The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-23
REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE.

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: We are just receiving the comments of tn
, press upon the report of the Congressions
Committee. The facts verified in that repol
, have convinced the American people that W
{ are oppressed; that we have had and no,
, have infamous rulers; that laws, not onl
contrary to all ideas Of republican govern
ment have been passed and enforced, bu
also laws clearly unconstitutional. The &C
ton of the Returning Board receives NJ
mercy from the Republican press, since tn
committee reported "that the action OF tn,
Returning Board on the whole was arbitrary
uni ust and illegal, and that this arbitrary
unjust and illegal action alone prev ented the
return of a majority of Conservative members
to the lower house"
fact Of this character, vouched for by a
committee Of the House Of Representatives,
for the report was unanimous, carries with il
not only the conviction that we have been
defrauded out of our rights, but it has
awakened feeling Of indignation and even
of disgust for Grant who upholds this fraud
by bayonet. Indignation was aroused through
| out the country when Gen. De Trobriand, in
full uniform, with his aids and armed SOL
diers, stepped into the Legislative hall on the
4th Of January and took out by force mem
bers regularly seated by the action of the
House.
This great outrage upon all clearly defined
and recognized rights, aroused the people
throughout the Union, and a grand national
protest was presented to the Administration
against this illegal, outrageous and unprece-
denied military interference in the organiza-
ton of representative bodies. But when that
act CT violence had been committed the in
designations of the committee had not been
completed and the report had not been writ
ten out and presented to Congress. We must
recollect that a majority Of that committee
were Republican and that no one refused to
sign the report.
Now the people know and are convinced
that the Returning Board cheated us out of
our rights, and that the army, under orders
and by force justified the fraud and enforced |
it. The combination of force and fraud is
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as that fraud deprived the people of this
State out OF right dear to all the people of
The Union-the right 10 choose their own
sgents-and that force was used to perfect
he fraud and to destroy the elementary prin-
;iple, that all political power is in the people,
And another thing of vast moment which
We observe is this, the uplifted voice of the
laton against this force and fraud is not
AIKEN advantage Of by the Democratic party.
t is question which rises above party and
bove all party strife. The protest goes up
rom men of all political proclivities 1t is the
ct, the outrage which is denounced, and Re !
ublicans unite with Democrats to raise up ,
heir hands at the violation, by the military I
the fundamental principles of free govern :
lent.
This non-partisan action is most encour-
5lng feature. 1t is proof that republican
r1nclples have strong and deep root in the
merican mind, and that whenever a blow is T.
med at them. the public without reference b
politics or creeds, will arise en- n,asse to q
'tend hem. We rejoice that, for once prin- al
pie is held as higher and nobler than party. u
What will be done this year is beyond our &c
But that the action of the IL
in interfering with and spurn- b.
g the rights of the people will be reversed, al
nounced and mathematical, is beyond all W
ubt OF
The prediction Of the Tribune, New York to
the 18th, will, beyond all doubt, be veri- &C
d. Meanwhile" says that paper, ''the re- sp
1T of the subcommittee passes into history
the most terrible indictment ever brought
'inst any political faction by its own men,
IS, and there are many Of you who will read
it the death warrant of the Republican to-
:ty. ma