The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-12
A FRENCH CRITIC On AMERICA.

| Inc 1oilOW1ng scanning ana only LOU just
article on the American Republic, and espe-
cially on the treatment Of the South by the
Administration, is translated from an article
published yesterday in the Bee, from the Ga-
| sette de France, Of December 18th. The latter
journal is one OF the oldest and most infuen-
tial journals in Europe:
The cable brought us, few days ago. q
synopsis Of the message addressed by Gen.
Grant to the Congress at Washington. Among
different promises made to the country, the
President has solemnly affirmed that, as long
as circumstances were the same, he would
persist in the political system followed BY the
Government toward the Southern States.
But of what nature is the political system
alluded to by Gen. Grant? Without knowing
the details Of that system, our readers are
aware of it's results; the massacres Of Alabama
and the troubles at New Orleans are yet fresh
to their memories.
The policy OF Gen. Grant toward the former
Confederate States has led to the organization
of fearful anarchy and to the impoverishment
OF the populations and to the crushing aug
mentation of taxes.
A political opponent ct Gen. Grant, Mr..
Gratz Brown, after quoting figures which have
never been contested by any newspaper, char
South in the following words: The administra-
ton OF public moneys has been, in short,
nothing better than organized robbery, liter
ally robbery
Are those the results which we may expect,
if we ourselves put in practice the system OF
government of the American Republic, as is
desired by the French Republicans
But by what means has Gen. Grant sue
ceeded in obtaining such power of oppres-
sion?
By what phenomena has the triumph Of
the Northern States, in establishing in the
Southern States universal suffrage, so COM
pletely destroyed the general interests OF the
country?
A traveller recently arrived from the South
ern States. has very tru.hfully related in the
Rerue de France the prodigies invented by the
Republican tyranny to transform the sover-
eighty of the people into the most dangerous
and fatal weapon. The policy Of Cen. Grant
has consisted in deceiving the mass Of former
slaves by inducing them to submit voluntarily
to the robbers sent ftom Washington.
It would require whole pages, says Mr.. dc
Rabanesse, in the Rsrue de France, to show
them inslnuating themselves treacherously
between the two races of blacks and whites,
working hard to widen tho separation which
a century or two of slavery has not made
large enough for their purpose, and arriving At
last with the most insolent success to rule
over the two parties, robbing enc sad dipping
the other.
It has been necessary to de3snate these
scoundrels, to create new word Of which tho
concise energy cannot be translated in French
The public voice of the United States has
given them the narno of carpst-baggers, .
name which recalls to mind the empty carpet !
bag, carried by each of them as his only lug |
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If to show the intention Of grabbing - legiti- |
mate plumber everything they could lay their |
hands on in the country Of the vanquished.
SO long as these adventurers, who have be- |
come Governors, Lieutenant Governors, Ssna- |
tors, Chief Justices, ETC., in tho different |
States, ars allowed ito rely On the |
indulgence, on the official declarations of
and even sometimes on tho direct
of the General Government in
their favor, so long will last the systematized
spoliation which the South has to suffer at the
hands Of these patented thieves.
It is they, the carpet-bagsers to call them
by their name, henceforth historical in the
United States: it is they who since 1868, have
lilapidated the finances of the former Con
federate States. 1t is by their overwhelming
influence that white population has been led
from ruin to ruin and that the blacks, mostly
ignorant accom- plices of the evils consu,n-
mated with their concurrence, are every day
led further into moral disorder, social abjec-
lion. and finally, inter misery.
Is it astonishing it. hearing one day Of the
war in Arkansas, we read the next tue massa-
res in Alabama and if, these hardly forgotten,
he news, still moro serious, Ut tronbles in
New Orleans, make US apprehsnd a war Of
aces, or complications in which will founder
he social and economic future Of whole
ection Of the American Republic?