[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. [273] _Ibid._, 18, 438, 439. A part of Caddo Parish where eight hundred voters lived was cut off by water and so no registrar went to that section at all, 50. [274] Senate Reports, 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 457, 718. [275] According to Bovee fifteen or twenty registrars were returned. House Misc. Doc., No. 211, 245. [276] He was put on the ticket by the Parish Committee as the man named by the convention said he could not leave. Part of the tickets bore his name, part the name of the former nominee, so that the friends of the latter who could not read were tricked into voting for Carr. _Ibid._, 224-25. [277] Bovee stated: “I think there was a regular system of fraud entered into with a view of electing certain men.... As far as I can learn, all were perpetrated in the governor’s interest.” _Ibid._, 243. [278] Sen. Jour., 1871, 32. [279] _Ibid._, 1871, 24. [280] See the table which illustrates this shifting in Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, 250. [281] United States Statutes at Large, XVI., 140-6. CHAPTER IV The Beginning of Warmoth’s Downfall