The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-04
FACTS VS.. FICTION.

It is little fatiguing and somewhat ex-
aspe-ating to be compelled to contradict the
errors. both unintentional and malicious, to
which the Republican gives publication in its
every issue but We presume they must De
accepted very much as the Egyptians accepted
visitation Of locusts or lice, or is our West
ern people accept the coming of the destroy
ing grasshoppers, some Of which they may
crush beneath their heels, but uncounted
millions Of which must inevitably escape to
pursu. their l6ighting career. We have this
advice to give the Republican:
If you must invent and falsify in order to
bolster up your tottering ana fast failing cause,
in the name Of decency, and for the preserva-
ton of the American reputation for shrewd-
ness, invest your misrepresentation with just
enough of plausibility and truth to give them
color. It must be absolutely notifying to its
friends to see q Radical journal falling SO
lamentable behind in the one art upon which
more than everything else put together the
Radical party depends for its perpetuation. 1t
is scarcely necessary to quote for the benefit
of the Republican the wise saying of Englands
Laureate, which inculcates the necessity of IN
fusing into a falsehood at least ''half truth"
so that it shall be 80 harder matter to fight"
For lie that il all q lie,
May be met and fought with outrigh6
But lie which is half truth
Is hal der matter TO fight"
These reflections have been called forth by
the frequent iteration by the Republican of the
most unblushing falsehoods in regard to the
encounter on the 18th ult@ between the police
and the citizens.
The following should be cut out and fled
away by our citizen soldiers as specimen Of
the brilliant genius of the Republican in the
fabrication of statements which are utterly
devoid Of truth:
There was not the disparity between the 800 Of
ThermopylT who fell beneath the myriads of the
Persian invader, but the fight and defeat of $50
in the open street by 500 entrenched behind bales
and hogshcads reflected no particular honor upon
the conquerors. II has always been the merit Of
the Colfederates that they maintained a desDer- |
alto war against far superior force and material
Neither party ever made boast that 5000 had |
defeated $50. There As no process OF political
chemistry by which chivalry can be extracted |
from such elements Of inequality.
There is no sort OF chemistry whatever that
can extract a gram of fact from the above. It
is the purest and most miraculous fancy, and
must have emanated from brain added by
Jersey lightning, hasheesh, or blind preju-
ADLER
Tne truth is, TINT the boasted army Of Kel-
logg, tthe maintenance Of which had cost the
people of this State millions of dollars which
about 5000 men armed with the
most effective weapons known to modern war
ARE was swept out Of existence in q conflict
N which $50 metropolitans, with four can
1ons, were shamefully beaten in the brief
space of half an hour, by about 16O citizens,
'ome Of whom were armed with shotguns and
'ome with rifles.
Before the fight Longstreet boosted of the
brigade rs the finest and best
disciplined body of troops he had ever seen,
nd was confident Of his ability to control
lot only the people Of New Orleans, but Of the
ntire State. He and Badger always smiled
lerisively at any intimation that the people
ould successfully assail them, and were sin 8
ere in the belief that any such uprising Of I
be populace, as occurred on the 14th inst, q
ould be crushed in few hours, by making
n imposing demonstration with a battalion
Metropoltans and several cannon.
On the day Of the fight there may have been
t various points, some 1000 armed citizens
$ opposed to more than 5000 of kellogas ,
!, al 10
tate-House and jackson Square, but il the
ctual conflict the metropolitan outnumbered I
ne citizens almost, if not quite, t,co to one 6
hich fact is known to every one who has
ken the trouble to look into the NATTER
ish view to ascertaining the truth.
When Badger fell and his route men
ought refuge in the Custom House and in
light, the grea. usurpation balloon collapsed so
lddenly as to astound the people. Gone was
ongstreet and his noble army Of metropoi-
ms; gone was the epauletttd and oleaginous
arber with his dusky regiment; gone was
very vestige of the Kellogg Government from
ouisi ma soil and the arrogant usurper who
My the day before, flung insult and defiance
1 the face Of the people, sat covering, a
utility and disgusting spectacle, within the :
nlls Of the Custom House. dreadiag the fury h
the people whom be had stung to madness G
y his innumerable acts Of oppressioO o.
MAkRIEDO
KENNEDY EvANs-In Covington, La, Sep-0
I'm Der 2sth, 1874 az the residence of the brides
lother, By Rev. c. Denoyelle, Miss N. A. KEN