-03
be disappointed for the time in their ap-
petite for blood. The colored people had tsed
to their homes or the woods and swamps!

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backing up general statements with facts.
Governor Antoine alleged that the Demo-
Gratis have made q common practice Of kill
ing and whipping negroes in order to in
timidate them from participating in-the
election. We promptly furnished q horri-
flying list of the victims. which must carry
to the minds of the people the mournful
conviction that his excellency has, at least,
not erred on the side of exaggeratlon.
Colonel Patton, as the official spokesman
of the Democracy, retorts on Governor
Antoine as follows:
l have received information from the
| country that intimidation has been prac.
| ticed by your party against those colored
people who have thought proper to join
Democratic clubs, and in several casee,
which have been reported to me, such par
| ties have bsen pursued to death.
Now it is the turn of Republicans TO de-
mand "a bill of particulars" with names
| Of the slaughtered. We have watched the
condition Of affairs through out each sec-
ton, and are frank to say" that we have
been unable to learn of single celored
Democrat being molested for po litical res-
sons. We call upon General Nichols
official organ to respond.
The Clai borne Guards have been heard
from. They are in Homer, Claiborne par.
| ish, which is blessed also with Jasper
Blackburn. There are thirteen of them
the Guards-and they served under Gen
eral Nichols in the rebellion. They are
now going to vote as they shot, with their
old commander.
This is all right, and very touching, and
pretty, and patriotic. and all that. But
what is the use narrowing up their chiefs
feelings by hoping that he will be as "suc.
cessful" as he was in the warl Of course
he will be-just that and nothing more.
General Nichols will surrender to the Re-
publican forces under Packard in Novem-
Der; but there is no necessity for his friends
reminding him of so dissgreesble neoes-
sity.
| On the occasion Of Q recent Democratic
club parade some of the members got un-
duly elated, and went "bsck Of town"
visiting, among other places, the famous
restaurant for "soiled doves" known as 10
Raphael's. They raided his comestibles
pretty freely, and neglected to pay there
for. 10 is naturally indign ant, and yester-
day swore: "Gordamma me, they no pay q
my four-a dollar and q half Q, lick-a he'll
out some gentleman-a, and vote, me
damn.s, for Packs sr'!' Not beng on re-
cruiting duty, we kindly made note of
the fact, that those interested may look
| after the old man.
Hon. j. NJ. Binkley, who was Assistant
Attorney General during Andy Johnson's
time, declares that the COVE rnment has
been swindled out Of enough VIII ieky tax to
have paid halt the national debt. As he,
Binkley, kept the record in the 'good old
days" of the reign Of Jim Steadman, Perry
Fuller, and men Of that stripe, who uni
formed and organized Sey mour Democratic
clubs with the stolen taxes, he ought to be
good authority. The johnson Democracy
origi mated the whisky rings, and are re-
spon sible for all the misery and crime they
have entailed upon the nation.
| If the Hon. Dan Voorhees,, the ''Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash, who boasts that
he worked eighteen hours to make the
mean "soft'' money and read 'hard," and
General Jim Steadman, who engineers the
Allen E wing politics IN Ohio, would but
develop their knowledge and connection
with crooked whisky, the country would
| need no other evidence to determine the
quality of reform the Democracy would
inaugurate upon obtaining power.
We suppose the Democratic organs will
cease to make any further remarks anent
| the occasional use of State House furniture
! by Republican conventions.
| Yesterday, by order of Captain Flood,
| Sergeant alarms of the late House of Rep
resentatives, dozen desks, q great many
chairs, and other material were removed
| from the State House to the new rooms of
the State Democratic Committee on Canal
| street. Of course, we have no objection to
this, although Captain Flood is not respon-
sible for the safety or the return of the prop.
| erty, out it should act as stopper on the
| squib ibbists of the press who affect SO much
indign alton when Republicans indulge in
any little transaction Of this SORT
The eleventh ward Democrats are max
| ing q dead set at Mr.. Backers, supervisor
| Of that ward This is pretty fair evidence
| that he is an efficient officer. Sc far the
only fully developed charge against him is
refusing to register Mr.. Andrews as re-
| siding at place he intends to remove to
q very proper regard for the law on his
part. The rejected party kicked up fuss
| which the supervisor properly laid before
| United States Commissioner South worth
for investigation.
All the complaints fled against the su-
pervisor by the committee of citizens are
simple clerical errors, which, by their very
natu re, indicate the confusion Of inexperi-
ence rather than bad intention.
Seym our, wiser than Sammy Tilden, will
not spend his "barrel of money" in the
present proftless campaign.
The Democrat has new correspondent,
and W Q suspect it is Murrell-Bill Murrell,
| of Ma olson. He endeavors to make out "a
good deal of excitement" among the Re-
publicans of that parish, and states that
Gcneral Chester, division school superin'
tendent, has been run over the Mississippi
line because of the appointment Of new
parish school board. The new parish