The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-26
THE PRESIDENTS VICTORY.

Gen. Grant has vanquished the people of
Louisiana again. He has telegraphed to his
generals and his admirals; he has set the army
and navy in motion; and the lawful Govern
ment of Louisiana surrenders. If there was
any doubt before as to the character of the
usurpation which rules the unhappy State by
favor of the President-any question whether
the people really acquiesced in it-there can
be none now. The outrage stands out hence
forth, in all it's naked deformity, an unpardon-
able crime against popular suffrage and the
sovereignty of State.
| For the first time in the history of the
United States the soldiers of the Union are
employed to drive out a legitimate Governor,
and place a miserable pretender in the State
House to shoot down in the streets the people
who may refuse to obey him. For this dis
graceful and disheartening spectacle the Con
gress which refused to act on the Louisiana
IT. port and the Republican party which tacitly
approved the wrong. are both to blame but
| it is upon the President that the chief respon-
sibility must rest-the President who began
the long course of oppression President
who could have stopped it at any moment if
he had chosen and could stop it now-the
! President who is probably the only man in
America not ashamed of the whole bushes ),
and who comes for ward in the midst of it ask
ing for third term.-Ne,o York Tribune, 1871
inst.
| WHAT GRANT HAS DONE FOR LoUIsIANA-The
New York Tribune thus shows what Grant has
done for this unfortunate State:
| He has done $50 Grant says everything in
his power to assist the South" He has given
! it Spencer, Moses, Brooks Baxter, Kellogg,
Durell, Casey, Patterson, Packard Pinchback,
and Poker Jack. He has filled its Legislatures
with thieves, adventures, BARRIERS, bootbacks,
bar tenders and confidence men. He has put
up its offices to the highest bidder, confiscated
its lands, impaired the value of its real pro-
perry generally, ruined its credit, and brought
its business to such pass that in some Of the
richest regions of the South nothing can be
bought and sold except votes. The highways
are secured by gangs Of masked marauders.
The bush is filled with armed negroes in am
bush. South Carolina and Louisiana are re-
lapsing into barbarism, and nine years after
the close OF the war the South is not vet at
peace.
Everything in his power to assist the
South-especially Louisiana. He has taken
away from Louisiana the right of choosing its
own officers, and sent his soldiers down there
to put into power the persons who he deems
most fit to rule. He has sustained them
while they have plundered the State and
overturned even the sem 5llnce of popular
government, and for all the wrongs and sore
distress which have attracted for Louisiana
the commisseration of mankind, his only
remedy is ''more troops" Ami un9rAtetut
Louisiana, after all this kindness, will not be
quiet. % The attention, sir, said Mr..
Squeers, &c that was bestowed upon that boy
in his illness dry toast and warm tea offered
him every night and morning when he
couldn't swallow anything candle in his
upon i don't regret it though. 1t is pleas
ant thing to reflect that one did ones duty by
him"