The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-28
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The People Of the District Robbed Of
*2S,OOO,OO for Improvements and
Salaries.
Grant Determined upon Third Term.
Hope for the South.

WASHINGTON, Aug. -, 1874
There is no place outside of the States OF
Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi
where the results of Republican rule are more
keenly felt than here, in the "capital OF the
nation" With population OF less than
$50 900, this District has been mulcted IN a
debt, as is now ascertained, OF ne lrly S2s,-
600, 600 for Improvements" and salaries OF
political dead BEATS the M st OF whom are
innovations from other sections of the Union.
And all this in less than three years.
The result is paralyzation Of business, de-
probation in the value Of property. and in
creased taxation; the taxation, too, based upon
assessments in which the property is valued
at, in many instances, double its value, and in
all, more than two-thirds more than it can be
sold for In Louisiana the people know some
thing of this kind Of rule, but, if misery loves
company, it mag be some comfort to know
that theirs is not an an isolated case, and that
Republican rule here has aroused the people
of the country to sense OF the necessity. not
only of looking after carpet-baggers at the
"capital," but everywhere else.
However, sdark is the hour before the
dawn" ray Of light may now be seen through
the "blackness OF darkness which has char
acterized the long night Of Southern suffering
and oppression. Everywhere there are mani
festations of discomfort in the Republican
party which, though now only Like 'the light
cloud ut even" will soon "gather In darkness
an end in storm which will be destructive
to the aspirations and schemes of those who
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they have maligned and oppressed. The lead
ers of the party now perceive the cloud which
forbodes the storm, and for the last few days
numbers of them have been in consultation,
earnest and long, to prepare for its coming.
This cloud, which, for time, WAS not
larger ethan a man hand, is to be seen in
the third term which President Grant Is
anxious-yes, determined -- if possible, to
serve in the White House. 1t was small
short time ago, out now covers the whole po-
litical horizon, and causes the stoutest OF the
Radical wire-workers to quail and cover in
dread Of the storm which it portends. This
is no fancy picture, but one the reality OF
which will soon be allied to many who have
long been betraying the people OF the North,
and despoiling the people OF the South
President Grant is in earnest in this busl-
ness All his energies, with his bulldog per-
severance, are enlisted in accomplishing his
purpose. Every means which he can control
will be used-the entire patronage OF his
office, which You know is immense. Some
time ago, the Republican politicians laughed
ut the idea of Grant being in earnest, or even
thinking of Third Term" Now, there is
no laughing They know that he not only de-
sires an election for a third term, but that he
is determined to accomplish it. 1t is now
openly asserted by his friends, and by the
President himself, that he owes the Republic
can party nothing; but that on the contrary,
the party owes its very existence to him that
his name fame, and popularity saved it from
destruction. So that he feels free to act as his
indications of interest may dictate.
The plan of the campaign has already been
determined on, and the readers Of the BuILE-
TIN are assured that, regardless Of all conse-
quences Grant has determided Ito fight it out
on this line.
SO you will see there is hope-that better
day is dawning upon the South and the coun-
try. For where '- fall out honest men get
| their own not by tie election of Grant to a
third term but IL the fight which is bound to
come in the Republican camp, the destruction
Of that party is inevitable.
| Here, then, is our opportunity; an opportu-
nifty which will enable the true men of the
country, if united, to rescue it from the hands
Of the spoiler and reinstate Republican gov
eminent, and make our once glorious Repub-
lie again what its founders intended it should
be- ga government fer the people and ny the
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