The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-19
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

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The frightul mismanagement of affairs in
Louisiana under the present administration
has wrought out its logical result and culnll-
mated, accor ling to kilograms received at d
late hour last night, III an attempt at revolt
ton on the part the citizens who suffering
under great and continued wrongs, are unable
to find any redress.
Unhappily the story of wron S and misgov.
eminent to which the people have been sub
jected is in the main true. Whether they are
sufficient warrant for a revolution or an at
tempt at revolution is quite another question.
1t is not difficult to understand how the peo-
! pie OF Louisiana may have been badgered by
their oppressors to make this desperate etfos
- free thems elves.
II she Southern States wege IN condition
of absolute tranquility, If the equilibrium bee
tween the two races was malntained justly.
! and life, property and respect for rights were
assured as they are in well-goveren d cities,
these facts would be without parallel in the
history Of humanity. Where has it ever hap
penei that with the social found ,tions broken
up b, war which de-olated every fireside,
with millions of slaves, not mer ly made tree.
bat endowed with political rights OF whose
limitations hey coult have but faint COM
prehension; with the sntranchised class ia
vored 10y the protection aud countenai ce OF
the conqueror, whose generosity Is so Tar
abused 10y his dictionaries that he becomes
an oppres or where with these elements has
it ever happened that the people have taken
their places again in the new order with SUCH
good will, such content, such acceptance OF
incacuabe changes to leave nothing fur
ther III tn It way to be desired: 1t has never
happened and never will happen while men
are affected by the common human emotions
and nrfI do NOT no
heve it has ever yet happened in the world that
people accepted the hard consequences OF a
disastrous defeat with even much of heroic
patience as has been shown by our own peo-
pie in the Southern States.
Prepare deliberately the events chat will
irrtate and excite people and thai must
provoke them to violent acts if they are hui
man; then wait till the violence you have
pre- pared Tor oeculso and send your troops to
occupy their cities l, this the spirit of re-
cons rGct'on til It is to make the country one
again? This is the plan hat seem the wiSest
to Gen. Grants Attorneg GenerI-to the
head of the national department of justice.
If Mr.. Will ans proposes to himself results
sucn as We're secured by a distinguished man
III another department OF Justice III torlneY
age, he chooses his means accur tteiyo
Ii he wishes that his Illumination Of Che
national Justice shall become famous i'll this
country us was that of Je tfreys i'll England,
he will continue as he has begun. Already
h. has narrowly mis- ,ed the splendid reward
of tue Cn'et JustIce,hip the price of lis ser
vices i'll such IA reconstruction of Louisiana
a, has accomplished the worst purposes that
the worst of party plunder, Is could possibly
propose to themseivs 8. And again, he lends
himself as the re'dy tool Of Il further appca-
ton OF similar projects.
Grant, ind ierent as he seems 20 opinion.
keeps him self out OF it, and stays away as If
thereby the results might not fail on his
record. Aud the commander of the army as
clear he.ded in politics as he is in war.
though ou,ted from the national capital by
an in rigue, that he might not be in the way
of projects to which he could never assent,
protests That there Is no o .caSlon to send
troops in the Southern States. But the
man who reconstructed Louisiana, and
who woud. it left alone, have reconstructed
Arkansas, evide tly ready to reconstruct as
n'auy other States rs the wicked designs of a
plundering clique may require. But even
Jetireys. with all his atr 'ci,ies, WAS at last
compelled to say, Il was not half bloody
enough for him that sent me-" ard let Viii
lianlS beware lest at last he shall find himself
unequal to the intamy demanded, and so lose,
not merely his coward but even che right to
claim it.
BY the strongest ties of political morality
Therefore. We are bonnd to respect the proc
ereSs that reconstruction has already made.
For us there is no escape from the compact
, bul its violation from the other side. Has the
South ftiled in any of the observanceS that
were the implied conditions of the rehabilita.
ton of the Southern States? No; it is known
that the southern people are earnestly doing
their utmost to live peaceabIy-to stand 10y
ally by all he conditions of their restoration
TO political ri hts But no people can be sure
of its disorderiy classes.
No community can give guarantee tina
murder, arson, robbery or other outrage wi
not be committed in Its midst; neither can
the South, more than any other community,
give such guarantee. and to hold that be-
cause outrages are committed by the disor-
derby, therefore the whole people must forfeit
the position they have gained by the progress
that reconstruction has already made, is mere
iy the atrocious pretense OF those who have
ends to gain in the general wretchedness OF
the Southern people, a. Y. Herald.