Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-11-20
SOME SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

Those who are in doubt as to the
need Of troops in the South and who
question the authenticity ofthe threat
ening letter recently sent to the Re-
turning Board of Louisiana should
read the following extracts, taken
from an editorial in the New Orleans
Picayune of the 18th. That paper,
after alludins to the quiet manner in
which the people have submitted to
radical rule, through solemn policy
and ailuding to the present AS an
occasion demanding the reverse Of
submission, thus speaks of the Re-
turning Board,
The bare fact that the Returning
Board has been tolerated here at all,
that its members are still in the en-
ioyment of their usual health, is in
itself most striking proof of the
forbearance and long suffering tenn
per of our people.
What could come more nearly to
declaring that the time had come for
. sassinat y, members of the Bosrda
1t would not do to say in SO many
words that the job should be done.
As much as dare be was published
to excite a community up to the
point of violence. An editor cap
able of shaping his language SO as
tn avoid the law and We. convey the
intended idea wrote the article. A
few sentences further on there &C.
ours this incendiary paragraph:
But the general election has been
held, and tina, self-res,raint is no
longer so impera,ively necessary.
Moreover. an act of injustice giows
more intolcrable with each repetition,
and it is just possible that the Re
turning Bosri has exhausted what
stock of patience there was in
Louisiana. The people OF the State
can no longer be pursuaded Ia sub
nit calmly TO the loss of their dear
est civil rights in order tn carry y
Presidential election, and thus in
the end the more surely to escape
the yoke Of tyranny and usurpa,ion.
The importance of that election is
NOW consideration which may in.
duce them to take just the opposite
course, ami they are prepared for
anything rather than submit them
selves for another euhcrnatnrial term
To the tender mercies nj the carpet
Dagger and the scaliawag. No
threatened penalty can offset the
horror excited by the prospect of
such u consummation. Ii were far
preferable that the State should be
remanded To a territorial condition.
We presume, rs the Picayune says
in the foregoing. that the people are
prepared for anything in Louisiana,
or at least that portion of them vino
take that paper and share its ssnti-
mcnts. The cooperation OF the
whole TiIien party is counted on in
any extremity of law cssness in the
following;
Whatever resistance We may op-
pose II such proceedings will meet
with the warm appreciation ut the
millions who have supported Mr..
Tiden in this election, and even of
the better class of Republicans
We trust that GOV. Kellogg and
the members nj the Returning Board
will take these in,imations kindly
and rr"ti, by them. Nerbum sap.
Oae finds consolation when read
in. such sinister declarations rs
these only in the fact tina, Sheridan's
headquarters are now -, the capital
of Louisiana. and man is in the
Presidential chair who is fitted by
experience. determination, patriotism
and all the qualities that Ga TO make
firm soldier and reSolute officer,
to cope with any emergencies that
may arise out of the present situation
of the country.