The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-02

Caucus OF Conservative gentlemen was an az
peal to
eff YOU fail to compromise, you shp.n Law
the Force bill If you fail to com promise
you shall lose the benefit ofthe writ OF habea
corpus. If you do not compromise, thu
Force bill will pass and your State will b.
turned into military camp. II you DO no
COMPROMISE, Packard and his marshals
shall be your masters. If you do no
compromise, you shall be dragooned by Sher
ridan and lis cavalrymen. Compromise, yor
slaves, or fear the lash of Grant. If you com
promise, you may live and enjoy such favors
as a Radical Governor, Radical Senate, with
Radical Judiciary, under violently Radical
President may concede If you do not com,
promise you shall feel the wrath of youl
MASTER at Washington, supporting your
present local master, Kellogg and his minions,
the Radical Senate of the State and the Rad
ical controlling influence Of the House.
bow down at once and receive your loads
Refuse at your peril Obey the dictation OF
your masters at Washington and it shall be
well with you. Disobey and you, your wives
and your children shall feel the full weight Of
Radical malicew
Louisiana was once a peaceful and prosper
Gus colony of France.
She was again reared into sovereign State
and member of the great North American
Republic of Republics.
She was for very many years prosperous
member of that Union, represented by her
own sons in the Senate and House of the Ma
tional Legislature, and giving to the public
many able officers and many chivalric sol
diers.
She paid by her products into the general
Golfers vast sums for the common defense.
She sat by the seaside a queen Of Western
commerce. the great artery of the continent
passing through her rich fields.
Elegance, wealth, refinement and culture
were the welcome visitors at her homes. Her
plantations were the sources Of abundant
riches. Poverty was a stranger within her
of both continents, and her sons held honor
above EXPEDIENCY.
A change has come over the spirit of Louis
lanas dream of excellence, purity and gran
deur. She is bound in the chains Of con-
lueror. Her fields are desolate her levees
broken down, her homes destroyed, her pros
perity annihilated, her metropolis ruined, her
legislators corrupted, her judges debased, her
public men strangers, and the hand Of an
alien enemy clutches at her throat.
But where are her children? Her daugh- |
,ers live suffering in poverty, but true to
heir noble instincts But her sons-where |
ire her sons, those who survived from glo-
ious fields, those who escaped disease and |
anime, those who have grown to manhood |
ince the mourntul day of Appomattoy
Who survive to represent the glorious race of
louisiana gentlemen!
Is an answer needed VIII any one deny to
-ou, members elect Of the Conservative Party
0 the General Assembly Of your native
tate will any one dare say that you have
orgotten your ancestors, who held honor as
he apple of their eyes ?
What, then, is the meaning of this appeal
,
your fear Why do the caititfs at Washing
IN, the mean panderers to usurpaton, threat
n you, the chivalric sons of worthy sires, and
ii you what they will do if you do not give
p your rights Do they forget that you are
entlemen ? They should be taught their
ror.
Do they suppose we can lose more than !
9 have already lost? They should be re-
inded of the spoliations which their parti- {
rs have already inflicted. Do they believe !,
at we have anything more to lose? Let !
EN- visit our silent stores, our grass-grown >
reefs, our weed-covered plantations and our .
cant cabins. Afraid of the Force bill =
hat can that infict which we have not !,
ready suffered: Afraid of soldiers What :,
n they do to us worse than we are now 6
airing?
If there was anything to fear then the ap- "
al might be well timed elsewhere If
recognize FEAR as one of their
ling motives the appeal might have been Sc
5ed for compromise. >,