The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-12
REALIZING THE SITUATION.

The Republican, the property and official
organ of the usurpers Of the State Govern
ment. is becoming seriously alarmed at the
growing dissatisfaction of the people. The
rumors of vigilance committees strike ter
ror in the hearts of those who have
Imagined themselves safely and securely in
stalled in the positions they have snatched
from the lawful owners. The mutterings of
the people are growing louder and louder,
and their wrongs and grievances are assum-
ing shape that make the perpetrators
tremble for their safety. They are Alright in
their fears. Their own cOnsciences tell them
that the people have just cause to rebel
against the oppression and outrages that
have been put upon them.
They see and realize fully the fearful con-
iton to which the country has been reduced
by an imbecile and corrupt government.
They know that the people have tolerated
and submitted with unparalleled patience
and fOrbearance to all kinds of spoliatiOn,
nsurpation and tyranny. And they begin
to feel, now that the end of the tether has
been reached that the time has arrived when
forbearance must cease that self-protectiOn,
selfrespect, personal honor and true man
hood demand that no more concessions be
made for the sake of policy and expediency.
We are not surprised then to find the col
umns of the organ overlooking with cautions
and threats to "the partisans who are try
ing to brew storm" We are not surprised
nor are we intimidated either, in the
slightest degree-to find it's advice to Attor-
ey-General Field, its appeal in behalf of
the militia appropriation, and its sinister
allusion to the police and to Gen. Longstreet.
We are not surprised at this display Of tre-
pidation OH the part of the pensioned organ.
The outburst of the people may abruptly
end the political career of its patrons, and
that timid sheet may find itself swallowed
up in the vortex Of the brewing storm.
That the people are in earnest no better
proof is wanting than the four columns of
yesterdays Republican. In one column a
citizens patrol is seen; in another vigi
lance committee is discovered; in another an
ornamentcd lamp-post looms up in the dis
tance and in other, the demolition Of the
present hideous dynasty is mournfulIy de-
picted.
There is no concealing the fact that some
thing must be done for the redemption of
the State-The remedy is in the hands of the
people, and if they choose the yoke that
grinds them to the earth can easily be snap
ped assunder. Poverty and misery, confis
cation and:ruin stalk through the land, whilst
the usurpers and despoilers revel in luxury
and the wealth extorted from too submis-
sive people.
Let not the people, then, heed the idle
and puerile threats OF the Republican. They
are like the boastings Of the robber who, de-
tected in his crimes and seeing no escape.
makes bold to resist and to fight. But his
tuning is only effervescent, and rapidly dis
sipates when the gag and the nippers are
applied. We have only to be determined
and firm-resolyed to help ourselves and
rely upon a just Providence to give us vic
tory in the good cause Of justice against
wrong, liberty against oppression, honest
and intelligent government against fraud,
corruption and ignorance.