The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-12

it was their duty to Investigate. 1t did
investigate, and the facts developed were
revolving.
Take any one of those parishes; take
Ouachita, for example. In 1868 it gave a
Republican majority of 1,07l; in 1870 it
1872 Republican majority Of 1913; in
1874 Republican majority of 927 At
the Presidential election in 1876, with a
registered Republican majority of l ,040
Democratic majority of l,072 was re-
turned Early in August the Vienna
Sentinel, leading Democratic organ Of
the parish, boasted that in Ouachita the
canvass had been reduced to a single
ticket, the Democratic nominees. 1t
boasted that the Republicans were wa
vering, disheartened, scared. A few Re-
publicans still dared to keep the field,
but it warned them that they were we'll
known and watched, "and that the halter
for their necks is already creased"
Bernard II. Dinkgrave, one of those
resolute few, white man, a cultivated
man, and native of Louisiana" and
against whose character no one has
Republican, was subsequently brutally
assassinated The details of the murder
of Henry Pinkston, the murder of his
voting outrage and mutilaton of the
person of his wife by band of masked
men, shocked even the humanity of the
Democratic visitors at New Orleans.
These are but instances, illustrations, of
a multitude of like cases attested by "a
cloud of witnesses" Was it singular,
therefore, that in these parishes the spir-
it Of the colored man should be broken;
that he was Impressed" with the
strength of the Democracy; that hun
dreds in their terror fed from the polls,
as they had from their homes, into the
swamps and fields. The spirit Of some,
however, was unconquerable; their at
tachment to Republicanism stronger than
their fear of death. They were like Ran
dali Driver: Whipped till he could not
his sores, with kerosene oil, and lay him
out before the fire on a cot, and there he
lay till morning, and then he told his
wife to help him on to chair; he told
his wife to help him on with his clothes;
he told his wife to help him to his stick,
and when she asked him where he was
going, he said he was going to Monroe to
vote dat ticket if it took him three days
to get there, and he started, and he did
get to Monroe. He reached it in the af-
ternoon, and he did vote the Republican
ticket"
Thus throughout these seventeen par
ishes these were the agencies, this the
diabolical system of terrorism through
organized murder and outrage employed
by the chivalrous knights of the White
Camelia," in "bulldozing' Democratic
majority of 10000 out of parishes entitled
to Republican majority Of 1000! In
the other forty parishes of the State,
where intimidation failed, a registered
Republican majority of $4,000 yielded an
actual Republican majority of 6,000
Under a fair or free election in the un-
fortunate "bulldozed' parishes, the ma
jority in Louisiana for Hayes and Wheel
er would have been greatly increased.
Under the laws of the State the return
ing board could not restore the Republ-
can majority. Although the proofs that
thousands of Republican voters were dis
franchised through intimidation were as
overwhelming as their details were shock
ing and disgraceful to the State and ma
ton, although simple justice demanded
the restoration of the Republican vote,
yet the board was powerless to remedy
the great wrong in that way. L could
only reject the "bulldozed" returns
Could it have rendered real justice by the
restoration of the legal vote which would
have been polled in these parishes in the
absence OF intimidation. Hayes and
Wheeler's majority in the State would
have been between 10000 and $1,000
votes. No legal poll, such as is contem-
plated by the Constitution and the laws,
would have depressed that majority.
What, then, in the light of the facts, is
the attitude of Tilden and the Democracy
in demanding the Presidency upon the.
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not simply Infamous?
In stating the case before the Electoral
Commission, in describing the frightful
reign of murder and blood in Louisiana,
in which, even in 1875, as stated by Gen,
eral Sheridan on the authority of facts
developed in an official inquiry, four thou
sand persons had either been sacrificed, cruelLy
murdered, or subjected to every mutLation,
maiming or outrage-in his statement of
that appalling rule of terror, Senator
Howe runs parallel between it and the
butcheries of the Huguenots, and the
consequent terrors in France upon the
revocation of the edict of Nantes All
mankind abhorred the deeds-all but the
guilty assassins. When over the smok-
ing ruins of the city, and the mangled
forms of its patriot dead, butchered in
defense of freedom, the Russian fend
proclaimed "Order reigns in Warsaw ;"
when upon the ruins of Hungarian liber-
ty, the Austrian monster Haynan butch.
cred its patriots and soourged and out
ragged its women, all civilized mankind
was shocked-all united in one common
attestation Of adherence When at the
close Of the last century in France, in
Paris and the sections. tho Ganguinary
revolutionary anoes tors of the present
pious and peaceful "bulldozers" of Louis-
ana rioted in slaughter and blood, in the
massacre of men, women, and children,
the civilized nations of Europe, shocked
and scandaliged, united in common
armed coalition for their determination;
but now, when these nations-all Christ
endom-are sitting in judgment upon the
barbarites of the Turk, and debating the
question of his punishment or expulsion
from civilized Europe, Samuel j. Tilden
and the Democracy, in America, in the
United States, boasting of its freedom,
its humanity, and Christian enlighten-
ment, boldly claim the Chief Magstracy
of the Republic by virtue of atrocities, of
crimes against humanity and freedom
before which the Turks dwarf into insig-
nifcance! And in support of a demand
so infamous are again plotting TO involve
the nation in all the horrors of civil war !!
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