The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-22
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
NEW ORLEANS, DECEMBER %. 1874
KEEP COOL.

When q man is sitting in his padded dress
ino-cown, with wadded silk slippers over hi
Balbrigean hose, and toasting himself before
a cheerful fire. while his wife and children
make music for him with their pleasant prat
ting, it is comparatively easy for him to fancy
the world is a very CHEEKY and joyous place o
abode. He wonders how it is that people
can be dissatisfied and grumble at HARD
times, and bewail their hard lot and swear al
the Government, and make themselves gen
orally unhappy and uncomfortable. What
knows this man about pinching want, about
starving wives and children, about oppressive
taxation, about thieves and odious laws!
Why should he vex himself about the
misery and want Of other people? The bell
rings and the servant brings in petition
from poor, starving woman at the door.
The maiordomo reads over the tale OF woe
carelcssly, and returns it to the servant with
the observation that it is very, very sad, and
something ought TO be DONE but he is not in
a condition Just now to extend assistance
essay TO the poor woman to bear up little
longer; that the spring, with its warm sun
and bright sky, will come by-and-by, and
perhaps she may get some relief after time
from the City Council Tell her not to do
ANYTHING rash, however, and not to modest in
any way the villain who has stolen her
money, but to bide her time, and it will all
be well. BY all means she must keep
COOL"
The above was elected by the following
very kind and really sympathetic article
which appeared in that sterling sheet the N.
Y. Journal Of Commerce, in regard to matters
in New Orleans, and which was enclosed to
us by valued friend for publication. There
is no question but the editor of the journal
of Commerce entertains the kindliest feelings
for the injured and oppressed people of
Louisiana, but he does not, and in tbs very
nature of things cannot appreciate the dread
full extremities to which we have been driven.
He cannot understand that Radical
Legislature means almost total humiliation,
and that already the chords Of patience and
forbearance have been stretched to their ut
most tension, and so, sitting costly in his
office in the great, powerful and wealthy city
of New York, he can very well advise us to
"keep cool" and "bear the ills we have
rather than fly to others that we know not
Of"
"Kcep cool r. We have kept cool, cooler
than any other people on the face Of the earth
would have kept under like aggravating and
heating circumstances. And we mean to
"keep cool" The time has passed for either
excitement or unseemly anger, but we are in
earnest, and do not mean to be juggled. By
watchfulness and foresight, timely action can
save us. We appreciate all kind words, but
kind words never yet kept hungry man from
starvation. never achieved peoples liberty. |
The TIME TO KEEP CooL.-The action of the |
Returning Board of Louisiana is exceedingly |
suspicious. Their delay in announcing re-
suits is most easily explained by the theory
that they mean to rob the Conservatives of |
their victory. The Board have VIGOROUSLY
cheated the voters before; and now, when SO |
much is mt stake, they probably would not
hesitate to do it again. The thought that this
may be done is irritating to any just mind,
ard we must excuse its effect upon the men
against whom the wrong is threatened in
Louisiana.
1t is hard for them to realize that all their
work on election day is about to be lost
through the knavery Of few official inspect
ors. Their feelings are not made any more
amiable by the consciousness that President
Grant has bound himself to stand by the
Kellogg government, and therefore to sustain
the acts of its TOOLS The Returning Board
are all the more likely to perpetrate the bold
est frauds, since, in his message, the Presi-
dent has promised to support Kellogg, and
they rely on Federal bayonets to enforce their
decisions.
Some Of the hot-blooded young men of the
opposition have been talking wildly about
mobbing or lynching these INSCRIPTIONS Of
ticials but these threats are rebuked and re-
pudiated by the leaders of the party. The
''White League" have nothing to do with
them The responsible men among the Con-
servatives were very careful during the cam
paign to avoid giving otfense and affording to
President Grand pretext for interfering with
bis troops. They are equally soicitous to
avoid that mistake now.
They know that any acts of revolt would
put them in a false position before the coun-
try, and give Congress fresh excuses to delay
The rendering of justice to Louisiana. The
true policy Of the Conservatives of that State
is to keep the peace under all provocations.
If they do so, it is possible they may secure
The favorable consideration even of the pres
INT Congress; while the next Congress Is GER
.ain to deal fairly by them. At the worst,
hey will not have to bear the Kellogg fraud /.
much longer; and in order that they may the
more quickly be relieved of it, they must en-
lure the prent evils with patience.-N Y. ,
Journal Of Commerce. Dec. 18th.
SIGNIFICANT. /,