The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-20
FEDERAL BL00DH0UNDs IN LOU
ISIANA.

parish case, and of the able opinion of Justie
Bradley delivered therein, we have it upo
excellent authority that those Federal blood
hounds and impertinent intermediates
State politics Marshal Packard and Distrit
Attorney Beckwith have conspired together
for purely partisan purposes, to intimidate tn
people in the parishes by causing the arrest
a number of persons under the Enforcemer
Acts upon charges trumped up for the occs
sion, which have no more foundation in fac
than those preferred against the Grant paris
prisoners.
! It is the deliberate intention of these bite
and malignant partizans to have scores G
gentlemen dragged from their homes in dis
tant parishes and thrust into dungeons in Ne1
Orleans, there to languish until the mora
| effect Of their cruel treatment has been ca
perienced, or in other words, until after tn
election. The purpose is to frighten tn
whites away from the polls, and to embolde1
the negroes to vote the Radical ticket. 1t is
trouble in the country in the interest of tn,
party, and discloses spirit of intolerance ani
malevolence, which may well cause every re
fleeing man North and South to pause ant
consider whether such things can be and this
Republic stand.
We do not hesitate to affirm that if the
Federal Government is to assume to regulate
every difficulty that may occur in the South
ern States, if every murderer and robber is to
be arrested and tried under the Enforcement
Acts, if every little difficulty that may arise
in the parishes and counties is to be construed
into a conspiracy against the colored voters
and into crime punishable under the laws of
the United States, if citizens for purely local
otfenses or for no ctenses are to be
dragged from their homes in chains, immured
in distant Federal prisons and prosecuted
by the vindictive creatures of dishonest and
imperious Attorney General, and if Deputy
United States Marshal with pack of United
States soldiers at his back and warrants from
a United States court can scour the country
and arrest citizens for offences that were
either never committed, or which are clearly
"AeAAA CAC JuAiooAOuOA VI I0C koIdtC-lLtt
liberty is dead and it becomes the duty of
every good citizen in every section of the
country to raise his roiee in protest, to demand
relief from Congress, or, failing to obtain redress
% resist the execution of such monstrous lacs to
he death.
Either we are treemen or We are sldues. By
he blood of our Revolutionary sires We de-
clare that we are not slaves; that we will not
i've or be treated as such; 'that we are and of
light ought to be free," even as the men of
he other sections of this country are free,
nd We call upon all good citizens everywhere
o join us in our cutlery against the deliberate
,erversion of the United States laws
or infamous purposes. We are true
itizens of the republic. We desire to
ee the institutions of this great coun-
ry maintained and perpetuated, but if we
re to be thus cruelty insulted and grievously |
'ronged; if the Union means liberty for
'hite people at the North, but slavery and OPP
ression for white people in the Soulful Fed
raj inquisitions are to be organized to punish
1e citizens of Southern States, simply be-
ause they dare to vote against the Republican
arty and protest against usurpation- then
e care not how soon a change may come
he very worst has come to us already, and
~ change must better our condition. We
we no such Union as metes out justice and
ndness to one section, and soldiers and
lunderbolts to the other. We contemplated
, such Union when Lee surrendered at
pponattox, else the echoes of cannon would
ill have been reverberating throughout the
nd.
We believe that the people of the North and
est have at length awakened to a realization
the true condition of affairs in the South,
I'd that the prejudices Of the war have given
~ to those nobler sentiments of friendship !,
I'd common brotherhood, we believe they I
w realize that if we fall utterly that we will
evitably pull them and their fortunes down ,
it'll US, and that true patriotism and interest
mbine in the appeal for justice to the South.
We are convinced that the acts of the Fed
al blood-hounds in this and other States are i
by the press and people of !
e North. The New York Tribune in recent
ticle on the Federal arrests in Tennessee, !,
d on the reply Of the Attorney General to 1
". Brown, says:
In nearly all the reconstructed States it is
mmon thing to bring the merest street rows
d drunken quarrels within the provisions of
csc Enforcement laws, and the tendency to A
more the jurisdiction of the State grows con- :,
unity stronger and stronger. :
lie danger of this reckless course is mani
d. It imposes an unjust and sometimes
lshing burden upon the accused, who are n
Ken great distances for trial and compelled f,
transport witnesses at their own expense; it O
rows vast and illegitimate Iower into the le
nds of petty Federal officials; and it imper- =
the cause of justice, for it is extremely
ubtful whether convictions obtained by
ced construction Of questionable laws will
nd the test of appeal.
The New York Herald, in its issue of the
h, said:
It is undeniable that the South is full of Ii
affection and is on the point of mutiny.