American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-24
A Reminder OF the Past.

Reminder OF the Past.
The Returning Board of louisiana whethc,
in error not, inquest ionably believed iii; L
a gigantic wrong had been perprtratcd in the
pretended election itself, and that il was both
the right and their duty to correct that wrong
-AetU York Tribune.
The Returning Board of Louisiana
unquestionably did not believe any such
thing. When they found that, after
having "fXed" the State to turn out Il
fraudulent Republican majority, the
face of the returns gave an aggregate
majority of $500 votes for Mr.. Tilden,
they deliberately threw out enough
Democratic votes to give Hayes about
5000 majority. This was the process
used by these "honest" Republicans
in 1874, when LAG, 573 votes were cast,
resulting in giving the Democratic
State ticket n large ma jority. The Re-
turning Board reversed the result, and
a committee of the Republican House
of Representatives having been sent to
investigate the fraud, n report was
signed by Hon. Charles Foster, recently
elected Governor of Ohio by the Re-
publieans, and by William w. Phelps, a
leading New Jersey Republican, and
Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, Democrat, in
which the following statement was
made: eve hold, therefore, that in
November, 1874, the people of the State
of Louisiana did fairly have free,
peaceable and full registration and
election, in which q clear Conservative
majority Was elected to the lower house
of the Legislature, of which majority
the Conservatives were deprived by the
unjust, illegal and arbitrary action of
the Returning B0ard.' Nevertheless,
after this Conservative Legislature,
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Federal Government dispersed it at the
point of the bayonet.
| In 1876, as in 1874, all the election
machinery was in the hands of the Re-
publican party; United States troops
and Federal Deputy Marshals were
posted all over the State; special di-
rections had been issued by the Re-
| publican State Committee to the State
Supervisors of parish registration to
count in Republican majority. The
machinery of fraud was organized to
perfection; yet there came forth a
Democratic majority, During that
campaign every Supervisor of Elec-
tions received the following circular:
HEADoUARTERs REPURLICAN PARTY OF
vsss1Sa AND ' REGISTRATION St MEc NJ s
INSTITUTE, NEW ORLEANS, September 26,
Is75.-ro Supervisor of Registration, Parish of
| this committee, from examination of the CEN
sus of 1875. that the Republican vote in your
Zoo You are expected 10 register and vote
the full strength of the r publican party in
your parish. Your recognition by the next
State Administration will depend upon your
doing your full duty in the premises and you
Will not be held to have done your full duty
unless the Republican registration in your
parish reaches 5000, and the Republican vote
rs If M 4ea, ,G ~ 1b ana eo
in obtaining this result, and every facility is
and will be afforded you; but you must OBJ
tain the results called for herein without fail.
Once obtained, your recognition will be ann
pie and generous Very respectfully, your
d. j. NJ. A. JEwErT. Secretary.
That is, of course, a plain, unvar-
nished demand to count in a Repub-
lican majority, no matter what the re-
suit of the voting might be. The SUI
pervisors did so to the extent of their
ability, but they failed, and what they
failed to do the Returning Board did
by cooking returns and inserting lying
arfidavits of intimidation" conclud-
ing by throwing out the lawful Demo-
cratic majority.
The vote of Louisiana in 1876 was
one hundred and sixty thousand nine
hundred and siXty-four, the largest
vote ever cast in the State, showing
that the Republican charge Of intimi-
dation was utterly false. In order to
complete the crime two of the alleged
Republican Electors certificates were
forged and sent to Washington.
We take pleasure in reminding the
New York Tribune of these cogent
facts, which it appears to have over
looked. Our Republican fellow-citi-
zens have very short memories, we
know. but they should refresh them oc-
casionally. What the Louisiana Re-
turning Board did believe was that
they lost the election, and they know
that they were ordered by the Repub-
lican leaders at Washington to 50 save
the State,' even if they had to per-
petrate the Gigantic wrong" we
have referred to, which nulliied the
popular vote and seated man in the
White House who was never elected
President of the United States. So
DESTROYS were the pious Republican
leaders that the Returning Board
should commit the crime chat they or
ganized q committee of Visiting
Statesmen among whom was MIR.
John Sherman, who. kept the Board
nerved up to the wicked work which
they were required to do. If the
Tribune wants any more facts we will
give them; but most Republican or
gans have not only admitted that their
party stole Louisiana, but have boosted
of the robbery, on the ground that the
Republican party being sacrosanct
organization, it is the will of God that
it shall be kept in power by any means,
however ..;minal.--LOaiscitle Courier
Journal.
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