The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-08
A Convention to Foment Discord and Per-
petuate Carpet-Bag Rule.

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The Convention of Radicals which is tc
meet at Chattanooga Tennessee, on the l5tE
| inst.e is exciting considerable comment
throughout the country. Some Of those whe
! claim to be posted assert that the Convento.
Gas called in the interest of President Grams
! sui = third term, while Others with equal pos
] Inverness assert that it was called IN he in
.exest OF Senator Q. T. Morton. Of Indiana.
.nI was in face concoc.ed by that batan. an.
malignant demagogue for the express purps.
| a furthering his scheme for killing Grant pc
litically, sn1 placing Aimself ..tore the re.
publican party - tho Mos: available sn.. t.,
che Presidency.
+. ~. incline to the latter Theory: indeed ".
know = man who knows anotheS man. wh'
was present when the whole mattey was .le-
] tnitely arranged between Morton and his wire,
puller> There j. no question but Morton has
set his eyes upon the White House and will
| never be content until he manages 10 drag hi
diseased and deformed body into the portals
| of the mansion at s'the other end Of the ave.
I nue." His bitter and pros riptiye speech dee
| liyered at Indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th inst.
was made after the Chattanooga Convention
had been concocted and it was expected thai
said Convention would furnish data false o.
otherwise relative to the condition of things III
the South to justify and vindicate the aggres.
sive and bitter temper OF his denunciations.
If the convention carry gut SIorton's idea
it will be nothing but a gathering of cone
spirators to furnish an occasion and cause for
outrages already contemplated and determined
upon against our people.
Delegates to this convention are appointed
by the chairmen OF the several State commit
tees, but under the call OF the convention
there will be present the Southern Senatorial
and Congressional delegations, who arr invited
to be present as sort Of advisory hoard
The delegates pro Der are busily employed in
manuf .cturing the facts Of Southern outrages
deemed necessary to MAKE out case.
From intimations received we believe that
there will be present at Chattanooga far
sighted politicians who will take occasion to
state the true causes of the feverish and dis
quiet temper of Southern politics, and these
men see too clearly the ephemeral advantage
Of lying by resting their case upon fictitious
d TIA, and Will, as matter Of fact, attempt to
save Republicanism in the South by accom-
plishing reform of acknowledged abuses in.
side of their party lines. and will AS the ne.
sary condition thereto state and announce
the true causes that have brought the evils Of
misgovesAmem upen tie secons'xl1cte1 States.
viz:
Carpe.-bas rui. anI all its attendant extra.
vagance corruption and discomfort;
The primary purpose OF the convention j.
10 turthe' Moron's purpose I" rekindle the
amin" itss OF the war. and make them COZ.
sro'ling elem. ut in determining Tie approach u.
congressional elections, then congressional
action, and thence determining tn. is.lses and
complexion of the Presidential campaign ~
1876 Morton. the "great war Governor.
now the malignant Senator, expecting % ride
into the Presidential seat. not on tie waves of
popular good will. but OF those Of sectional
hate.
The American people are intensely practical,
and have no more use for tctions than for
chimeraS and it is no. elieved that the dead
issues OF the past decade can be revamped as
a basis upon which National politics will pro.
coed and find its solution two years hence.
1t is scarcely possible cit aer that the aftiict-
ed South will be called upon to submit to four
Gears rule of the most cruel and vndictive
foe, the most malignant and uns rupulon>
partisan. the most corrupt and ambitious
demagogue in the United States.
Our sutferinys and wrongs in the past
should at least have won for us immunity
from this threatened horror, and we have
great faith that come what will, we shall never
be called upon to swallow thi, too-bitter pill.