The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-19
LET Us GALL THINGS BY THEIR
RIGHT NAMES.

~ h1GaI NA4hos
y The Republican takes exceptions to tn
pb raseology of the BULLETIN and professe
!. to be profoundly disgruntled because prope
: names are applied to well-known things. W
Y can not afford to attempt to please the orgal
y of the peripatetic political philosophers
Louisiana. The Republican can never be on
Z standard, our guide, our mentor or our cen
sor in matters of fact, of taste, of morality
;. of logic, of rhetoric, of research or OF pro
priety. 1t is stipendiary Of the party o
d violence, tyranny, fraud and usurpation. By
the compulsion of most villainous laws en-
acted by fraudulent Legislatures it is the
obligatory official medium of Democratic
city, a Democratic parish and really Demo-
cratic State, making from city, parish and
State printing lordly annual income which
, has enabled seine of its proprietors to retire
on a competence for lifetime, and others to
embark in speculations which have made
them wealthy and the present owners to
flourish in all the grandeur of an ample in
come. When we declare that this stipendiary
is the organ Of the most villainous and afro
cious usurpation ever suffered by an Ameri-
can State, neither South Carolina nor
Arkansas excepted, we suppose it will
again take umbrage at the terms We EN-.
ploy. Bat how can we help it? When we
speak of the subsidized organ, what else can
we call it? When we refer to the official work
which the Republican has monopolizel for SO
many years, to the ruin of some and the
great distress of all Conservative journals,
how else can we characterize it than as a rob-
berry? The Republican lives upon the past
persistent Vaccinations of political rascality
how else can we describe it +? The Republican
represents, echoes defends, advocates and
champions fraudulent combination of
intrusive usurpers who "by no right
or shadow like to right" control, harass and
rob this unfortunate Commonwealth. Since
the Republican has been the organ of carpet
baggers, some nine and half years, its party
has damaged the State of Louisiana to the ex-
tent of more than hundred millions of dol
lars. During all that long period it has not
opposed one single grab, cheat or swindle out
of all the innumerable rascalites consummated |
by its party. Its company Of proprietors or
printing ring" have simply pookete3 their
princely profits, and rendered in return the
service of an indscriminate defense of the |
party which has pampered it.
Will the master of the printing ring tell us
how to speak of these matters without en-
ploying the epithets We use? We will not |
60 to him for instruction in any of the ameni-
ties or prophecies of journalism, but as we
represent truthful and honorable public we
will call things by their right names, whether
it pleases him or not.
We know and feel that Louisiana has SUIT
fered long and bitterly from dynasty which
the word "damnable" does not too forcibly
characterize. To please the Republican must
we ransack our dictionaries for some milder
epithet? Any more euphonious adjective
would come short of the truth.
When men come among us poor, hold some
petty Office for few months, and then retire
rich, everybody knows that they have not
been honest. Why should the Republican call
us to task for classifying them as " thieves
and swindlers ?"
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
complains of frauds to the extent Of millions
of dollars These Lave been perpetrated by
wicked distillers and refners in collision with
wicked gaugers, store-keepers, agents and
This is shown clearly
enough by the dispatches published in
the same issue of the Republicao
which censures US for calling them 'thieves"
Whatever cringing self-interest or fawning
sycophancy may suggest to the contrary We
propose to deal frankly with public crimes
and public criminals. While respecting the
high seat he occupies, we nevertheless de-
nounce the Presidential enemy Of Louisiana
as tyrant, violator Of the Constitution, an
oppressor of our State, and the worst foe to
political liberty that ever occupied an Ameri-
can magiRerial chair. The people of Louis
lana hate him even as he hates us, nor will
the time ever come when we shall
consent to "crook the pregnant hinges of
he knee" to such ruler or his party, even {
:hough thrift might follow iawning."
Speaking for frank and honorable people,
We deal in frank terms, and if the Republican
axes umbrage at AnRlo-Saxon directness and {
simplicity of phrase, we cannot help it. In
he course of the coming twelve months it
will hear q great deal of this plain, straight !,
Onward rhetoric, and the sooner it learns to
hear and heed with patience, the better will !,
t be tor its peace of mind.
LOOK TO THE SOUTH! }