The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-27
THE STORY OF A LOST STATE.

The COMMITTEE of Seventy" composed of
leading and distinguished citizens OF New orleans
merchants lawyers, and men eminent IN vail
nus anLs of business-again appeal to the pub
|lic opinion of the country for redress Of their
crievances. They recite q tale grown familiar by
|fhe iufamv of Radical politics in the South, and
tell of State PROSTATE in the dust Of humiliation
and disgrace.
How the Conservatives, in 1872, succeeded iu
Wrestling the State Government from the hands
Of carpet-baggers through the instrumentaGties
of peaceful and fair election, the country
knows. How this victory was neutralized and
the result converted into new tyraEnies and
a,,surpations by the order of drunken judge
and the iorce Of Federal ba yonets is also known.
For two years the rule OF fraud and corruptlonI
was acquiesced in, or at least submitted to- until
in moment Of excitement the Kellogg Govern-|
ment was overthrow and trampled under foot
by the people it had outraged and insulted.
The President, quick to save his partsans,
came to their rescue, and with the power of the
army restored the usurpers to office. And now
another election has come round. and another re- \
buhe is given by the people to those who have
usurped the exercise OF functions they have mol
right to. Despite the machinery Of iniquitousI
election laws devised to perpet1ate Radical rule
and with the United States army in the hands OF
the chairman Of the Republican Executive Com
mittee, polls beset by soldiers and Radical ennis
carries in the guise of federal officials harryingI
the people, the Conservatives again succeeded inI
carrying the State by over three thousand ma I
5iority
There being no longer pretext for the exer-
else of partisan functions by corrupt and plant
Judiciary this majority in favor of legal and con-.
stltutlonal government is sought to be overcome!
by the Vaccinations Of Returning Board ap|
pointed in the interests of the usurper and sus.
tanned BY the menace of bayonets. In anticipa-
ton Of what it may do-warned by fatal experi-|
ence Of what it is capable of doing-the Commit
tee of Seventy respectable and influential citizens
Of New Orleans appeal to the proverbial honor
and magnat unity of the American people for al
hearing and redress Of their wrongs.
Their cause is that OF free government.
Shacked for years by partisan rule, torn by polti
cal dissensions stepped in the very misery that
yprece des despair. the State has made one last
Effort to throw off her incubus and regain helI
honorable position in the Union. Der industry
|paralyzed her intelligence and refinement made
|subseryient to violence and fraud, to Ignorance
and brutality. her laws corrupted to partisan
purposes and devoted to private resentmcnts and
individual greed, she has sought remedy
Through peaceful agency, and has fairly won
her rights IN the results Of an honest election.
She has proved that she is no longer sub. '
dued and conquered province PROSTATE at the
point Of bayonets, but . State Of kindling ener.
|gies and noble recollections, true and steadsast
ito the memories other former days Of power and
|renown, and rising up in scorn to cast her alien
land insufferab BILE bondage of.
Having appealed in vain to the President and
Congress for redress through her citizens, she
makes a last final appeal to the honor and good
faith Of the nation. Shall the appeal be made
lin yain.-Sf. Louis Times. 24M.