The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-25
OUR FRIENDS.

Some years before the breaking out Of the
great French Revolution of 1859, while fam
inc was stalking through the land, and bread
riots were of daily occurrence in Paris, it is
reported that poor Queen Marie Antoinette
expressed her establishment at the extraor-
binary conduct of her husbands lieges. IF
they can't get any bread" she remarked to
cakes?"
Weare reminded ofthis, perhaps, apocryphal
anecdote by the comments of a certain num-
Der of so-called Democrtic papers on the
Louisiana troubles. The Louisville Courier
Journal may be taken type Of these fair
weather friends, who ply us with their nnasked
advice and impertinent repToot, and never
weary of putting the idiotic question "Why
don't the people Of Louisiana resort to the
ballot-box for redressing their grievances 2
In other words, as we have no means OF pro-
curing bread, why the deuce don't We buy
cake?
| 1t is gettinq rather tedious to have to re-
peat to these worthless over and over again
that a fair election is he ue'y thing IRE choot
| possibly obtain under he heliogg asurpatioa,
and that it is idle to expect that they viii ever
| consent to give it to us, inasmuch as the con-
cession would be tantamount Oh their part to
political suicide Under their registration
law they can issue as many fraudulent certifi-
Gates as they please to their supporters, and
they can exclude as many bona .Jide citizens as
they think proper
From the decision of these INSCRIPTIONS
partisans U,re is no appeal, the courts being
forbidden by that infamous enactment from
interfering in the matter. Look at the regis
tration i'll this city, for instance, where the
United at 5 census shows a preponderance
Of the white over the colored element Of nearly
three to one. According to that census, there
was. in 1870, A colored voting population of
10 TOO and IS SIT white voters. Since then
it is we'll known to everybody here that the
colored population has decreased ana tile white
population increase ed by several thousands in
New Orleans
Ir the face Of these facts only three weeks |
after the opening Of the registry, it appears
that over eieCal thousand eolored sovereigns have
already receivedth their voting papers, and The cry
is ''still they come" Wen inay the EepaJG-
en- say, with characteristic cynicisln that IF
The negroes bad fighters, they are good
voters They are such good voters, in
fact that most Of them are being supplied
with duplicate and triplcate registration
papers, as to be thle 70 vote early and often
Ia x,,;o,4t, xro,,1a ~ IA 81.
There is no trouble about finding names and
residences for these mythical George Wash
ingtons Benjamin Tranklins, Julius Caesars,
and Fompeys, and atos, and Ciceros. Like
the bummeis who daily figure in our police
courts, they il all in spots" and any va
cant lot answers their purposes for a legal
donticil. These coiored troops Will fight
molly on the first Monday Of November next,
provided they are backed by Uncle Sans
bayonets. Boss Packard knows all this, and
tn 1t is the reason why be wouldn't listen to
a"y proposal whereby his coming miracle OF
the multiplication of the colored votes is to
over ;ome solid majority Of twenty-thousand
tax payers and educated Americans.
And even in this city, should this little
game be blocked, the said United States Mar
shall, President of the Radical State Central
Committee, and ommander-ln- Chief of the
army and navy Of me United States, would |
,all on Kellogg's "retur ing" board to Y
hrow out the vote of any parish, ward or {
precinct in which the majority ag ainst the j
spoilers might prove inconveniently large 4
md against this other mode OF distranchise- t
nent the white eople have also no legal \
emedy ,ohoteUer f
How effably stupid, then, is the twaddle !
If the Courier-Journal a1d its Northern and s
Western congeners about the great mistake We G
ave made in not adopting remedy which is I
otally denied to us, and in not availing our a
elves Of a law lich has been SO framed
" our enemies as to enable them to
.eep themselves perpetually in power, even
gainst the wishes of nine-tenths of the voting
'opulation Of the STATE A plague on such i
air weather friends and Jobs comforters, t
ny wei Open, plain-spoken enemies would
,p far more acceDtablp to rs :