The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-15
power in the States, "to be exercised In such
manner as the Legislatures thereof may

Now the Legislatures Of the two States louis
lana and Florida) have directed that the power
argumsnt arg" Is necessary to make this intelligible
stitutlon and there are the States; he that runs
may read though under the eireumsIaaneeg Ia
suppose must not allow myselfto say that
fool cannot err therein"
The Returning Boards function, Judge
and ascertain the will of the people; and not
to elect, while the people merely, send up
names to be chosen or rejected at pleasure by
the Returning Board. He says:
will not trouble you with judicial decisions
on this point or with arguments derived from
the established canons of construction. for
they would make no impression on your mind.
hoy Of msSg and 3as emen
who, until recently. ran the government Of Lou-
sana 50 much to your admratlo1 I'm AL Of thems
race color or former condition of servitude."
conceded the exclusive right and the unauaIi-
sr sd s OF the Wien fE2p2R Esdge ana m
sociateg wanted the appointment Of electors
they asked the people for it. The Hs-
It is q pity that in your long. frednent
and carpet baggers at New Orleans you did not
pick up q littlc knowledge of constitutions
law. ~ Your demurrer is q prepe2gtero,as 2s ,
sham, and you must answer over, Was the
true vote of Louisiana counted or not2 y
All parties agreed that the majority for the
remember. this was a public aet--not done
in @ corner; but TRANSACTED in the face OF the
ried perfect conviction along. with it. Upon
evidence of this kind the most important fact in
the history OF the universe was accepted as true
in all parts Of the earth Immediately after il
happened, and for more than eighteen centu-
res the most powerful minds in Christendom
this world and their salvation in the next. But
there was other evidence, Committees OF Com
Loot inpt In IN m "
The original records were
produced before Congress and before the Eec-
proofs they were submitted to your, inspection.
and If you do not know from them that q large
o the pe9pHH Ha at h6 gon ae yeed
GERS. you are wholly unfit for your business.
But you do know it, and cannot deny it without
Forced by the Irresistible strength of the
proofs. you admit or assume. that the majority
for the Tlden electors was 1859. SO. therefore.
that is settled.
Moreover, the majority, Judge Black con-
tinues, was made up OF legal votes. The
House Committee could find no one-not
even carpet Dagger or q custom house Off,
| cer-to deny that The election was free and
peaeeable, as the policemen, marshals and
soldiers who manned the polls in the interest
Of the carpet-baggers testify; The people,
| having then, the power to elect, did regu-
electors. !" It followed, as the day follows the
| night, that the count OF the eight electoral
| votes from Louisiana for Hayes was false
count" Judge Black next argues that any
| pretended power of the Returning Board to
| annul the vote and disfranchise citizens Is
not constitutional. Yet "such q law you de-
clare to be constitutional and valid. There 10
not a half-grown boy IN the country Of aver M
ter. cannot help but believe that a little re-
| Election would have saved even you from the
shame and folly OF making an assertion 50
destitute of all sense and reason" The con-
stitutionality of this State law was never
| affirmed by the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
There is q curious history Just here. Mr..
Stanley Matthews declared in November last
| that there was such decision of the Supreme
Court He was Immediately picked up by
| nine Louisiana lawyers, who IN q pamphlet
said there was not, and asked him to correct
| his error.
He was silent, but the visiting committee. in
| its report substantially reaffl rmed the Same
phatlc contradiction: Nevertheless, Mr., sher..
had the temerity to hold up book Of LOUISE
ana reports, IN which which ne said the decision
IN The sbe VIA d oF Fl tine e
| report, were in some sort compelled to believe
what was affirmed about, it by g. Senator who
sequence the reputation Of the Louisiana court
suffered severely for while. But the misrep-
oa sog i became knoTn for ga i
posed as you very well know. Now. after all
This, here you are at the same work again, pa.
| hfItW buo pIOfeN W lttisH HILL
a dozen times. The patient pertinadty OF
Pope's spider reconstructing its web as often as
by oos aG e ess bsnr
examined Bonner vs.. Lynch, D. 1853, 25th .An-
the record, or discussed by counsel or adIudf-
Gated by the court. The sole question was
proceedings of the Returning Board and cor
| rect its errors. Four judges concurred in the
opinion that inasmuch as no statute expressly
| lfy1y hot thntT flIrn
ratione nateri0. You might lust as well cite
Il PfpTe a ANA o. oua
to be noted that where you profess to set forth
the provision of the Legislative act which makes
the certificate Of the board evidence. yoa garble
| 1t shamefully and alter it to make 1t fit your
assertion that it is CONCLUSIVE by cutting out the
a sare 6a ~ % 6aRe Oe @ MAIZE es
statements with malice prepense.
But wrong is wrought by want Of thought
AS well as want OF heart
You utter whatever comes uppermost If It
to consider whether it is right or wrong Added
| to this, you have the dangerous gift of talking
saRee y9nd sn9T pRhPg a % seon s
| of mental qualities gives you a matchless skill
at laundering.
AS expert divers to the bottom fall,
| Sooner than those who cannot swim at all,
| So, by this art of writing without thinking.
You have strange alacrity In sinking
Besides this the obliquity of your moral
| vision prevents you from seeing either facts or
principles as they are seen by others. You have
no doubt that Wells. Anderson and the two mu-
lattoes, when they corruptly altered and falsi-
| fed the election returns, exercised wise dis
cretion." The manifest sincerity with which
you make your confession of this singular faith
marks you out for the fttest man that could
| have been found to serve the Great Fraud by
| blaspheming the constitution of free State.
mutilating her statutes, and imputing to her
judges absurd decisions which they neyerA
made.
| But had the Returning Board been con-
claimed for it, fraud would vitiate its action.
Its false record is nothing more nor less than
forgery. Nobody has yet dared to deny
this principle No Republican counsellor met
it In argument when the Democratic counsel
set it forth; none of the Eight responded