New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-17

IL is decision in favor Of Uayee, covered
up by lying pretense in regard to law.
The majority of votes in Florida had been
discarded even by the majority of the COM
mission, TO make room for party fraud and
the dirtiesu tricks of chicanery.
The Senate rushed in haste to grasp the
four stolen votes of Florida handed them by
the eight Republican commissioners.
In the Louisiana case ''most Democrats
fear another party vote by the commits
sion disregarding all law and adopting
oil the frauds" alleged against the Return
ing Board. This coarse SANDER of the
motives of majority of the commission
has been given to the public by one DEM
ocratic organ. The Washington cor
respondent of the Democratic organ
proper says:
The Democrats have determined not TO
yield TO the verdict of the tribunal in case
its action in regard to the vote of Louisiana
is marked by the came dense and desperate
partisanship that characterized it's action in
the Florida case.
The organ itself says:
The Electoral Tribunal might have paci-
fed the ountrY by disearding all partisan
ism and prOnOuncing Judgment in accord
anCe with the constitution and the highest
principles of truth and justice. A thOnsand
such tribunals could not quiet the country
through crime
So there is to be no more Gcquiesence in
the decision of the national returning
board, if it shall prove adverse to the de-
mands of Democracy, than there has been
in that of the State boards under similar
circumstances. The national commits
sioners are DETAINED in almost the same
language with the Republican members Of
the Louisiana board, and were the power
of the House adequate we should expect
to see Judge Bradley and Senators Morton
and Edmunds imprisoned in crypt, and
required to confess that they had covered
up decision in favor of Hayes "by
lying pretense in regard to law"
We have, in the position of the Demo-
crat, the same arrogant assumption which
distinguishes the acts of the Democratic
party. The commission is held to pro-
nounce judgment lin accordance with the
constitution and the highest principles of
truth and justice" And who is to say
what is the constitution and the principles
presented? The Democracy is one party
to the question. Why shonld mot, then,
the Republican party throughout the
Union send a committee to inquire of
these Democratic oracles the principles
upon which alone this decision should be
presented. If one party is always wrong,
and another party is always right; if one
party must always submit to the law
while the other will only submit when tie
law meets its approval, then have we an
infallible orthodoxy, expounded by an
order privileged to construe and execute
the law, and then are all others serfs
bound to obey the will of an aristocracy
and heretics condemned to expiate their
political errors by such penalties as their
political superiors may indicate and i'm
pose.
All this, however, points to evasion
and resistance on the part of the national
Democracy to any decision which tri-
bunal instigated by themselves may pro-
nounee contrary to the will and interests
of the Democracy.
Should the Republicans succeed in hav-
ing the will of the people, as ascertained
at the polls, confirmed by the impartial
adjudication of the men chosen for their
superior ability and integrity, pass into
the legal organization of the government,
we shall regard it as miracle. We re-
member what violence the Democracy has
committed at the South; what frauds it
has perpetrated in New York and
attempted to perpetrate here. How
an armed occupation of Washington
City has been threatened with a purpose
to install and maintain Mr.. Tilden by
force-how the Democracy have rendered
the commission as a mode and means of
success, and how it has now announced
by some among them that unless that de-
cision shall be what they approve they
will fall back upon their reserved right of
revolutionary opposition. We should re-
SdIu LILO BOdCO4uA Ah0ds5 Va l. ACHA~
dent Hayes as piece of good fortune on
the part of the Republican party which
can only be due to the perfect good faith
in which they have acted. They have
submitted their claims not merely to the
United States, but even to an appellate
tribunal at the instance and with the APP
prevail of their opponents. The Ameri-
can people will see and judge, and the
Democracy will find that the same nation
which has elected President can place
and maintain him in office.
In the meantime we can only regard the
conduct of the Democracy as inspired by
purpose to seize the government under
color of law, and, failing in that, to or
ganize a rebellion and throw the govern.
ment into anarchy. We have hope that
they will not succeed in the first object
and settled conviction that they can
never succeed in the second.
KELLOGgs CERTIFICATE.