New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-09
MAJOR BURKB,s ASSURANCES.

| Esq. This Is done, doubtless, for the
purpose of giving both sides of the De-
mocracy hearing. For that there are
two parties in the ranks of the opposition
can now no longer be concealed by the
most cautious friend of harmonious &C.
ton. The negotiators who were lately
sent to Washington to capture the Repub-
lican administration, and if possible turn
its guns against the friends and
supporters who have just set it up
after a struggle of unsurpassed fierce
ness and bitterness, have recently
occupied the foreground in all the pic
lures presented by the Democratic papers
to their helpless readers. The most fat
tering promises, the most positive assur-
ances have been continually employed by
such men as Burke, Buell., Janin, L. G.
W. and all and singular who have been
invested with authority, to wire their
opinion from Washington to New Orleans
They have marshaled one illusion after
another to be used by the papers here in
the self-imposed task Of deceiving the
people. Our Democrats may truly say
they are promise crammed, and feed
on nothing. For of all the start
ling predictions which have received
undue Importance from the incompetent
conductors of our Democratic papers
we can not point to one that has been
realized. From the bold assertions that
Tilden would be awarded the presidency
by the Electoral Commission down to the
shameful falsehood that he was sworn into
Office last Sunday, the buds of promise
have turned to ashes-come to nought.
But with an ingenuity equal to that com
monty attributed to the arch fend, no
sooner has one bubble been pricked than
another has emerged from the perennial
fountains of soap and water which have
been employed to furnish this community
with news" 1t is no wonder, therefore,
that honest Democ rats like Mr.. Lingan
should grow tired of contemplating these
dissolviDg views and demand something
tangible and substantial. When Mr.
Gibson and a multitude of scribblers
of lesser magnitude positively assured us
that Grant had already issued orders to
remove the troops from New Orleans, and
that Hayes would recognize Nichols the
moment he got his feet in the presiden-
tial stirrups, even the Republicans began
to doubt the existence of justice; but
when the troops were not Withdrawn and
Hayes has been four days President with
out making any sign of the treachery of
which he has been so constantly accused
in advance, the Democrats began to
doubt whether there was any truth and
good Judgment in their Washington
agents. Men like Mr.. Lingan boldly
question these ambassadors, and want to
know how much longer they are expected
to wait and watch before theywill be able
to realize at least the smallest of the
many magnificent promises which have
grown out of the secret interviews be-
tween our high contracting parties and
the two Presidents of the United States.
1t is certainly a most lame and impo-
tent conclusion of Mr.. Burke's mission to
Washington that another commission of
inquiry is to be sent to Louisiana to in
vestgate political and all other affairs.
Already we have, including Senator Bogy's
ludicrous compilation, more than twenty
thousand pages Of information about this
State. 1t comprises testimony on all con-
ceivable subjects; statistical tables enough
to make a respectable census report for
half continent; abstracts and copies of
laws which our Democrats merely talk
of, never obey, and opinions and argu-
ments of statesmen which are at once ex-
haustive of the subject and the reader.
We can not see wherein Mr.. Ambassador
Burke or anybody else in Louisiana
should feel jolly at the prospect of an
other committee, especially one with Mr..
COMPROMISED Wheeler at the head. We
have had this gentleman here once before,
and some of our Republicans think once
too often. He compromised away Re
publican House of Representatives and
clothed Mr.. Eustis with a prima faeie
title to the position of United States
Senator in the face of a Republican
majority of twenty thousand in the
State. Doubtless Mr.. Burke informed
Mr.. Hayes that the Republicans who
rolled up majOrities in 1874, and gave him
the electoral vote OF 1876, acted in opposi-,
tion to the will Of the people; that the
negroes are 'persons" merely, not people.
''The old par" of the constitution merely
refers to them as ''all others, and ''the
new part had not been examined on the
subject. Thus, while person might
legally and properly vote for such an emil
nently wise ruler as President Hayes, it
required voters to be Of the full rank of
"people''-the oldest and best at that-to
vote for our Governor and other State
officers As it is well known that the col
ored folks did not vote as ''the people
wished them TO, except in the bulldozed
parishes, where their ballots were legal
lied by Democratic sanction, it follows,
according TO partisan logic, that the
President elected BY the votes Of Louis
lana .'persons" must recognize as Gov
ernOr Of the State the man chosen BY ''the
people"
There are Democrats here not quite so