The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-01
THE FEELING IN THE NORTH AND
WEST.

| Livery Gay brings US renewed assurances thu
the end Of carpet-bag rule and usurpation is
hand. Every day We find in the columns
the great journals Of the North and West ev
dences Of all awakening on the part Of til
people Of those sections to the real situatio
of affairs in the South, and miles
words have ceased to carry wit
them their usual Specifications, the time is no
far distant when we shall be once more FIRE
citizens of the Republic, rather than subju
gated inhabitants of military province.
In all article IN its issue of the 2Gth inst
in regard to Gen. Dix as a candidate for til,
Presidency, the New York Herald says:
His position on the reconstruction question
for example, would equally reassure the
North and the South. He had a clear per
ception of the dangers which have attended
the reconstruction dangers which
the present unhappy condition Of the South
proves to have been too real and he stands
on record as strenuous opponent Of the ex-
IRENE policy OF the Radicals in Congress. 1t
is becoming the settled conviction of the
country that they went too far, and that there
has resulted in the South great crop of mis-
chiefs which heed rectification
There has hence arisen two dangers which
moderate citizens equally deprecate One is
that the election to the Presidency of an old
line Democrat would embolden the new adj
ministration to adopt dangerous policy of
reaction, and the other danger is that the
election Of a thoroughgoing Republican might
perpetuate the monstrOus abuses and corrup-
ton which prevail in the Southern State gov
ern ments and precipitate war Of races.
Ia it's issue of the 2Sth, in an article on .sThe
Black Elephant Of the Republican party, the
Herald says:
Evidently in several, if not in most, Of the
Southern States, the blacks are estimating at
too high figure the advantages they are sure
to gain under this Civil Rights Bill They
even seem to think that, in anticipation Of this
bill, they may do as they please, and that the
Government is bound to sustain them We
are gratified, therefore, to perceive that they,
too, are to be taught submission to their local
laws and authorities, and that Government
baypnets are no longer to be used in support
Of the colored citizens Of the South, whether
hey are orderly or riotous, right or wrong
We have had quite enough of the supremacy
If the Federal bayonet in the local affairs Of
he South, and we are glad that there is to be |
IN end to it.
The whites Of the South, we are pleased |
llso to perceive, have some rights which the
Republican party is bound to respect for fear
# the secession of the whites, which, though |
ew in number comparatively in the South,
till leaven the whole party and give it its
nifty and power even in South Carolina. In
1ord having trotted their black elephant around
he country on a triumphal tour Of fourteen
ears Duration, and having given him all
he rights he could in reason demand under
he existing state of things, would it not be
ell for the Republican party to stop this SUI
erfnous civil rights procession and try some
ther game?
The Chicago Times, of the 29th, has the
blowing:
Tie exaggerated reports Of Ku-Klnx out
lges at the South are beginning to have the
esired effect at Washington. They have a
yo-fold purpose. The first and most impor-
mt is to induce the Government to send
oops to the districts where Republican ma
rities are most needed. The next is to
tighten timid voters into belief that the
ar is not yet over, and that unless they vote
le Republican ticket hostilities will certainly
reak out anew. 1t is not difficult to accom- 4
ish the first of these objects. The Admin
tration is very willing to send troops where
er they will do the most good to Republican
alawag candidates.
All that is wanted is an excuse which will
stity such an extraordinary proceeding
though the officials know that these out
ges are creations Of fiction, they give all pos
Die publicity to the reports, that they may
We some ground upon which to base action ;,
at was long ago determined upon. Ku-Klux %
TRACES as electioneering bugaboos, are, how
er, nearly played out. They always occur
st before elections and never after The ,
mixing public begin to see through the very ~
in disguise, and will not permit itself to be
mbugged any longer.
Fred Douglas is nothing if not an alarmist.
$ Washington newspaper affects to see in
= recent conflicts between white and colored
minals at the South deliberate plot, having
its purpose the massacre Of the whole
gro race Fred should calm his perturbed
rit. The Times can inform him that there
no such purpose. As soon as the elections
over in the South there will be no further
is, for then they cannot be used as means
securing votes for scalawag candidates
ose election is necessary to maintain Re- c
blican supremacy.