New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-01
1sTT HECTOR OR BOB ACRES 2

pretending to represent the State OF
Louisiana, that we are at present sub
iected to a set of rulers who are robbers
who have no abiding place or business
except as outlaws, and who are only en-
dured because the power of Congress up
holds them. This statement Is supple
mented. first, with demand for the with
drawal of all protection on the part OF the
national government toward these rulers,
in order that their sense Of personal
safety may induce them to fly away to
their Northern dens (Which is a comph-
mentary way to speak of the homes OF
Congressman in O petition addressed to
themselves as vultUres retire before the
hunters advance and secondly, with
caution that if the demand is not satisfied
the petitioners can not reasonably be held
responsible for the blood and thunder that
will result. In other words, the nation is
instructed that unless the present govern
ment of the State of Louisiana is surren-
dered into the hands of these men
who claim to have a title to
it, which the United States. inter
rupts the foreclosure Of, there will
be little dispute carried on with fire.
arms and gimlet knives to settle the mat
ter and the blame will not be chargeable
to the party making these demands.
As we pretend to be a part OF the peo-
pie Of Louisiana, and perhaps the best
part, too, in whose name this impertinent
petition is presented, we take this early
occasion to deny its authenticity, and to
protest a gainst its fidelity to the wishes Of
the community in whose name it pretendS
to have been written. There is not a
statement in the entire petition that is
capable of being supported, and we are
fully as well posted on this subject as any
other authority in the State, being part
of the people ourselves; and there is no
disposition entertained by any intelligent
and sensible portion Of the communities
that we are familiar with to alter or modify
the existing order of affairs in Louisiana,
except in the way provided by law. Con-
gressional authority has no influence in
imposing our present government upon
us, nor in upholding it, except such salu-
tary influence as its well known desire
and design to maintain the public peace
may have. Therefore the demand is open
to the suspicion Of being counterfeit, as
pretending to represent communities that
deny and protest its facts and suggestions;
and as being bagatelle, as making de-
mands aud uttering threats that no sol
vent principal will ever consent to adopt
as lis own.
In conclusion, then, treating this APP
peal, protest, caution, petition, or what's
its-name, as the emanation of response
bic class, we have this to say, that when
ever it desires to open fire or Unclasp its
gimlet knife the Republican party feels
prepared to deal with it. This is the
word with the bark on. The United
States soldiers are here, it is true, and they
are intelligent men, whose duty it is to
preserve the peace, but they are few in
numbers and of very equitable DISPOSE
ton consequently the resistance that is
inaugurated against de8pots and vultures
Will not provoke them to any very rigor-
Gus interference. The road seems to be
open to the awful catastrophe suggested
by the dissatisfied classes, and it is one OF
the virtues of a really chivalric man
that he does not tarry long i'll making
blackguard speeches. but vents his wrath
and splits his victim in the shortest space Of
time. And since it is well settled conciu-
sion that there is to be no change i'll affairs
in Louisiana, except for the better, under
Kellogg, where is the propriety in defer
ring the day of blood any longer than is
absolutely necessary to the making of
cartridges and the oiling up of knives? It
is plain to lis that if the truculent Ian
guage which is daily being addressed to
the nation (and which is paid for in
the shape of Advertisements from those
who suppose that bombast is the stuff that |
rules the WORLD comes from Hector We
shall have fight, but if it comes from
Bob Acres we shall have retreat behind
the federal soldiers. In either case the |
public will find its attention allienated |
from a constant roll call that meant |
merely a grandiloquent order Of the day.