The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-08
THIRD TERM Or DESTRUCTION.

The Administration stands well by the
original programme of arbitrary dictatlon
and brutal coercion toward the Southern
States and people. The same instinct that in
war hurled his bleeding battaions to relent-
less and certain destruction, regardless OF
every consideration but the brutal theory
that outnumbering forces must ultimately
win sustains Gen. Grant in overriding every
principle of law and every right of States and
citizens.
Although the gross ignorance Of the ele-
mentary principles of constitutional law, dis
PLAYED in the bombastic fulminations Of Gen.
z. II. Sheridan, forbid the suspicion OF any
other origin than that of his own narrow ca
pacity; still, there can be no doubt that the
spirit and intent of the master is therein well
represented. Nor is there room for doubt
that both Grant and Sheridan mean exactly
what they say. All they seek is the merest
pretext, to enable them to let slip the dogs of
war at the threats of those who dare to re-
sist or thwart their schemes Of political plum
der and party supremacy. The long and abb
solute grasping of the national scepter will
not be willingly relaxed. The etching palm
will not readily content itself with the reve-
nues Of private station.
The insolence of Office will not readily give |
place to that insignitcance which awaits and |
so surely obscures the lives OF those whose
prominence has only displayed their mental
and moral deformities. The self-deluded
bigot, to whom accident has accorded the dis
tribution OF power and patronage, stops at no
hazard, considers no sacrifice, if, hy any
chance, he may still retain the reins of power
with which to glut his greed and his re-
venge!
Maddened by the outcry against the third
term at the North, and still more by its re-
echo in the South, Gen. Grant turns, as his
nature dictates, toward the most helpless Of
his antagonists, and finds in poor Louisiana,
by fraud, wasted and impoverished
by the political leeches and official appointees
Of his Administration, insulted, DETAINED, de- :
Frauded and overridden by his special repre- !
'entatives, suitable and convenient victim
or his vengeance. Where could the keenest !
md most envenomed hate find more willing .
n sympathetic instrument than in the person =
# the great hero of the torch and knife, =,
whose exploits in that ruthless ride through
he rich and beautiful valley Of Virginia in .
he late war sent a thrill of horror through :
he hearts and sickened the souls of the civil
zed world
There can, therefore, be no compromise. :
The party in power cannot retrace their steps.
heir programme must be carried ont, or they 4
re destroyed by their own instrumentalities.
hey sink or swim by it. They live or die by e
!. They strike, like the startled thief, at the "
cry life of their victim, lest they themselves -
re oyerthrown in the cutlery of his awaken.
,g. With the desperation of convicted fell
rs, nothing is to their hands sacred or in
lolable, if perchance they can, by its de- p
ructlon, escape to the freedom and immu-
ity of third term. N
There is no redemption but progress in the
ne Of destruction. However much the
artling kilograms Of the new commandant n
ere may involve the party leaders, however di
uch the Northern Conservatives denounce m
I'd the Southern people expose the false ~
pods of those statements, the Administers yf
On must stand by and defend their chosen il
preventative, and carry out their pro- ar
anime, or succumb entirely.