The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-06
LOUISIANA'S ACCUSERS.

VIM. Pitt Kellogg's usurpation of the Cover
ment of Louisiana, the insolent charge is mad
that the mass Of the people of this State a,
incorrigible criminals, who set at defiance th
laws of God and of man.; that on
people, who in times past have illus
trated every virtue that adorns th
highest civilization and the purest Chris
tianity, have, since the advent of rampan
Radicalism in our State, by some suddel
transformation, fallen under the sway OF tn
spirit of diabolism that impels them to wan
ton deeds of blood and slaughter that woult
disgrace the savages of the South Sea islands
Sheridan, the catspaw Of Grant. as pretex
for his sanguinary designs and as an apolog.
for the military tlespotism of his master, de
nounces them as "bandith; Merrill, whose
exploits Of persecution against the people O.
the Carolinas, under color of the Ku-Klux act
have long since secured to himself an immor
tality of infamy, reports them
q lawless. turbulent and blood-tnirsty; De
Rudio, the treacherous assassin, who at
tempted the life OF Napoleon the Third and
saved his own neck from the guillotine by
betraying his associates in crime, represents
hem as quite offensive to his delicate sense OF
morality by reason of their lawlessness;
whilst tho whole pack of Radical blood
hounds that have been feasting upon the
vitals of the State until almost no life re-
mains, are bowling in unison that the
people of Louisiana arc cut-throats, murder
ers, assassins, banditti, because, forsooth
they object to being devoured body
of infamous accusers, that cowardly insulter
of the ladies Of New Orleans, that sum and
embodiment OF all base qualities, that cock
eyed spoon thief, Ben Butler, has at last added
to them the ugly epithet Of 'horse.thieves."
Righteous Heaven! what an array of accusers!
ranging all the way up from Phil Sheridan.
the slaughterer of Piegan squaws and pa
pooses, through rabble Of grand and petty
criminals to the great Massachusetts, stcaler
of spoons
What means this howl of detraction and
Islander and utilization by the whole pack?
Why, when Louisiana lies bleeding, mangled,
almost dead in the clutches of these ravening
wolves. do they raise this clamor against her
good name2 1t is because her cries have at
last reached the ears of the nation, and there
wrenohed from their fangs, that their beastly
revels over her bleeding carcass will soon be
interrupted, and that they will be driven to
their dcns by popular Indignation.
That they may be permitted to continue to
prey upon her they but follow their beastly
instinct by representing her as a beast of
prey. Such is the cunning of these beasts. |
The disorders in Louisiana. the crimes
committed here, have been occasioned, fos-
tered and committed by the very men who
raise this outcry against this people. They
have demoralized and debauched the negro
population and encouraged them in the COM
mission of every crime known to the Law,
from murder down to petty larceny. The
criminal records of all the parishes i'll the
State will show that eighty per cent.
of all the crimes. of every grade. that have
been committed in Louisiana since the war,
have been committed by the blacks. And
these records will further show that in the
parishes that have been cursed with Radical
judges. district attorneys and sheriff., no
honest efforts have been made to bring these
criminals TO justice nothing worth mention
ing beyond preliminary proceedings suffici-
emit to secure to these officers their criminal
fees and criminal fees they are indeed. II is
only in those few isolated parishes that
have been blessed with Conser-
native officers of tho law that any
Ierious endeavor has been made, since the
Of Radicalism in our State Gov
rnment, to execute the criminal laws. Rad ;
tho State are venal and corrupt
nd it is one of their modes OF securing negro
'otes by screening them from punishment for
rhine. 8
And shall these crimes then. committed by v
he disciples of Radicalism, thus encouraged q
nd patronzed by Radical Off Gals, be charged :,
{ the door of the good people of Louis
MAP Shall Phil Sheridan be credited, is
hall Ben Butler be tolerated by the s.
merican people, when Louisianians are de. -
40 other AS "horse-thieves," without con- d
llting the criminal records Of the State?
hall insult thus be added to injury by men G,
no have accomplished our ruin and would tc
ow destroy our good name? s.
If we were in the possession of the State .
overnment, which rightfully belongs to us, in
our representative men filled the judicial 81
nd executive offices to which they have been n
Iirly elected, and if their crime were -,
ermitted las it now is) to go I'M th
hipped of justice or if criminals, ST
hen convicted and sentenced to punish Il
lent, were Immediately pardoned and IN
armed loose upon the community by our be
hief Executive, as they now are by the tn
supper of the Governors office-why, then.
II people might be justly held responsible or