New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-07
WHOLE NUMBER 1923.

the beginning, of these operations. Nor
can they with any degree of truth ar.
| que that the weather prevented tba-,
from attending the polls, as they were an
pIaeeo conveniently, and the Democratic ~
TINS parish are used to moving rOand in all
sorss OF weather. l do NOT desire to be
unuerst9od as meaning or insinuating in the
m0cracy. ~
Neither can it be said that anv remaining
crop from 1870 prevented them, for the
ouachita Telegraph says, in its issue Of jan
uary ~, 1871: Long before November 90.
1910, the planters had gathered their
crops" And assuredly they will not At
tempt to uPge want of interest on the part
OF patriotic Democracy. We are com
PEELED, then, to accept one of these
conclusions. Either of them will
damn Democracy. But think To
any. thoughtful mind the latter con-
gIuslon mtIs ls the inevitable and correct one.
rake IOr instance ward No l, which in No
Vember, 1876, when presided over by DEM
oeratie rlt1emen, and hot with the blood of
flnkston and family and the other outragea
known to the public, and we find vote for
democracy, from colored men, of $50, and
oolupaTs Ios IL WIN the twenty seventh of jan
nary, lSll, when the "evil influence of the
Radicals" and the espionage of Democrstio
rlne CLUBS and its effects is removed. and
we find colored vote of twenty, If
TINS Is not conclusive of come banefuI
lRnuence exerted by the Democrats in
NoVemOer, then there is no logic in
any reasoning by which we could arrive
at true conclusion of any doubtful M
taet. And it is the same all over the
parish. And another fact, worthy of notice.
Is that very few, remarkably few, indeed.
OF those colored men who SO willingly nj
tesuned, before the various committees,
that they VI ted for the Democrats last
November of their free will and accord.
and would do SO again if opportunity Of
tered" have had an opportunity on Janu-
ary Y, 1877, and they have signally failed
to show their appreciation of Democratic
''oonctliatory measures" might Just men
ton, in passing, that in the Colony. No
vember ward No. A., where j. r. Hall.
justice OF the peace, swears he was forced
TO take the athdavits of quite 100 colored
men, to the effect that they had voted
without intimidation and freely the Dem
ocratlc ticket, without the affidavits, five
voted, January 81, 1877. And in ward
No. l, where MeCloe, another Justice of the
peace, at the same time took the same sort
OF atidavits from l28 oOlored men: that
ward this time gives twenty colored votes,
ana ward No. 2, which underwent the same
declaration of principles to the tune of
about 200, this time gives seven, could
go through each ward with the same re-
suit. If any link in the chain of evidence
offered by the Republicans to prove intimi-
dation in this parish were wanting, this
election, so-called, has furnished it, and the
public can not longer shut its eyes to this
fact, Not Republican advised or inter
fered with any colOred man regarding the
desirsbility of voting or not voting.
The colored people were free to do
as they pleased, were free from
''evil influences of Radicals" They were
left to Judge for themselves, and thew
proved, as they always will when free from
Ufnlhnnn M 70 affa E,sN .f,.IA L
that gave them new life and liberty. This
proves that they are loyal and grateful to
the party that placed in their hands the
inestimable, but now almost useless, boon
of suffrage. Although it seems as if now,
when most they need helping hand; when
the bones OF their race are bleaching in
woods and on river side; when their blood has
been poured out, and all, all this for the
sake OF party, that party is about to desert
them. 1t is matter of little consOla-
tiOn to them to feel that for all the
dangers they have undergone for the gov
er7Rent OF right and justice, that that
goa enment does not extend to them the
protection and safety it guaran tees. How
over1 they yet seem to say '1IunQuGDt des-
perdt," and are still looking and waiting
for the Frightening of the star of liberty Ii
conscience and freedom of speech, which
has to them ever been dimmed and cIouded
by bitter terror and prejudice.
have given a plain, truthful statement
of the facts as they are. have taken the
pains to carefully scrutinlze the sworn
tally lists of each poll for both of the re-
cent elections, and from them have taken
my figures. ! am enabled to state aecu-
rately the number of cOlored men who
voted, as they are all known to
me, and as the commissioners of
election check off on those tally
lists, the name of every man who votes as
he deposits his ballot. If this can CON
vince any of the North that the November
| election in this parish was fraught with
the Democratic intimidation that has been
proved, then will be amply rewarded for
the trouble have been at to compile it.
might go further and hope that the "grand
commission"-the Louisiana part Of it,
might bear in mindsthe significant facts
connected with this late electoral farce.
have always lived here and have grown
up with the place and its inhabitants and,
though tits true l write with no love for
Democracy, for they have injured me and
mine much, yet write the truth and can
verify it.
Hoping, Mr.. Editor, that the Ominous.
clouds which now hang 80 threateningly
over our country may soon be rifted and
show to us the cheering blue sky of a
peaceful and prosperous future, remain :,
respectfully,