[264] Senate Deb., 360-1.
[265] A very pointed hint is given: “But all the Senate can do in self-respect is to intimate to this body of citizens the rules of the Senate, and their own sense of propriety should dictate to them what to do.” Senate Deb., 358.
[266] “I looked upon that as an act of the grossest incivility and abuse; and sir, as a matter of self-respect and vindication of the privileges of the House, I deem it right that a rebuke be administered.”
[267] House Jour., 184.
[268] Annual Cyclopedia, 1870, 457.
[269] The Governor called it “the most quiet, peaceable, and orderly election the State has witnessed for many years.” Sen. Jour., 1871, 23.
[270] House Misc. Doc., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 121.
[271] House Reports, 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 92, 4.
The attempt to control the negro vote made by the Democrats in 1868 seems to have been abandoned. See Nordhoff’s story of how a prominent citizen dismissed a personal servant for voting against him and then restored him with the resolution never again to try to control a black man’s vote.
[272] Packard states that the registrar in West Feliciana made a contract with the Democrats whereby he agreed to give a certain vote to the Democratic parish officers in return for Democratic help in electing a Republican Senator. House Misc. Doc., No. 211, 143.