The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-24
SHALL THE CURSE BE REMOvEDf

| Hon. J. FL Acklen, member Of Congress- elect
from the Third District Of this State, arrived
in this city last Thursday from Washing.
ton, en- route for his home In the parish of st
Mary. Mr. Acklen's seat is at present occ
pied by g. B. Darrall, but our young frienc
expresses great confidence that he will be
seated early in the regularlsession, on the re-
port of the committee to which his case has
been referred.
Mr.. Acklen expressed the opinion that the
contest for the Collectorship of this port had
been between Packard and Lawrence, and thai
the President finally concluded to appoint
the latter.
This information is important as it shows
that the President has determined to re.
strict the patronage in this State to Radi
cal Republicans, and that in the matter OF
the collectorshp he simply exercised
a choice between the representatives
of the two factions of that party in
Louisiana. Mr.. Lawrence is not re.
garded as Radical himself, nor, indeed as
anything in particular in politics. But he Is
known to be the factotum of ex-Gov. War
moth, and his appointment indicates, with
the others made in this State, that the Presi-
dent has concluded that the Republican party
in Louisiana can be better and more effective
ly organized by Warmoth than by the Re-
turning Board.
An election is to be held in this State in
November, 1878, and it is of the deepest inn
portance to Mr.. Hayes and the members of
carry that election. The defect in his
title is in the fraud practiced upon Louis
lana; the stain upon his reputation is the
crime perpetrated upon the people of this
State to make him President. The murdered
Sovereignty Of Louisiana is the Banquo-ghost
that haunts his steps and obtrudes its ghast-
ly presence upon him at every turn, at every
consultation and at every banquet. He would
gladly appease this pursuing phantom and lay
it forever in the dust. II in 1878 he, his party,
his administration and his title are endorsed
by the success of the Republican party in
Louisiana, the curse will be acknowledgements
will be propitiated. All the shame and dis
grace of 1876 will then be thrown upon the
Conservatives and Democrats of Louisiana.
Even the Returning Board will be indicated
and the country will point at the present gov
eminent of Louisiana as the blood-stained
creature of violence and revolution, existing
not by authority Of law. but through the
generous and perhaps mistaken forbearance
of the illustrious occupant of the White
House.
How futile then, it is for the merchants
of New Orleans to busy themselves in
the interest Of SO conservative and nom
partisan a man as Gen. Bussey! How
idle to indulge the fancy that a man
other than one like Packard or Warmoth
will be placed in charge Of the Custom
house and it's immense political power! The
hosts of negroes carpet-baggers and hang
ers-on broken up and dispersed by the De-
mocracy in 1876 must be rallied in 1878 to vim
dictate the Returning Board, the Electoral
Commission and the legality of the Admins
tration.
It is of more Importance to the Administra-
ton to carry Louisiana In 1873 than it was to
carry New York or Pennsylvania last month,
Those States, lost by divisions in the party
and through ephemeral differences Of opin-
ion on policies may be regained. The issue
in Louisiana in 1878 will be, whether the in
fanny of 1876 shall rest upon the President,
the Republican Senate and the members of
tne supreme COurC, VINO composed part o.
the Electoral Tribunal, or upon the people of
Louisiana.
The President Is moving to organize the
Republican party in this State to protect
himself and his Administration against the
judgment of history and to convict before the
bar of posterity the people of Louisiana. Is
it any wonder that his choice of leaders in
Louisiana lay between the most adroit, con-
summate and able chiefs of Radicalism