The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-22
TEXAS AND LOUISIANA.


"Gar," the correspondent of the New York
Times, who went through Louisiana on horse
back, and whose admirable letters have done
SO much to correct the malicious and absurd
stories circulated in the North, concerning our
people, has been writing recently from Texas.
Louisiana:
At Houston on my arrival found not the least
excitement about the election save among the
drummers. Nine-tenths of these are. will bet
money, Republicans by conviction, but they think
1t necessary to talk Democratic here. The feel
ing IN Houston is decidedly Confederate, but
am convinced it is purely sentimental. They
resemble the English Jacobtes in the reign of
George III, who would sing for for the stew
arts, drink for them, and talk for them,
but their swords and their pocketbooks were
loyal to the HanOverian. SO it is with Texas. 1t
never had Confederate battle fought on its soil;
many a thousand dollars the better for the war
1t has always been fayorite State with the
North it has been helped since the war with
money. with influence, and with intellect, all
emanating from Republican centres. Immi-
grafton has been direc ed toward 1t by all
Americans residing in foreign countries. The
Administration has removed unpopular Federal
officials ard appointed local favorltes. Every
yet, if man is sincere Republican, they epeak
Of him as dirty Radical Well, we cannot blame
them. Our Radicals in the South have been fire G
from good types of the party, and we 'unfortu-
nately are spattered with the mud which very de-
servedly has been thrown at them. Here in
Houston staunch Republican is hot exactly in
paradise.
We must speak of the bridge as we find it.
Personally have been well treated. / have been
taken to the Houston Club and made much Of
h9V Q % Mo ya1
have chatted with some pretty ladies, and eaten
one or two good dinners. But there has been an
undercurrent OF protest, rs if | was an eXcep-
tional Republican, which is very CALLING. Now,
in poor Louisiana, which has been so i'll treated
by the Administration, there is not one-tenth
part of the secession sentimentality which
have heard in Houston. The people
there were averse to secession, and voted
against i, and were bullied, pushed, coaxed,
showed, urged, and dragooned into the Confede
rate ranks against their convictions. Yet see
how they have been treated given over prey to
all unclean beasts, branded as traitors, and as
nursers OF rebellion III their hearts; plundered
insulted, abused in every way: their exsaves set
over their heads, their "Reminiscences laughed to
seOrn, their statements treated as lies, and all
this to drag out a possible Republican ma ority
Louisiana will be recorded in history the most
State in the south, when, according to
e ,ery idea Of justice she ought to have been the
most kindly used.
There is much truth, but some error in the
above. We do not believe that any Texas
gentleman or lady would speak of man as a
''dirty Radical simply because he was ''sin- |
cere Republican" nor do we believe that there
are half score of ''sincere Republicans"
in the State Of Texas. 1t is hardly possible |
for any man to have lived in the South since |
he war and remained a 'sincere Republican"
n the usual acceptation of that term. Thou !
sands Of Republicans have come South only !
@ swell the Democratic ranks SO soon as they |
discovered the horrible outrages that were J
being perpetrated under the cloak OF republi- |
,anism.
What he says about Louisiana's reluctance
9 secede is equally fanciful for the enthusiasm
With which the people of Louisiana went into
he movement, and the alacrity displayed by
Ter citizens in enlisting in the army, are mat
ers Of history. The Louisianians were among
he very first troops in the field, and their gal
antry illustrated every battle field from Bull
Run 70 Appomatox.
They needed: neither "dragooning nor
coaxing" to follow the fortunes Of the South,
nd while they accept in good faith the result
# the war, while they would not restore
lavery if they could, while they want to see
he Republic restored to its prestine greatness
nd glory, they have nothing to regret or
pologize for, inasmuch as they acted from
profound convictions of right and duty