The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-09


ter "there shall be no child's play.
We do not say this to incfsase the political
hostility that already exists It is too intense
now. But we do mean to have it understood
that if Democrats can afford to risk their lives
| for the sake of few Offices Republicans can
we'll afford to do the same thing to preserve
their rights and liberties. Wesincerely hope,
however, that the sober second thought OF the
opposition will yet prevail and that the worst
has passed; but this is matter for them to
decide. Our opponents can restore the coun-
desire to do so. The responsibility is entirely
with them. We simply act upon the defen-
sive and will be prepared for any emergency.
The assertion contained in these sentences
as last quoted is false in all particulars, and
absolutely. The Radical chiefs in Mississippi
may be prepared in heart as they are pre-
pared in arms, ammunition and organization,
for any violence, any crime, any outrage.
But the responsibility is in no respect with
their opponents Those who oppose usurpa-
ton in Mississippi, the members Of the anti
Radical Reform Conservative party, can not
"restore the country to condition Of pro-
found peace" although they desire now and
have for many years desired to do it. The
restoration depends upon the Radical leaders.
Let them say that there shall be no more
attempts made by their party to prevent
honest expression Of opinion, or an honest
vote according to preference, on the part OF
any citizen Of any complexion or for any
cause whatsoever, and then there will be
peace.
The tone of this document is in all re-
spect incendiary, and calculated to stir up
angry and vindictive feelings. Allusion is
made to localities and scenes of deplorable
violence, and the effort is made to cast the
blame of the blood of Vicksburg, Clinton,
etc., upon the ignorant and lawless members
of the anti-R ,dical party, for all the violence
committed, while they well know that such
violence was committed or caused by mem
bers Of their own party, hired and instigated
by their leaders and chief officials. Every
drop Of blood that has been shed in Mississip-
ri since the frat day Of July, 1875. in COLI
sions growing out Of politics, is chargeable
directly to the managers Of the Radical party.
Tens Of thousands Of weapons have been
issued to the negroes without examination as
to their fitness to be entrusted with arms, and
with no other instruction or suggestion than
that of attacking white citizens and removing
all who might be obstacles to their voting
"peaceably if they can, forcibly If they
must = the most dangerous Of all maxims
to put into the mouth Of an ignorant popu-
lace.
This Jacobin declaration holds out to the
excited and unreasoning mass of the negroes
Of Mississippi, the implied promise that the
national g)vernment will interfere in their
behalf to see that each shall be allowed to
vote, thereby holding up to them the idea that
they will be protected and maintained in all
that they may find necessary or expedient to
do. They promise untold treasures and the
blood of unnumbered soldiers to accomplish
result which they are determined to achieve
by fraud, by Misrepresentation, or any other
means which may be requisite.
The base and bloody scheme is palpable
They propose to fill the Stats with turmoil,
and to create if possible pretext for the
are studiously laboring to incite negroes to
AGGRESSION. and to drive the white inhabitants
of Mississippi into acts of resistance and
armed self-defense Their pretense that they
do not desire to increase political hostility is
false and hypocritical. For hundred days
past they have been actively and openly busy
in creating stri se and fomenting discord. The
spirit of their declarations, as above quoted,
is no more than reflection of that diaboilcal
plan, upon which the vagabond Radicals rely
to win or nullify the elections in the South
in 1876.
We do not care to dwell upon this painful
subject or to recapitulate the events ana facts
upon which our sad forebodings are based
The policy and spirit of the Mississippi Ridica
Executive Committee are inspired and lnsu
gated by the chiefs of the Radical party
whose animus is now and has always beer
hostility, bitter, deep and virulent hostility
against the people of the South, and whose
wicked policy is to keep up and intensity tn
hatred of the people of the North against us
This feeling and this policy are uppermost II
the hearts and minds of Radical leaders, ant
they are determined to make the negro ant
the South as conspicuous in the approaching
great contest as ever before. In proof of THU
we need only quote an extract from speecl
made in Maine before the late election by Sen
: ator Morton, of Indiana, who is essentiall
the leader of the Radical Republican party
Referring to the issues of 1876. he said:
: tell you there is not living issue, excep
the currency. which does not grow out Of tn
war The forgetting and forgivlng is all o.
the side of the North. The South has forgot
,, ten nothing. 1t gives no political nor socia
nor business recognition to the Southern he
publican or Northern settler. The one IS de
> nounced as q scalawag, the other as . carpe'
baooer. A Northern man may take TO tn
!, South capital and energy snd business entel
prise. bat if he is q Republican he IS ostra
cised. II he be Democrat he must be on