New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-11
BATTLE ARRAY.

that little State will neither satisfy the
American people nor assure their sabmis-
sion to the results which each party will
believe due to force or fraud. We say
this in the interest of peace for our own
comm unity whose action can count little
in the event of any military decision. The
tone of the Democratic press is more vio-
lent than we have ever before known it.
The determination to resist any formal dec
laration of law is more pronounced than
heretofore. It is admitted by the Picayune
that the Democracy
Saw that it would be highly impolitic to
mar the chances of Cor servative triumph
in the general election by permitting them
selves to be g0aded into deeds of violence.
1t odds that the reason for suppressing
this wrath has passed away
The general election has been held, and
that eelf restrsint is no longer SO impera-
lively necessary.
1t openly intimates that the Democratic
organization may resist the formal deci-
sion of the law:
The people of the State can no longer be
persuaded to submit calmly to the lose of
their dearest civil rights in order to carry q
pre- sidential election, and thus in the end
the more surely 10 escape the yoke of tyran-
ny and usurpatiOn.
We are then openly told
The Importance of that election is now
consideration which may induce them to
take just the opposite course, and they are
prepared for any thing rather than submit
the mselves tor another gubernatOrial term
to the tender mercies OF the carpet-bagger
and the scslawag. No threatened penalty
can Offset the horror excited by the pros
preferable that the State should be re.
manded to territorial condition.
This anticipation of popular violence
is strengthened by several dispatches.
The Democratic headquarters in Indian
apolis telegraph Mr.. r. H. Mari
Telegram received and read. Demo
cratic headq uarters answer: Fear not your
Returning Board" The popular heart by
q quarter Of million ma jority is with you.
This would indicate an inquiry whether
there will be Democratic volunteers to aid
the Democratic committee Of Louisiana
in defying the law. This view is strength
ened by the testimony of a Democratic
editor in Evansville, Indiana
Colonel l. w. Patton: Democrats of In
diana will fight Kellogg and his party if
they cheat us on the count. We shall have
fair play or blood.
In addition comes the extraordinary
information that o number of leading
Democrats-among whom are Senator
Thurman, with two prominent Kentucky
Representatives
Leave for New Orleans tonight, to
endeavOr to prevent by their presence
and efforts the frauds which, it is
claimed. are likely to be perpetrated by
the Returning B GARD.
This dispatch is endorsed: Leading
Democrats coming to New Orleans with
the purpose to look after the Returning
Board"
This avowed intention to disregard the
laws of Louisiana, and this intimidating
Intervention, renders the situation very
grave, and presents evidence that the
Democratic party will not acquiesce in
any adverse decision of the ballot. On
the other hand, the national Republican
party look upon the election as q grand
conspiracy to reverse the decisions Of the
war, and the constitutional confirmation
by the amnesty. They believe that this
conspiracy has been based upon the nulli-
tication of the negro vote by massacre
aud terror, or the expulsion and proscrip-
ton of the white Republicans.
The national Republicans are convinced
that this whole political force thus organ
lied at the South has been offered to the
Northern Democracy on condition that
they will furnish the comparatively few
votes necessary to constitute majority
Of the electoral college. We may add as
comparatively unimpo1tant considera-
ton, the belief that the success of the
Democracy will imply a large addition
to the national debt, with the arrest of
an internal and industrial policy, settled
by the successful practice of many years.
The open assertion that the Democratic
party at the South will not submit to what
they consider fraud will be met by SINH
lar declaration on the part Of the Repub-
licans at the North.
With this calm statement of the grounds |
occupied by each party, we repeat our
first statement, that neither will SUBJ
NIT to the election results if either |
party shall believe them to have been pro-
duced by force or fraud. If the election |
of Lincoln, admitted to have been fair, !
was ''an overt act against the safety of |
the South" then the election of Tilden,
by vote believed by the Republicans to
have been fraudulent, may be regarded Us
IN "overt act" against the Union, and
may, in the opinion Of the Republicans,
Justify efforts to preserve the Union.
Precedents are sometimes dangerous to
hose who furnish them. This one will
operate against the Southern
Democracy.
With an array of battle thus standing
in plain view, only separated by the time
and place which precede its delivery, we
will offer, for the benefit of our cwn fell
ow-citizens, an estimate of the compare
i've forces to be engaged.
l. On the Democratic side there is o
South standing as solid as flock of
,heep at bay from ravenous foes. There
s Democratic force of numbers and
wealth prepared to cooperate with the