West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-31
TIE POLITICAL ICHABOD.
From tic y. q. Piicoynnc. !

lifom nc ". -. L'tctVRRG.
The rule Of the carpet-baggcr iii Louis
| lana is ended forever. The Returning
Board system has for the last time bolnc
its foul irui5 of iniimy and crime. Upon
this the people of Louisiana have rcsolv-
Ell with the siern purpose of brave men
who nave reached the limit of endur-
ancr.
Electoral commiSSi ons may swear away
the homer of She nation by deirauding
| the President eject o. his right; United
states Senators may embrace perjury and
fraud by voting Kellogg into IL seat to
which they know he has no title; invcs-
tl%atinG commissions may come and 20,
while The President and his Cabinet hg-
Gle and II estate as to whether they shall
stand by the law; but never again in
Louisiana, while the people have strength
and courage to maintain tGeir laws, viii
the creatures of perjury and fraud be able
to capture and dcbauch the Government
of the State.
The patience with which these infa-
mics have been endured III the past is a
wonderful example OF the self-command
and conservatism of iaw-abiding citizens.
1t almost passes comprehension that a
brave, Tree people siouid have bowed
their neclss so meekly and submissi vely
While Il gang of alien adyerturers in
fraudulent possession of the Government,
plundercd and oppressed them, and
heaued inf:Imy and degradation upon
their Statc. They have appealed to the
laws until the aw itself has been tortur-
ed INFO : mockery ard Il fraud against
them They have goue before the pub
lie complaining Of their grievances until
the public car has grown weary of the
theme. They have endured until cndur-
ance has cease / TO be Il virtue, and until
further submission to Vhesc infamous
frauds would be :, reproacll upon the
courage and dignity of free American
citizens.
Whea the Washington commission
come to Louisiana, whatever be their
mission, they will find the people of this
State living under the government Of
their choice, just as much recognized by
that people; and as well established and
able to maintain itself us is the govern
ment OF any State in the Union. The
people know that this is their govern
memo, lawfully elected and Installed,
with which no outside authority has any
pretcXt or right to interfere; and they
intend to maintain it. with what means
Che political pirates have left them, and,
if necessary, with whaG force they can
jn iJ,f
which they owe to themselves and their
poste3;ty and their fellow countlymen OF
the United States, to maintain free gov
ernmcnt and the purity OF the ballot, and
to that end to remove this infamous
school of fraudulent returning boards
from the political system, and see that it
shall never more curse and biackcn the
history of tue Sta e.
SO Ear us this poiDt is concerned, the
mcmheIS OF the commission may come,
and may lax their Invention to raise
pew s:points' in a case which is familiar
to the pubic in all it's barcfAced, in
famous fraud. Federal armies may make
the State Il conquered province aud
tramplc under iooG the last vesti.%e of
civil law !; but all the power OF the Unit
ed STATES Government canuot force Il
free people to cOuutCnance the creatures
of political fraud. or to acQuiesce i'll any
marner or iorm in lawless Usurpation.-
One thing is settled beyond peradven-
ture: The political carpet-ba-Gcr has
had his day of usurpation. His power
FOR mischief has we'll nigh departed. His
frauds aud his numbering are as if they
never had been. His sun has gone down
in the gloom of All infamy which will
never know returning dawn in Louisi-
ana.