The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-15

and establish the rates. The legislation i
passed according to the toll paid. Some O
the acts passed are samples Of villainy an,
corruption of kind which cannot be fount
in the wilds of Africa.
| The population OF Louisiana are agreed il
their contempt for the Governor. His yepu
tation for veracity is below the level of tn,
lowest rank of professional oath makers TIL,
only determinate purposes in the Governor
Senate, and House OF Representatives TIL,
law-making department to get money
for themselves, and to perpetuate their power
to spoliate on the State and people. The onl,
power they respect is that OF President Gram
and his Project, Mr. Attorney General Nc
Mahommedan bows with more reverential and
submissive obedience to the tirman of Caliph
or Sultan than do this Governor and this
Legislature to the bshests or suggestions of the
authors and upholders Of this ignominious
government. They acknowledge their pater.
nal jurisdiction and power to bless them into
prosperity, or to curse them out Of being.
This condition of things is an omen peril
GUS to the constitution of this country, and
to the stability Of republican institutions in
the United States
This later aspect Of the case we shall con-
slider, as well as that presented by govern
mental interference within the last month, in
another article.
Third Article.
The election of 1872 discloses an impend-
ing danger to the stability Of American insti-
tutions, from the ambition Of dominant and
power, against which too many precautions
cannot be provided. The danger'arises from
the introduction of the judicial authority into
immediate contact with State and Federal
elections, and the facility with which the
army of the United States may be
as a civic force The character of
the Office of Attorney General has been radi-
cally changed, and that functionary hereafter
will regard as his most important and inter-
esting duties those that assimilate him to a
Project or Minister OF Police under the French
His principal charge will be
to see that elections are favorable to the domi-
nant party. We are quite at loss to assign
the large telegraphic correspondence of Mar
shall Packard with Attorney General Will
liams- reported by the Committee of the
Senate-to any category Of official duties
which properly belong to either Office. They
Packard as Chairman of the State Central
Committee of the Republican party in Louisi-
ma, and were designed for the chief of that
or its Secretary in Washington
Jity. We are not aware of any act of Con-
,ress which makes the Attorney General ex-
'fficio the chief or the secretary of that COM
nittee.
In 1872 the dominant party at one time was
Harmed by the secession Of the most capable,
experienced, upright and honorable members
f that party. Tho remnant resembled
imp of the party. At this time it was re-
olved in party counsels that the votes of the |
outhern States should be cast for their can
idates for President and Vice President. |
hey claimed these votes as the booty OF the |
ar. They belonged to them as a conquest. |
o secure them the control, the election re-
lrns were placed in the reach OF judicial |
over, and the power was granted to the |
resident to employ the army and navy to en-
irceley had received such majorities in the |
Iorth and West as to require the aid of the |
otes in the Southern States to overcome
lem, then the controversies which have since |
risen in Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas,
lorida, and we're attempted in the State cleo
on of Texas, would have had Il national
perafion and import. The papers in the in
,rests thus involved might have generated a
vil war. A survey OF the angry passions,
spacity, ambition tor rule, and for the profits
rising from rule, on the one side, and the
ldignant demand for reform and change in
le administration on the other sufficiently
lows in what such controversies will termi-
ate. The necessities Of the dominant party
id not require such controversies in 1872:
ut the underlings of the party in the States
e have enumerated made use of the plan of
perations to secure themselves in the con-
oil of the Offices Of these States, and have
zen the cause of internal commotion in all
them.
Command of the Government of Louisiana
1872 was specially desired in the first
ace, to swell the majorities for Grant and
ilson, SO that no party thereafter could be
lied to make opposition to them. There
ay have been dreams Of third and fourth
rm even then. It was also needed to place
mes F. Casey in the Senate, in the place
ellogg had vacated, and to fill a complete
nm thereafter. Kellogg deserved recompense
r his surrender of the Senate, and the
rican voters were to be maintained in SUI
emacy and under the sway of their party
anagers and overseers, for future employ I
emit. On the Sd OF December, 1872, the date
the imperial "bull' from the Department
Justice placing at the disposition of Mar
al Packard the army of the United States I
the Department of the Gulf, all these things l
emed to be practicable. The hearty and {
CO-OpcIdlIOu VI DuIcu WIS !
'ential to its accomplishment. But Judge I
lrell is not at all times and for all pur- ,
ses, and for all persons, tractable. Some +
nes he has fits OF stubbornness. The re- t
irement from him of orders to direct the c
zure OF the capitol, and to install the Legis- t
ure, and to prepare for the elevation of c
nchback, We do not believe he received /
III any satisfaction. We acquit him entirely !,
being the original and first inventor OF l.
,se acts or orders. Who conducted the t
yotiations with him has not been told. But o
with these orders the fact n
pears that Mr.. Norton, his close, intimate 9
familiar friend, and an officer Of his court fl
his appointment became the Republican 9
ldidate for the Senate, and Casey was Il
hdrawn. Pinchback was to fill the va p
ICY of Kellogg and Norton to be his sue o
sor for the full term. Pinchback became
Governor in the manner We have de- e.
ibed, under cover of the judicial orders of c.
9Th and It'll December, and the wing of II
army. He received from Norton 10000 il
aid to his election. The exaltation Of t,
lchback had an extraordinary effect upon +,
African imagination. For q time he was W
,memnOn KING Of GODS and men ii