The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-20


THH RADICAL GRAB FOE LOUISIANA
REPUBLICAN 81. G0NGREss AfKN0sRI-
EDGES THE DEPEAT0FHrs PARTEv-H 81 asALLs
FOR A DISPLAY or HoSoK LlGl lssli
ELECToRs-PoLIcTO OF THE DEa0cE ATs--sA
CONTEST BEFORE C0NGEEss-Isgo SETS OF
ELECTORAL V0TEs-A DEMOCRATIC LE6Is-
LATURE TO BE ORGANIZED AND q DEMOCRATIC "a
GOVERNOR 1NAUGURATED, &c.--Re.o, W
leans, November Nv. Jasper BACK
burn, ex-Radical member OF Congress 1ron :
Louisiana, and still On ARGENT member OF
that party, comes out over rhis 0Wa.si sh t,
ture and acknowledges that Iiiden ana
Nichols have fairly carried the STATE. MT
Blackburn says:
Gas the Oldest native Republican in the
Gl1If States I call for display OF manly
honor in this matter. 5Tilden and Nichols
are evidently, elected. Let them be lnausu-
rated. III not, then let us have another war
and an electoral separation, or another. poll
ey OF reconstruction. The South, espe-
ciaily Louisiana, cannot live as she has been
living for the past decade. 1t Is Q nloekery
upon human rights and an insult to ailtrue
manhood to say that she can. ~, =! :. 81 -
One of the electoral candidates on the Be-
publican ticket held Federal office on the
day of the election-one, Brewster, survey
or-general OF Louisiana, and another, Levi
see. a United States commission ef. lit has
also transpired thatln the parishes OF West
Baton Rouge and IberviIle the names OF. I'VE
of the electors was through an oversight
omitted from the Republican. ticket. PMS
leaves these electors more than q thousand
votes behind the rest OF the ticket. !.
The carpet bag organ here announced TINS
morning in the most insolent manner that
orders have been issued from the very high.
est authority to protect the Returning Board
fromtinterference or intrusion OF any sort.
Comment on this Is unnecessary. ~
:: The paper which the Board declined to,
receive from Mr.. Zacharie, OF the local
Democratic committee, Saturday, was q
protest denying the right or authority OF
the Board to canvass the vote for electors.
Although this position has been assumed
by the Democratic State Committee 1T IS
proper to say that they do not expect to
maintain it as tenable. Thorough lnvestl-
CATION on their part and examination OF the
laws by the visiting advisory committee has
demonstrated that whatever doubts there
NAV be on the subject they are in favor OF
the power of the Board in the premises; ;
but it has been positively determined by
the Democratic electors OF the State
that if they are counted out by the
Board they Will meet and organize
and send on their vote for Tilden
and Hendricks to Washington, Thus,
as in 1872, there will be tive sets OF electoral
votes from Louisiana, and the Senate Will
be compelled to come to some agreement
with the House as to a method for deter
mining which shall be counted. :. The Con.
seryatiyes will also do as they did in 1875
declare the election OF General Nichols,
their candidate for Governor. The Demo-
cratic Legislature will organize and recog-
nize General Nichols as Governor. This
government will be recognized as their law
full government by the people OF Louisiana,
and then il General Grant chooses to repeat
his performance OF 1873, and install the
Packard faction by force, the people will
bow to it as they did before. They say that
under no circumstances will they resist the
authority OF the United States, but that il
Packard is to rule over them he must have
the active support Of the Federal Govern
ment for every minute Of the whole four
years Of his term, just as Kellogg has had. Z.
In the hope Of exciting some influence on
public sentiment at the North the carpet
baggers are now at work getting up a mani
festo to be addressed ostensibly by the
colored people here to the country at, large,
and which will contain the usual wholesale
aggregation Of SANDERS and hypocritlcal
appeals to save them from oppression, as an
excuse for surrounding themselves with a
Gordon OF bayonets. :, +. ,.t..,..y-ysjc sif.s, y
g. The Returning Board are publishing in,
their organ anonymous threats OF interior
ence and violence, alleged to have been re-
ceived by them. but which there is the very
best reason to believe are fabricated for the
occasion. inc. -! ~ ....trit1 ...I. .ss,.,
The Sherman Stoughton committee in
their partisan argument in behalf OF the
Returning Board. put their foot in 1t all
the way through, but in no instance more
grossly than when they claim judicial pow
ers for the Board. The Constitution OF
Louisiana is SO clear and explicit on this
subject that he who runs may read 1t
specifies in detail exactly what bodies may
exercise judicial functions, and expressly
prohibits from so doing oil others, Among
those specified is not the Returning Board.
It has been published in some OF the
northern Radical papers that the residence
in this city Of the negro Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Antoine was destroyed by lire by an
excited mob. There has been nothing even
,approximating to mob since the election,
and the fire alluded to, which occurred on
the night of the eth, consumed q whole
square, and broke out far from Antoine's
house. -~s.-.
The evidence contradicting the assertions
OF intimidation made by Kellogg in his dis
patches to Secretary Chandler and in his
conversation with me is accommodating noun
tain-high. Afidayits were received to-day
from the Republican supervisors Of regis
tration in Morehouse parish, the Republic
can candidate for the Legislature, the Re-
publican deputy marshal, and the editor, OF
the Republican county journal, denying in
the strongest terms the allegation Of intimi-
dation as to that parish made by Kellogg.
The Republican deputy marshal in Ouachita
parish, where Kellogg also alleged extreme
intimidation, has sent his affidavit giving
Kellogg the, lie. There ;aretWo hundred af-
fdavits from Democratic negroes in this
parish who wanted to vote the Democratic
ticket, but were afraid Of being dismissed
from their churches for so doing and denied
association with their own race ~ = -
:: One important fact in regard TO. the per!
SonneJ of the Republican advisory commit
tee here should be known in the. North,
which is that several Of the most active
among them are here by the express invita-
ton of Kellogg and Packard, and OF Course.
would not have been invited were they not
known as partisans OF the regime in their
emergency 80! - .1aHu:'t - ii"n6
- The Republican advisory committee are
not in very good spirits Tonight over the
news from Florida and South Carolina
They have. benin conference all the even.
ing. sit Isl probable that most Of them will
leave for home III day or two.-Special to
The RnIf;Dtore 2,n 81, r-..-s = tnN,yrs /.