The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-31
CLAIBORNE PARISH.
bright OUTLOOK IN THE MATTER
OF CROPS, ETC.
The views of the Country ON the Returning
board Indictment.
HOMER Claiborne Parish. july 49, 1877.

Board Indictment
HOMER, Claiborne Parish, July 18, 1877
! Editor Democrat-A brighter day has at lasf. I
dawned on Louisiana. Our State government
is securely in the grasp ofable, honest and eff
cient men, who will administer it's affairs for
| the benefit of the people instead of in tho in
terest Of q gang of corrupt officials; the
benecent reignof law and order is once more
asserting its supremacy, and the displaoe-
ment of race antagonsms by tho mutual and
rapidly Increasing good will between white
and colored imparts to our political
future a roseate tint of the brightest hue.
In this portion of tho State at least.
THE ABUNDANT CROPS
OF wheat oats and corn, which are already
beyond contingency with 81 fair prospect for
cotton, give to our material outlook tbc
promise of reviving prosperity.
| From what can be CLEANED from the papers
1t appears that the Northern Republican
press. having been deprived of the pleae,,rc
50 long enjoyed, Of shaping our political
situation, are now devoting their energies To
control the administration of criminal iustiess
in this State. That
WELLS, ANDERSON AND THEIR TWO CoLoRKD
| TOOLS
should be dissatisfied with the steps taken to
render them amenable to law is not strange
No rogue eer felt the halter draw.
With good opinion Of the law"
But why the Radical editors and politicians
ut the North should evinee so much interest
in the subject, is beyond comprehension, un-
less because, being accessories to the fact
a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kinds
| u lhe extracts from the New York Times and
Tribune contained in the DEMOCRAT of the
18th inst. may, | suppose, be regarded as a
| talr sample OF the view taken by many OF the
leading Republican journals at the North of
the proceeding against Wells and his iniquf-
| tous coadjutors.
| The Times represents the President as;
greatly concerned and annoyed by what
IT Is pleased to characterize as an attempt to
disturb the public tranquility by this effort tU
plunge the country into q foolish agitation
/ agree with the Times that if there i've anv
agitation growing out of the prosecution of
these men for forgery, it will be In the last
But if the public tranquility can only be
maintained in a state of repose by abstaining
from the prosecution of fragrant malefactors
in in this $, State State, merely because they arc
stamped PEE with TIE Radical brand, then there
| the New York Times, '.''' '''N 9'''''A -
| 1t Is aiil1leult to Conceive that
THE PRESIDENT
should feel either annoyed" or "concernedp'
on account Of the proceedings instituted
against e kt, the y Returning Board members.
not judleally established beyond reason.
:,i stie doubt by fair public trial they are i'm
no danger of conviction On the other
hand, II they. are guilty, Mr.. Hayes, in justice
to himself, in Difference to public opinion,
and with a due regard to the exalted position
he occupies, should be careful in giving utter
ance to any expressions of sympathy for
guilt.
The people Of the South, and especially In
Louisiana feel very kindly towards Mr.
Hayes, and they, would deeply regret The.
manifestation OH his part of any special in
terest in the case Of Wells d Co.
Ihelr acqulttaI cannot strengthen, their
conYlctOn cannot invalidate his title. That
has the authority of the thing adjudged, and
no power can overturn it.
=, ln y dealing with the, subject the New York
hf1@me 4 mndqhges IN thg in the grossest fasehood
that, bya formal act, the Legislature de.
clared that there ought to be
NO PROSECUTION FOR POLITICAL oFFENsFs"
NOW. leaving out OF view that perversion of
political offense, the Legislature never
passed any such act as the Tribune asserts if
did, To show the hagitious mendacity Of the
iitg"r.e iint WI quote two paragraphs Of the
found on page 145 Of the acts of that session.
Section third reads as follows:
mat, as an earnest OF our endeavor, we
hereby solemnly declare that it is, and will
be- the purpose of the government Of Louisi-
ana, represented by Francis T. Nichols as it's
executive head, first, to accept i'm good faith
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution Of the United
States, in letter and spirit; second, the en-
forcement OF the laws rigidly
AND IMPARTIALLY
to the end that violence and crime shall be
suppressed and promptly punished, and that
peace and order prevail, and that the hum
blest laborer upon the soil of Louisiana,
throughout every parish in the State, OF
either color, shall receive full and equal bro
lection Of the laws in person, property. no
liticai rights and privileges"
Ihls section does not read like
A LEGISLATIVE PLEDGE NOT TO PROSECUTE
CRIMINALS.
Paragraph four declares that "desiroue of
healing dissensions that have disturbed the
state 1Or years past. and anxious that the cit
y lzehs OF al political parties may be free from
!he 1eVerisn anxtetieS OF political strife and
JON hands in honestly restoring
THE PROSPERITY OF LOUISIANA,
the Nichols government will discountenance
any attempted persecution, from any quarter,
of any individuals, for past political con-
duct
The falsehood of the Trit,une consists in in
the word "prOSecttiOn'' for E'per-
5ecution" in the fourth paragraph of section
three, above quoted
The Radical politicians seem to regard the
pledge of our State authorities to punish
;rime good deal as Miss Flora McFlimsey
lid her marriage engagement, when she told
1er lover:
This is an engagement you sec
Which is binding on you,
But not binding ON me-"
We have been denounced by the Northern
1ress for ten years for not enforcing the laws
tgalnst crime, during which time we have had
10 voice In the government Now that we
AVE obtained control they mourn like Rachel
or her. children when we attempt to put the
aw in force against one OF the Radical saints.
hough stepped to the eyes in yilainy and
rime. PrNF Hit N
A sand-s Orm in Rome