The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-06
MORE IL sUpEaFLUoUs.
The I.puisiana Regues shown Up, ana
Isede mption at Hand.
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1WhhntHEsoh phVh'A
The testimony OF Maddox and Pickett
before the Louisiana lnvestignt,ng
Com ittee Ia not as full as 1t will be =
vet. as Mercutio said about his wound.
sit is not as deep as o well nor as broad
as @ chureh-door, but 1t will do In
examining this revelation, which prom
ises an even more surprising and VII
famous exposure, there are few con-
illusions which suggest themselves to
the mind Of every reader. In the Hrsb
place, b. Madison Wells and bis col pet
bag coadjutors are proud 70 pc
guilty of the vilest eriminality. In
the second place, their character as
purehasables coundrels Is established
beyond question. After abusing
the confidence of the President
of the United States, and using the
name of the Republican party TO de-
fraud and Cypress the people OF Louis
lana, they we're ready to sell out their
friends, the Radicals, for the price
named, thus throwing discredit and dis
grace on the best motives which could
have inspired their supporters OF the
North. This fact once established, that
they offered to sell the Presidential vote
OF Louisiana to the Democrats, proves
satisfactorily that they had obtained it
fraudulently for the Republicans. SO
that it is not for such men as Thurman
and Bayard to say, You shall not
count such q vote" but for Edmunds
and Frelinghuysen to say, I" We will not
count such vote.".
This matter ceases to be q partyques-
ton. The personal and national honor
Of Americans is involved. 1t ii no lon-
ger whether Mr.. Tilden or Mr.. Hayes
shall be President, but whether the first
premeditated and pronounced fraud of
such nature, duplicate In its eharac-
ter, whose authors stand balanced
between two parties, challenging the
cupidity and tempting the integrity OF
eaeh-whether such fraud shall escape
the spontaneous, unequlv0cal, and unf4
| versal condemnation of all honest men.
| The good name we have inherited, the
| good name we would transmit to pos
| terity, the purity and perfectability OF
government, not only for us, but
for future ages, are involved In the YER
| diet to be given on this testimon =.
Another idea that must suggest itself
| to every one, and excite sentimental OF
self-aceusation, IL not of sympathy, In
the Northern mind, Is that this eYi-
| dence, In the nature Of q confession,
shows in whose hands, at whose Mercy,
the people OF Louisiana and other
Southern States have been. They have
protested that their usurpfng rulers
were thieves and robbers; they have
| appealed TO the searching inquiry ana
| fair judgment Of impartial men they
have seen one troop of hungry eorrup-
| tionists succeed their satisfied predeees-
sors yet they have not lifted the arm
Of violence. They have suffered and
| waited, as we doubt any other people
would have done. The day OF redenp-
ton seems to have come at last The
Republican party of the North, repre-
sented by Conkling, Edmunds and Hoar,
cannot carry J. Madison Wells over the
ditch thai he has dug with his own
hands to separate himself and those he
represents from the society of men who
have never been and never expect to be
In o. penitentiary.