Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-09-07
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crepancy between truth and falsehood of NOR
than one hundred millions of dollars
Are the causes which led to the creation of th,
Returning Board those stated by Judge Black. Of
are they TO be found in the wicked attempts OF the
party to which he belongs to attain its sscenden
cy by violence, iniim idsti0n, outrage and murder
and the utter extinction of those privileges of cit
izenshlp intended TO be secured by the Fifteenth
Constitutional Amendment: Was that Amend
ment, as be states, an assertion Of the divine right
Of the negro 10 govern the white maR; or an eff
fort TO relieve the colored from that subjec-
lion to Il : whites which the divine law con-
dennis Whatever may be the authority for the
Amendment, every honest and law-abidlng cltl-
zen is bound TO and It's enforcement. A nation
which fails to put forth all its strength to protec.
its citizens, white or black from foreign agrees
sion or outrage, stands degraded before the world
When thousand of them are shot down within
its own borders for attempting TO exercise the
right TO vote, what shall we say of the govern.
ment which fails 10 vndcate It's laws thus vIolat-
ed The State of Louisiana attempted, by the
legislation IN question: To make IL Improbable for
political party to practice outrage or intmida-
ton. Ii in pat succeeded; aud yet grave crimes
were committed IN that state DUNG the last Pres.
idental election, that it might be carried for the
Democratic candidates. That this was so is q
conclusion forced upon us by few general but
very impressive facts, independent OF the cOnclu-
slve proofs taken by the Returning Board and by
the Congressional Committees. The registered
cololed vote OF Louisiana On the day of the cleo
ton IN November last was, as before stated, ll5 =
$40 to ~, 9s6 white. In forty of the hity-seveu
parishes oil the State, where no serious inJimids-
lion prevailed, including that of Orleans, which
was largely Democratic, the msJOrltS OF Repdbll-
can votes actually cast was 6,Oy1. The remaining
seventeen parishes Contained 2O.S23 registered
colored yoteIs and l6,2j3 wnIte,-the former, like
those in the forty Parishes, being almost exclu-
svely Republican. Judge Black says the MAORI
ty OF votes actually poled by the Democratic par
within the Slae admitted have
1888. Assuming this to have been so, the
Democrats must have succeeded, with l6,-
25o Whine voters, IN getting majority, over 90
313 cooied, OF 49, 1856. Does he believe this 10
have been possible, iu face oil the Republican ma
joniy OF 6,O97 in ioIty parishes I What, IN his
opinion, LED 10 such remal kabie conversion to
the Democratic faith OF The negroes in seventeen
parishes Was II WEAKNESS and discomfort OF car
pet-bag rule, or was the result secured by that
violence and crime successfully employed 10
1862
But this is not all. Five of these seventeen
parishes were especially selected for the employ-
ment OF these modes vf conversion, first. because
of their favorable location on and near the borders
Of Mississippi aud Arkansas, and, second. because
of the large majority of coloied Republicans
which they contaiDed. There were WITHIN them
but 8, l34 white registered votes to Is PA coored
aud yet effective were the intm ldaton. yio-
lence, and murder there employed, that Demo-
cratic majority was secured vi 4 495, -eoual with
Does this net raise = suspicion, even Ia the mind
of Judge Black, that other causes than of CARPET
bag rule produced tBis result Does 1t not look
like the iruit Of policy organized for violence
cropping out here and there in murder until il
had filed the land with teriori
Judge Black has certainly omitted nothing of
SANDER, nothing of reprobation, nothing OF de-
nuncistIon, Of all those who in any manner aided
in securing the elevation OF Mr.. HAYES to the
Presidency, which the most violent and reckless
of his party can desire. lie has Constructed with
malicious ingenuity = well compacted series of
misstatements, each reposlng upon assertions DOS.
itiyely made, and all, as rule destitute Of any
solid foundation. In SO doing truths have been
SO perverted as TO become falsehoods, and false
hoods so interviewer with these as to appear like
truths. lie has even assailed those who at the re-
quest Of the President went to New Orleans to
witness the count OF the electoral vote BY the
Returning Board, after il was known that at the re-
quest of Mr.. TIlden, several distinguished Demo-
Gratis were TO attend there for that purpose.
When be shall venture beyond the domain of
denuncistion, and, entering the fair field of in
curry and OF argument, shall candidly explore
the proofs on which the Board acted, and especial
ly when be shall honestly endeavor TO realize that
the Electoral Commission was powerle.s under
the Constitution and law to disregard the fnal
will of the states of Louisiana, Florida and Ore
gon. be will engage IN a task which may open
his mind 10 the TRUTH leading him to the con.
cinsion that the nation has not been betrayed,
and that the Great Fraud Of 1876 was but tie fg-
ment OF disordered il,ag nation.