The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-20
TOUCH NOT, TASTE NOT, HANDLE
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Let us have no compromise with infamy'
We are either entirely right Or utterly wrong
If right then We but demean ourselves, and
stultify all our brilliant and long enduring
efforts by haggling for terms with the fou
usurpation and the corrupt men who represent
it. II wrong We should not ask for terms but
bow in graceful and dignifed submission te
the government OF Kellogg. ....
| We know that some of the gentlemen en-.
gagged in an attempt to arrange matters with
Kellogg, Packard & Co., are actuated by the
very highest and purest motives. and their
most earnest desire is to bring peace to oul
distracted and much injured State.
We honor their impulses, but we cannot re-
frain from declaring our solemn conviction
that no compromise they can arrange will
meet the sanction Of the people, who are
firmly determined to stand by their rights,
even though their maintenance involve further
struggles and greater trials than any we have
yet experienced.
Whence comes this newborn despotism
the part Of Messrs. Kellogg aud Packard for
compromise. But yesterday we we've outlaws
and rebels, with whom it was treason to con
sort, to-day We are invited to conferences, with
the view of patching up some treaty under
which the usurpation may be able to stas3sser
along until the next election.
ALI this simply means that the administer.
ton at Wash,n gton is wcarying of Mr.. Kel-
,cgg, and desire to shift, as far as may be, the
dreadful load which Louisiana has become to
the Radical party. Tie disgusting parody on
free government set up sy Durel, Williams
and Grant Las never ceased to worry them,
and will yet be the means Of stranglng the
party that las sanctioned it, unless we are
weak enough and short-sighted enough TO
make terms with the enemy and accept com.
promise. .
We have borne m1ch and hay. struggled
against hard fate with a courage and torti-
tuds which has challenged the admiration Of
our most bitter enemies. We stand before the
world to-day in the attitude OF d brave and
worthy people held down by strong and
overwhelming power; denied the exercise OF
those inestimabiG privileges which are inner
ent with every American citizen. and refused
even the divine right Of revolution.
The descendants Of those glorious men Who
declared that Resistance to tyranny is obedi-
ence TO God, threaten US with determination
if we dare LIT our hands to overthrow the
most CALLING tyranny freeborn people were
ever forced to endure, and the whole army and
navy OF the United States is put in motion to
rlvet our chains whenever we, in the agonles
Of our profound despair, throw them from us.
Men OF Louisiana. We lave one thing left us
o preserve honor.
Ii is as noble to suffer and be strongs as
t is to battle against tyrants, and since for the
Inc being, we are declared by power it |
"ele madness 10 resist from asserting by our
strong arms our. right Of self government;
lnce Louisiana is stricken from the roll OF |
states and converted into mere military |
atrapy, We must determine to exercise that
most exalted form Q. couIago-iirmness under
pjustlce aud wrong
The blood tina, vas SIZED in the grand blow
or liberty which was ok Oh Monday last
y the aroused and Indignant people oi New
'rieans has consecrated the cause and we
must not east dishonor on the still moist
raves Of our noble dead y any tllnreria: with
Nc men " a.u stspuno.Dio .ur tAelr Diood,
Let the craven and false hearted usnrper re.
nme, If he dare, the position from which he
as summarily hurled, spite of his armed
egions, and let both him and his minious at
empt again, if they dare to re-inaugurate an
Their system OF oppression and outrage, such
S existed when the people rose and crushed
ne monstrous wrong rs easily as a child would
rush an egg shell Upon the heads of those
no outrage the people Will the peol les ven. !
aance fall. Il Louisan. . % be left at the ,
ercy OF the usurnation then 80 be l. We |
e not ponsiG!e it, aud we will not touch.
ste, or handle the unclean ihin. y