The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-15

are the fomenters of discord and disturbance
Now it is the strangest thing in the world, j
passes all understanding how sensible men a
the North can be brought to believe that tn.
property owners and the laboring classes ca,
be so insane as to prefer disorder to quiet
that fathers of families favor policy which
renders life and property unsafe. If the,
would judge US as they would be judged
they would understand that our interest, oul
self-interest, as well as education, would b,
opposed to any sort of disturbance. But they
imagine we Southern people are different from
them and all other people. They imagine
that We spend our time shooting and terrify
ing you, and abusing Northern men, an6
plotting treason against the Government.
Now, you know better than this, and you
are as much amused as / am at all this non
sense [Applause,] Fellow-citizens, what We
all want is peace and quiet and prosperity; we
want to make money and to enjoy the fruit Of
our laboHand to be let alone. A voice, Yes.
What, then, is the matter that there is SC
much discomfort and distress in this State
I tell you there are few men in this State,
most of whom have come here from the North,
but some of whom were born here, who &C
about from plantation to plantation, and who
were enabled by hoodwinking you, to get
| possession OF your government. This was
shortly after you were made free and you feared
| to elect Southern men to Office, so you voted
| for wayfaring men from the North and the
poorest specimens of humanity, men you
used to call "poor white trash" and they
| have had control of the Government "a
| voice, That's SO.
And see what they have done. They have
| bankrupted the State. They have bankrupted
the city. They have failed to keep up tbs
levees, and made many of us beggars, living
upon the noble charity OF our friends all over
| the country They have gathered in the taxes
with pitiless hand. They have sold out
thousands and thousands Of plantations to
meet the pressing demands of the tax
gatherers They have sold out hundreds OF
houses in the city of New Orleans. The State
bonds, even after reputation of most of the
debt, will not sell in the market of the world.
Our city gold bonds bearing seven per cent
interest per snnum in gold-all the property,
all the industry Of the city, mortgaged to
secure their payment-are worth only about
SEC. on the dollar in greenbacks They have
battered away many of our most precious
rights and privileges to exclusive and soulless
monopolies. They have, at enormous cost
kept up in time of profound peace, stand
ing army to overawe the people, while they
flched the last dollar from their wives and
children.
What have We got to show for the millions
on millions that we have paid to the tax
gatherers? IA voice, Nothing.] Where are
the lust laws, the perfect administration of
justice? Where the railways or canals? Where
the highways, where the public schools or in
situations Of learning?
coming together. 1t is high time that all
honest men should consult for the benefit of
themselves and the State. l am glad to tell
you that in my own parish where l was reared
and own plantation, the white and colored
men have cast aside the claims of party-have
sacrificed the interests of party to the higher
interests of C untry. We have but one ticket
in Terrebonne. Upon that ticket halt are
white and half colored-the colored men rep
resent the laborers and the white men the land
owners-thus united, hope the benefits to
flow from such an union will commend their
example to you.
did not mean, my fellow-citizens, to con-
denim all men who have come here from the
North, or all men born here, who have had
hand in the government Of this State; but l
do mean to say that the MEN in power are
chiefly from the North, who were newly AZ
rived and really had nothing at stake in the
country, and got their elections by inhaming
your minds against the property holders OF
the country. You know this we'll as do;
and you know, moreover, that they have be-
come rich while in Office, and that the corn-
try has become poor and poorer. [Cries of
"that is so.
l understand that in your own parish the
people, in six years, have paid, in taxes, not
less than $40, O00 and that, Of tina: sum, not
more than $4,000 has ever reached the
parish treasury, while there is an ascertained
debt of more than S70 600 outstanding What
have you got to show for this? Are your
wages higher-are they increasing? Are your
children being educated? Are you improving
your condition? Who is prosperous in this
beautiful parish, that lays like a fairy land
before us?
Look at your waving, cane fields, your rice
harvested for market, your miles and miles of
orange groves and magnolias-and the great
river flowing SO grandly, that might bear
proudly, the commerce OF the world. To-day
all nature smiles in the verdure and flowers
Of a perpetual spring. We have, indeed, been
blessed by Almighty God with fertile soil
and temperate climate, cursed only by a
rapacious and bad government. We live to-
gether, We work together under the same sun.
We must live under the same laws. This is
our country. These are our institutions
That is our flag
Great men from this Southern land gave
their lives and their services to build up
this country. Washington was the father Of
this country Madison the father Of the Con
stitution, and Jefferson the author of the de-
claration OF independence. The day is not
far distant, when you will boast of the valor
and virtues of the men of the South, and re-
pose upon their councils, upon their
honor and their fidelity, as we do upon the
immortal Southrons whom have named.
At the conclusion Of the Generals remarks,
Mr.. Theodore J. Wilkinson was called for.
He said he congratulated the people upon
having secured the nomination of such per-
son as Gen. Randall L. Gibson, and it only re-
NAMED now for every one to register, and to
see that their friends did the same-then the
election of the peoples ticket was assured.
Let those who have thus far failed to register,
DO SO this week.
We take the following items from the Hahn
vile parish of St. Charles) Herald of tho
10th inst:
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