The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-17

Identification Of the election Of. che Presi.
dental Electors, according to the laws, OF
Each s Is final and ana h
sentence. with IT'S BAD grammar and opaaueness
of expression, Is moi. like Judge Churchs clear
the results Of an election. honestly authenticated
by the proper authorities of the State, accord
ing to its laws and the acts of Congress, ought
cedent disputes about it. That is no doubt his
opinion and firmly believe him to be right on
this as on other questions of law. But does It
as proper M Have tie Houses
Of Congress. when they. come, to, count the
votes. no right to distinguish, between a
fest corruption2 Ask Judge Church to
say for your comfort and assistance that
~ receive and treat as true false paper known
to baye been concoeted in Wilful fraud. Instead
Of gratifying your wish. he will make the ten
derest vein in your heart ache with his con-
tempt.
AS TO THE ALLEGED oUTRAGEs.
write the article to which your name is append
ed. There is intrinsic evidence that certain
parts OF 1t were not produced by you for, in
stance. the defense of the carpet baggers, which
certainly nobody but one of their own number
would make now. since the Administration ut
Washington has deserted them. and
From their ruined fortunes their familiars slink
away.
But you are made to appear as believer in
tho virtue of the knaves who almost desoated
Louisiana by their exact tons, taxed property to
innumersble millions of fraudulent nds. re-
duced public securities to forty per cent, pa
tronized larceny all over the State, and left the
people to the protection OF no law but lynch
law The writer could not ignore these enor-
mites. for he manifestly had read what you
probably never took the trouble to look at-the
reports made to Congress by Messrs. Potter,
Foster, Wheeler, Phelps and others, which es-
tablish the facts inconlestibly. 1t was sin and
respect for these unmitfgated scamps and,
facile as you are wonder that you Submitted
to i. They might have spared you this degra.
that the rascality Of the Returning Board was
the exercise of a wise discretion"
You. or somebody for you, have undertaken
turning Board and The Eeetors Comm MS s
were right in disregarding the popular vote and
setting aside the election In Louisiana free,
full and fair though 1t was1 because numerous
murders had been committed in the State dur
ing the B. period OF earpet-bag rule. 1t was al
steadily for at the Awful average 4ae Of aBon
four every day. and though the perpetrators of
them were well known, the public authorities
No i nEs wax bn o teed pmns snge one
did not believe this story. 1t WIS denied on
good authority and supp!orted by no credible
who suffered such o state Of things 10 exist, and
eleGting others who would protect life by q
me like new, species Of moral insanity to say
that the law abiding and honest citizens of the
state should be disfranchised because they had
cast their votes against officers who besides
being PUBLIC plunderers, had taken away all
security for life by permitting 1000 murders in
three years to 60 entirely UNPUBLISHED.
Upon this you assert. or at least sign your
name to an assertion and publish 1t In q maya
zine as yours. that admitted the perpetration
alleging that the State gope,7n,ent tpaS too uenk
to punish or prevent them. This represents
me as the most inhumann monster on the earth.
man who would justify the unprovoked as
sassnation Of 1000 peaceable and helpless per.
sons. including women and children. on the
mere ground that the government was unable
murder himself whenever he could do It with
mpunty. -, This .odious charge is pressed upon
ne q explicitly. and repeated in many forms
Now. mark my answer well. The man who
wrote this part of the article which passes as
b"gbt Is ana oasG mPosor Every opinion
'tsetv the Teperse OF what he imputes to me. |
the story of the four thousand muir
pa sheer fabrication got up to order for par
isan purposes. So far from iustifying those
murders. declared that If such outrages had
les of the State had made themselves infamous
~ their failure to punish them. Furthermore,
averred It as matter of fact. and showed it very
nent was armed with physical power amply |
to enforce the law. preserve the peace
md protect life: All this said, not in doubtful
With intelligence one degree above that of an
dI0t could misunderstood me. |
The direct, straightforward mendacity of this
mort to detame me Is literally wonderful. |
peak Soberly and without passion when | say /
hat think there is nothing like it on record |
No reader Will be able to conceive the grossness
# 1t WITHOUT comparing your article at pages |
1861, with mine ut pages 9-10-11. Even then |
T II MT ,b understand # unless he looks
0 IIpV fran HuTp Iy 1
hanged. and altered. My disbelief in the MUIR
Ter stories Of Sheridan and sherman, my de-
ruth committed. and of the government,
which could punish them and did not-my
nsng expression Of these se9t
ences are picked out from different
oeeReF as BAD %9an af 6em men aon 2inea
usly in that order. whereby the whole
ense rte ana meaning so, Of my words are
pologist for murder and mob violence, lust
you might prove from the Bible that there is
o God. This is not an indictable forgery, but
lany g man has served out his term at Sing
ing who would scorn an attempt to ruin his |
eighbor by the fraudulent making or altera-
on OF paper-writing to the prejudice of his
I am told. and. incline to believe
lat "a you did not write this part of the article
agger put it together and gave it to you to try
ow much he could make you disgrace yourself
n his amusement or his malice, and You put |
our name to it without knowing whether it
as right or wrong. This relieves you from the
nputatlon OF deliberate fasehood. But why,
!; why were you silly enough to become the
lts-paw of such mischievous monkey?
THE FLORIDA CASE.
| have spoken mainly of the Louisiana case, {
,capse that is the one of which you ought to
ave some special knowledge. You have, how
eE si gone into Florida and tried to defend the
'en expected, you make a bungle of It. | will |
state the points as held by the commission so
T as you attempt to indicate them
Protesting to vindlcate the great princinle Of g
ate rights, the commissioners forced upon t
orlda electors whom the State had rejected 9
1en she made her own choice, and against c
n9m all the departments of her government
"a protested. The fraudulent nuIity manu-
ctuf ed by two canvassing officers was allowed 4
outweigh the will of the State as expressed G
her Executive, her Legislature, and her :
urts, as we'll as the solemn voice of her peonle C
their primary capacity 0
The Commission invested the canvassing Off g
RS with judicial authority, and held that their
rtificate was the decree of tribunal It is '