The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-29
THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE,

THE CONGRESSIONAL COMM1lAhb,
to examine and report upon the political STU
alton in this State, are on their way here ana
perhaps may be here when this article appears
This committee by many, is regarded as inc
future hope Of the Radical party. L. III Tue
investigations to be made, it can, by nook OF
by crook sustain Grant and Kellogg, then the
ultra Radicals will rejoice What mistaken
supposition The suppression OF the TRUTH
the peryersion of facts, the sytematic manu-
facture of outrages out of the fertile brain OF
carpet-baggers, have been made manifest in
so many instances, that fighting on that line
any longer will not win.
The lost power of the Republican party can
be regained only by the exposure, full and
clear, of the frauds and impositions Of the
charlatans and hypocrites Of its own party.
When honest Republicans are convinced that
in the name of Republicanism great crimes
have been committed by the sanctimonious
leaders of its party, and when they will step
forward and denounce fraud and hold up to
public scorn the orginators Of these frauds,
then the Republican party may have some
chance, some hope, to regain the confidence
of the people.
The Congressional Committee about to
visit us, are represented by the Northern press
as partisans Of liberal turn Of inclination
not ultra, not welded to the one idea that all
protesting Republican principles are immac-
ulate, but fair minded and disposed to listen
to all representations and TO weigh well and
impartially ali the statements made to them.
II such is the disposition of that committee,
we have no apprehensions that the report,
which will be made to Congress, will be in
imical to us.
What might be asserted in our columns
perhaps would not be received with full faith
and to prove that no exaggeration OF the
fraudulent course Of the Returning Board,
has been made by us, we publish some COM
ments from the New York press. The Herald
Of the Oath says:
The New Orleans trouble looks serious. Our
dispatch from that city recOunts new steps in
the fra udulent action Of the Returning Board
of a character so unabashed and outrageous
that it is doubtful whether the people will
quietly submit If they heed our advice they
will preserve the peace at every sacrifice OF
feeling. The monstrOus frauds which SO
Justly excite them will make a similar impress
sion on the whole country, and if their wro ngs
are not promptly redressed by Congress the
people will change the Federal Government.
The citizens of New Orleans must not weaken
their case by violence.
We have never made more serious charges
against the Returning Board. Let the Con-
gressional Committee seek for, and inquire
for, and find out the truth. We do not ask
confidence to be reposed in our averments,
but we do ask strangers to us to investigate
and to report.
We have reproduced in our paper number
less extracts from the press, and particularly
from the Independent and Republican presses,
to prove that all we have said about the
wrongs inflicted upon us in the name Of Re-
publicanism was the truth and nothing but
the truth.
The Tribune of the same date comes to our
aid and says:
From our New Orleans dispatches the ma
neuverS OF the Returning Board to reverse
the verdict of the polls, seem to have taken
definite shape. Their action is likely to real
ize the worst fears. By Withholding returns
from several Conservative parishes they are
expected to give majority to the Republi-
cans in the Legislature. Meanwhile they
themselves are to adjourn over the holidays.
When this fraud is consummated there will
be other people besides the wronged citizens
of Louisiana who will have something to say.
The concluding sentence, if uttered by us,
would be construed into a menace. When the
fraud is consummated, what will other people
say?
We will let the committee ponder upon
that question, and if the wrongs of the Cit
zens of Louisiana are not righted, let the con-
stituents of the several members of the COM
mittee have their say.