The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-15
THE TRUE SITUATION.

Not a day passes but the impoverished
ment, and yet, Wat has been done by the
usurping government to tighten the bur
,lens of our people In order to bolster the
Kellogg Government, and hide its iniquities
from the National Congress, rumors have
been put in circulation that general
reform has cen projected, and that the
Kellogg usurpation has been of such a
gentle character that our people have
abandoned their opposition, and desire no
change.
These falsehoods have been so often re-
peated that Radical Senators make them
the ground of their argument for nOn-
action upon Senator Carpenters new election
bill.
When the people openly and boldly mani
fest their opposition, their action is charac-
terized as rebellion against the National
Government. When they, by petition
quietly protest, and for nearly tive years,
have laid their grievances before Congress
and respectfully ask that redress to which
they are constitutionally entitled, their
peacable action is misrepresented and
termed acquescence." 1t is a notorious
fact that, although there is no armed oppo-
sition to Kellogg and his usurping govern
ment, the sentiments of the people to-day
are the same as they were two years ago,
when, by demonstration unparalleled in
the history of the State, they recognized the
correction of the election returns as eX-
pressed officially through the public prints;
and, to-day, if Federal bayOnets did not pre-
vent, the usurping government could not
withstand the popular clamor which would
demand its cessation. The umors of reform
are equally false.
The extravaganza of the past is still con-
tinued. The general expenditure is as great
as ever. The eXtravagant salaries OF OH
Gals, in spite of the general depression and
the enormous taxation to which we are sub
jectcd, knows no abatement. Criminals,
guilty of the most aggravated crimes, and
whose convictions were VIGOROUSLY just,
have been again set loose upon society to re-
enact their history of crime. new parti-
san Criminal Court has been created for the
parish of Orleans, subjecting the city to an
liability of not less than $4,000.
The city of Carrollton has, without the con-
sent of the inhabitants of either city, been
made part of the city of New Orleans,
with a bonded debt, mostly created i'll fraud,
Of not less than 100000. The bonds of the
city of Carrollton, issued without any au-
thority of legal character, and not even
by the CarrolltOn Council, and
aggregating in amount not less than $50, 900,
have been legalized by the late act of incor-
Doration, and the city of New Orleans bur
lened with its payment of interest and
Corruption in office is of the most general
character and the guilty parties go unpun
shed. Legislative acts in the interest of
'peculators and lobbyists are passed by
bribery, and men in high official authority,
hough cOgnizant of the base transaction,
efuse to bring the parties to the bar of JUS
ice. Legislators grow rich in session
lpon the paltry salary of $500, and when All
Indignant public displace them with honest
nen the ballots are disregarded, the popular
lecsion set aside, and base men, without
constituency, and whose only object is
public plumber and self-enlichmcnt, are de-
Jared to be the representatives of the once
'roud State of Louisiana.
Can such things continue, and the Fed
raj Congress stand idly by and consent by
is non-aetion to our humiliation and ruin
We anxiously await action upon the bill of
enator Carpenter, and yet trust that Con
ress, though largely Republican, shall yet
0 us justice; and, by fair election, ena- /
lie our people to crush, peaceably, the
surpation which threatens with destruc-
ion the liberties of the people, as well as
be commercial prosperity OF both State {
nd city.