The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-03
NO HOPE BUT IN THE DEFEAT OF
GRANT,

Let us not deceive ourselves with the vail
and delusiye hope that Louisiana is to be re
ileved from her present deplorable condition
by any expedients that may be favored by any
of the adherents of Grant We have been re.
duced to this condition by the inexorable
logic Of Grants policy His policy, ever
since his second election, has had but one
primary end in view, and from that end
nothing on earth can turn him aside. His
end and aim in everything he has done, or
will do, is to perpe.uate lis term of office as
President, OF at least as the chief magistrate
of this country under whatever name.
What he has done in subjngating Louisiana
and IL depfiving her Of sef-goyerument, has
been done in furtherance .of this, his darling
ambition. Everything has been done delib-
erately, wilfuliy and with malice aforethoueht.
And although Grants treatment of Louisiana
has brought upon him opprobrium and de-
nunciatlon from one end Of the land to the
other although it has alienated from him
many of the ablest and best of his former a l.
herents; although it has demorazed and
divided, and almost dissolved the Republican
party yet none of these nor all
OF these evidences Of popular disap-
probation have induced him to change
his policy or to modify his course in regard TO
Louisiana; but On the contrary, it is evident
that he means to persist in the same course |
of treatment of her until the fearful problem |
of the next Presidential election is solved. |
II II be possible, still more vigorous measures
against this State to say nothing of the other
Southern States beadopted to brine her
into complete suJsegviency to his ambitious
purposes.
President Grant will. therefore, never per
nit the political shaches to Be stricken from
he limbs Of Louisiana during his term of
power, nor will any of the Radical politicians,
Ike Hoar Wheeler and Frye, who have
linked their fortunes with his, ever favor anv
cheme to restore our people to the cont roi
u their own State government. Nor will
Irant or his supporters do aught to mitigate
he rigors of the government which he has
creed upon u, unless we should forswear D."
ur manhood and become his iege vassals. 6
This is too plain for disputaton if We look t
tho facts before Us. We mus. therefore a
lde our time. We mus. grid our loins and :
lmmon all our fortitudc to endure all the ,
araships that are still il store for US until v
ie dly of del!verance shlll come Il is not [
hand, but it will soon come, or liberty will :.
g lost in all the States. i
We need not look tor any substantial relief s
= Louisiana until we have a change in the .
ederal Administration. lna. change viii -
} effected BY the Presidential election il n
~. In that election is involved every ra-
onal hope for our deliverance from the hands n,
the spoiler It requires no prophet 10 see
ut the administration Of the Federal Cow
nment will at that epoch pass into the anCis
tue Democratic or anti-Radical party. Then IL
, IN Louisiana, will be restored to freedom =
tn all the blessings which it implies
The man who looks for the emancipation Of
'uislana, by any expedient whatever, I.
ior to the next Presidential cleo. thi
N, will be wofully disappointed. And H,
will be equally disappointed who
enshes any hope for relief as long as he,
ant remains at the head Of the government. an,
care not to assign any additional reasons dire
these predictions but what can be seen by /
7 who are not mentally blind.
rom these premises we would urge upon our
pie to exercise heroic patience. We would yea
nonish them to do nothing that could by L
possibility impair the potency of their ~, III;
at cause as an agency for the defeat of ocl
mt and his party in 1876. We would i'm
s. upon them, that only by the overthrow
the tyrant who has enslaved them can
y hope to be free. Though they be bound
d and foot, the story Of their wrongs will Is
-ecountea throughout the land, and it will pen
be heard in vain by their countrymon 1t 1os,
raise up friends to hurl their oppressors =
n power. The clanking of their chains
be the death-knell of Grantism.
-u.&nna1z.n@~
he majority of the Conservative Caucus
!, the very moment when the Radical party