The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-06
of the worlds advance. But if pirate hands
grasp the scepter and change it to

of the worlds advance. But if pirate hands
grasp the scepter and change it to
MURDERoUs cUDGEL;
1t Its bellied sails are blackened with fumes
from hell, and bloated with the chsrnel
houses vapors; if instead of argosies engaged
in fair trade, we have slavers seeking theil
cargoes in the fevsr-haunted jungles of Islander
wreckers lighting false beacons to lure noble
ships upon the rocks of confidence; pirates,
whose decks are slippery with the blood oil
their victims, il, narrowing the horizon of its
opportunities down to spite and hindrance and
ISLANDERS foul and stale and false and inhuman,
the press becomes the plunderer of the reputa.
tons of men living and dead; Their, even
az the nations of the earth combine for the
determination of the outlaws of the sea, go
ought communities combine against the de-
mons of the press. [Great applause Have
we not such pirates among us? Why, fellow
citizens, for twenty years the San Francisco
Bulletin has crouched like a
| BLOODLEss FROG
on stone laughter -bloating and croak-
ing and puking in the face of nature. ZAP
plause and laughter. For twenty years it
has lived on the morbidness of public senti-
ment and the depraved appetites of the
curious and the envious It has traduced
the living and DETAINED the dead. It has
never advocated q measure of public utility.
Il has never developed an industry. 1t has
never encouraged a public work. 1t has
never put bread into mans mouth or
hope into woman's heart. Applause.
Its life has been sordid and soulless,
cruel to all generosity of impulse, and uncom-
pensating to mankind. Its track has been
marked with the slime of its ISLANDERS and the
blood of its victims. I will not enumerate the
great hearts that have gone to their graves
smarting with the sores inflicted by the sland-
erous arrows of the San Francisco Bulletin You
know them as well as 1 do. And say to-
night, in this presence, that the continued
existence of this paper is blot upon the fair
fame OF honorable journalism, and q disgrace
to the civilization of San Francisco. [Great
applause
The Eastern papers TEEN to-day with wild
and wicked stories of him. No man who
knew him but knew, in the generosity of his
life, how it was all for others and none for
himself. Simple in his tastes, abstemious in
his habits, quiet, moderate and courteous-no
living soul ever saw him depart from the
course of true gentleman, or spend upon
himself what he could give to Others ZAP
plause.
That is his record as public man. It was
said on the day when the whole city turned
out to bear his poor, sad, white remains to
Lone Mountain; when the hands which toiled
SO often, for you, for me, for every one who
came within their reach. were crossed in
everlasting rest upon his breast; when those
feet. that had travelled so many weary jour-
neys for the good of the people of this State,
and in the performance of acts of private be-
nefcencs which can not be numbered any
more than the sands of the sea; when that great
heart, that never beat with anything but gen.
erous aud kindly impulse, was stilled forever;
W hot bod f<av,
kindness and generosity on his friends and his
fellow.citizens, were dimmed in death; when
those lips, that had never spoken, to my
knowledge, an angry or wicked word of any
human being, were forever hushed in the
silence of the grave when he could not speak
to answer for himself when all that might
have been explained was kept until he was
dead and gone forever, it Was said that he was
engaged in Garrison's schemes in this city
Why, fellow-citizsns, whatever there was in
the Commodore's political schemes I don't
know and don't care. VIM. G. Ralston was
not in the State of Cal fornia when thew
1t was said that he was underneath the De
Haro claim. Well, that was an assertion.
Now 1 undertake to assert on the very best
authority of those who are interested in that
land claim, that he had no connection with
or interest in it, and it is very doubtful
whether he ever knew that there was such |
thing as the De Haro claim. Applause
1t was said that he fostered the claims of |
John B. FELTON, to the United States Senate |
because he wanted him as an attorney to |
the Do Haro claim. I happen to |
know that he resisted to the uttermost, from |
the first, the claims of John B. FELTON, to the |
United States Senate, and never befriended |
him politically for one single hour. ZAP
plause.
1t was said that he was responsible for what |
ls known as the diamond swindle Gentle
men, have something to say on that subject
In the course of my professional business it |
became my duty to prepare the preliminary
papers for the organization of the Diamond
Company. know what Mr.. Ralston thought
md what he felt know that, in his conf
1ence in the report of one of the most dis
inguishsd scientific mining engineers
;, the country, or any other,
which declared that to be a
genuine and most astonishing discovery, he
'ut his money in it. If he ever said one
word in its favor to a friend, or anybody in
rested therein through his influence, when it
vas over and ended; when the fraud that was
'erpetrated upon every man concerned in the
company had been disclosed and made known
o the world, what did he do? What did he
lo-thls man who undertook to rob the pub
lc with the diamond swindle? He gave them
Jack their money out of his own pocket,
applause] and it cost him over $500, 900.
'ut he paid it like man, without murmur
y culver. Applause And that record,
Ike every other record of that mans life of
which ever heard, instead of containing a
ingle spark of dishonor is but another
rlbute to the honesty and integrity of his life
nd his willingness to suffer to the last dollar
nd the last drop rather than any man should
ook him in the face and say, 81 suffer through
ou" [Applause.1
We are requested to say that the ladies of
he Crescent City Relief Association will have
lunch set out at st. Patricks Hall to-day at
l o'clock.
Advertisements in the Want and Rent column in
he BULLETIN, not exceeding one square, inserted
Or fifty cents each. l.