New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-24
Especial Cores .oDdence Of the Republican, ]
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.

Especial Cores oDdence Of the Republican,
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, August Is, 1876.
Probably DO Democratic participant II
the doings of the late session Of Congress
more completely abhors himself-not ever
the servile Cox or the back pay steal re
former, Randall-than does Mr. Scot
LORD; nor is there a member of that turbu
lent body more likely to feel the weight Of
Democratic wrath in future than that mis-
guided individual. Your readers have ro'
probably forgotten that few days prior
70 adjournment: he, melted by his evil
geniue, introduced into tie House, without
previous consultation with his party lead
ers, 9 resolution reci.ing that as it was al.
legged that elections in certain States bad
been carried by fraud, violence, bloodshed d
| and murder. therefore it was the sense OF
! the House shat all such crimes and Ills
| deme anors should be condemned and
| punished, and it called upon al ci.i-
| zens to render a willing obedience to
| ali laws, including the recent amendments
| to the constitution. This resolution was
| preceded by preamble similar to that re.
citing the necessity for the fifteenth amend
ment. Its introduction was regarded as an
act of perfdy On the part Of Mr.. Lord by
| his Democratic associates, and they sought
by every filibuetering expedient to prevent
| vote. But the Republicans held them
equsrely up to their work, and, regard ing
the record they we're making with dismsy,
after q factious opposition Of an honr or
more they swallowed the nauseous draught,
retarding indefinitely the crow diet upon
which many of them have been fed for the
past SIX weeks. Only two were found with
sufficient stamina to vote against its adop-
| ton. Its passage was virtual Endorsement
| of the report of the committee on the Missis.
| sippi outrages. and a plea Of guilty" en-
| tered by the representatives of the party
| But the consequences are go tar reaching
| that they promise to give the 1eformers q
| world of trouble; and the recent order Of
the Secretary Of War, directing General
| Sherman to hold al available troops in
readiness TO respond to any requisition
| from the proper authority, for the repres.
| sion of such lawless and blood letting prac.
| tices, and the protection Of sll voters in &C.
| cordance With the spirit of shat resolution
is viewed with the utmost CONSERVATION by
| leading Democrats who still inger here.
They are protesting, and maledlctiors are
! falling upon tie ears of the author of that
| fo,.r pQs in number unlimited.
The last breeze from far off Texas is
heavy with Ku-Klux menaces, snd the
telegraph brings the information of repetl
tion OF the Hamburg atrocities. OF course
the negroes were the aggresso-s, as is con.
clusively proven by the fact that only ne
eroes we're killed. 1t seems to have been
one of the prehminaries, prior to an active
Inauguration OF the Democratic canvass.
During the last ten days Of Congress the
two principal issues of the campsign-the
Southern question and reform-occupied a
great share of the time, the Democrats dep
recating discussion, apolog;zing, extenu-
sting and explaining by turns relative to
tie attitude of their party as to the first,
invariably taking refuge behind "carpethsg
governmental after being driven from one
position to another by the charges Of mur-
der and torture, which they have encour-
aged by their deriale heretofore, and which
they have ridiculed with cry Of bloody
shirt Their campaign cries of economy,
honesty and reform have been hopelessly
damaged and made ridiculous by the
exposures of the Republicans in the
House and Senate; and the character Of
their reform candidate has been subjected
to the remorseless light furnished by the
history OF this country's political and in
dustrial interests during the past twenty
five years, from all of which it appears that
Mr.. Tilden was before and all through the
rebellion q sympathizer with rebels, rob-
Der Of corporations and individuals, an
active co.worker with the most corrupt,
demoralizing and shameless element of 9
party welded to slavery with all its in.
separsble barbarisms, and crawling in the
filth at the feet Of foreign priesthood to
whose behests it has yielded ready and
servile obedience in yetr n for the support
Of its adLerants.
The last night of the session was largely
consumed in denials of facts which are as
notorious as the existence Of cur late war,
Boss Tweed with his villainOus cOnfeder-
atee, or the uniform denunciaton of our
common school system by the American
priesthood, and the invariable discrimins-
ton of the New York Democracy against it
and in favor of that method of education
approved by the head of the church in the
Vatican.
wasteful extravaganza involved in the
river and harbor bill caused some con-
fusion among the economists; and his as
surances that only works Of national i'm
portance would receive any part of the
appropriations voted elected some indig-
nant protests from Democrats still smart
ing from the punishment inflicted on two
or three occasions the past session by the
Cesar in the White House.
The whisky investigation was not COM
pleted; but enough was elected to show the
unfounded character of the insinuations
and intimations that the President was in
sympathy with the revenue thieves, to dis
count Bluford Wilson and Yaryan's credi-
bility as witnesses, and to bring into utter
contempt their reform professions.
The stagnation of Washington summer
promises to be somewhat relieved the bal.
snce OF the season by the presence of Gen.
tennial visitors, who take in the national