The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-11

The wounded are mainly arriving at Bucha
rest from Simnitza
The Turkish troops intended to guard the
Greek frontier have moved toward Bulgaria
| PUBLIC OPINION.
The Press on the Returning Heard Prose.
cuti0ns.
IN. X. Herald
j The. proceedings in NtWe QrIsnf,s
4 All Aust tie members nf tly6 3fbt fig
Board can In no way affect the title to
| the presidency. That question Is settled
Mr.. Hayes Is President, and the poll
tioian who should be silly enough to at
tempt to bring his authority into
tguestion would dig very deep his own
Political grave. A Judicial investiga-
ton may prove the members of the
Louisiana Returning Board to have been
reckless and corrupt men; 1t may show
that the Democrats legally and fairly
carried the State. This was the gen
eral opinion OF impartial! and calm men
last winter la Washington. Not few
Republicans in both houses voted very
reluctantly to confirm the decision OF
the Electoral Commission some did not
vote on the question, and two OF the
ablest Republicans ia the House Prof.
Seelye and Mr.. Henry L. Pieree--voted
against confirmation in the Louisiana
case. But when tl1e commission bad
Rsd II % swii sner @ rue eonrmsd MIR nSpsSs t.
/ that was the end Of the matter, and the
actual facts Id the Louisiana or any
other case. no matter what these might
or may turn QUITO be, we're and are of
no i'm portanee. r..#
One result the New Orleans proceed
| inuQ hnEn TThnu mn hfir,fr ipt1
even greater odium than they now lie
under 1.-The Republican leaders and
managers OF the national canvass.
| These men are now, almost without ex-
ceptieu. bitterly opposed to the Presi-
tdent. They are striving In every way to
embarrass him, to annoy him, to ham
| per him In his patriotic efforts to give
| the country peacs and rest. They de-
nounce his Just and constitutional
Southern policy; they afIgrily oppose
| his efforts to reform the clyit service
and purify our politics and if tha trial
of the members Of the Returning Board
shall bring additional tiisgrace UPON the
manipuiationso Of these men nobody will
| be sorry. They ought to be driven out
| of political lise and anything which
| will help to drive them into obsurity
and disgrace, Ia to, be welcomed BY all
men desirous OF the country's Q good,
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| n,. ~, AaAe'i -
,..L.. l.ne unueIlyIIg moIive o. tns Whole
ts R Ro M
naii,,cai ,rnnaos,ns y, ond 9"mtng ,s;}f "
sid.red nv the nnhiic r. con .arvo go ~
useful, moral purpose. whatever comes
OF it. It will settle nothing. Tt will be
| impossible In the first place to secure
an impartial Jury. No twelve men com
petent to the trial of that or any case
can be found who would not take into
| the Jury room more or less Of prejudice
and partisan bias, and nothing but a
partisan verdict could possibly be hoped
for. Such a verdict can have no effect
upon the opinions OF men re.
garding the legality or illegalitv of
the Louisiana election returns. and no
force at all as O. vindication of law. The
conviction of these Returning Board
members uron the charges preferred
under such circumstances would exas-
perate the feelings of one partys while
the only other purpose effected would
be the qualification of mere partisan
spite. Were any good act to be CON
served, or even intended to be con-
served, by the prosecution. no good citi-
zen would utter word Of objection or
protest. But the motive is so apparent,
and the certainty 80 absolute that
prejudice and perversion. instead Of
justice and reason, will govern the trial,
that all good citizens must depreoate
the proceeding as one from which no
good result can be expected.
New York SUM-
r. ia annarent from tho anv;o,v mani
fosta1 ~ tha uaun. Vmo anhs7,y a. maui ~
leans +ha+ oo oanuiot;o iEa o. an 40 MJ~ ~
nrahendaJ ,s " and rnhn aan 40 90, oaio,hn IIy "p
thio 3inne vhat % oinht VII odn h th ae
and indirect conseo,1ancas WI ion would
ensue from a conviction: or. indeed.
who will venture to predict what thew
might not be? A judicial determine
tion of the real facts Of the Louisiana
election, even by q State court, might
prove the entering wedge which wo1ld
In time dissever Mr.. Hayes from the
office he occupies.
1t is said that Mr.. Hayes Las conf
dence that Gov. Nichols would pardon
Messrs. Wells, Anderson, Kenner and
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