The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-24
THE MIDNIGHT RoBsskY.

The able and patriotic editor Of the Bee, who
neither claims TO be .imnovably neutral" nor
independent" whenever the rights Of the
people are trampled upon, by the parties who
imagine that their present lease Of power
gives them unlimited license to do whatever
they please, publishes this morning the
following pungent and timely remarks on the
outrage committed BY the city police against
the BULLETIN The contrast between the out
spoken language Of our esteemed contempo-
rary and the faint-hsarted comments Of the
two Camp street hybrids on the same subject,
cannot fail to strike our readers:
"Lafon.aine says that nothing is more dan
gerous than bluodering friend. This maxim
applies to the minions of Kellogg, who. dur
ing the absence Of the pseudo Governor,
thought they were doing him good turn in
conducting against the BULLETIN their absurd
and criminal coup de main Of Saturday night
If these parties hal been end ,wed with a
particle of good sense they would have felt
that, instead Of injuring the BULLETIN,
their razsia would only make our
brave and patriotic confreres still more pop
ular than they were before. Nothing is more
to be dreaded than an excess Of zeal, and we
presume that great chieftain, Badger-who at
first thought he was doing big thing, when
he sent his men on that nocturnal manraud-
ing expedition-must have felt very penitent
the next morning, when he began to suspect
what might be the result to his own and his
patrons interests in that enterprise worthy Of
Maudrin and Cartouche sia ~,I,j4 gr
"But if this laundering and stupid attempt
to suppress a journal can only hurt its authors,
it has nevertheless very grave and serious
aspect" ;ail 1siaa
IT, indeed, at the opening OF an electoral
campaign, the Chief of the Metropolitan Po-
lice dares to take upon himself, without the
slightest legal pretense. without the slightest
excuse, and in disregard of every
known form Of proceeding, to authorize the
seizure of the forms of q newspaper,
at midnight, by gang Of men, without uni
form, who might rightfully have been con
sidered as robbers and treated as such, we ask
ourselves how far these janisaries Of the usurp-
ers may carry their holiness"
IL arbitrary. power IS the cnly rule recog-
nized by these 600 men, what liberties, what
sacred rights viii they feel bound to respect r.
1T is time that the people of this city
should think seriously of this matter. For
the last four years they have submitted to
compulsory tax of nearly one million of dol
lars per annum, fastened upon them by
the Radical authorities to pay for this army
of mercenaries, who have played but one part
eficiently-the upholding of on odious and
execrated despotism over the population Of
our city and State. The time may come when
the usurpeys will deem it necessary to en-
ploy again that docile organization, which
supports Kellogg, as it did Warmoth, to
suppress the last vestige of freedom
left to Louisanians, and to stife in the ballot
box the expression of the popular will. The
people of New Orleans must expect everything
from the head Of the usurpation and the peo-
pie under his orders, and it is we'll that they
should be ready to face the issue. The seizure
of the BULLETIN will thus prove timely
warning which, it is to be hoped, will be well
needed.