The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-09-06
ALEXANDRIA, La, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.
What May Happen.

After Grant has used the troops in
the South to control the elections in
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, he will
order them back to the vicinity OF
Washington to be ready at the time
of the meeting Of Congress-. They
will be in need there. II may be ne
cessary for him to clean out the
House of Representatives, as he did
the Legislature of Louisiana. 1t
will come to pass in this way.
The Democrats in the House will
object to the counting of the vote OF
Alabama for the Republicans. They
will say chat the State election,
which passed off without the slight
disturbance, gave to the democrats a
majority of twenty-five thousand
that this was because the negroes,
disguised with the Freedmen's Say
ings Bank swindle and the other
projections" accorded to them by
the Republicans, voted with the Dem
ocracy. They will therefore object
to the counting Of the vote of that
State, carried by federal bayonets,
for Hayes and Wheeler. Of course
this will be considered an act of rank
treason and unrepentant rebellion on
the part of the "Confederate House"
and Gen. Grant will call upon the
boys in blue to rally around the old
flag, and strike down secession in the
halls of Congress. There are eighty
thousand office holders who would
glorify the act, and thousand sub
sidized Republican papers that would
Justify it. Grant would "clean out''
the House and re-establish the mill
tary districts, increase the army, sus
pend habeas corpus; and, of course,
he would be compelled to maintain
supreme command until the country
is "pacified." Mr.. Hayes would have
to wait for his Inauguration until
Grant considered the country at
peace and it will take some time for
General Grant to pacify the country
to his satisfaction. Poor, feeble,
good ,naturcd, sympathetic Mr.. Hayes
will wait in vain for his inauguration.
What can he do2
Does this seem impossible? Read
history, Did not the Caesars over
throw the glorious Roman republic
by measures such as this; did not
Cromwell convert the stern liberty
loving English common wealth into
q military despotism in the same
way; did not Napoleon Bonaparte
overthrow the young French repub
lie in all it's enthusiasm, and drag
France through blood down to ruin
and disgrace BY just such means
did not his paltry imitator Louis Ma.
poleon win by the same policy and
begin career of infamy and incom
petence that ended at Sedan2 Are We
stronger than Rome, England and
France?
Some one will say Grant is moi
ambitious; that lie does not desire
absolute power. That was said o.
Caesar, of Cromwell, and of both Ma
poleon the Great and Napoleon the
Little, Some will say Grant has moi
sense enough. But he has much
more than Louis Napoleon, and hi
mas much beside that the Man o
Sedan lacked. He has stolid cour
age: be has audacity and indifference
to public opinion; he has the pres
tige of a great name; lie has set o
reckless and unprincipled adventu
rers who will support him; and he i!
in possession Baltimore Gazette
The SCHOOL QUEsrIoN.-The Re
publicans do not want the public
schools to become sectarion, they
say. There must be no doctrines O.
tenets of any sect or sects taught il
them; there must be no alliance will
any church on the part of the Gov
eminent. Last, July a number o