The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-01
eoy. aRATz BROWN ON LOUISIANA.

aAls and eloquent address Of Gov. Brown, OF
Missouri delivered at Palmyra, Oct. l7th.
1874 The al.usion to the condition OF affairs
IN on. State is both truthful and Pointedly
stated. and carries with it conviction to every
Impartial mind:
Consider the South where tie storms OF
rebellion and reconstruction have swept away
the very landmarks Of civil society," where to
eovern is to despoil to set free Is to ensiave'
70 command the peace Is to begin fusslladc,
and what make you OF that problem as out
come OF our much-admired Declaration OF In
aependence? Will it bear scrutiny, or do you
take refuge in the pages OF Tacltus, or seek
oat the restoration under Sylla-
Witness South Carolina Given over with
ont stint to the spoiler, with no industry any
more to make white the cotton fields, no ton
mage of rice bearing its rich reward, no credit
IN the State, no money with the people, peace
gone between man anu man, she retains only
an avencing feud Of race to connect her IN
Bringing attitude with the National Govern
zaept. Go to Alabama, only half alive from
The assassination attempted on her by Radi-
eaiism, and see her picking up q thin living in
q few disiointed enterprises, eking out quiet
ude from sheer exhaustion, and just awaken
ING at the new attempt whose preparation has
sonnded to fasten colonial system on her
likewise The signs are sure that an adven-
tire is at hand to overthrow her suffrage.
The outrage market is reopened, every coin
Of rumor put in circulation, convention near
by gathered to schedule added horrors for
Northern CONSUMPTION, andathe regular army
With marshals and informers has been set
marching from presinct to precinct There
NAV be State Constitution LETT in the archives
there, or it may have been lost when q Con-
press Committee carried it to Washington.
But what difference it would be fossil If
found, and there is no reward offered!
Again, think of Louisiana, her first civil
government begotten by the bayonet, as Sum
1er said, with a bar sinister to mark its poll
tics. Think Of Louisiana, purchased with
great price, treasured with great love, for
long the cynosure Of States-queen IN lovll-
ness of all the South.
Have YOU read the new history of the New
South that has been published in current lit
srature, by one who has observed closely and
narrated truthfuly? If so. you vii. have been
struck with the fact that while it tells you so
much Of CAPACITIES, Of scaneries, OF land
marks it relates nothing of self-Sovernment-
And vet. it would seem as if her fate should
have been an exception A colony under two
great European Empires, proud OF her posi-
ton when admitted into the array OF American
States, the last to leave our Union under dire
brace with loyal response, she has merited
better than to be stripped Of the right Of self
protection and development and voice. Who
does not coniure up the memory of the Ciden
time when her wharves were crowded with
shipping, when her markets were the markets
Of the West when her production was the
ascertained wealth Of the land. Then her
name was ta!isman Of good fortune
to all The scarlet flower, the song OF
the hooking bird, the fragrance OF the POM
granate enchanted her palatial shore. That
great river ran through her as q dream, its
banks beautiful with verdure, and its popula-
hon on either side exuberant with hope. The
heck of Southern sun was in the changeliDg
skies, in the wing OF the birds, il the SHIN
mer Of the fish, even in the glow of the worm.
and peace was there as OF rest in q tropic
hnd, beneath the shadow of the Palms. 1t is
true that slavery was there, also, and per-
chance it was that which made the fair face Of
all its beauty hectic with unnatural bright
ness. But behold the change! Is there no
slavery there now? or rather, is there any
freedom left to which white man or black
man, Republican or Democrat can APP
peal3 Are they not all compressed Of IN
. regime responsive to nothing that sayors
liberty The trade that was once miracle of
enterprise is PROSTATE beneath an anarchy it
has required the whole force Of strong gov
eminent to prolong. The estates which were
once valued at millions, are being sold for
taxes under the hammer and with none to buy.
Desolated homes, pinching poverty, ruined
liberties are the wreck which ten years of
Osstem of enforced dependence on Federal
Administration has made of that once alum
Aant and enhancing prospect. And can you
recognize no method in the madness OF such
administration, where kinssolk do the order
ing, where Calling guns work the primaries,
where fraud is absolved by justice too venal
10 be changed, where the stubb of Treasury
check books show the wages of iniquity trans
mitted to Senators and congressman at
the Capitol? Do you not understand that
such wholesale assault upon the ballct-box-
the overthrow Of legally chosen State Gov
eminent, and substitution and unfolding by
military power of those having no shadow of
claim to tue offices they have usurped, is an
announcement easy Of comprehension? Do
you not recognize in it the conclusion that
Cor all purposes of control over the power OF
the President or his policies is dead letter?
And might go on and cite you other illus
trations of the various methods 10y which the
States East and West and South are being
stripped Of their insignia, but surely enough
has been presented to show not only the fact,
but the in. ent that lies concealed within the
fact. The system, be assured, has far reach
ing purposes, aad 1t Is not merely 1of to-day,
or for even the party at present dominant,
and which so readily seconds this crime
against the Republic that it is designed. On
the contrary. ii has distnctively dynastic
leaning, and even should personality not be
fastened as yet upon the system, it has
gathered togetheran Olga chic combination OF
special interests that look forward to the
sontro' OF future Congress and Executives
by the same appliance that succeeds
Low. 1t is deemed essential. therefore, to
eentralize every vestige of authority in the
land under single direction, and to thai end
is seen all this war on local government, this
upturning Of the equal rights Of the Southern
States this extortion from one section to dis
seminate as brides to the other and more COM
PLEASANT sections, this negativing everywhere
by indirect methods of true issues, free cleo
tons or any genuine popular expression. And
IL it not worth while that the State of Missouri
should take into consideration a national pol
ICY of such grave Significance in n canvass of