New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-22
ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1876
POLITICAL NOTES.

ADUIC Ia, xOSUs
POLITICAL NOTES.
"We have had q very exciting canvass
and have done our best to beat him, but
freely admit that we have fully demon
strated that Mr.. Packard is an honest and
upright man. If the count should elect
him, believe Louisiana would get a first
rate Governor, if only the people will help
him to do right"
This was the utterance of prominent
Democrat and leading New Orleans finan-
cier to group of friends at the st. Charles
last evening. 1t is indicative Of the philo-
sophie spirit with which our people generally
are settling down to the conviction that it
is far wiser to make the best that can be
made out Of the declared result than to
again engage the commonwealth in revolr-
tionary outbreaks, because certain wished
for changes have failed Of accomplishment.
In business circles the universal express
ion is for speedy decision. Whatever
conclusions the Returning Board shall de-
duce from the facts placed before it, it is
hoped will be quickly rendered and every
measure adopted that will expedite the
the business in hand The present unset-
tied state of public affairs is virtual es
toppal to business enterprise of all kinde,
which only decision. one way or the other,
can remove.
The Houston Age, with tho same degree
of calmness that it discusses the Turkish
atrocities, declares that if ''the Radical con-
spirators at Washington attempt to seat
Hayes" and thereby "precipitate another
bloody civil war
Let the carpet.bag Governors Of South
Carolina, Louisiana and FlOrida-who are
evidently concerned in the deep laid plot
look out, for they will be the first to fall be-
tore the fury OF an outraged people.
How wildly this brings to mind the mar
tyrs of 1861 who fell victims to 1.-The fury Of
an outraged" Democracy for believing that
Abraham Lincoln ought to be President be-
cause he had been elected. But there is .
vast difference between then and now, as
such promoters Of treason as the Age and
it's sort may realize. The nation is thor
oughly aroused to the designs of the De-
mocrscy to seize the reins of government
through the coerced vote of solid South;
and there is no weak and faltering Demo
crat at the helm of the ship of State.
About all the Republican votes cast in
Franklin parish were at poll on the bor-
ders of Tensas. where q moral support was
given to the colored people. and the bull
dozers we're few. The principal polling
place was Winneboro, and here the boys
just had oceans Of fun. The amusing cusses
just called it "coon" hunt. and enjoyed it
better than circus. There we're two DEM
ocratio tickets-the independence and
the straight outs'-ln the field; and both
sides agreed that they had no use for Re-
publican votes in Franklin parish. So
''niggers' we're tair game, and activity must
decide. Scouts were sent in all directions,
the colcred voter was snatched on sight,
taken to the HEADQUARTERS of his captOre,
supplied with his Democratic ticket, and
led up to the polling booth to deposit
it. OF course the colored man did not re-
monstrate. He did not claim that he was
an American citizen who was answerable
only to his own conscience for the ballot
he cast. He knew that would be negro in
surrection which "the people" of Franklin
would promptly suppress. So failing to es-
cape voting at al, he did simply what he
was told to do by his masters.
The Returning Board will have large
number of sffidavits, and some twenty five
witnesses to substantiate this brief descrip-
ton of the free, fair and full election in
Franklin parish.
Commenting on the shotgun overthrow
of the forty Thousand Republican majority
in Mississippi, and the monumental fraud
which its present declared Democratic ma
jority of 10000 constitutes. the Jackson
(Mississippi) Southern Republican asks:
Is there an intelligent man in America
who believes that the voice of the people
of Mississippi, guaranteed ~ by the consti-
tuition, has been expressed in their selec-
tion of chief magistrate of the nstion9
Does any man of ordinary intelligence be-
is the choice of the voters of Mississippi
for President of the United Statess And
vet he is content to occupy the chair in
which sat Washington and Lincoln, with q
full knowledge that only by the most stu
pendous frauds that ever disgrace0 a civil
! lied country could t hat end have been COM
| passed.
The solution of our troubles will perhaps
! lie in the treatment of the Mississippi case
| by Congress. A prompt and emphatic re-
lection of the claims of Mr. Lamar to seat
in the Senate, and the declaration that ou,
sorely afflicted sister State is without q
| government such Rs ls contemplated by the
constitution, may result in her temporary
remission to territorial condition; bu'
even this additional reconstruction is better
than the successful contamination of
| fraud which would threaten the liberties O
| the whole nation.
The unsophisticated country Democratic
editors are still harping upon the ''concee
sions" made to the Republicans by tn
Wheeler compromise. Their more observan
city brethren are eagely silent on this sub
ject since the election returns have come in
These incontestable figures show that tn
! Returning Board was right; that the Demo
cratic claim to msjorities in Rapidee, La
fourche, st. Martin, Iberia, Assumption
Terrebonne and Avoyelles parishes wer
fraudulent, and that the seats in the Legii
lsture representing these districts conferre,
upon them by the Wheeler adjustment wa