The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-04
GRANT AS A SATIRIST.

We are reminded by the changing season
that it is time to pause in our daily vocations
and offer thanks to Almighty God for tn,
mercies and abundance of the year which il
drawing to close.
The blessings Of free government continue
to be vouchsafed to us the earth has respond
ed to the labor of the husbandman the lane
has been free from pestilence internal ordel
is being maintained, and peace with othe1
powers has prevailed It is fitting that q,
stated periods We should cease from our &C.
customed pursuits and from the turmoil of oul
daily lives, and unite in thankfulness for the
blessings of the past, and in the cultivation
of kindly feeling toward each other.-Ertract
from Grants Thanksgiving Proclamation.
We give the above as the broadest piece Of
satire that has ever come to our notice. 1.-THE
blessings of free government continue to be
vouchsafed to us" is good oh, very excellent
indeed and there are no people in this broad
land better able to appreciate the force of that
statement than the people of Louisiana.
Don't they know and feel every day and hour
of their joyous existence that the BLESSINGS
Of free government continue to be vouchsafed
to them" Ingrates! and malcontents! that
they are, don't they appreciate the significance
Of the military arrests of their fellow citizens
in the country! Can't they be satisfied that
they are permitted to walk about (some
of them at least) without their limbs being
manacled, even though some few hundreds
of their fellow-citizens are handcuffed like
felons and thrown into Jail just to make q
Radical holiday. Dullards don't they know
that in all "l'ee governments Claverhouses
like Gen. Merrill, with armed dragons at
their back, roam around the country commit
ting acts of barbarous cruelty and arresting
hundreds Of quiet and inofensive citizens
upon trumped up charges? Oh! but these
Louisianians are stifnecked and proud
gene.ation and very hard to please. Just
think Of their not being thankful to the Presi-
dent for his kindness in sending his soldiers
and ships-of-war down here to protect them
from the carpet-baggers, sscalawags and ne
groes, and to enable them to cast their votes
without fear or intimidation!
1t is related that when the good, kind Pres
ident heard of the revolt of the people OF Lou
isiana against the model government he had
set up over them, he started to weep, but re-
menbering his exalted position and what was
demanded of him. he grew terribly angry and
swore good round oath that he would put
down the new rebellion. 81 have done every
thing for those people that mortal man could
do; have given them Kellogg and Packard
and Casey and Merrill, and have permitted
Williams to be specially attentive to them,
and yet they are not happy and now I am
tired; my leniency and kindness are not appre-
cisted; they call me hard names, and ridicule
and scoff at third term. Ye gods it is too
much"
"What no Williams and Morton let slip
the dogs Of war Show those unreconstructed
rebels that this is free country in which .
thief and robber has as much right to hold
Office - gentleman, and that when Ulysses
takes snuff that they in common courtesy
must sneeze Teach them that the blessings
Of free government continue to be vouch-
safed to us, and let us proceed to cultivate
kindly feelings towards each other"
This somewhat extended speech was made
at II O'Clock on the 18th Of September, the
day after the dinner Of the Aztec Club, which
the President left at midnight in o state Of
oblivion 50 profound that special restoratives
were needed next morning
No wonder he was angry when he thought
that in twenty-four hours revolution had oc-
CURED. in which the pct government hs bad
Get up in Louisiana had been oveRthzown and