The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-13
THE MODERN MEZENTIUS.


description Of that ferocious Etrurian tyran
Mezentius, whose favorite mode OF punlshir
obnoxious subjects was to have them tie
face TO face unto dead bodies, leaving the
TO die of the combined effects Of famine an
fostering corruption.
The American would-be tyrant probabl
never heard of Virgil, the powers Of his va!
intellect having been in early life almost e,
clusively concentrated upon the study {
horsefesh and the exhilarating properties {
ancient rye or venerable Bourbon. Wher
therefore, he follows the example of Mezen
thus, in dealing with his refractory followers
he must be acquitted of the charge of plagiar
ism and receive all the credit which is due t.
original inventors
Having discovered symptoms of rebellion
against his dictatorial management OF public
affairs among the wiser and more respectable
members of his party who thought they
were only using his military prestige to
achieve their own ends, he has effectually
checkmated them by tying them "face to
face" unto the fostering carcasses of Ben
Butler, Zach Chandler, 0. p. Morton, and
the foul gang of Southern carpet-baggers
who now rule the Congressional Radical
caucus.
Led by the great "corked up" and cock-eyed
Louisiana spoon thief, the noble band Of
salary grabbers, railroad blackmailers and
bogus representatives, who have lately broken
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mentary law to carry out their purposes dur
ing the brief lease of power still remaining to
them, are now ruling with rod of iron
their weaker brethren of the "great moral
idea concern. They have successfully bull
lied the Blaines, the Dawes, and even the
Phelps and the Fosters into submission, and
it now appears that they mean to carry out
their disorganizing and revolutionary pro-
gramme to the bitter end.
The Civil Rights bill was only the entering
wedge of that policy, which Grants extra
ordinary Arkansas message and the proposed
revival of 'war measures" of the most uncon-
stitutional character have boldly revealed to
the astounded nation.
That Grant had never abandoned the idea
of a third term was not obscurely foreshad-
owed by his persistent refusal to repudiate it,
and by the frequent declarations Of the men
who enjoy his personal favor and confidence
in favor of that preposterous and anti-repub-
ican plan, although, while the cleo
tons were still pending, all the leading
sc kho rtx
allowed to disclaim it with a great show Of
sham patriotism; but now that the people
have spoken in no doubtful terms about it,
and that it has become foregone conclusion
that majority Of the electoral votes will be
cast in the fall Of next year in favor Of De-
mocratic President, the White House cabal
has thrown off the mask and now boldly
declare that the reelection of Grant has be-
come matter of life or death to the country,
apd that all means are justifable to secure
that end
The programme of the GRANTEES has at
least one merritt is plain and unequivocal-
30 plain that none but idiots can fail to COM
prehend it at once. Every Southern State
which has lately succeeded in break
ing off the shackles imposed upon
It by Congressional and carpet-bag legislation
Is to be remanded to the condition Of a con-
Iuered nation; every State still held under
military control is to be subjected to still
more CALLING and merciless yoke.
Like shipwrecked mariners, the Southern
and carpet-baggers must either
'uck "rebeIs" blood or devour each other,
md they have SO frightened their Northern
lilies that they have basely consented to give
Up the white men Of the South as pro-
'itiatory sacrifice to the high priests of the
bony idol. The ravenous dogs will not be
atisfied with less. and their terrified masters
are not stand in their way for fear Of being
Orn to pieces by their furnishing blood
ounds -.-..
Let it be So then, and let the momentous
uestion upon which depends the future des-
my OF this not quite century old republic,
e decided at once. The American people know
there the Grant party wants to lead them,
nd if they allow combination Of the most
orrupt politicians and the most degraded
nd ignorant negroes, scarcely elevated
bove their African ancestors in civilization
r morality, to override every constitutional
arrier erected by the wisdom of our fathers,
nd to trample under foot every right for
'hich one hundred years ago they staked
their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
onor," be it so /!
We, of the South, will not be the only
at the funeral of American liberty,
nd the poisoned chalice will be commended
, the lips Of thousands whose bowling
MADNESS has brought us to our present peril
us condition. They have allowed themselves
0 be tied to fostering corpse, and they must
OF together. {
LET IT DIE.
We hope we have heard the last of Compro-
Use. The individual or individuals who :,