New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-17

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rupted by the executive order. They have
already fled caveat against that de-
cision being accepted as decisive of the
legality of the State elections Thus
Representatives Ellis, Gibson and Levy
assert that the Nichols government is
not necessarily involved in the afirma-
ton of the Returning Board certificates.
They add, ut will be maintained" Who
will maintain it we can not tell. The
President of the United States might have
done so, and might still do so, had he
chosen to take such responsibility, but he
has expressly devolved this decision upon
Congress, or upon the commission. Will
| the Nichols government be maintained by
| the one hundred thousand brave Ken
tuckians who would install executive Off
cers-as they might supply mules and
pork for an army-by contract? Will Mr..
Tilden or the Tammsny ring aid their
faithful allies in this matter? Alas when
the vote of Louisiana shall have been cast
it will have lost all its value. Neither
the State nor its interests will be regarded
by the Northern politicians as of sufficient
| consequence to waste trouble or money
about it. There comes also another init
nation that the decision of the commits
sion will be resisted if unfavorable to the
Democratic party here. The Picayune re-
ports;
The feeling among the Conservatives and
Democrats of the city is very strong at this
time. The electoral bill was never in.
dorsed by the Legislature. They feared
the Greeks, bearing gitts, and looked with
suspicion upon this measure which
smscked of compromise. At one time the
pIOpriety Of in6orsing the bill was sug-
gested by several members, but met with
such disapprobation that the idea was dis
| missed.
The opponents of this action said: "Wsit
until we see what will come of il" and so
the representatives of the people waited
and watched the march of events at Wash
ingtOn, trusting to the justice of the Demo-
cratic cause. While there is disposition
| towards Responding on the part of some,
| there is a conviction in the minds of Others,
which is energetically expressed, that no
matter to what lengths of partsanship the
Republican members of the commission
| may go, their de cisiOn can not work the
uphOlding of PAckard's government.
So the Legislature cleared the Greeks?''
Who were the Greeks? The Democrats
themselves introduced and with Repub-
lican majority carried the electoral COM
mission. Having taken the chances that
the Republican government might be
ox,arFb rou,y, bv erob 1aoiciOv fbav caapoaJ
to have cautiously reserved the right of
opposition in case the decision should be
the other way, and now we learn that no
decision of the electoral commission can
"work the upholding of the Packard gov
eminent"
1t seems there were several members of
the Legislature who Suggested the pro-
priety' of indorsing ''the measure which
smacked of compromise, and that there
is still ga disposition toward responding,
on the part of some, yet the majority have
determined that the Republican govern
ment shall in no case stand. 1t is unnec-
cessary to treat of the difficulties which
stand in the way of resisting this possible
decision. We will however state them
succinctly. Should the State be driven
under martial law by Democratic insur-
rection, there would be military Gov
ernor. 1t is most probable that he
would coincide with the Republican ap-
pointing power The Democratic Mayor
and Administrators of New Orleans would
be replaced by a post commander of the
same political proclivities. The Legisla-
ture would have neither authority nor
legality, and would dispense to their
homes. The city of New Orleans, being
the only garisoned city in the United
States, under martial law and military
government, deprived of legislative au-
thority, would offer small inducement to
capital OF to immigration. It would
stand again in commercial blockade as in
the war, and this paralysis of trade would
pervert the last of its trade to Eastern
markets and outlets.
Such are few of the possible conse-
quences Of Democratic ambition. There
are others which we forbear to state, and
we leave to the imagination of the people
the possibilities of imprisonment, confs-
cation, the death of excellent, though ex-
cited persons, shot down by soldiery,
whom, if slain in turn, the United States
can replace at few hundred dollars a
head from ireland OF Germany. While
the Democratic politicians would, there
fore, involve the country in new civil
war to gain political victory, we have too
much confidence in the good sense of the
American people in Louisiana to suppose
they will be permitted to do so.
A THREATENED REBELLION.
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