The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-13
NEW ORLEANS.

/ NEW Uh16AN0s
What a beautiful city, what a charmin,
climate remarked our recent visitors
Everything was new to them. Winter, Will
its sports and frolics, they left behind, ant
found here what seemed to them spring, will
its flowers and foliage They roved and ram
bled everywhere, plucked the golden orange
from the tree, picked the moss clinging t.
the monarch of the forest, the live oak, which
defies time, and ever, with its green leaves
betokens the vigor of youth; saw the French
Market, crowded with the fruits and vege
tables of the earth, the fowls of the air and the
fish OF the sea, and population, composed O
all nationalities and speaking all languages
even the Chinese, the japanese and the Choc
taw. They all thought and said, this should
be happy place to live in.
And SO it should be. There is no city in
the world which has the natural advantages
of the Crescent City. The Father of Waters
takes its rise far up north, near Lake Super
ior, and in its descent receives tributaries
flowing from the Alleghanies and the Rocky
Mountains, forming valleys unsurpassed in
fertility, and affording navigation for thous-
ands Of miles. And yet, though nature is
propitious, New Orleans is not what it should
or ought to be. Laws, bad laws, framed and
passed by bad men, and administered and
executed by the worst Of the bad, are the
chief nay, the sole cause Of the decline in
the prosperity of the city. To secure the
South to the support Of the Republican party
the infamous reconstruction acts were passed,
and the execution and enforcement of these
acts were intrusted to military satraps who
excluded from the right of suffrage all but
scalawags, carpet-baggers and negroes, and
installed in all offices the worst class Of the
North and West. the jackals who followed
the successful march Of the Federal forces, to
plumber an overpowered people.
The rule of this class commenced with War
moth and eliminated with the usurper Kel-
logg Such laws as the Metropolitan Police,
Election and Registration laws were passed
solely for the purpose OF keeping in power
this vast army Of plunderers. Schemes of all
kinds were gotten up with no good intent
with no good purpose, but only to fleece the
people, and to pay for bonds issued only to
fill the Golfers Of the carpet-bagger. Forty
millions were added to the State and twenty
millions to the city debt, and the people forced
by infamous courts to pay taxes to pay the
interest Of this enormous debt, created for no
purpose of utility.
We have the same heavens above us, we
have the same teeming soil and the same de-
licious climate which bad men can neither
change nor destroy, and yet We are told that
we are permitted to enjoy the bountiful gifts
of nature, but must be the hewers Of wood
and drawers of water to Il set of actual thieves;
that the fields OF industry must become
waste and the great marts Of commerce a des-
olation. Are we to submit quietly to such
and indignities !? Is manhood gone?
Are we the slaves of knaves and political
tricksters
When we have natural, inherent rights which
laws cannot annul, andif such laws
md we have them-are attempted to be en-
forced by the inscriptions usurpers, armed
resistance becomes a necessity-becomes a
patriotism. Actual sover-
eighty is in the people-the people rule-the
people govern-the people, through their
fairly chosen, adopt their
own government and promulgate their own
laws. This recognized dogma of sovereignty
cannot be destroyed; it may be ignored for a
time. but it will assert itself, peaceably OF
forcibly. 1t cannot be given up-it cannot
be abandoned This supreme power, this
sovereignty is installed only by the voice of
the people, and when any attempt is made to
strangle this voice, commissions must follow
Is not this attempt now being made? Ere
another year rolls round, visitors then in this
city may well exclaim, with more enthusiasm
than our recent friend, what glorious place
what a paradise on earth what walks and
drives what gardens = what flowers and
ality! Change our laws change our rulers
md usurpers; establish an honest govern
ment, based upon the declared consent of the
governed then will New Orleans enjoy all
he natural advantages which nature has
yiven-then will it flourish as grand mart
If commerce, and then will it become city
worthy of the great river which flows by it.
Remove all oppression ; take of all unjust
burdens; dismiss all unworthy officers
place in position the good and the honest
enact wise measures-then will the people be
and prosperous, and then will the
;en talents given us be increased an hundred
iold.
"But from the best sources OF information at
ny command, l have always believed the pres
sent State officers received a majority Of the
egal votes cast at that election" |tde Presl-