Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-12-09

- lars Of the DeSofo parish case, 'rhjch ira
IS one Of This kind, hare Jeea Published; Ju
there Eere sereTaI Others, one Cf the MOS
=" notable being that Of Opochta. 10 ,rhicj
- attention ,raS caHed during yeS
" feI'fay's meeting of the board
There Is no question in regard to the le
gality Of the vote actually cast and re
turned. do mean that except at one pol
in NV Orleans there IS no pretense OF
" either side that there was Illegal voting
" repeating, or any Of the ordinary election
" frauds; or, if such accusation has beer
made, there has been no attempt to prove
4" II. The election was a remarkably quiet
~ Unr. At no recent election in this or any
" other State have there been so few disturb
81 anoes On election day The evidence o.
" violence of many kinds during the months
preceding the election is very voluminous
but there Is very little touching election
" day" Such is the testimony Of a reputable
! journalist Of irreproachabe character, who
after a scrutiny Of all the facts and
testimony on both sides, and several
days spent among the people, reaches a
conclusion that plainly gives the lie tc
every word of the report of John Sher-
man & Co. But what does the Tribune itself
say editorially to this statement and these
conclusions Of It's correspondent? Does it,
instigated thereto by partisan spirit, de-
nounce him as untruthful and unreliable
On the contrary, while admitting, as we ad-
nit, that there have been murders and
'whippings in Louisiana, just as there have
been murders in every other State, and
whippings, too, where there is a pop
"ulation sufficiently barbarous to bring
such a form of outrage into vogue, -
it says " But there Is moth
ing TO prove that these murders, etc, are
political. The probability Is that some OF
them are, but in these Republican negroes
are more likely to be the criminals, and
Democratic negroes the sufferers, than the
reverse. It must be remembered that Lou
isiana contains a strangely mixed popula-
ton, and in her blood run some dark
% streaks. There are Cubans there, the most
"vengeful race on earth; and Mexicans, hard
'ly less lawless; and, in far greater num-
bers, the blacks, who habitually carry dan
gerous weapons and are reckless in the use
' of them, and are bitterly intolerant of po-
% litical difference among men of their
own color. We venture to say
that fair investigation would
show t,lat the murders in Louisiana
are the outcome, as they are elsewhere, of a
defective civilization, and are not political
g either in their purposes or their conse-
"quences. The answer of the second count
is soon made. The recent address of the
g visiting Democrats in New Orleans to the
country shows that in those parishes where
Republicans are alleged to have been kept
g from certain polling places by intimidation
'''the total rote is as large as usual while the
vote in the whole State shows a gam over
" former elections. That proves that the two
explanations already given of the fact that
no Republicans voted at certain polling
places are correct; first, that the negroes,
voting in droves as they do, shifted their
polling places, as they can do so by law;
second, that large numbers of them voted
the Democratic ticket. The total vote is
% the same; so that these intimidated Re-
publicans voted somewhere and voted some
81 ticket. Nevertheless, as Hayes ought to
g have carried Louisiana, perhaps it would
be Just as well to let him have
% the electoral votes This last SEN
contains the gist of the matter the moving
cause Of Sher1nan's report, and the eager and
indecent haste which characterized him and
Grant in getting that report before the coun-
Try. Hayes ought to have carried Louisiana,
therefore that State must be bulldozed, even
at the expense of the honor of the senate, the
respect which should attach to the title of
President, the peace of the country, the loss
Of trade and the prolongation of sectional en-
mites and animosities, and the endangering
Of our form Of government. Louisiana must
continue to be the victim Of a corrupt and
thieving returning board, that Hayes may be
inducted into Office to continue Grant dis
graced and disgraceful administration of the
government. I'VE should not like says
the Cincinnati CommeyciaE-0hiO's chief
bulldozing organ-''to see such a board in
:" Ohio, but it seems to be well adapted othe
- state of society they enjoy in louisiana -
The Commercial, like John Sherman, wants
an ireland of discomfort" to legislate for
and to become food for the robbers andthieves
it is the chief business of Radicalism to pro-
pogate and sustain by United States bayonets.
Louisiana can be bulldozed by a thievirg re-
turning board, but not Ohio; and yet we
have a Unian based and resting on equal
rights. But no matter what the Commercial
says, nor what John Sherman says, to use the
language of the New York Herald, ''the Re-
publican leaders in congress cannot afford to
forget that the chief responsibility of this
emergency lies upon them. They allowed
and encouraged Blaine to revive dangerous
and corrupt issue; they strove during the
whole canvass 10 inhame sectional suspicion
and hatred; they possess the machinery of
the elections in the disputed States; they sent
there troops to encourage and, as they said,
to protect their partisans; they managed and
controlled all the preliminaries to voting in
those States; their partisans are on the re-
turning boards and were the local election
officers. Nor is this all The Republican
leaders chose, in defiance Of public opinion,
to countenance and aid in those States men
and political organizations VIGOROUSLY cor
rupt, and they continue to accept these as
their allies
The Mill Grinds slowly in south Caro-