The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-17

stand to be politics. He understood thorough
lly at the time, the whole scheme Of villainy
which the Returning Board perpetratedin 1876
aided and abetted by John Sherman, Stanley
Matthews and other kindred patriots, who
came down here to help run the job of count
ing out the Democrats. Thus, when this mar
Bureh accepted the certificate of Kellogg, tt
use his own words, "sealed by the great
seal OF the State, and signed by w. Pitt kel
logg as Governor" etc, and of which ht
says he was 50 proud, he knew az well as hi
knows now that he was not entitled to thai
certificate; he knew that he was counted il
through crime which rendered its perpetra
tors liable to imprisonment in the peniten
tiary and that the rascal who signed the
certificate as Governor consummated frauo
and an outrage In doing 80.
Burch pretends to have based his resolution
on the information contained In the recent let
ter of w. E. Chandler, one of the dirty seamps
the Republican conspiracy, to count Hayes in
sent to Florida to run the same sort of a jof
Matthews and Sherman were running in this
State. We think the real truth Is
that the resolution was prepared II
Washington and sent here to be run
through the Louisiana Legislature. The
movers in this business. we presume, thought
that the Louisiana Democracy would grab at
such an opportunity, and that of course the
Radicals, who are ineensed at Hayes, would
swallow it to a man. We are very glad, in uieu
Of the origin and purpose of this resolution
that it received no countenance from any Dem
ocrat in the Senate.
The object of little Bill Chandler and his as
sociates Is not TO vindicate the laws of the
country; they do not desire to do Louisiana
justice by exposing the fraud perpetrated
upon her electors. Nay, they are themselves
the authors of the very frauds, the very crimes
and villainies by and through which Mr. Hayes
was made President. They themselves devised
the audacous scheme OF classifying the cleo
ton in three States through perjury and
forgery, to count In the defeated candidate
Had Mr. Hayes, after his inauguration, SUBJ
mitted to their dictation; had he continued to
rule South Carolina and Louisiana with bayo-
nets; had he continued to uphold Chamber
lain and Kellogg, and their fellow rogues; had
he continued to dispense the patronage and
plumber of the government among the old rings,
Bill Chandler h Co. would have been now
his loudest eulogists as they are now his ae-
cusers, and Burch's voice would never have
been heard In the Louisiana Senate in support
OF a resolution to investigate the rascality by
which he was made President. Nay, these
most worthy individuals never found fault with
Mr. Hayes Or his title; they never discovered
that perjury was unlawful and that forgery
was crime, and chat election promulgations
based on these Ubiquitous acts were unconsti-
tutional and void, until Mr.. Hayes displayed
purpose to sustain himself In his ill-got Office
by an endeavor to conciliate the country
through policy at least of partial justice.
The movement of these men to investigate
Mr. Hayes title now, is as criminal and dis
graceful as was their participation in the
villanies on which that title originally rested.
Indeed, we believe that this movement sinks
them in a still lower deep of shame and in
fanny. He who by force and fraud tramples
upon the law to accomplish Ubiquitous ends
should be damned in public sentiment But he
who, having thus tramplet upon the laws and
made villain Of himself, comes unbushingly
to the front to investigate and prove his own
infamy that he may undo the little accidental
good which resulted from it, is wretch too de-
PRAYED to be properly characterized by human
pen or tongue
With the dirty Job, of which Bill
Chandler is the ostensible head, and which
Burch has endeavored to advance through
the Senate of Louisiana, the Democrats of
this State will, and the Democrats of the
country should, have nothing to do We are
gratified, therefore, that the substitute for
Burch's resolution offered by Mr.. Zacharie
received every Democratic vote.
We must say. however, that we do not con-
cur in much that Mr.. Zachare said in SUP
port of his substitute. We have time and
again expressed for Samuel j. Tiden the
contempt which we, in common with the
Southern people generally, feel for him.
But we can arouse no enthusiasm over the
character or policy Of Mr.. Hayes. If we de-
nounce the men who organized and carried
out the criminal conspiracy by which he was
made President, we must condemn him in the
same breath, for it Is impossible to conceive
that he was ignorant Of their measures or
hostile to their purpose. Mr.. Zacharie says
he believes that by the contamination of the
electoral count and the Inauguration of Hayes
a great national peril was avoided. and that
the result has given to the country ruler
whose wise and enlarged craftsmanship,
whose expansive soul and grand determine
ton of character bid fair to return the land to
the government Of it's fathers
In our opinion Mr.. Hayes has developed
lamentabe intirmity of purpose and courage.
For months and months he has stood trem-
bling in terror Of the Louisiana Returning
Board and, for nearly a year. he has permitted
these men themselves and their immediate
followers to hold the most important Federal
offices in Louisiana. Every Office in his gift in
this State he has given to the adherents
Of the Packard government, while in South
Carolina he was almost irresistibly disposed
to make the infamous Corbin District Attor-
ney of that commonwealth.
If he has done one thing for which we can
thank him. since, trembling before the pub
lie sentiment Of the country, and to avert the
danger of revolution i'm the South he slowly