The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-16
GRANTS THREATS.

"The President threatens if Congress fall
IN its duty he will not fail in his.
| None here misunderstood this threat. Be
fore the close Of the last session of Congress
he said, as distinctly as words could be made
to say, that if Congress did not settle the
Louisiana usurpation question, he would sus
tain the usurper. Grant has sustained Kellogg
Congress saying and doing nothing then OF
since. In upholding Kellogg and carrying
out his declaration that he would maintain
him as the rightful Governor, he did not
scruple to do much more and much worse
would do.
lie dragooned the State for political pur.
poses, to prevent Democratic Legislature
from being elected; failing in which, he dis.
persed that Legislature at the point Of the
bayonet As to Arkansas, he pronounces
Brooks the rightful Governor, and declares,
by the plainest implication, that he will act
upon the correctness of his assumption, set
Garland aside, annul the results of an almost
unanimous election, blot out the decisions of
the Supreme Court of Arkansas, trample
under foot the will of eighty thousand voters,
reinstate Brooks, maintain him in Office, and,
with him as pretext, establish the rule of the
musket over half million of peaceful in
habitants
As to measures generally for the govern
ment of the South he has demanded from |
Congress plenary powers, with the express or |
implied declaration that he will construe the !
silence of Congress into assent for his doing
Ill that he has announced as his intention to
10. 1t is well known that army officers are
ousily engaged in collecting, collating and
orwarding to headquarters all the evidence,
md Just such evidence, chiefly hearsay, and
altogether er parte, as his ExcsllaAcy needs in
'rder to Justify that which he intends to do.
If Grant gets power from this condemned
congress to harry, Dragon and irritate the
Whole South, he will do it with persistent
cal; if Congress withholds the power, he
vii! construe Congressional silence as assent
Q all he has declared that he will do. If
congress sanctions in advance the suspen-
ion of the privilege of the writ of habeas
orpus. Grant will suspend it in thousand
ases; but If Congress refuses or negects to
uspend this ancient and sacred privilege.
rant threatens to suspend it and to do very
luch more in that direction. q
Grant has purpose in view, and he is T.
either dolt nor sluggard in laying his II
lans, or in carrying them into execution 0
e has SO often and SO vigorously urged Con- u
ress to give to him extraordinary power, and
rs so frequently declared what his intention "
in the case of the silence or non-action of a.
ongress, that it now matters but little to him ~
lether Congress acts or not Prohibitory te
crees from Congress would shackle the q
ldical party, and therefore Grant does not al
n such DEGREES. Mere Congressional non
ton would leave him without pretext; but Sc
J urgent demand of action, and his en- sp
attic declaration as to what he will do in III
'e of non-action, will, as he knows, give to Ia
, latter construction which chimes in with or
own plans. The most stringent laws of We
ngress were better than Grants arbitrary tic
1, if he would be limited or restrained in sci
7 manner by such laws WI
Ie intends to endure no restraint. He lnt
ends to win the express or implied consent me
Congress that he should do with the ]
lthern States precisely as he pleases, but ~ ~
b or without such consent he will most alu
lredly do exactly what he may consider for enc
advancement If bis own nurrosos the
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