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

ee- well to consider that their own misfortun
ut aid IN giving voice to your complaint b
til the principal ground of com plant against Il
Administration is the effect upon their ov
j. material interests.
Id We sought advice and counsel from friend
Senators and members of the House befol
7e presumng to give opinion a to the propret
t. OF accepting or rejecting the Wheeler propos
g. ton, and We gave no such opinion until r,
ID peatedIy urged by telegraph from New o.
1t leans, when further silence could only hay
been construed into cowardice.
q On our request for an interview with Dem
e ocratlc Senators, they declined to give u
J. ADVICE upon the acceptance or rejection, bu
d through their spokesman, General Gordon
who had kindly counseled with US, we wer
T 2sked that if tie propositions We're not &C
e cepted, and the Kellogg government was sus
: tanned would the people bear it patientl,
/ without disorders for two years and would
not the irritating measures that were then be
$ ing framed and would probably be passed
provoke the people beyond endurance?
Your committee replied that we believed
/ that further arbitrary and irritating measures,
coupled with an attempt to force the Kellogg
5 government upon the people without repre-
sentation. would result in disorders.
He replied that would be most disastrous
to your people, and doubtless sweep away
the fruits Of the great victories already won.
In consultation with leading moderate Re
pubhcans. who We're opposed to the admins
tration measures, and with Democrats who
we're co operating with them, We were told
that they believed that the prompt acce pt-
ance OF tbs Wheeler proposition would enable
them to
| Defeat The Force BIZ.
and prevent any Congressional action Cooking
toward the recognition OF Kellogg.
| Az overwhelming sentiment seemed TO Urpn
the adjustment Of our affairs, and it seemed 10
| your representatives, that the press and public
ointment did not consider the diferenc he
tween the Caucus proposition and the Wheeler
| proposition Of sufficient importance ga Justify
the Conservative Caucus in defeating the
compromise. The President and the Admin
lstration, ev.n Norton aud Butler, favored a.
adjustment, ana, from talk with leading men
ana members Of the press, became satisfied
that the rejection s}S Size W1eeiey proposition
woui'.
In III" Opinion Of s'ie Committee,
thgow upon the Conservatives the responsible
ity Ct refusing settlement, aud would .e
come i'll the eyes of the people OF the North
an excuse for further severity and Oppression
Whatever int1u tie Louisiana Caucus
had excited heretofore liz swelling the oppo-
stiun to the Administration, il became eyI-
de&S to me Tat the Democratic party viewed
her outure with the greatest solicitude and
alarm that they did not believe that the peo- |
pie OF Louisiana could endure further oppres-
SION and mlsrule, and that, therefore, they
did not have ID advise her people to accept |
the adjustment that offered prospect of
peace and an opportunity to them to continue
their grand campaign to successful issue |
upon the basis OF the several great counts in |
the indictment against Radical rule. Acting |
as agents, Col Zacharie and myself felt that
We would have been traitors to the trust YOU
had reposed in Us If We had failed or refused |
to advise IN the light of that belief, although |
this advice was reluctantly given and con-
trary to our personal feelings
Thereafter he said that one of the consider
atoms in advocating the compromise was
that upon the assertions Of Blaine and others
It would assist in defeating the Force bill.
General Gordon, when called on by the
Conservative Committee, consulted Demo-
cratic Senators, and ascertained that they de-
Lined to enter upon suggestions or consulta-
ions looking to compromise. General Cor
Ion asked the committee if the people could
Dear the Kellogg government and its oppres-
'ions for two years longer.
The committee replied that the people
could not do it. Gen. Gordon then replied:
My God, a resistance at this juncture would
BRING disaster to you and the Democratic
party North An apprehens on, grave ap-
1rehension then actuated the committee in
advocating the Wheeler proposition.
With this in view, Mr.. Burke asserted that
ne felt he would be a traitor to his people
we're he to have persisted in his opposition.
The press OF the North-the leading journals
If the North-did not deal with the techni-
,aities embodied in the Wheeler and Caucus
propositions of adjustment but looked upon
t as tender OF compromise for the Admins
ration, md should the compromise be reject
ID the effect will be disastrous.
Mr.. Burke said that he had considered the
question in all its bearings before leaving
and had arrived at his present ,
conclusions after weighing all the conse-
Iuences
Mr.. Leonard then came forward and said G
hat he had opposed violently the Wheeler
,lan of compromise until he found by his !,
'isit to Washington the sentiment existing
here. a
The Senator asserted that he did not now t
ee how the next Congress could do anything
or the relief Of Louisiana; and if there is re-
ief from that source it will not be until the
ession of 1877, 8
The people of LOUISIANA will not submit to s
usurpation, and if the terms are rejected
9 will when l return to my home inaug urate ,
UGH course of action as will cause the /
resident to take the steps he has threatened t
The propositions have been twice accepted {
nd if these are not carried into effect the ,
impression will go forth to the country that :
mob prevented it.
Mr.. Booth-Mr. Booth then took the floor, S
nd after touching upon the remarks of l
Iessrs Burke and Leonard, relative to the
curse of reasoning whereby they were brought d
D indorse the compromise, he affirmed that if
rem. Grant is really inclined to drive us to the t
all, We will so there and then stand until !
riends come to cur relief
We are not yet at tie last extremity, Mr..
;ooth asserted, aud he adjured the members v
OF to accept the Illuminating terms held out
, US. The people have considerations high =
nough to dismiss fear from the subject The
.ouisiana case has occupied the attention of
be country for long time, and the assertion d