The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-10
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understand these eminent gentlemen
now very clearly. Our souls are no
longer yexed with uncertainty. Ihe
people OF Louisiana are not yet, IL these
DISTINGUISHED Northern statesmen, or
politicians, are to have their way, TO be.
come participants in the blessings OF
constitutional government. Their plan
ia not to confirm and carry out the
solemn pledges Of Mr.. Hayes anu his
nearest friends, by which Southern gem
tlemen were induced to permit the
electoral count TO be contaminated. The
plan Of these commissioners is extra
constitutional sort OF machine ar
rangement. known Ia this State az a
compromise, by which the people are 70
surrender their control Of the State
government into the hands Of gang OF
faseals from whom they have fought
months and years TO wrest 1t.
Mr.. Hayes declared in his inaugural
that IL Was bis purpose to fe-establisb
local self-government In South Carolina
and this State nay. he went further,
and declared that until local selfsgovs
eminent was established In these States
there could be no peace and no prosper
| ty Ia them. And now, In the face Of
| these declarations. his commissioners
propose TO uH Il compromise, by which
the government elected by majority
Of eight thousand votes will be sur
rendered TO man who Is the enemy Of
the State and loathed by the people,
and to his following Of periurers and
plunderers. The proposition Of the
commissioners is thai, the Legislature
shall be reorganised upon the basis OF
| the members conceded TO be elected by
both parties; that the fump, thus CON
stituted. shall proceed to pass upon the
contested seats. that the Legislature
thus reorganized and filled up shall
count the votes for Governor and Lieut.
enant Governor. and that such count
shall settle the title TO the guberna-
torial office.
This is certainly the coolest PROPOSE
ton we have ever heard made to an
intelligent body Of men representing
free and intelligent people. Mr.. Hayes
commissioners would have acted more
satisfactorily had they advised us TO
promptly surrender the government to
the gang Of bummers oooped UP IN the
81. Louis Hotel. The Legislature organ
lied upon the basis proposed would be
composed Of sixty Radicals and forty
three Democrats. This rump, with ma.
/ tnr fG., ~ lrtr "A t,I
corrupt negroes and white social out
casts, utterly regardless Of right, de-
| cency or Justice, would Immediately
proceed to fill the seventeen contested
seats, TO all Of which Democrats were
elected by decisive maiorities, with Rad
ioal claimants, INSCRIPTIONS and ire
sponsible as themselves, and the Legis-
lature thus organized would proceed, on
the Returning Board plan, to count In
Packard aud then TO ignore the bene-
fetal legislation Of the present Legisla-
ture and to impose upon the State fresh
outrages and schemes Of plumber.
We say very plainly 10 Mr.. Hayes
commissioners that II this is their plan
Of pacitieation, 1t IL q fraud and mock
cry. and that IL will find no support Or
| countenance among the people OF thts
state. It IL, In another shape. thesfed.
eral scheme Of 1876. In January. 1875,
the Federal troops under orders from
Washington openly entered the House
Of Representatives OF Louisiana at
the point Of the bayonet expelled the
Democratic members from their seats.
and handed over the State to Kellogg
and his thieves. That was q lawless,
soandalous and wicked proceeding, but
il had the merit ofaudacity and boldness.
The plan of adjustment proposed by
MFR. Hayes Commissioners 10 designed
and calculated to accomplish similar
result. But IL lacks even the redeeming
features Of tho Grant plan; it Is de.
signed and calculated. like the bayonet
movement. to give the State to the enc
mics and plunderers Of the people, but
In an underhanded and insidious man
ner. 1t proposes to perpetuate carpet
baggery and political robbery on new
system, and system. we assure the
Com missioners, less tasteful to the peo-
pie OF Louisiana than the open force
adopted by President Grant.
The plan OF adjustment is in no sense
calculated to carry out the pledge OF
Mr.. Hayes to establish local self-gov-
eminent in this State. It Ia substan-
TALLY q proposition to us to accept the
DEGREES of the Returning Board In place
of the expressed will Of the people at
the ballot-box. To accept this PROPOSE
ton would be to stultify ourselves; TO
proclaim ourselves the lowest OF hypo-
critics the most cowardly Of braggarts.
Gov. Nichols will not listen to any such
scheme: the Legislature will not discuss
such q proposition; the people Of the