The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-02
TIE CAPTURED CORRESPONDENCE.

The publication Of the correspondence cap
tu-el by our troops in the late Revolution,
seem, to nightly annoy the Radicals and has
seriously shocked the Republicans very deli
cate sense Of journalistic propriety. This is
very sad and the remarks of the organ this
morning ought, perhaps, to have made us feel
desperately ashamed Of ourselves, but, strangely
enough, tho effect has been quite the contrary
indeed, so far from being cast down we are
quite elated, for We discovered. when OF very
tender age, that the best evidence OF porclne
being in trouble was his squealing.
The squeals Of the Republica" are very
natural under the circumstance, for those
dreadful letters tell tale of corruption and
infamy which may well bring bushes to the
cheeks of even the hardened criminals who
at present drominate our people. They tell
Of bribery in high places, and Of the under
handed and lila, lous sahe.ning Of the usurper
to maintain himself in position which he
had taken by force of arms and in defiance OF
the expressed wishes of the people at the
ballot-box; they speak, in language not to be
misunderstood, Of the determination Of set
of political demagogues and highwaymen to
rule this fair State of Louisiana, and furnish
| evidence sufficient to cow let the whole gang
of Radical rascals of treaso against free gov
eminent.
These letters were captu red during state
Of war by privates in the ranks of the citizen
soldiery, and such as have been deemed i'm
portant in the great case OF the honest people
of Louisiana against the Radical banditti
ich have been depredating upon and OPP
pressing the State have been printed. They
have been published, not only by the BULLETIN,
but by the leading journals of the North and
West, and first saw light in the columns of
the New York Tribune, than which We know
Of no higher exemplar in journalistic proprie-
ty and decency.
The Tribune stands to-day in the front rank
of journalism on this continent, and we are
both willing and proud to follow in its foot
steps, Notwithstanding the harsh criticisms Of
such journalistic fungi as the New Orleans
Republican. There is one thing we very deep
ly regret, which is, that, being in possession
Of the iron safe Of the de facto robber, OUT
troops should have RETAINED from taking pos
session of such documents as it is said to have
contained - documents, the publication OF
which would have utterly annihilated the
usurpation, and have sent many men high IN
station into that obscurity from whence, tor
some inscrutable purpose, they have been
permitted by an hl-wise Providence to
emerge.
The nice but mistaken sense of propriety
which deferred our officers and men from
appropriating the documentary evidence OF
fraud and corruption contained in that safe,
will, we fear, never be appreciated by those
most interested in its suppression
The Republican hints at documents that
were taken by Kellogg's police when Odd
Fellows Hall was captured in March, 1878,
a d asks how Colonel McEnery and his
friends would like to have them published?
The capture Of the legitimate Government Of
the State by gang Of highwaymen is very
different mat or from the capture of the
-tronghold of those highwaymen by the peo-
pie, but the Republican does not frighten any
body by its dark hints
If it has any of this captured correspond
ence that bears upon important matters, let US
have it by all means, for we are absolutely
certain that the legitimate government OF the
State could have had no dealings with such
low fellows and unprincipled' scoundrels as
compose or bolster up the usurpation.