Year: 1878

pOpu4hK ElButb uAB NOT DoeA ou4OIC0os Ou


both the occasions stated, and in at least
two others in which acts Of violence have
intimidated the Republican voters, an
appeal has been made to both the State
and Federal governments for relief To
neither of these applications has any other
consideration been given beyond an order
TO the Federal and State local authorities
respectively to inquire into and report on


the alleged wrong. The programme of
intimidation extending across from Caro-
lima to Tensas has produced the same eff
feet here as elsewhere. 1t has paralyzed
alike the organization and the action of
the Republican party. Such, indeed, is the
confidence of the Democracy in their
ability to violate or evaie the constitu-
ton and the laws, that the execution or
enforcement of either would be utterly
futile by any means short of military in
vasion and renewed civil war, a result


which every good citizen of this State
would earnestly depreOate. In conse-
quence, however, of this want of social
and legal protection many Republicans
in the country, despsiring of aid from either
government, and being even without the
means of making their deplorable op-
preston known by publication, have teen
compelled to surrender and take such


temporary safety and employment as may


be extended them by the several anti
Democratic associations. They have thus
abnegated the exercise of their political


opinions and cast their votes according


to the wishes of their emplo yers.


In this state Of panic, and under this
impulse of self.protection we have even


hesitated to advise those who have had


life and living at stake to peril either by


making voluntary complaint on account


of the violence and indignities VII ich have


been cast upon them. The apparent in


difference and tantalizing sarcasm with


which these complaints were received by


the public elsewhere led US to believe


that it would have been TO place the life


and property of the afiAnt in su ch case at


the mercy of the e1asperated rufians


who inflicted the wrong. Every consid-


Grafton of humanity has restr aimed Us


from doing more than to perpetuate the


testimonials of these cruel abuses. They


would have been Of no service in the pre-


sent campaign, but they will warrant the


call of the Federal grand juries, and may


well enter into the verdict which will be


rendered upon the treScherous steward


ship Of those who have known the will Of


the nation and yet did it not.


If the spectacle of probable majority


of constitutional people of State de-


prived by violence and intimidation of al


participation in its government except al


the dictation of others, does not present g


sufficient argument against the national


Ascendancy of Democratic principles the


authenticated slaughter Of few addi-


tional hundreds of people guilty Of the
crime of color, and the wish to exercise


the right given them by the nation, coulG
neither touch the hearts nor animate tbs
action Of the philanthropists who claim
to have bestowed these rights upon them
: We feel for these reasons justified anC
indeed constrained to declare that the at
tempt to secure TO the emancipa ted peo
pie Of Louisiana their political rights I'm
: qualified by the condition of color thu
far hagrant failure.


The result of the Congressional cleo
; tons thus far would indicate the rapi'
reformation Of sectional parties. The in
tolerance and bad faith of the outherl
Democracy has compelled response q
the North, and we may expect seconr
sectional contest, not with arms, but a


the ballot box.


The census of 1880 will perh laps settl
this hostility, which it now appears di
not arise from slavery alone, permanent,
and forever. It will be, however, con
test in which Republicans at the Sout
: can take little part. They even now stan
Just where the Union men of 1861 stood
. They will be in effect prisoners of wal
, They can nos ass the dead line of part
4 demarcation without danger of politics
$ annihilation. The same influences whic
Q determined the sectional sOldity of Mort
/ and South in the one contest will pr
n duce precisely the same effect in Il
y other.


}" Under these circumstances the Stst
Is Central Committee have discharged Il


duties imposed upon them to the best
their ability, and their want of more cor
= e plets success il fatty attributable to O
Il stacles superior to their capacity to owe


come. Events will show whether the
! sgency may be more easctual in the +
3 turo. For the present the Commit
: should daem its regular deliberations u


warrantable and unnecessary. 1t can
= present, therefore, recommend that q
! committee on finance report at an ear
a meeting the state of the Commit
!. treasury with its outstanding engsg
= msnts, that the proceedings of 4
campaign be declared closed, end th
the meeting will adjourn subject to Z
"a rules providing the mode in which q
= Committee can be called together.


u The great depression in trade now pI
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