The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-28
THE GROWING 1NFAMY OF THE AGE

| Fedefal uSurpatOn. reasonable cOnSplra
It cy Matched at Washington, and put in motion
# in New Orleans, under the auspices of inebri
4 ate judicial usurpation, inaugurated in thi
4 State, by the cooperation of Federal troops
one Of the most fendish and contemplate o
all the numerous essays to govern a peopl
without their consent, since the world wa
made. That bogus government, bolstered VI
by the authority Of the Federal Government
having been tolerated in ali its extortions and
corruptions for nearly two years, during
. which all the interests and welfare of the PEG.
pie were alarmingly impe riled, the usurpel
not satisfied with his rule and ruin policy
attempted to put an elephant on the camels
back, in his effort to disarm the people.
That monstrous folly eliminated on the
ever memorable 14th September, in prompt
assemblage OF the citizens Of New Orleans OF
Canal street, where they unanimously resolved
that the mammoth tyranny must terminate in
the abdication Of the Acting Governor, who
had been fraadulently imposed upon this
commonwealth. The end of the usurpation
was superseded by the accession Of the execu-
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vember, 1872, and in whom the entire people
reposed the highest respect and confidence
ever known in any civilized community. Dur
ing the brief days of the restored legitimate
Government, the utmost good order and
harmony prevailed throughout the length and
breadth Of the entire body polite.
Then came the browning infamy of the age,
in the action Of the Federal Administration, to
restore the puppets and funkeys of polit-
ical regime without any constituency, and in
all its origin and history utterly despicable,
and beneath the contempt Of ali honest men
Of every color and condition of society. When
such dynasty is imposed upon high-spirited
people like those of Louisiana, and it is at
tempted by mere brute force to strangle all the
elevated impulses of right and justice in the
guaranteed freedom Of legitimate body poll
tic, how pitiable and melancholy must be the
reflections Of those who contemplate debase-
ment SO degrading to the central power that
inficts remorseless wrong in the bolstering of
party interests, hostile to social rights, at the
expense Of decency? The righteous DEGREES
of Providence must exact terrible retribu-
ton from the diabolical miscreants who have
conceived and engineered travestie upon
free institutions and self-government SO mon
strous.
1t comprises the first and bitterests fruits of
tolerating in a country like ours, an unmixed
despotism in the hands of soldiers of fortune
who in the audacity of insolence, put but
small value in their estimate Of the lives and |
fortunes of the common people.
At any remonstrances against their tyranny |
dain, and taught by ''Carpenterian statesmen"
they echo the admonition eco throw politics
to devil, and mind their shops!" Such flip
pancy might be borne with tolerable patience,
could we accustom ourselves to the behests Of
bloodhounds like the Duke of Alva, in Hol-
James H. in the colony of Massachusetts,,
Gov. Andres. That monster, aided by his
Attorney General Randolph, inflicted the
most intolerable grievances, extortion and
vexati9p upon the colonists, furnishing in his
whole career, precedents for Grant, Williams,
very similar, that in reading the story Of An
lros, you have the details Of Kellogg's usur-
patton in Louisiana, up to the day the people
rose en- ,ndsse and drove him and all his abet-
tors into the Federal Custom House
In the case of Andres, King James prefg-
lred Grant in sustaining Kellogg, who as yet
aas escaped the fate OF Andres, who, with |
fifty OF his adherents, were imprisoned by the
people of Boston, until suitable transporta-
ion offered for England. On those mis-
'reants reaching the mother country, they :
ound a revolution there in progress, the King :
dedicated, and all hope of restoring the colo r
'ial officers vanished. The people of all the ;
lew England colonies, having assumed all G
heir natural rights Of self-government, con- y
inued in the enjoyment Of undisturbed pros 4
'erity during several generations until their
ccumulations attracted the greed Of the
ome government, which attempted to extend t
heir Ubiquitous stamp act levy three pence c
ound duty on tea, and quarter soldiers upon
he inhabitants. Popular resistance to those 1
leasures led to the massacre of citizens by a
he soldiery, the expulsion of the soldiers a
rom the town, destruction of the stamps in a 4
onfre, and the emptying OF cargo of tea r
4 the harbor-all ending in the union of the S
olonies, war Of defense lasting seven years.
nd final separation and independence Of the
nited States. -
If Grant could be induced. when quietly G
noking his cigars, to reflect, as all sober
len should, he would find ready egress -
ON the labyrinth of error and misdemeanor ::
ito which his mercenary advisers have in =
olved him in the affairs of Louisiana He :,
as only to follow the example OF the general
the troops in Boston, at the time
Dove mentioned, take his soldiers where they
ay be more nsefully employed and he would IL
ave the happiness to observe in how brief s.