The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-14
FAR AWAY VILLAINS.
of all sad words Of tongue or pen.
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| The ssddest these light have been"
"This is truth the poet Sings" and WI
know of no more striking illustration there
IF than is furnished by the infrIn and eccen
trio old "Pic." What power for good thu
old lady might have welded had she retained
the virtue, vigor and courage that marked
her early years! What a lever she would
haze been in the great work If lifting Lou
;sana out of the slough Of despond into
which she has fallen, and restoring her tc
something of her pristine glorys How the
plunderers of our wealth, the vagabonds
who are still seeking to crush us,wOuld have
quailed before the blows she might have
dealt then! These things "might have
BEEN" but alas. they are not.
With that popularity Of vision which fire.
quently attends the aged, the Pic sees those
things which are at distance with singular
clearness, while the objects in the foreground
are quite dim if not altogether impercepti-
ble Thus, we see her berating soundly the
Carolina quarreling with the President for
insulting the delegation of good citizens,
who went to Washington to present their
grievances to him and ask for relief, and
generally disarranging her skirts and endan-
gering the integrity Of her back hair in JUS
tifable anger over the matter.
This exhibition of virtnous Indignation
is quite refreshing to the readers Of the
Pic, who have rarely seen her in this mood
Of late years. 1t quite exhilerated ourselves,
and rapidly and hopefully adjusting our
microscopes present from the Pic.-we
carefully scanned her pages for some
scathng denunciatiOn Of domestic thieves
and rascals. Down first one column and
then another we went with religious cN-
acttude, discovering singing article on
"Concha," the "Butcher of Atares,"
severe excoriation of the President for his
treatment of Senator Sumner, castigation
of South Carolina carpet-baggers, but not
one syllable about any of the "rascals Y
who have brought ruin upon our people,
and seem to be determined to make a desc
1ation of the once proud and wealthy State
of Louisiana.
Not whisper against Kellogg, not a
breath against Durell, not an intimation
that with the single exception of South Car
DINA, perhaps, we are the most wretchedly
governed, the most cruelty outraged people
in the Union. The President is roundly de-
nOunced because, forsooth, he treated with
indignity the representatives Of the true peo-
pie of South Carolina, but not an allusiOn is
made to the infinitely greater in"ignity
which Congress and the Attorney General
have put upon Louisiana.
Does anybody want an explanation why
the Pic. should make this strange oversight
We can scarcely conceive of anybody so dull
as not to see it at once, so blind as not to
perceive that the far-away villain may be
attacked with safety, while those near at
home are dangerous. Visions of libel suits
rise up to fright the soul Of the timid Pic,
and then there is hope of State printing in
cative individual that word against him
might excite his ire, and then what would
become of the Pics ''little case" which
must come up some day, you know.
AS an excoriator of far-away villains, and
an ignorer or fatterer of those at home, the
Pic, in any comparative trial, would, be-
yond all doubt, bear away the champion belt.
There is only one consolation in this matter,
md that is, those who are interested in |
Louisiana, at a distance, and who read the /
pic.-if any such there be-will be enabled |
20 hug to their bosoms the: delusive but
absence of crime, never was State so ably
governed, never were a people SO perfectly |
,ontented and happy.