The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-03-14

entwine around your hatchment.-
Your party stands today surround
ed and saturated with such turpitude
that the judgment Of the hour and
of mankind hereafter must be
against it.
Your jugglers have proclaimed
your victory, but it is furnished with
shame and accompanied by perjury
and every species Of fraud. The
Republican party is in the attitude of
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule
That from shelf the precious diadem
stole
And put it in its pocket.
What of the South? The conduct
of her representatives during the last
few months has refutcd the ISLANDERS
of years. Their votes and utter
ances here have been for peace, law
and order.
The South has been familiar with
misfortune; sorrow and defeat have
mingled in her experience. She has
drunk the cup of bitterness to the
dregs, but thank God is stranger to
dishonor, and most Of us from that
section stand for the faithful and in
flexible execution of the Electoral
bill. Honor says it, policy says it;
without it we drift into confusion
Our escutcheon is unstained. We
can better afford to accept disap
pointment and defeat than by parlia-
mentry shifts and tricks to avoid the
orderly execution Of the law against
which only eighteen Democrats Of
this House and only one in the Sen
ate voted.
Something has been said OF bar
gaining with the South. You cannot
win them over by brides; they want
nothing but justice. I see before me
a distinguished and cherished friend
from the South Mr.. Lamar. a gen
tleman Of the highest ability and i'm
spotted integrity; honored by his
people and worthy of their trust. ]
speak not by his authority, but as
his name has been mentioned in this
connection, say that am sure ne
would shrink from such coalition
as his soul would recoil from cruel
wound of dishonor.
The men you could bride in the
South are not worth having. You
would loathe them when you got
them; they would have no followers
or influence at home. And if they
were to join your party to sustain it
in its past and present policy, they
would find themselves political pari-
abs in the land Of their birth. No
thing will conciliate the South but
justice, and you will so find it. They
want rest, order, home rule. Your
largess there will be thrown away if
given to corrupt. These people are
your peers, equals, before the law;
and neither by bribery nor force can
you change them from serfdom to
villainy. In the precious name oil
their manhood l repudiate the init
nation with scorn unutterable.
There will be no division in the
Democracy. Lay not that flatterine
JUNCTION to your souls. 1t is adiffer
ence to-day only among them as te
the policy of the hour. And now ]
ask you, my countrymen of the Re
publican party, in the name of jus
tice, of peace, of truth, of liberty, O.
civilization, in the name of all these
I ask you to halt. Forbearance ha.
its limits; I say it not in menace
but in sorrow and solemn earnest
ness.
TIE manacles must fall from tn,
limbs of our sister Southern States
You must call of your dogs. These
unfortunate people have been baitet
and badgered until the just senti
ments of the world in indignation
condemn your cruel policy.
Is yours to be an intimation of til,
celebration of Roman victory will
these long suffering States chainet
TO their trlumphal car! Are tn
clanking of their chains to be heare
mingling with the hosannahs to lib
erty and free government? If tn
fraudulent action Of a villainous Re
turning Board of State is SO sacre,
in your eyes that by reason of S at
rights you will not go behind tn
certificate Of a governor whom yol
have adjudged usurper, how dar
you longer keep your soldiers ther
to sustain the thieves who have bee
necessary to your disgrace, unless
is by a bargain with successors il