The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-13
Another Attempted Usurpation.
Grant Paving the Way for Military
DespOtism.
Grants Revolutionary Programme Thu
Royal Road to Absolute and
Perpetual Power.
The Benignant Rule of the BayOnet and
the Soft Sway of the Sword Shall
Over All Prevail.

Z tor if he can, and it would seem that the ev
, dences Of his settled purpose are SO plair
the ring of his sabre and the clatter of hi
horses mailed feet as he rides ruthlessly owe
the laws and constitution, and gallops owe
5 the dearest and most sacred rights of the pee
pie, are SO plainly observable that the apath
of the people is simply amazing.
Will the people of the North never awaken
, from their lethargy and Indifference or, il
the language of the patriotic and eloquen
Henry, will they continue "to hug the delu
sive phantom Of hope until their enemie
shall have bound them hand and foot" Their
is nothing more true than that "their chain
are forged" and they may readily hear tn
clanking, not only in Washington, bu
throughout Louisiana, Arkansas and Soutl
Carolina.
We are already manacled- handcuf- d, sc
to speak by the arbitrary power of the
coming despot, but bound as we are, we lift
our voices to our brethren of the North and
West and bid them awake before they too are
within the tolls of an irresistible power
Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
| Another AstOnisher.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. t8.-No act of Grants
administration has produced a more startling
sensation than his special IN sssage to- day upon
Arkansas Even his own friends are sur
prised. Attorney General Williams stated only
the other day, that he had no reason to be-
lieve that the President had changed the views
which led him last spring to recognize the
Baxter government as the lawful State gov
eminent of Arkansas. There have been no
Cabinet meetings held lately upon the sub
ject, but for weeks past Senators Clayton and
Dorsey have been quietly operating upon
| Grant. Both of these men know that if the
people of Arkansas are allowed self-govern-
ment they are doomed to political death when
their Senatorial terms shall expire. In ad-
dition to this there is huge railroad job
| involving over $4,000, 600, to be effected in
this mode, by which the Clayton and Dorsey
ring expect to grow rich at the expense Of
the people.
1t will be remembered that Grant sustained
Gov. Baxter in 1928, and again also in Bax-
ter's contest last spring with Brooks. Mr.. Will
liams delivering an elaborate opinion on the
subject, which it was then supposed closed all
idea Of Federal interference. The report OBJ
tains that the President came up lately to the
Capitol, and sent for Messrs Poland, Scudder
and Ward, the three Republicans of the
Special Committee on Arkansas Affairs,
such report as would justify the over
throw by military force Of the present State
government. Two Of these gentlemen,
Messrs Poland and Scudder, refused to sur
render their honest and independent judg-
ment in the matter, and the result is a report
drawn by Poland and signed by four out of
the five members of the Committee, declaring
that the Constitution Of Arkansas was lawfully
adopted and ratified by large majority of the
voters, and that there is no authority in any
branch of the Federal Government to over
turn it, or the State government of which
Gov Garland is the head.
The message to-day is undoubtedly meant
as an endeavor by the President to induce
Congress to repudiate the Poland report,
though made by an extreme Republican par
tisan, and to prepare the public mind for ac-
ton, after Congress adjourns similar to that
of Sheridan at New Orleans. The message is
construed as declaring the settled purpose Of
the President to revolutionize Arkansas,
whether Congress sustains him or not, and is
by the Democratsas the boldest and
most audacious stride toward military despot-
ism that Grant has yet made
The feeling produced by it among Demo
cratic Senators is one of depression, uneasi-
ness and alarm. They regard the situation as
critical in the last degree, and recognize a
desperate purpose on the part of the Presi-
dent to maintain himself in power by extreme
and by forcing conflict with the
Southern people. In this way he expects to
awaken the passions and the old war feeling
Of the North, and under cover of pretended |
the result Of his own deliberate |
and expressions, to extend the
rule Of the sword all the country.
Some of the most prominent Southerners
are really doubtful whether this or any other
act of usurpation will arouse the Northern
people in time to arrest the success of the
third term plot. They rightly condemn, as
mprudent under present circumstances, the
made to the Georgia and North
Carolina Legislatures, to modify the State
There can be no doubt that these proceed
ngs give great satisfaction to Grant. Morton
{ Co., as atfording preteXt for exercising ma
tary control over the Southern States. Well
informed observers of the situation here are
amazed that members of these State Legisla-
ures should fail to understand by how slender
| thread they keep the control Of their State
government, and that as long as Grant is
President they are liable to be upset any day
~ the army, and no help for it.
In the House of Representatives there is
'lioAS Aope, vi IAo PdAt VI PiOIulucut OeIuO-
rats, that many Of the Republican members
will stand up to the Poland report and
he message. Much depends on the manner
n which Mr.. Poland will stand up to his own
.eport. He has declared to day, since the
Message was read, that he will not surrender
,r modify his position.
The subject is not expected to come up in
he House for week. If the House shall, by
IN emphatic vote, declare that there is no
authority for the Federal Government to in
erfere with the State government of Arkansas,
md public opinion shall be manifested with
,qual decision, it is possible that the Presi-
lent may hesitate to pursue the revolutionary
nd bloody programme he has marked out for
himself as his road to absolute power.
The Poona correspondent of the Bombay
Iazette reports that fakeer some months ago
lung himself to roast, first we'll powdering
himself with ashes, and is still swinging and
casting. The correspondent says: .. He has
lung himself by the feet from high branch
# large tree that grows by the temple at this