The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-27
WE MUST BE A UNIT.

Let it be distinctly understood that, IL
opposing compromise on the Wheeler plan
| the BULLETIN has fou ght against thing, no
against the men who advocated that thing
Among the men who supported that measure
| in caucus, and whose names are down a.
voting for it in caucus, are very good men, a:
| good as any in the State.
Take the list Of names in the negative and
set them side by side with the names in the
| atfi rmative, and no marked difference will bt
| seen. The voters on both sides are honorable
men and good citizens. Let it be distinctly
understood, that the BULLETIN has no enc
mics ON one side or the other. We have
urged against the Wheeler abomina.ion al
the arguments which occurred to Us, and
urged them over and again. We have gone
into the deeper motives Of the men mot oul
own citizens) who have contrived this atfail
and who would force it upon us. We have
discussed its spirit, its intent, and its effect.
We have held it up and turned it in all its
aspects No reader of the BULLETIN need be
at loss about the facts.
But in all this we have not attacked the
men, our friends, who have differed so widely
from us. Between those who favor and those
who oppose compromise there is, and has
been, a chasm of difference, wide and deep.
Yet we must look upon it as a difference as to
the means for the accomplishment of the end
and object which we all desire to reach. Some
4 aool,@ hat Of oil lava wi
would reach it through any expedient and
plain channel
The BULLETIN, eagerly DESTROYS of the good
longed for, has held, still holds, and will ever
except on principle; can not afford to accept
anything not based on law; can not afford to
bargain with known malafactors; can not afford
to barter away rights to which our delegates
take as a grant and as a favor what is our own
already by right and by law can not afford to
slur over, whi.ewash, excuse, palliate, or in
anywise pardon the infamous usurpation of
Kellogg; can not afford to forget the enormous
and stupendous insult offered to our Lagisla-
ture on the fourth day Of January last; can not
afford to take from prejudiced, inimical and
very partial committee their terms as our
terms, their doemas as our decl. rations, their
will as our law.
But, on the other hand, We have 10 quar-
rel with honest worthy and patriotic men of
our own anti-Radical party, who think as we
hink and say what we say. What VIC, as
good citizens opposed to Rldicalisn, may do,
must be done with unity and in concert,
Kellogg and all his cunning assistants, as
veil rs his shrewd master, prompter, counselor
nd leader the President, have sought, |
will seek and increasingly labor to divide Us.
They must not succeed. There must be no
iyis;on. If, as we hope, the Wheeler pro-
,osaI is rejected, those honest and worthy
entlemen who Lave favored and advocated |
must not in any way be annoyed. Censured |
r aggrieved for their action.
We may believe they err; their motive We
an not, viii not inpngn or question. We
ook through the list Of the thirty-tour mem
ers of the Caucus who voted in the atfrma- |
i've, and see no single name Of foe to the
reat cause for which they AMI we have worked |
osethes. We do not despair of the future.