The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-15

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10 justice of ne peace would receive II eaa suis
R q Al ths depends asa uDSn ths
this certificate was known to ell the world &c;
There is. therefore, nothing for It but
to leave their 1.-THE commissioners reputation
for judicial integrity as Bacon left his: TO
foreign countries, to future ages. and to mems
charitable speeches..
Congress has power, Judge Black argues,
not to revise the errors Of the State authorl-
flies. but to ascertain IL a paper purporting to
he d return is fraudulent. 1t delegated this
verifying power to the Commission The
majority did not decline to exercise it, but
took it and abused it, not to verify but to
claim that Chief Justice Church, New York,
is on his side, Judge Black says:
If that distinguished. upright and learned
gentleman is indeed on your side of the eontro-
versy / admit that the Great Fraud has most
powerful friend But y1mf es snas re- yoTs
against you, for in citing authorities you are
nothing If not deceptive. You give us a single
tell us whether 1t is from q judicial opinion
published letter or the report Of an oral con
yersation. Knowing the sin that doth SO east
ly beset you" venture to say that this quota
tion is in some way false. Either you have
made it out of whole cloth or torn it from its
context. or else ma made e. an application which its
Church to say for your comfort and assistance
that Congress or any other tribunal may lawful
j known
to have been concocted in wilful fraud. Instead
Of gratifying your wish, he will make the ten
derest vein in your heart ache with his con-
tempt.
MANY persons" Judge Black says, fare of
opinion that you did not write the article to
which your name Is appended" Nobody but
9 carpet-bagger, for instance, could now de-
fend the carpet-baggers since the Admins
tration has deserted them. 'It was sin and
a shame to make you express admiration and
tod i
facile as you are ! wonder that you submit
ted to it" AS to the charge that Judge Black
admitted and justified the alleged murders
and Outrages in Louisiana, he says that he
simply said what he has always held that
the $4,000 murders were sheer fabrication.
The man who wrote this part of the article
which passes as yours is a base impostor.
Every opinion, thought and sentiment express
ed BY me is the ere Of What he inn
ward mendacity of this effort to defame me is
literally wonderful. / speak soberly and with
out ra psson when Rsr9 Is eh R ks
writer pretends to copy from me are all fraudu-
lently changed and altered. Discon-
places. mutilated transposed and then joined
together. as II | had written them continu-
ously in that order. whereby the whole
perserte ana em made o@t to W0f 6e
apologist for murder and mob violence, just
as you might prove from the Bible that there is
no God. This Is not an indictable forgery, but
many a man has served out his term at Sing
Sing who would scorn an attempt to ruin his
neighbor by the fraudulent mt making or altera-
character am told. aud incline to believe,
that you did not write this part of the article
Dagger put it together and gave it to you to try
how much he could make you disgrace yourself
for his amusement or his malice, and you put
your name to it without knowing whether it
was right or wrong. This relieves you from the
imputation Of deliberate fasehood., But why.
Oh why were you silly enough to become the
Judge Black says of the Florida case that
Mr.. Stoughton, as might have been ex-
pected, makes bungle of it, SO that 'if the
Commissioners were not ashamed of their
errors before, they must have blushed when
yours. " AS to Mr.. Sherman's visiting com
mittee, Judge Black says he is willing to adj |
NIT he used too strong an expression when |
he said, "They aided and abetted By every
Great Fraud: They have hurt themselves
by declaring nsincerely and untruly that at |
great expense and trouble they went to Louis |
lana only as spectators OF the count They J
meant business of some kind good or evil, |
and evil is always suspected of that which |
covers itself under sham" They could have |
crushed the fraud with word; merely by |
saying that an honest count must be |
made. Their refusal to do this when pressed
by the Democratic committee needs some |
better excuse than that given-that they
were unwilling to offend the returning Off
GERS They encouraged the fraud, intention
ally or unintentionally, by telling the con-
5pirators that the board might constitution
that so long as they put the fraud into forms
Of law" it could never be questioned. And
they pronounced the fraudulent alteration of
The vote, after it was done, righteous thing.
Of the Treasury, Wells is Surveyor of the
Port Of New Orleans and Anderson Deputy
Collector. These are but moral circum-
stances. The public is not get in possession
OF direct evidence which shows that any Of
the committee actually participated in con-
cocting perjured affidavits, bargained for fall
sfied records or made special promises of |
rewards for corrupt services. Charges OF
wilfull dishonesty against such men need
proof or must be rejected as
Incredible.
Some, perhaps were tied to the tail of the /
committee who had not knowledge enough of |
.he subject to make them know what they said or
proper credit for your mental imbeclity: at |
least think it can be easily shown that great |
allowance ought to be made for you on that
score.
Judge Black next defends the Administra-
ion Of Buchanan from Mr.. Stoughton's
abuse as difficult to analyze as the scolding
II fishwoman," and after answering the
charges made rebukes their maker:
Apart from the palpable falsehoods of these
accusations, your attempt to crftlclse man |
ike Mr.. Buchanan is unpardonably presumpt-
lous. Your Judgment upon his character or
conduct, even II honestly expressed, is not
worth straw. Doubtless he had his share of
but how could you tell his faults
rom his virtues? You believe that the fraudu-
emit alteration of election returns is the exer-
Use of wise discretion !" you believe the Lou
siana Returning law to be just and constitu
ional: you believe it right to quote a Judicial
lecision for q principle which the case does not
contain. Nobody expects the scurvy
politician who busies himself with fixing up
alse election returns to. understand the
houghts motives or acts of the incorruptble
whose walk is ON the mountain
anges of the law.
Judge Black further suggests that Mr..
stoughton considered it ga wise discretion F"
% garble Buchanan's message to make it a
secession document.
The trick, to be sure, is perfectly Transparent
Tut your mental calibre is Just small enough to
ct you think that even detected falsehood is
,etter than none Nor would 1 advise you to
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