The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-05
Mr. Trumpull- Louisiana The presi-

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Mr. Trumbull- .ouisiana--Ihe Presi-
dency.
An immense meeting was held In Chi
caro Saturday night 10 hear ex-senator
TnuNsurI and others upon the question OF
the day. Mr.. TRUxBuLL's speech was one
OF decided ability and craftsmanship. ~
was lofty In its devotion to the Conssisu.
ton and the public liberty, and severe 10
its censures Of the frauds OF the Returning
Boards and the Federal outrages. we pup
1ished recently his letter to the pubic, IN
which he spoke Of the unwarrantaoie eA-
clusion Of votes sufficient to change ma
ior;tv Of 5000 for TlLpEN to one OF 1000
for HAYES in Louisiana. he assumed toat
thew were thrown out unjustly and IN vio-
lst;on of the authority OF the Returning
Roard. which had no jurisdiction to reject
votes unless proper foundation was lald'
as the law required; and no such founda-
ton was laid.
Mr.. TRUMBULL speaks OF the amoaVits
about intimidation and how they were Cd
tanned. thousands OF them being manuiac-
tured or forged in the custom-house, signed
with cross, the poor negroes not knowing
what they swore to. Mr.. TRuaBuLL says,
however, that the instances OF intimidation
OF negro Democrats were far more nu-
merous than those Of intimidation OF Re
publicans. He says colored persons by the
scores came forward and swore to threats
against them, and exhibited upon their own
persons the scars and wounds they have re-
ceiyed for no other cause than because they
were Democrats. We have had this Gin
timidation' business in our paper al nou-
scum ; but Mr.. TRUNBULL is witness OF
such high authority that what he says after
having been in Louisiana should be heard
by all. He says:
"In some parts Of Louisiana it is as much
as a colored mans life is worth to vote the
Democratic ticket. DO you ask how this
can be? Twill tell you. When the colored
people were made free, dozen years ago,
they believed that they owed their freedom
to the Republican party, and it was but
natural that they should attach themselves
to that party which had given them liberty.
cus
North, for selfish purposes, took advantage
OF this feeling to band the colored people
together ia political organizations against
the whites among whom they lived. BY
the aid Of the colored race thus banded to-
gether few adventures from the North
were able to control several southern
States for number Of years, during which
they plundered the people, both white
and black. Gradually the more Intelligent
of the colored population began TO find out
that they were being used rs the mere tools
of northern adventures for their own sell
fish and wicked purposes; that the prom
ised measures for the benefit and advance
ment of their race were not carried out;
that they were robbed OF the money they
placed in the freedmens' banks and OF that
raised for the education of their children;
that the State government failed to afford
them protection or punish crime; that busl-
ness was depressed and the whole country
around them going to ruin. Under these
circumstances, the more intelligent OF the
colored voters OF Louisiana by thousands
voted the Democratic ticket Mt the
last election, and thousands more would
have voted the same way but Tor
fear OF their colored brethren, the more ig--
norant OF whom, full Of fanaticism and
goaded on by demagogues, who falsely rep
resented to them that they would be reen-
shaved if the Democrats attained power, be-
came furious against any of their own race
who Joined that party. This feeling en-
tered the churches, the family circle, and
was especially furious among the colored wo-
men. Colored preachers proclaimed from
the pulpit that colored men voting the DEM
ocratic ticket were traitors to their race,
and ought to have their Threats cut; they
were expelled from the colored churches
colored women visited their wives and in
sisted that they should not live with such
men and finally If they persisted in voting
the Democratic ticket they were in many
instances whipped and shot, and sometimes
killed. do not mean to assert that this
state Of things was general throughout the
State, though it was hazardous for colored
men unless in large bodies to vote the
Democratic ticket anywhere. Utmost parts
of the State the election was free and fair,
and when we first arrived in New Orleans
we were told by Republicans that COM
plants OF unfairness only extended to i've
parishes; but when it was ascertained that
rejecting the votes from these i've parishes
would not Offset the general result the COM
plants were extended to other parishes"
Mr. TRUMBULL declares that he believes
that TILDEN as clearly carried Louisiana as
that HAYES carried Illinois and Ohio; and
the certificates OF election have been given
to the HAYES electors "fraudulently, arbi
:" trariIy, aud without warrant OF law, and
"in pursuance, II you please, OF con-
lspiracy formed at Washington just after
"the election, as part Of which an order
sswas issued to the army before any OF the
ssReturning Boards had assembled, or any
"body threatened them, sto see that they
are unmolested in the performance OF
Istheir duties.'" 49, 2@3
Mr. TRUABULL asks what is TO be done
shout it? And he answers his question,
Every State is entitled to appoint electors
of President and Viee-President, and the
only inquiries to be made after the electoral
votes are cast is, "Were they cast in the
IS manner required by the Constitution and
g by duly-qualifed persons who had been
stappointed In the manner directed by the
Sc Constitution ?p Who Is to make the In
curry? And he thus answers:
"It is settled by the terms Of the Consti-
tuition and the uniform practice under it
from the beginning. The language OF the
Constitution is The president Of the Sem
ate shall, in the presence OF the Senate and
House Of Representatives, open all the Ger.
tifcates, and the votes shall then be count
ed, The trainers OF the Constitution were
careful and precise in the use OF language,
and used no more words than were neces-
sary to express their meaning. By giving
due consideration to the words GALL and