New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-18
POLITICAL NOTES.


If the Matt Carpenters, Edmunds and
Northern doughfaces generally had, in 1872
and 1874, investigated the laws of Louisiana
and the outrageous persecution OF Repub-
icans in the same spirit Of fairness and
earnest desire to develop the truth as is
shown by the delegations now here, all the
present trouble might have been avoided.
A mean desire to conciliate their late way
ward brethren of the South led to q sacri
flee of the just claims of Republicans and
encouraged more determined aggressions
upon their legal rights.
Mr.. Redfeld's statement to the Cincin.
natl Commercial that the Northern people
will be slow to believe that 5000 white
voters in the bulldozed parishes could in
timidate $4,000 colored voters is slurring
over of the facts in a similar spirit. Had
he explained that the 5000 whites were
mainly veteran Confederate soldiers, united
by bitter hostility to reconstruction, con.
trolling the wealth of the section in which
they operated, and we'll armed; while the
colored people were virtually unarmed,
without military leaders or training, or
even organization, the statement would be
cleared of any apparent improbability.
1t is most earnestly to be desired tina: the
present national jury will show to the
nation, in the most conclusive manner, the
exact truth OF our condition. Had this
great duty not been pat Off SO long, Missis-
sippi, Alabama and other Southern States
would have been saved to the Republican
party.
There is much boasting over the popular
majority which the Democratic journals
figure out for Tilden. Such majority
should not be difficult to obtain with the
Republican voters in half dozen States
disfranchised. Georgia, Texas, Alabama.
Mississippi and one or two other States find
no difficulty in furnishing popular msjori-
ties. Our distinguished Democratic visitor,
General Chalmers, who has just been
counted in as Congressmen elect with
5000 majority, in district which has here
tofore given $4,000 Republican majority,
ought to be able to tell all about Demo
cratic popular majorities.
We hear a voice from Texas-nor is il
"a still, email voice" or stranger to us
We heard it quite distinctly in 1861. l:
finds vent through the Houston Age:
If Grant, Chandler and the other con.
spirators attempt to torcs him (IIayes) on
/. the people whether or no. then revolution
becomes the duty of the Democratic party
who have elected Tilden by q clear popular
consent to be disfranchised to satisfy the
Radical Moloch. Either strict, fair, impair.
| tial justice or the sword.
The ballot boxes from Mound Station
Duckport and Delta were the ones stoleI
| from the clerks office in Madison parish
That at Waverly was seized by party O
armed and mysterious horsemen, whom
| as usual, nobody knows. The villains viii
profit little by their lawlessness, however
| this time.
The following frank statements from th'
NatchitOches Tindicator We commend to th'
consideration of the Northern Investigation
| Ol tuo eplIlV Va COutACAA PoAAlAOo' ANe-
were published last November. and plainl.
indicate the spirit in which the Democrac,
went into the late campaign:
What carried Mississippil Vigorous Whit
League organizations and q white iin
| policy.
The Ouachita Telegraph is respectfully
| referred to the result in Mississippi az al
| answer to the pertinent inquiry: "Wh'
| does the Baton Rouge committee repre-
sent2 Put it standing iu your columns
brother McCranie: Eureka-white men; Ii
bold English.
Will the colored Democrats. if any Their
be, put the latter in "their pipe and smok'
| it,"
In regard to the use Of shotguns as al
election argument by the Louisiana ant
Mississippi Democracy, the pindicator init
mates that too much mercy has been show
Republicans, and that even the pretence o
a "peace policy" was mistake. With re
| solve to change all this in future, it con
| cludes:
When the "time comes again" as it sure l.
| will, she iNatchitoches parish) will be in N
| condition to be upbraided for acts Of mer
cy, which justice demands, should have
been otherwise.