The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-05
THE TIMES AND THE GLORIOUS {?
FOURTH,


glories and the thought of our present de
| ightful (?) situation, together with the bril-
liant future which is already illumining on
present, has thrown him into spasms Of joy
and he dubbed over yesterday in nearly
column Of patriotic coruscations which SCUM,
strangely inappropriate at a time when tn
Congress of the United States has Just ad
journed, after persistently refusing to remov
| from Louisiana the yoke Of usurpation ant
| tyranny which was imposed by Durell ant
maintained by the President.
| This refusal to do an act of simple justice
| to State which had been virtually stricken
out of the confederation, so far as its rights
! and privileges are concerned, and in spite OF
the amplest and most conclusive evidence Of
the illegality Of Durelrs action, and of the
fraud practiced by Radical leaders in this
State, was a wrong and insult to US, and burn
ing disgrace to Republican government
Ben Butler declared to the representatives
of the Committee of One Hundred Citizens
when they were in Washington, that the Re-
publican party was strong enough to be just
to Louisiana" and we believe that Butler. with
that wonderful perception with which he is
gifted for determining what is polite, has all
along been in favor Of overturning the Kellogg
monstrosity, on the ground that such acton
would not only be right, but would eventually
rebound to the benefit Of the Republican party.
Unfortunately, however, the influence Of Nor
ton and other wretched demagogues of his ik,
and the belief that the overthrow of Kellogg
meant the humiliation Of the Radical party in
Louisiana, have been sufficient to cause the
Congress of the United States to suffer the
existence within the Union Of Government
which has none Of the essential requisites Of
Republicanism about it, which is a bald and
palpable fraud, pronounced and unmitigated
usurpation, tyranny as absolute as that of
Russia, and more grinding and intolerable, be-
cause administered by convicted knaves and
ignorant negroes and carpet-baggers.
And it is just after this great, this irrepara-
BILE wrong has been inflicted upon our people,
that the Times grows jubilant sin thinking of
the days that are no more, and of the happy
time in store for us in the future. After dila-
ting at some length on the GLORIOUS Fourth,
the Times says:
Much has been done for liberty much for
the indivisibility and perpetuity Of the Union
But in accomplishing this much, serious err
rors have been made, and serious wrongs in
flicted on a subdued and PROSTATE section
Our Republic Of Clemency forgot its mission,
nn 60.
Vengeance was abroad. The white people of
the South, accustomed to the privileges of self
government, were confronted by the exercise
If powers which they believed to be illegal,
md compelled to obey rules which they re-
sarded as oppressive and usurped. Forum
ttely, however these ''Old things are passing
way, and in the light Of this glorious Fourth
Ill true men can discern the dawn Of a better
,ra.
Shades of Nero and julius Caesar, what has
,een done to guarantee "the indivisibility |
md perpetuity of the Union?" If that |
entence had run in this wise much has |
'een done to centralize the Government and |
Q render the perpetuity Of the Union an i'm |
possibility, and giant strides have been made |
oward throttling liberty, especially in Lou
siana-" there would have been some sense
nd truth in it,
We should like to see the telescope powerful |
nough to enable the t7test man that lives to
discern in the light of this glorious Fourth
be dawn Of better era.
The only rays which have pierced the Gin
lerian darkness of the political night through
'hich we Of the South are cropping, are the
on-passage Of the Civil Rights Bill and the
ecision of Justice Bradley to the effect that a
hite man is as good rs negro.
The outlook for Louisiana is not such as to
lake her people join in the Civilizations and
ejoicings of the people of the North on the
sth Anniversary Of the nations birth The
lemory Of their wrong is too CALLING and too
esh to make it meet for them to participate
/ those joyful demonstrations. To the North
n people who may express establishment at
lis we would reply in the language Of the
oquent Sheridan. when pleading before the
ouse of Representatives for the seat to which
? had been elected by more than 10. 900 ma
rity:
W iltt WIS dtllt III LoulSllIld III the winter OF
'12 could not have been done in the North
it had been attempted the rocks and the
ees would have cried ont against it. The
ny streams would have burst asunder the icy
lrriers which bound them and gone s,lrging
rough this land chanting solemn requiem
I the dead Republic. If it had been attempt
III Massachusetts, within site Of Bunker HILL ,
e mighty mass Of granite which crowns its
minit, trembling with indignation from tur-
to foundation stone, would have reeled from
J broad base, carrying destruction swift and
re to the impious one who dared in the nine
enth century, in the face of American civil {
ton. strike a blow SO deadly at the liberty c
granite shaft was reared to commemorate. /,
TO arecent event in San Francisco.
lere two editors INDUCED in the amusement r
shooting af one anofhar q lnoal ;o,,-,,.l | @