The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-03

The following extracts from letter of Col
Blanton Duncan to the Louisville Ledger, will
be perused with interest. They have the ring
Of the true metal, and every statement is as
true as gospel:
! The power of the Federal Government
against the spirit Of its creation for the COM
mon good) is welded solely for partisan effect.
Who has heard, within the past six years, of
its arm being raised to protect OF to defend o
Democrat? What white man has it upheld,
unless he was one Of the harpies now preying
upon the South?
And yet the Southern people, with these
teachings. are expected to love the Govern
nlent, and to worship its flag. The human
heart can be taught to humiliate itself in the
dust and in contrition to receive with rever.
ence and love the chastisement of an Al-wise
Providence. And to-day, throughout the
South, these trials and expressions have their
Christening influence to turn thoughts heaven
ward for that future reward, which has been
promised to the long suffering.
But the wrong-doer, the spoliator, the cum
ming sarpetbagger, who unblushingly robs
his victims, and with laugh Of derision
taunts them for their helplessness, never can
expect love, or respect, OF forgiveness from
that wronged people.
Demoraizing Influences have sapped the
foundations of our Republic and weakened
the love Of the people for liberty. Hundreds
of thousands Of Radio Is would to-day pre-
fer military despotism, rather than give up
power to the Democrats. And they would
drench the country in the blood Of another
civil war, rather than give up the systematic
expressions Of the Southern whites
To one who has seen in Europe the facility
with which established governments have
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how apathetic the masses Of the North are at
| the continued entertainments of the Federal
power upon the rights Of the people of the
States.
The Federal army has but to march to any
given locality, and the opinion is expressed
| by the Northern press that the Presidents
will must be obeyed. How long will it re-
quire the existence of this condition OF affairs to
create the monarchical adage. 1.-The President
can do no wrong" And when the apathy has
existed until the pear is ripe for plucking,
determined man, backed by hundreds of
thousands of partisans, and the army and
navy at his command to establish himself
permanently as the government?
It is sad thing to confess that the indiffer-
ence of the present day does not give en-
couragement to the idea of future organized
efforts to throw off the yoke Of the oppressor,
or that even gallant leaders, initiating Hamp-
den or Washington, could induce the masses
in the North ''to venture action without the
form of law, under the burden of intolerable
e1actions and expressions, and abide the con-
sequences
1t is time for the people of the North to re-
feet more deeply upon this subject, and to
learn that the steady encroachment of the
Federal power, as directed against Kentucky
and Tennessee, as we'll as the far Southern
States, are as sure and fatal in their final work
as the dashing Of the oceans pillows against
apparently massive granite bulwsrks, whose
| foundations are even cracked.
Too many citizens already evince an idea
that the Federal Government is a sacred thing,
and that the President, like King, can do no
wrong. His orders must be obeyed and he
will investigate afterwards. Bat who has ever
heard of Federal investigation, that produced
any change of original purpose?
I'm the Southern States, Federal officials
use the machinery of the Federal courts to
drag Democrats from extreme localities, to be
prosecuted by the Government upon the
most frivolous pretenses. Subjected to such
prosecutions, and attendant pecuniary losses,
what remedy have they? The armed masses
of Federal troops are paraded throughout the
South to enforce Congressional laws and the
edict of the Attorney General. But as yet
Northern soil has not been the witness of such
scenes.
Enjoying the comforts Of life, with no
present dangers confronting him, it is very
easy for the Northern man to deprecate re-
sistance under any circumstances.
But when it becomes question OF permit
ting wrongful oppression, wholesale plumber,
taxation without representation, elections by
notorious fraud, and refusal Of registration,
rule without the consent Of the governed
when these things exist and the Federal Gov
eminent shall openly espouse the cause of the
throughout this great land for the people to
do it homage, there will spring, with one ac-
cord, hope, from every section and every
State, ten thousand Tells to sweep it down,
and to aim their unerring bullets at every
Gessler, and his would-be King.
Only 10000 numbers!
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