The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-21
TO LOUISIANA.

The republic, on the road TO the devil,
which the radical party has paved with per-
juries broken constitutions. violated laws
and military despotisms has at last reached
Louisiana. and the commission has COM
menced the process of Matching votes for
Hayes The returning board laid the eggs
which were fortified by such mon
sters as Wells and kellogg, and it is
fair to assume, when the reptiles crawl
forth from their shells under the
vitalizing warmth of Sitting Bull Nor
ton that Bradley will be ready to make the
supreme decision that they are sufficiently
poisonous and hideous to be counted for
Hayes. The mention of Louisiana in
connection with the presidential election
is enough to mantle the cheek oil every pa
triot in the land with shame and unspeak-
able modification. 1t is impossible to con-
ceive of a case of deeper degradation. In the
sweep of the perjuries committed in the
interest of Hayes, the whole country is
touched by their damning and par
alyzing influence. and to add a
darker hue to the whole proceeding, it
will not be forgotten that while the crime
was maturing designed to sink the presi-
dental election to fathomless depths of
contempt Grant had his soldiers ready to
protect the miscreants with guns loaded and
with an ample supply of ball cartridges in
reserve. Satan never called a council
of demons more essentially internal
than that which under the name of a ire
TURNING hoardf' asSauohIad 70 r,olya fraud
and perjury omnipotent in the affairs of the
republic. 1t was an assembly devoted to
horrid blasphemy-yiolated oaths were
almost as thick as violated ballots. Every
member of the board belied his Species and
was living calumny on human nature.
Their every act was stain upon national and
individual honor, and their certificates of cleo
ton were the crime stained passports of those
who received them to official station. 1t is
this case that the commission is called upon
to consider. a sort of a coroner's inquest upon
one of the beautiful sisterhood of states first
ravished by radical villains and then stabbed
and left bleeding and dying. To get at the
bottom facts of the conspiracy to rob the
people of their choice of president and vice
president was the purpose democrats had in
view when they consented TO the creation of
the commission. In the case of Florida they
were denied the privilege by strictly par
tisan vote, and scoundrelism was Endorsed.
Murat Halstead, who fell in love with Eliza
Pinkston that he might the better serve the
conspirators, says in the Commercial of
yesterday:
Under the ruling in the Florida case 1t is ev-
ident that the commission VIII not, as the
phrase runs, go behind the returns in the Lou
isiana case. They will cenfine the case to the
objections and counter OBJ Elections, and such
documentary papers as accompany them, and,
as in the Florida case, consider the question of
the ineligibility of any of the electors who are
objected to as disqualified to act. Much time
will thus be gained, and IL is to be presumed
Louisiana will be disposed of by the end of the
week.
| 1t is possible that the radical majority
| will find it difficult to swallow at one gulp
| the Louisiana case and that when it is pre-
/ sented with all its horny infamies, they may
| conclude that it is not best to make the at
tempt and for once to act honorably. In
that case Louisiana. instead of being an ex-
panse of quicksand, where constitutions and
law, truth and justice shall find grave, may
prove barrier sufficiently formidable to ar
rest the march of conspilators and be the
means of rescuing the country from their
grasp. This is possible, but the probable re-
suit is the triumph of crime.