New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-21
POLITICAL NOTES,


the Louisiana case stands at Washington
Within almost rifle shot of the rostrum
whence General Nichols enunciated the
doctrine of good will to all citizens and
equal protection, the bulldozers continue
their hellish crimes unchecked by the Off
cials who, by virtue of commissions bear
ing his signature, usurped control of the
government in East Baton Rouge, and
whose authority the so-called status quo
maintains. The President in his order of
January sixteenth, impliedly puts upon
General Augur the duty of protecting life
and property wherever incumbent officials
prove impotent or inefficient The condi.
ton of affairs in East Baton Rouge GER
tainly demands that he supplement the
usurping Nichols sub.government with
some more potent guardian hand.
During the past two weeks shootings,
assaults and incendiarisms of the most out
rageous character have prevailed the VIC
tins being colored people. Industrious
and honest men and women have been
driven from their homes at midnight before
possessions given to the flames. The only
crime of the victims and refugees is that
they we're black skinned and cultivated
farms for themselves. A white ruffian
shoots a colored man on the highway and
coolly rides off on the latter's horse. An
other citizens house is burned, and part of
the plumber offered to him subsequently
sat bargain" Manifold are the crimes,
while ia no single instance can we learn of
q successful effort to bring the perpetrators
to punishment ..
In the name of a long suffering and sOrely
aggrieved community, we demand to know
if the status quo was designed to include q
continuance of the reign of terror by which
the Democracy of East Baton Rouge sue
ceeded in making their parish a bloody
blotch upon the once fair map of our StateY
The intelligent Democratic specials, by
their premature disclosure of State secrets,
have cost confding Democratic inventors
many thousand dollars. If they were en-
ployed by the bulls and bears they could
not do their work more neatly.
The Republican cause, in the great national
controversy, has been handled with admira
BILE skill, while the Democracy have shown as
little political generalship or craftsmanship
as honesty. Each step is carefully oOnsid-
cred by the Republican managers, and only
one taken at time. Thus stumbling and
confusion is avoided. The conflicting local
interests in Louisiana, for example, are not
| for an instant permitted to intrude into the
yet more important duty of securing to Mr..
Hayes the high office to which the voice of
| the people called him. Extraneous issues,
| like the recognition of Governor Packard,
| which might afford the Democracy foun-
dation to build obstacles upon, are placed
to one side, while the more vital work is
being pushed rapidly to completion. But
in good time the people of Louisiana will
be heard, and unto Caesar will be rendered
the things which are Cesar's. Let all our
Republican friends be patient. Ere many
days their rights will be proclaimed, and
maintained by a power before whose de-
crees all reasonable combinations will bow
in submission.
There are sixty-three Democrats in the
Ohio General Assembly. Only minority
of twenty-six could be got to vote for a
caucus resolution instructing Buckeye
Democratic members of Congress ito pre-
vent the counting of the electoral vote un-
til after March A." This is the fzzling ap-
pendix to the eighth of January mass meet
| H. not NTH
Northern Democratic constitutions, as it
appears to at "Confedrit X Roads" in Ken
tucky and in several of Louisiana's coun-
try parishes.
Judge Whitaker's anxiety for the grand
jury to ferret out crime would receive yet
more fOrcible illustration if he transmitted
to that body copy of the testimony of one
Duncan +. Kenner narrating felOnious at
tempt to corrupt and bribe certain State Of
ficials to affect the discharge of their duties,
Weldon is small game in comparison. Don't
be backward about coming forward, Judge
Reformer Fitzpatrick is trying to snatch
the Louisiana Lottery Company bald.
headed, which induces several respectable
old citizens to seriously doubt the legality
of the Odd Fellows Hall Legislature "who
ne'er had doubts before" If status quo
does not protect "gigs" and saddles, ,
then what has aliWnde got to de with the
reserved rights of Statesl
"Hon. E. John Ellis is making a great
speech on Louisiana" says an enlightened
special, but the levee and the Texas Pacific
railroad bills are shelVed until q restored
Republican majority in Congress can res
cue and revitalige them. A few timely and
sensible political conversions may do this
in few months.
No sensible man believed that Senator
Kellogg uttered such expressions regarding
tho people of Louisiana as a whole, as the
Washington special kilograms attributed tc
him. His formal denial was therefore an
necessary. If he, however, said there are
a good many asssssins among our people
he told q simple truth, or else the Demo
cratic press sadly misrepresent the senti
ments of their supporters. If LOuisianiani
really do not believe that ASSASSINATION is 9
legitimate cure for political disappoint
ments, they should indulge less freely in
threats of that sort. They come home to
roOst.
aJustice Clifford ate az
Tom Bynum told Grant that
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