The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24
LOUIsIANA'S DEFENDERS.

LOUISIANA'S DEFENDERS.
The following extracts from the leading
editorial in the Columbus Enquirer, of tn
22d, which IS owned and edited by gallant
Federal officer, Alfred r. Calhoun, WI
commend to the serious consideration of oul
readers. They have the ring of the true
metal about them, and while they should
cause every member of the dominant party
to bow his head in abject humiliation, they
should also cause the blush of shame t.
mount to the brows Of our own people who
have sustained in New Orleans press which
has been practically dumb concerning the
hideous wrongs which have been heaped
upon Louisiana.
Pick up any journal of any standing in
the country, and We find the cause of Lou.
isiana ably championed, while the columns
Of the English dailies on Camp street have
either been weakly denunciative OF apollo
getic by spasms. The great inlquities OF
Kellogg and his Legislature, Of Durell and
Norton, have been touched upon either very
tenderly or passed over in silence.
It would almost seem that the perpetual
ton Of this most monstrous sarcasm on free
government was punishment meted out
to our people for their apathy. They know
that the Picayune is in sympathy with the
plunderers and enemies of the State, for we
have told them so time and again, and chal-
lenged the Pic to refute it.
They know that the proprietor and man.
ager Of the Picayune issued orders to his
staff to write nothing against Kellogg, his
appointees, and especially nothing against
Durell, and yet they send their advertise
ments to that paper and receive and read it
in their homes. Would any other people on
Gods footstool SO degrade themselves:
| Yet the errors into which this i'll advised
! administration has fallen cannot he atOned
| for in our day, and their records will he the
| ineffaceable stain on the escutchcon of the
dominant party. 1t may be we'll to give out
| the watchword OF "Let us have peace"
But 1t is an insult when those who shout it
most heartily are busy the while in spread
| ing contention and strife, while they
roo the people who they claim are not
eral Grant GENE South; he has been in
vited, and the invitation was meant IN
good faith; but let him come still, and
take South Carolina on his way. Virginia
has her battle-fields, her dead and ruined
homes; but under the shadow of the Capt.
t0l she has dared to rule herself, and has
been able to struggle up. North Carolina
has escaped, but in a less degree, and her
condition would be gloomy indeed were it
not contrasted with that State to the South,
which the politicians haze delighted to con
slider the scape goat of the dead Confed-
eracy. South Carolina, like city captured
after fierce struggle by the Goths, has been
given over to sack and plumber. !.
But pass all the States by-God knows
the best of them is not too well Otf-and
look at Louisiana now and look back at
the twelve long dreary years of her terrible
suffering, and the b,tterest opponent OF
secession will turn in horror from the story
of her wrongs, feeling they have far exceed
ed the demands of retributive justice. 1t
was not enough that New Orleans-the
Queen of the Mississippi-should fall
early into the hands of the Fed
eral forces; that for three years her
tributary rivers should be filled with
warlike flotillas; that the happy homes
of the once prosperous State should be
given to pillage and the torch. and the soil
be retldened with the blood of the bravest.
All this she (Louisana) expected TO. all
this dared when she seeded. But when
that prayed-for peace came-when Fed
eral and Confederate, forgetting the bat
ties of the past and the results of the con
flict, thanked Heaven that the strife
homes-then distracted Louisiana might
we'll exp.ct peace. She did expect it, little
thinking that the most terrible ordeal lay
before her. Peace found her impoverished
but hopeful; and the people, rejoicing that
the struggle was over, and that there was
nothing more to lose, turned to build up
again the Crescent City and the Pelican State.
But there was more to lose. ami the vultures
descended on the famished body to drain
it's remaining vitality and bind the skeleton
in the chains of debt. Ready, but thought
less, tools were to hand IN the enfranchIsed
colored peOple-who, if left to themselves,
could have been made good and useful citi-
Gems. The plague has come and gone, like
the war. leaving its track OF ruin. The
floods have swept over the fairest
part OF the State and famine is add
ed to the list of horrors; hut the
waters will subside and crops will grow
again, yet it seems as if there were no hope
for release from the ever. present curse of
the State rnlers Of Louisiana. Warmoth
was bad in his day; but, BY contrast with
this man Kellogg, he stands cnt like an
angel of light. Rottenness and corruption
p-rvades every department of the State,
and the headquarters Of this iniquity is New
Orleans. No wonder there are SIX Thousand
vacant honses, and that the people desire to
fiy from that political SOdOm fi'r the taxes
a-e heavier than the rents, and the Qneen Of
the Mississippi sits on her crescent throne
impoverished AMI despoiled. Go South, Gen.