The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-15
DIR PLAIN COURSE.

the B,,i,etin. In the leading article OF us
Snndav r issue. In counseling moderation
and legnlitu in our actions as q party Ia
the Legislature here, and in annonnc'
ing It's belief that Louisiana VIII not %
fully emanclpated from the imposture
and tyranny she has been enduring lor
wars. nor can rest with any sense OF
real deliyerance and permanent security
from wrongs and moral violence, until
there shall be q change OF National par
ties in the Government. We have often
EXPRESSED this opinion. Indeed. no
Southern State, not even the liberties
and peace OF the United States them
selves. can be considered safe until the
Radical party-the source OF all the
woes OF the country-its great civil war.
it's religious infidelities, its general de-
moralization, its vile shinplaster cur
rency, it's debt, It's taxation, ana its
threatened bankruptcy shall be extin-
puished, and the past fifteen years be
hereafter regarded as an episode OF MS
torical horrors, hardly less abominabie
than the Reign OF Terror OF the flrst
French Revolution.
We regret that 1t is impossible 10 say
as much in the way Of approval respect
ing the sentences which appear In the
second column Of the editorial page OF
the Bulletin, accompanying the prema-
tire republication OF a line or two from
the New York Herald, which the DEMO
Graf observed in that paper, but would
not republish, being convinced that the
Herald paragraph was the result OF a
spasmodic utterance on account OF some
instrumentation made toit OF the truth
OF the case.
The Bulletins comments In connection
with this paragraph from the Hernta
are exactly the opposite In sentiment
and spirit to the advice apparently
sough: to be conveyed by Its leading
article. and it is impossible that any
thing could have been more immoderate
and unwise, In our opinion, than the
few sentences addressed to its readers in
regard to the Herald paragraph In
question. The result, in respect to the
Herald, has fully verified our expecta-
tions; for after proper inquiry on the
subject. 1t contains, two days afterwards,
the following unqualified editorial
The Louisiana Radicals have shaped
a measure for keeping the State Repub..
Iican by creating u Returning Board OF
three Republicans and two Democrats,
in which the majority can throw out the
votes OF any electoral division they
please. The section describing the pre-
texts under which this can be done Is
printed elsewhere, and for infamous au.
dncity and defiance Of every citizen
right is without parallel in the history
OF Infamous and audacious Republican
misrule ut the South. It Is q good De.
mocratic campaign document, and II
remains to be seen whether 1t Will not
nroye too strong for even the Ostrich
stomach OF the rule-or-ruin Republicans
at Washington.
In the same issue Of that powerful
Journal is letter from it's Regular
Correspondent at Washington, which
most explicitly shows what is though
at the Federal Capital, by both Demo
Gratis and Republicans, Of the Senat
election law, which has been 50 out
rageously and audaciously concocted b,
the desperate and irresponsible whites
blacks and mulattoes in Louisiana call
ing themselves a party, and existing
only under the frightful auspices Q
General Grant and the police army OF tn
Union. We republish this letter, CAP
ton and all, leaving out the forfeit
section, as it appears in the Herald:
THE INFAMIEs OF THE LOUISIANA ELECTIo
r BILL-How IT rs PROPOSED TO CONTINU
, REPUBLICAN RULE IN THE STATE.
The Republican election bill in Louis
$ lana has been examined to-day by
\ number Of congressman, and 1t is r.
: garded by everybody as an infamou
\ measure. A leading Republican n
o marked:
"Under the fortieth section it is Of n
s use to hold an election. 1t would be
! mere farce"
This section, in fact, would enable an
rogue anywhere to swear away the ele.
o ton returns and upset the election
any precinct or county OF the State. III
> Returning Board is to consist OF thrt
g Republicans and two Democrats and
:. majority is to decide; they have pow
% to hear evidence and to decide summ
rily and without appeal on the electic
returns Of the whole State.
And they have power to decide and
throw out at their pleasure the vote
9 the locality, whether it is q precinct
a a county.
Under the 10th section, if it becom
a law, the Returning Board may IN
II nipulate the election returns as
! pleases, and it was remarked here
= day that il the Tweed ring had dared
q pass and had been helped by the Fe
st eral Government to enforce such la
v Tweed could have invalidated every ci
: election in New York, and perpetual
his corrupt reign forever; for, in ord
to show intimidation, it Is only nece
!. sary to hire a spy to post neWspapt
l. slip. or even one OF Nast's caricatures
J. the Democratic tiger in a parish, Al
,e the Board may fling out the vote.
q Unless the Republicans here col
mand Marshal Packard to desist fre
o. his attempt to force this law on t
ur State, grave apprehensiOns are felt
s- renewed troubles here.
lie But we have this morning adverted
AT this matter, not only with the view
correcting any misapprehension, but
the purpose Of an additional word
~ two upon the subject. We will put ASH
or as an unreasonable impression or s.
he picion, the thought, that the articles
the Bulletin can be intended, no mat
It. ,,h AZ tbo;r inevitable effect to recOnC