New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-23
POLITICAL MOTIFS.

I
Let not our distinguished Northern visi
tors, or the Democracy, or the country for
get that the harsh report made last year BY
the Hoar committee against the Returning
Board was because the latter rejected the
majori:ies claimed by the Democrats in five
or six parishes - notably Rapides, La
fourohe, St. Martin, Assumption, Iberia and
Terrebonne-and declared the Republican
candidates elected. And that this year
the first subsequent opportunity-the Re
publicans have triumphantly carried all ol
these disputed parishes, thereby completely
vindcating the judgment and fairness o1
the Returning Board, and condemning tc
everlasting condemnation the old Hoar re-
port and the Democratic claims.
"Barksdale" telesraphs from New Orleans
to Eugene Howard at Vienna, Louisiana
1--WE have to work here for majority in
the Legislature" Which means, apparently
that the Democrats had not elected ma
jority of the Legislature on the seventh Of
November. but we're hopefully working TO,
| that end on the seventeenth. "Barksdale'
seems to be very candid if net very
| moral reformer.
Why should not Tilden have a Demo
cratic count showing . large popular ma
| jorityi East Felicis na, for instance, which
has always been good for 1900 Republican
majority, this year can muster only three
votes for Hayes. The equally strong Re-
publican county of Lowndes, in Mississippi,
did not pell a single Republican vote on
the seventh instant; the 5000 majority of
Yaz1o county is reduced to t,co potes, and
another with large colored majority re-
turns but thirteen Hayes votes. 1t was the
festive shotgun and bull whip which won
| s. Jones Tldsn and reform these popular
msjorities."
In Louisiana, Mississippi and other South
! ern States thousands upon thousands of
| American citizens, equals before the law of
| the best and proudest IN the land, have
been deprived of their right to vote as their
| consciences dictated. The alternative was
l
litical foes or not at all. This fact is frsught
| with danger to the life of the nation. What
is the nation going to do to keep it's pledges
| to its citizens and prevent q repetition OF
the crime 1t can not safely-it must not
ignore this vast conspiracy.
We yesterday quoted that able Demo.
i <ho IT ;ah)
| Sentinel to show that it's party is ripe for q
| renewal of the rebellion if the enforce
ment of the law deprives them of the vic
tory they claim as the result OF their
murders and intimidation Of Repub-
llcans. While determined upon ofics OF
blood, the Sentinel is not altogether sure
of the support of Northern Democratic
allies on the battlefield; but even they fail
| ing. is not unwilling to 60 it alone. II
hopes, however, that greed for offce will
bring the courage of the Northern Demo
Gratis up to the sticking place. We quote:
! We have lost all faith in the loyalty of the
North to the constitution, and the only
hope left to Louisiana is that their loyalty 10
| party may be made of more effective sluff
than empty words and idle theories. We
say to our friends, prepare your minds for
| any thing, but remember this-we have but
little to lose. nearly all to gain. If the old
fire is not yet dead in Louisiana We may yet
save the constitution aud cQuDtry-oCr
| children may yet inherit come share Of the
| liberty that they are attempting TO snatch
| from US.
| Regarding the ''little to lose" suggestion
contained in the above, it might not be
| wholly inappropriate to hint that come peo
| pie have heads to lose which they may
think aluable, though they be of little ser.
| vice to their fellow.man.
The cowardly spirit Of assassination
| seems to permeate the Democratic party
everywhere, and the pact years history in
several of the Southern States proves that
| where it can be done in safety its murder
| ous promptings are carried out. The New
Orleans Democrat q few months ago, aud IN
der another management, printed as its
leading article an elaborate essay on
ASSASSINATION as Fine Art" wherein &C.
cret murder was pictured as q God.given
right to an oppressed people, Tor Kidding
themselves Of obnoxious rulers-the broad
intimatisn being conveyed that the Louisi-
ana Democracy were an oppressed people,
and the kellogg usurpation" fit object
to be made away with by the stealtby knife
or the deadly poison.
The columns of the press have been bur
dened for years with the horrible perpetra-
tions of masked assassins-whether as
Ku Klux, Knights of the White Camelia,
White Lssguere, Regulators or "bull
dozers"-upon the unprotected Republi-
cans of the South. Scarcely was the cleo
tion over, on the seventh instant, when the
bar-rooms of New Orleans echoed with
threats of hanging the members of the Re-
turning Board, long before it was ascer-
tanned if they would serve in the preeent
contest, or had even left their homes, in
distant parts of the State, for the scene of
their important duties. The Houston AGE,
and number Of the rural papers of Louisi-
ana, openly advocate the staying of the
Republican authorities in those Southern
States which are carried for Hayes.
A few days since the telegraph an
nounced that the Republican Cover
nor of Florida had assumed the power
of counting the votes for electors in that
State, and within few hours mysterious
reports of his assassin alton were heard up
ON our streets. The Vicksburg Herald sug-
gestively remarks that if q Hayes elector in
Louisiana should die before he cast his vote
it would help the cause of Tilden aud re-
form. Five New York reformers sign q