The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-06
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THE SENAT0RSHIP.

THE SENAT0RSHIP.
The propriety OF an early adjourn
ment of the Legislature, and the cleo
ton of q Senator are now being active
" discussed both by the members Of
the Legislature and their constituen-
cies-the people. We are content to
leave the question Of adjournment
to the discretion Of our representa-
lives; but the rumors abroad, that
there is q disposition on the part of
some of the senators and representa-
lives to elect O Radical to the United
States Senate, demands serious con-
sideration.
The people throughout the State have
very clearly expressed their opposition
TO any such action, and we do not hesi-
tate to say that the democratic senator
or representative who should vote for
any man, for the United States Senate.
who is not In full political accord with
the principles upon which the last can
vass In this State was fought and won,
would betray the trust confided to his
hands by the people who elected him.
The President asks no degrading
price for the justice he has promised to
accord lis, and deep have we sunk In
cowardice and degradation, IL we are
prepared to confer one of the highest
honors Louisiana can bestow, upon any
one OF the creatures who have been, In
the last eight years, identified with the
rule which has been our ruin and our
disgrace, or upon any one who at all
times, and under all circumstances,
has not been in direct and pronounced
opposition to that rule.
Mr.. Hayes has not asked us to de-
grade ourselves by perpetrating bald
fraud upon our State and upon the
United States Senate. But, Ii there are
any members of the Louisiana Legisla-
ture land, thank Heaven, we do not be-
lieve there are any such,l who are SO
craven In spirit that they are ready to
elect a Senator at the dictation of the
President, we would say to them that
they can best subserve the wishes of
that official by electing straight out
Democrat.
II Mr.. Hayes in truth means to carry
out his Southern policy, he must prefer,
to the election to the United States Sem
ate, from this and other Southern States.
of Radicals, the election Of honor
able Democrats. It Is the interest
OF Southern Democrats - especially
Louisiana Democrats-to sustain the
President in his Southern policy, while
on the other hand, 1t is to the interest Of
every Radical in the South to defeat
that policy. There is no Radical in
Louisiana who could give President
Hayes any iotluence or support IL elect
ed to the Senate, and there Is not O.
straight-out Democrat who has been
mentioned in connection with this high
Office who would not be q tower Of
strength to him there, 80 long as he
proved true to his pledges to protect
and rehabilitate the South.
Are Louisianians more craven in
spirit; are they fonder Of degradation
than the South Carolinians? Have we
become in the last eight years eonstitu-
tional dirt eaters, that we talk OF elect
ing to the highest places in our gift some
one of the wretches who for years have
tramped us in the dust and rifled our
pockets =? We trust not. But IL we
have, men who respect themselves
had better begin to make their arrange
ments to leave the State.
Gov. Hampton emancipated South
Carolina by his firm and uncompro-
missing attitude. He refused to defile
his soul by having any political associa-
tions with any OF the thieves and rap
scallions who have scourged his people.
We have no idea that the Legislature
will for moment entertain the thought
Of making Louisiana Radical a
United States Senator. We know that
the Democracy of the State have not
elected to the Legislature set of men
who would give such an Endorsement to
the past eight years OF misrule and
plumber. and such a refutation Of all the
charges we have made against the
Kelloggs the Packards and their kind.
Yet rumors to this effect are abroad and
we have thought it proper to set the
Legislature right before the public.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
We make this extract from an obit-