The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
PRESIDENTIAL DECORUM.

+ PRESIDENTIAL DECORUM.
6 Until the evil hour, when the people OF I'll,
e North, acting under the impulse of the sec
q tlonal prejudices and hatreds created by The
late war; placed the present incapable and
half-educated soldier into the highest anG
most dignitied position in this Republic,
American Presidents, whatever might be said
against them, were always considered and re-
spected as getlemea by their bitterest
political opponents Although not conspicu-
Gus for polished manners, Abraham Lincoln
and Andrew johnson never gave boorish
treatment and rude answers to their fellow
citizens and constituents who had, or i'm
aglned they had grievances or complaints to
lay before them in their official capacity. The
right OF petition and respectful remonstrance
has ever been recognized by the most arrant
despots and tyrants, and had a Nero or
Callgula been in the place Of the ex-Galena
tanner whenever he was approached by dele
cations Of men whom he and his advisers
doubtless consider as conquered subjects they
| would most certainly have granted them a
minor amenities and courtesias Of civilized
ME. This decent respect for the propreties,
however, is what the intimate friend OF Ian
daulet Williams, Of Boss Shepherd Of Beast
Butler and CT Phil Sheridan appears to be
utterly incapable of feeling, and whenever the
opportunity Ct yentilating his bad heart and
worse manners has been presented 10 him by
Loulslanians who d. not belong to the Pack |
ard-kelogg-C ring, he has never failed to !
exhibit, IN the most conspicuous and Disgrace
full fashion, his shameful disregard OF the
most elementary rules Of courtesy and good |
breeding.
When committee composed Of some of
the representative merchants of New Orleans
were about to proceed to Washington to pre-
sent a respectful remonstrance against the
illegal and tyrannical proceedings whereby
the Kellogg usurpation was foisted upon us
through the Intervention Of the Federal DOW
err, his chief adviser and most trusted bench
man. Williams, rudely warned them that
they had no business to come to Washington,
the Presidents mind being already made up
W hen other gentlemen, most Of whom were
either disconnected with politics or members
IF his own party, subsequently begged him to
Use his official influence in behalf of the in
white and black Of the Mississinpi :
alley, whose homes are now threatened with y
verilow, he sardonically remarked that peo-
lie who belonged to the opposition in the
'outh need not expect sympathy or help from =
he party o. which he is the official head
md later still, are informed =
y our Washington dispatches ohat Messrs.
'urke, Zacharie, Leonard & Co, who called
pom his Eycellency as the authorized repre- j
3ntadves Of the Conservative members of the d
ouisiana Legislature, have met with the same to
lad Of snubbing from tina. eminent emboii- Re
lent Of the great party of addition division ii
I'd silence" Had they approached the II
ou!d-be Caesar with the solid and substan- ii
al arguments Of a Borie or a Shepherd, or es
lie gliltering bait Of a dazzling coronet OF III
almonds and rubies IL hhetlite, the result pl
their foriorn undertaking might have been le
ore satisfactory to themselves a. well tn
to their constituents but armed by
they were with the sole weapons of truth hi
I'd justice, without even solitary keg of Pa
lolce Otard brandy, or box of cigars of
e most approved brand, to back them, they -
light Just as well have expected to make an an
lpression upon Clark Mills's bronze carica- IA
re of Andrew Jackson, which faces the -,
ical mansion of his wooden-headed sue no
ssor The attempt to make purse out of %,
sows ear was comparatively feasible I'M M
rtaking, and they should have known it vi;
torehand when they started upon this Quix- 81,
&c venture to gain the Presidential ear. r.