The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-01
THE SITUATION AND OUR DUTIES.

No careful observer of the recent event
which have transpired in this country ca
have failed to understand the full force an
import Of the late elections. 1t is undeniabl
that staggering blow was dealt the dom
nant party, the leaders Of which are lost i
amazement 1T The extent and suddenness Of
revolution which in a day shook the founda
ton Of the political fabric which they ha
builded with much care, and threatens &
cngulf them all il common ruin.
The effect OF this sudden and unexpected
reawakening has been a disintegration o
ciques, and while some are imbued with thu
idea that the case being desperate, requires
desperate remedies others, more wise and
crafty, are cndeavoring to save the party from
absolute defeat by conciliatory measures-by
unloading as rapidly as possible and by max
ing protestatiops of virtue and desire for the
reform of abuses and evils for which Their
party stands accountable before the country.
Among the latter class are the shrewdest
politicians and closest observers, and they
are anxious to remove from the party the
odium attaching to the Administration policy
towards the South, and especially towards
Louisiana, which they realize was the real
them in the October elections.
The Conservative Republicans while they,
no doubt represent the larger wing of the
party, do not control the President and have
not his private ear Grant is naturally a
bclligerent, and nothing can reconcile him to
defeat. As in his military career he kept
hammering away, notwithstanding terrible
disasters and repulses, lost men by hundreds
of thousands by hurting his forces against his
antagonist, when he knew they would be
slaughtered, but calmly and serenely smoked
his cigar and congratulated himself that the
Confcderates could not last forever, as they
had no country to recruit from,-so in this
great political battle, he proposes to hammer
away, calculating that his numbers must
prove successful in the end, never thinking
Of the assertions which are taking place daily
and hourly, and determined that he will with
a rough hand put down the slightest intima-
lions Of disposition to thwart his will
He stuck Kellogg up in the Gubernatorial
chair of Louisiana on bayonets, and he pro-
poses with bayonets to keep him there though
the heavens fall and the republic itself totter
to its ruin. Surrounded by such malignant
men as Williams and Morton, he seems unable
to do justice to the people of the South under |
any circumstances.
They are always wrong, always rebellious,
always creating trouble while his friends |
and supporters, the carpet-baggers and plum
lerers, the jail-birds and lepers of society
generally, are somehow always miraculously |
right-at least Williams says so, and Williams
is the LdlD.
There can be no question that Louisiana is
. thorn in the side of the Ra licals, which it
viii be very difficult to extricate and which
'auses them vast uneasiness. They realize
md acknowledge the gross and irreparable
wrong done her, but madness rules the hour
md they seek to perpetuate their power by
severity towards us.
The manly and dignifed position our citi-
ems have maintained since the memorable
It'll of September; the determination to re-
isl all rascality and manipulation Of the
lection results without force Of arms or VIC
aace, has sadly disappointed the Administra-
ON and its partisans; hence, it behooves
o destroy the equilibrium Of loyalty and dig
ity which our citizens have to this day SO
loriously observed, by sending hi.her Gen.
h. Sheridan.
Not officially! Oh no! That would not
o. but, in a halfway official capacity, and
lose by in ease OF need
While one object of sending him here may {
G to intimidate the assembly of the people
n the 4th of January, the Interior object
is this, by his obnoxious !
resence, they hope to enrage and influence
lie minds OF our people and make them ex-
table and violent when feelings run high, !
nd urge them on to excess when their minds
lould be quiet serene and selfposseosed.
Should their object be thus attained the Ad-
would rub its hands, chuckle, =
Id cry out to the world that it knew Lou .
lana could be governed only on the line =
had adopted. p
Let us be determined, but orderly Yet us n
ever watchful, but quiet let us protest +
ainst fraud and rascality, but without arms /,
d forcible demonstration.
The eyes of the whole country are upon us,
tn determination to give us our rights,
ereiore let us preserve peace, while we see b
II duly-elected officers seated on the 4th of il
nuary. Il
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