The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1877-03-03
OFFICE COR. MARKET & PATRIOT SITS
remarks Of E. John EI.
lis Of New Orleans, on
counting the vote
of Louisiana i'm
Congress.

wv hi"Joiity VI tuclr people voted
for Samuel }. Tilden for Presi>
dent, but l find to day by the
voice OF this commission her
electoral vote cast for one HAYES.
ln arriving at that decision. in
overth! owing the will of the pe0>
pie OF Louisiana, that commission
decided in the first place that
they would not examine into the
unconstitutiOnality of the law
creating this Returning Board,
In the second place, it refused to
go into the question of fraud, and
in the third place, having sworn
to decide according to the consti
tuition OF the United States, they,
the chosen ministers and high
priests eff that constitution, sat
and closed their ears against any
proof as to the ineligibility Of
two of these electors, well known.
undisputed and undoubted. The
Returning Board violated the
election law, and no lawyer has
ever doubted it. No lawyer will
ever dispute it. 1t is a principle
OF law familiar to every neophyte
ip the profession that whatever
is done in opposition to the de>
clared will OF the people through
their constitution is an absolute
nu.lity. But again, sir, they ro>
fused to hear any proof of fraud.
Fraud, it obliterates, it vitiates
everything. 1t unclasps the
clutches of the most skillfully
drawn mortgage act around real
estate. 1t vltiates even the sane
tlty of the marrlage tie. And yet
this great Government, which
Was able to summon three mil
liOus in its defense. which was
able to shake the world by the
earthquake of its agony and
struggle for self-preservation,
must fall hOpelessly paralyzed
before the fraud conveyed to it
by four men whose acts are black
with crime, whose souls are
scared with perjury-aye, blacker
than Judas IscaTiOt, and whom it
was based tiattery to call men.
AS to the eligibility of these
electors under the constitution.
these commissioners who had
sworn to decide according to The
NJ | said before. sat
there, these high prletts, these
chosen ministers, with the sword
which is held by this and by tho
Senate placed i'll their hands TO
guard the constitution, and to
guard this Government against
the illegal vote Of this electoral
college, yet they sat there and
refused to hear the most positive
and convincing testimony of the
ineligibility OF two of these cleo
tors. Sir, the deed is done. The
crime Is accomplished. For four
years from the 4th of March next
the Republican party will hold
the shadow Of executive power. I
say the shadow, because the sub
stance of nsurped power is over
and can never Le realized. The
immortal pencil of Gustave Dore
has illustrated the legend OF the
wandering jew. You have all
seen it. In all that dleary march
OF years he found no rest, no rest
ing-place from his crime and it's
memories. Whether amid the
busy haunts of men or in the dim
alsles OF the forest, wherher upon
the mOutain top or amid the roar
and spray of the ocean storm.
there WAS ever the memory of
the crime of the jew. the pale.
suffering of the Redeemer, and
the accusing voice forever IN his
ear. So it must be with the Repub
llcan party and the unjust Judges
OF this commission. The spoils of
the Office will not compensate it.
The spiendOrs of the Presidential
receptions aud levees cannot
Danish its presence. The silence
aud gravity OF the Cabinet meet
ings will not Danish or hush it's
accusing voice, and in four years
more this great American people,
this wronged, outraged people,
will rise in their majesty and will
hurl these drunken guests of the
feast from power everywhere.
and brand with the indelible
brand OF lnfamy these men who
have aided, countenanced, abet.
ted and defended this monstroux
crime. -,