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Show OK0ROE W. CURTIS ON THK LOUISIANA LOUISI-ANA FRAUDS. Harper's Weekly of the i;th has an editorial from the pan of Mr. Curtis, we presume, ou the Louisiana question, in which tho republican leaders in consinrfs are cautioned that they "must not misapprehend tho uontiment of the country. The action of the returning boards in Louisiana uud Florida has undoubtedly covered the dc:!ared vote of these states with suspicion." It 6)b that the "republican "repub-lican party hus certainly not gamed strength since the election, and if the action in those staves should be followed fol-lowed by the exercise of doubtful powers by the senate, the leaiers i' such a course would be responsible for the total overthrow of the party." Xiie article asks il" the vole of Georgia is a'so to be questioned because be-cause of democratic intimidation, and says it will not bo onou2;h to show intimidation in Louisiana. It quotes the report of the congressional cvm-mktee cvm-mktee iu that stato showing a condition condi-tion of terror for a period of twelve months prior to the election. Thu in (v repnbiican state with a republican ad mi ui si ration there ha? been iu many sections total anarchy, there beinjj no claiuj lu;U the republican! g'jvernor has made vigorous cifcrtiocs to koep order, either by the stato auti:ority and force, or by un appeal to the Unilwl States txeeutive. "What is tho inevitable Conclusion? Tt ij that thu anarchy wm found to be politically aurviceahle." Alterstatiog the facta which are set up by Senator Sherman and hij col-leayued col-leayued to justify the action of the fjuiaiana returtiin Ixjard, includini; the refuiul of tho hoard to fill a vacancy in iu b-jdy, and the throwio, out in S'-crct oecion of jiiit enough ihjinocr.itic vot-'a to effect the election of the-republic inH, tli& WeUy eyu: "If there been any udeq'iatc ju.-lification of lhee pro;wediu(-i, we have not not:n it." It ask-i repubii-cans repubii-cans "whether th'-y hoppoe tin; party could uurvive the inauuratiuti of a pn aide nt upon wh'we title a haul J rt;pt a jrave moral doubt." The article in concluded in the following . Innuae; I fn tl i) Ift'i el':i:'.i'n tlm iij(i(r. -a'-o r:- mblii.au maj nli'; Hi Ibo ii.jrili.:rn w.-Mi h'h' bv ijifjr-i limn .V-'i,ij j Ibin 111 1 '72. : it unfair I, itty tliattl..: h-''.iiip; ib v-ry lar.-ly tia; tt- r.jjjiib.iuun iliilrii't nt jn.-i'. kii-:1i f.jriiiaiiei ni liii;-.) in Louisiana? A- repudlieans wu urn not at all Mjrie.-riil uL dmn I'-ralic bra and Itlu-L'-r, anl mti- : n v n.-tii m at Lo tfi ifuti-ibl.; ciianu;Lr an 1 c n.-ii-iUt;ii' in of d- inrjrrtiLii' u Imi.'iiilrnLi.'ii inn ii'.i-rianj(t'd. U would b.) a fii-for-!ur:i U19 dt.-iit of Wlneh wu raiiimt ru Hiiro. HuL it wo -Id n .t b-: a muI-jT- lit ii o w (( rcit ait ri-puljlienn nieensi ny mi anrf wloi'h ovi-ry r. piibli'.-ni wlio vi:u-3 hoiicit k'o'-'i ntn .-ill neirn thin L i jiarty wiaild h-nihiy coridi-nin. We 1 trii-.t Hist s.-run of thf! rcpubli'-an rnem-1 rnem-1 b.ri of lint iiivetialioK eoriiiniU:e-i In tlifl fou'Ji.irii Ktt.ttM will fnul u 8Lroiuly iii wu thfl nceinaity of clearinjf nji Uwtu I pmntrt, ami tbnt lint rpiiblienn iihiii-l iihiii-l bttra of the e innniLtei! ti prov.iln fur the count in coriifrn.-s will iniiat upon O iiu-Uind, wIjii-Ii, wnile ju.t and rt-aoil-hkIm in ii-lf, will nijt i!fiiiiiily pos Urn republic m party t'j dcj'.ruuti-m. Ah the editor of H irper's Weekly was an influential member of tho rc-public.iii rc-public.iii national convention which nominated HaycH and Wheeler, hid views of the presidential com plication must ho regarded art important. |