New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-03

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judge OF the criminal court, who refu1 ask
charge the grand Jury in relation in
murders then committed, mas ever g the
been bienniRlly reelected to the ga secuI
nee by the majority of the voters in tn
city of New Orleans. nstitu
In the spring of 1868 the interpOsit w
military power under the direction o. potion
grees enabled the cOlored people to vale
else their newly. ce Inferred right of su sl col
and to elect a Republican State in p
ment. Whatever may be the errd
shortcomings justly obargeable agains eCial
administration (which entered upon htives
ties under circumstances of great diff 10Th Q
it is matter of record that no dispd cordi
was shown to wait and Judge it amt
by it's acts, or to accord to it moral So etives
in any effort Tor the general welfare. essiOI
at once denounced as usurpation y tho
upon the nsonla nv federsI baroro, ectioI
the Young men of the Stata ware invi and
public resolution to form themselve
clubs and arm for its overthrow. tOT ~
months later in that same year the
date of the national Democratic par REAs,
the vice presidency of the United Stat od sn0
clafed the constitutional amendment Ind dc
| and the reconstruction acts a uullitv lection
| called upon the President to use the 81 an
of the United States to suppress the he'd
ing Southern governments estab lie dal
under those enactments. As nature resenI
sequence OF this declaration and ~ in
scenes Of violence which followed, Eel S6, a
mora fhan Hva fbnnoanA 80 Sl, Aaa wit
eIpht tbousand coIored man n I,on of t
who had voted in the spring for a ns
lican Governor were permitted to cast Oh 'A
votes in the fall for Republican Pres 7
These are matters of notoriety.
not necessary to trace in detail -
subsequent history of colored JsE
frage in this State, through s..ou
Fusion frauds of 1872 the massacr
COlfax and Coushatta, the White L
riots Of September, 1874, and the late! iOuSo
RACES attending the last election, nan
have shocked the moral sense of the Oil ="
countrv Viavad uansra,tIs ~ Co. q ans
tbasa c,iuoa. d,scIo.o ~ ,no,;1a. th Eer Hs
complishment has tended to procur Ssrrol
end. Their perpetrators are shield Brow
public sentiment; their defenders q NJ VI,
warded by election to public office in Ayy.
munities where hostility to Repu Ga
principles predominates. Ascen
1t is painful fact in the history TnIsga
State that when q number of white ci n, x,
were arrested, tried and convicted be Pn, N
inv IN ~ Ttn,4a5 o..... f,i..,.,. r, |wazie
the murder of more than hundred War
dered, defenseless oolored men ct hree
courthouse, the most influential reside
New Orleans formed associations fol Bro
relief. The entertainments given fl Il Cor
benefit of the sO-called "Grant paris ker q
ferers" we're the most popular Of the 81 paris
No terms of OpprObrium were fOun peak
strong Tor the United States Circuit as I
VINO acting under strict sense OF m tt
held that the proceedings taken undo b. chs
reconstruotion acts of Congress az 10; b
these accused persons were legal and 10; D
AM no praise too extravagant to b ary;
slowed upon the Associate Justice action
Supreme Court of the United States of I'll,
actlng' 1t Is to be presumed, undi as ad
equally stFicS sense OF duty, declared state
proceedings unconstitutional and cd C,
The Grant parish massacre is still reg r.o
as iusti6able assertion of white supre t.tss
1t is argued with apparent plauE III 8
that the disorders admitted to prev st.to.
some of the Southern States are the oto .
of the inefioiency of the Republican hin
authorities and their inability to 81 sonoI
'Ne laws anu OFinS inc gui'ty Patu md
Justice. In August last the execute
this Stats officially directed the attent vai,,
the State Central Committee Of III re.o
posing party to the organized via
exercised in certain parishes Of \. III
State toward prominent Republ twel
The chairman of that committee n her
that th. v.,s.1o. ,.,,,,s --.--, e sui
by Republican officials, whose duty an ~
to bring evil.doers to justice under men
State laws, and that If there was
truth in these charges it was eOnclI
proof that the Republican party wa sus
spOnsible for the disorders which hs 'no
CURED in this State. Similar arpun
are continually repeated. 1t is nd ''
ont that in Georgia and Alabama and
Southern States, which have been - =,
deemed" as it is called, from Repub - u
rule, peace prevails and political mu, -
are comparatively unknown. The
statement of this proposition carries
1t confession Of guilt. II diseloses thu Nc
that the disorders in the South OWN
created by the opponents Of Re- nre I
canism for the purpose of obtaining O. Do
of the government, and that until the Desn
tain possession of the offices, whether Piativ
have such majority of the legal vote ofSt
would justly entitle them to those Ofit be d.
NOT, political turmoil will continue.
The frst case of successful prosec Drur
for political crime has yet to occ ~ ine
Louisiana. Instances are unhappiy paris
wanting where bold efforts made to en- Jones
the laws have been promptly fOlIows nakln
the assassination OF judges, prosecuting of
Cers and sheriffs. 1t may here be rec npee,
that during the local election for Stat Saael
GERS and Gongressmen in 1874, the State relst
tral Committee Of the opposition pass the
formal resolution pledging their influen
secure a discOntinnance Of political pay
lence throughout the State upon CO imitl
conditions, which being complied be vi
open acts Of violence against Republ Ter, (
almost immediately ceased, No lOcs of n
bunals can prevent or punish pOlits htesli
lenses whilst the controlling public oerst
ment amongst the more Influential cit she I
sanctions or at least cOnnives at thOs pflea
orders. There seem to me but three the
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