The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-19
NO COMPROMISE.

The air is rife with rumors of compromise
with the usurpation just completely over
thrown by this people. God knows we would
be the last in this community to wantonly
throw an obstacle in the way of honorable
and satisfactory solution of our troubles. On
the contrary, all considerations are with us
subordinate to this, and we will go as far as
any man, inside the pale Of principle and even
intelligent expediency, to accomplish It.
| But we must RI Sc our humble voice against
this thing called compromise, IN the emergen-
| cy that is upon u.s. 1t is simply impossible
! that it can be right for this people to be so
wholly selfish as to bite at the Turing bait OF
compromise. We can not, if we would, di.
vest ourselves OF the fact that the emergency
that is on Us involves a stupendous political
principle which, if ignored, while we catch at
a momentary promise of relief, Will stand for
ever hcerated and crippled before us, aud will
haunt US, while We live. and our children
after us.
The contest of Monday was made oN pri-
cipe We are civilized men, and were born
freemen. That contest was made on this
basis. We were under a despotism, and we
shook it off as did our forefathers, who be-
queathed Us the right and the manhood to do
it. The blood that stained the streets that
day on our side was consecrated to ecer-iuing
principle -not to shifting compromise and po-
ltica barter We aeUer could hare draun our
people ont 10 fgM for the best glded compromise
that euer eno,,ated from a political caucus. But
when thew were pointed to the hearthstones
impoverished and sorrow-stricken, and 70 the
first and dearest Of human rights utterly
trampled; when they were told that all APP
p aals to constituted authority were exhausted,
and that no relief had come, then did the
strife begin, and the punishment was quick
and complete.
But is compromise erpefen'e No no. not
for one moment What have We donee
Nothing less than proven to the world that
the Kellogg usurpation had no foundation
whatever in the hearts Of this people, white or
black that it existed only pertorce OF hired
bayonets, and that it went do vn under the
first shock of arms. We assembled unarmed
in the broad day time; sent him word we were
going to fight; went home and put on our
arms; came back to the open streets and ran
him out of the State to his only reliable sup
port-the Custom House. Thence he cried
aloud for Federal bayonets. and they have
come to reinstate him. :,
Who, then, are we to treat with With the
corrupt and cowardly Custom-IIonse crew,
who never raised finger to sustain the gov
eminent they have for two years proclaimed
legitimate? Never, never They and their
chief, Kellogg, can only govern Louisiana by +.
orce of Federal bayonets, and, if the Federal ,
administration can carry this burden before {
he American people, let them do it. If they ,
,an then is the form of government Of the ,
United States changed and the sooner it is 8
Known the better for all parties. It will be DO !
crime for us to do anything that can {
while giving Us trivial temporary relief
which we only admit for the sake of argu- G
nent), will deceive whole people yourselves Ii
into fixed despotism No, let the
Government at Washington carry the full bur- {
len of this present humiliation Of the only
government in Louisiana. Sooner or later it
will crush them, and we will be better off in .
he end. 1t is not the Custom House, but ,
WASHINGTON that seeks compromise. Let us .
tand by our colors. q