The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-18

If they have carried Louisiana and South
Carolina, so DO it; but they must satisfy
the honest and fairminded men Of both
parties in the North of that fact, or they
will be disowhed and execrated by their
own party. There must be no kukluxing
of the election returns. Whatever un.
scrupulous politicians might wink at the
main body Of the Republican party in the
North is honest aud patriotic and will
tolerate no injustice. Y. Herald, 1Oth.
THEVIRTUoUs SENTIMENTS OF GRANT.
Although it is one of the normal CON
ditions Of journalism, as indeed of all
intelligent human experience, to be sur
prised at scarcely anything, we cannot but
express our establishment at the weakness
with which some few conservative journals,
Of reputation, have permitted the virtuous
platitudes of the Presidents late military
orders to disarm their Indignation and
resentment at his unlawful proceedings.
One would think that the simple associa-
ton of the name of Grant with the send
ing of troops to Louisiana would be enough
to rekindle every burning recollection of
the feelings which aroused the country
when the Legislature of that State was
invaded by Federal soldiers and govern
ment overwhelmingly repudiated by the
people was forced upon them at the point
of the sabre. Is not the Kellogg, who is
manipulating the vote Of Louisiana to day,
the same Kellogg who has stuffed the
ballot boxes and miscounted and falsified
the votes there so often hcretofore2 Are
not Packard and Casey and all the rest of
the gang who are now welcoming the
troops to New Orleans to protect them in
an honest count, the same convicted bal
lot-stuffers who have over and over called
upon the President to make good their
frauds by forcc2 Is not the Grant of
to-day the same Grant who sent Sheridan
to Louisiana at the bidding of the self
same gang, and officially approved and
sought to justify the brutal and illegal
course Of that official at New Orleans,
against which the entire conservative
manhood Of the country rose up as one
man in indignant denunciation Do not
the kilograms, which assure Edmunds and
Chandler, in advance, of certain triumph of
Hayes in Louisiana, come from the very
people under whose control the soldiers
are gathered round the ballot-boxes? Did
not General De Trobian break up the
Legislature of 1S74-75 in New Orleans
for the purpose indisputably partisan,
under orders sanctioned by General Grant?
Surely people have not forgotten these
things already. They cannot forget the
fast that the troops by whom the military
outrages of 1872 were perpetrated in
Louisiana, were called for by Casey, the
brother-in-law of the President, in private
kilograms, uncarthed by the Senatorial
Committee, not for the purposes of right
and justice, nor under the pretense of
'fair count" as to-day, but explicitly, Gin
Casey's own words, "to save the Rcpub-
lican party, and give Louisiana Repub-
lican Legislature and State government.
eff" the knavo added, "the requisition of
the Legislature (for troops) Is complied
with, the difficulty will be dissipated, the
party sared and eycrytting go on smooth
~" These facts cannot possibly have
passed so soon out of the public mind.
With the painful remembrance Of them
still alive; with the same desperate gam
blers, playing the same desperate game,
at the same table, and not merely with a
falling Pinchback government, but the
Presidency of the whole Union as the
stakes, we are at a loss to imagine any
ground for rational belief that the same
machinery is set at work to-day for any
purposes less desperate, less partisan or
less unprincipled than those which moved
it before. 1t is impossible that the parade
of few "noble sentiments" in an order
from the brothcr-in-la and confederate
of Casey, can obliterate the record of
what General Grant has written with
bayonets over and over during his admin
istration, in the disiranchisement and op-
preston of the white people of Louisiana.
We believe that the troops are ordered to
that State and to Florida, also, as they
were ordered to New Orleans before. to
"saye the Republican partvn and nernet.
rate Republican misrule We reiterate
the deliberate opinion. expressed in our
issue of Saturday, that thew are sent now
as thew were sent then in utter defiance
of legal and constitutional right
AS to what we consider the solemn farce
of assembling ,,renrcsentative gpntemenn
from the North to witness the eountino Of
vote which Kellogg and his creatures
have already doctored we have not altered
the judgment heretofore submitted to orr
readers, It is somewhat remarkable that
while this ostentation of fairness Is made
as to Louisiana, nobody is invited to fol.
low the troops into Florida or visit South
Carolina for similar purpose And vet
the vote of either of these States for iii.
den will elect him as effectuallv as that
which is to be canvassed at New Orleans.
1t seems to US very much like an ingenious
effort to Withdraw the attention of the