The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-09
TEE PROPOSED SURRENDER.

ssHast thou not spoke like thunder on my side?
Been sworn my solder? bidding me depend
Upon thy star thy fortune and thy strength?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes?
Thou wear'st a lions hide, d0tf it for shame
And hang o calf b skin on those recreant limbs.
Thus, in Shakespeare's King John, speaks
Arthur's widowed mother to her treacherous
ally the King of France; thus also, in "this
day Of shame, oppression and perjury,
should widowed and betrayed Louisiana
address such of her recreant sons
as would give up her cause on the eve OF
victory, and deliver her over, shackled and
dshonored, into the hands of the faithless
and characterless villains who have so long
been tapping her blood and trampling on her
dearest and most sacred rights.
1t is painful, it is irritating and exaspera-
ting we all know, to have to wait so long for
the day when tardy justice will be done to
us, aud when the accumulated wrongs under
which our people are still grooming will be
righted by the aroused and indignant Ameri-
can people. But shall we give up this long ex-
pected boon, now certain to come in the near
future, for the sake of a little. apparent con-
cession wrung from the crafty usurper by dire
necessity, and of which the practical benefit
is more than doubtful?
Shall we sell our birth-right for a platefuI
Of pottage, and by SO doing earn the contempt
Of every friend Of liberty throughout the
Union What an answer to make to those
gallant men who, undismayed by defeat, have
stood by US through good and through evil
report, until the crushing blow was dealt
which broke the back-b bone of the Radical
party and secured for US Conservative
majority in the next Congress, together with
the certainty Of electng Conservative and
Constitutions respecting President in 1876
We have no wish to impugn the motives
Of all the men who have allowed themselves
to be lured into the meshes of our opponents,
but we would respectfully and earnestly ask
them what new light has dawned upon them
since Kellogg and Packard's previous 'com-
promises, every one Of which was broken bv
themselves almost as soon as made How
were Kellogg's promises with regard to the
Returning Board kept by him and the men,
bers of that Board
What reliance can be placed on the plighted |
word of men without honor and without
shame What guarantee can they give US,
even if sincere This time, that their rascally
and ever-wrangling black-and-tan crew will
carry out their part of the compact? Sup
pose they obtain nominal control of the
House, will not every one Of their attempted
IA aiyu, tod -
the corrupt set presided over by Antoine?
Do they think Kellogg, and Packard, and
the smaller fry of Radical otfice-holders who
"the party" in Louisiana, have
The remotest idea of yielding one single point i
70 the bitter opponents of that Administra-
ion to whose support they owe every atom Of {
power they now WELD in this State? The t
dea is so lUdicrously absurd that it is diff S
ut to believe it could ever have been enter a
aimed by men who are not generally thought /
o be either idiots or lunatics. g
The Rubicon, let us hope, is not yet
'assed. Let our people rally around the men p
nto whose hands they have placed their b
earest rights, their most sacred trusts, and O
them, in the name of patriotism C
nd honor, to repudiate any and every oom- e
romise with usurpation, any and every t
argain with oppression and fraud. i
Let them see to it that they do not incur the
-ithering reproof of Irelands favorite bard: d
"0h, for tongue to curse the slave. n
Whose treason, like deadly blight !.
Comes DER the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might" S,