The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-11
LOUISIANA WILL NOT ENDORSE
SURRENDER.

It is stated that Gov. Penn, in his inter
view with Vice President Wilson, in answer
to an inquiry as to the feeling in this State
respecting the Wheeler arrangement in
formed him that "a majority Of the think
ing people of the State Endorsed it as the best
terms obtainable, and would abide by it. ="
Mr.. Wilson was "much pleased" to hear
this, as he might well be.
Many will object to the use Of the word
endorsed in such connection. They may
accept the terms under protest. They may
make no very violent opposition to them. but
if ''to indorse" is to approve, assume, accept
or otherwise sanction them, then the great
majority of the white men OF LOUISIANA do
not ndorse them. Looking a few years into
the future a period is seen when the compro-
mise of 1870 will be considered by those
who made it as among the worst
of the infections Of the era of alien
domination in Louisiana. Thinking men of
the State, looking back to the abomination OF
the 4th of January, will be both sorry and
ashamed that their countrymen consented to
yield to the aggressor5 and barter with them
for the return of part and parcel Of the
rights and powers of which they had been
robbed by vllainy and violence. While proud
of the gallant and vigorous campaign of "a,
while indignant at the action of the yenal and
corrupt Returning Board, while still angry at
the violent extrusion of orr legislators by
Federal bayonets, and while gratitied at the
tirmness and patriotism long displayed by |
members of the protesting Caucus, they will |
profoundly lament the surrender which fol- |
lowed
Said Gov. McEnery, in his protest of Feb. |
%, respecting the compromise then under
consideration
l believe sir, in this instance at least, my
voice proclaims the sentiments of nineteen
twentienths of that brave and heroically pa
tient people, who for two years. amid defeat
and disaster, have never failed to shout forth
their utter horror and detestation of the
usurpation, until their voices have been heard
and are now ringing the deathknell Of Radi-
calism throughout the broad domain of this
great republic.
If the Conservative members had only been
content to maintain their position; if they had
patiently waited in their Caucus chamber
without yielding to any arrangement deroga-
tory to their rights as agents for the people;
If they had held up in answer to every over
ture the oath Of Office which they had already
TAKEN if they had sternly and pertinaciously
protested to the last against external inter
meddling, and especially by those hostile to
their constituents and favorable to the usurpa-
ton; if they had thus stood quietly, and
firmly asserting their rights, their action
would have been approved, applauded and
endorsed
AS it is, the surrender, which they made
has not been ndorsed by a single parish in {
the State, or by single ward in any parish.
SO far as the people have spoken, they have
the measure in most emphatic
terms and they now await with very natural ,
and excusable dstrust the manifestations of I
the blissful and prosperous times that were so
soon to follow as consequence of this alliance :
with Kellogg. f
If they discover that contrary to the teach I
lngs of experience, contrary to the we'll . .
grounded apprehensions of fraud and deceit !,
that this compromise works the political mir |
scles that are expected of it by some of its ad g
Tocates, that it converts Kellogg from the y
,laring errors of his ways and makes of him u
IN honest man, that it lifts our onerous bur
lens of taxation, repeats bad laws and ,
makes good ones, fills our streets with y
he hum of trade and our broad river D
With the white-wnged messengers of y
then, but not till then, 1t
an the people be expected TO throw up their =
APPS and harrah for compromise. When that b.
me comes. when all these results have fol- NJ
owed as the consequence of the "adjust- ,
lent and We sincerely hope they may, y
lille believing that they will not then should is
ur people erect by the side Of the bronze Ell
cure of the immortal compromiser of Ken az az
lcky, on Canal street, the bronze image of o,
40 sagacious and compromising Wheeler. fu