The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
THE VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE.

~ and it would not be very surprising If Z
Senate Of the United States, with Il
49, House at its heels, came down upt
RS US in a body to convince themselv
as to just exactly the order Of bandits Il
e" people Of New Orleans are. We would |
= glad to see them ALL and the White Leag,
h. wo1ld take great pleasure, we feel sure,
= detailing specially ferocious body guard {
co escort them around our city, through til
various military encampments and barrack
through the barricaded State House and int
:, the very hall from whence the Legislature {
the State was rudely elected at the points {
Sheridan's and Emory's bayonets; nay, the
y should be introduced to the very Chief O
a the Bandits, Gen. Ogden, who would doubt
less invite them to participate in one of those
dreadful meetings which seem to have SC
disturbed the soul of Sheridan, but which arr
always open as the day and only dreaded by
bad men and plotters against the peace of the
community.
If they have made all the connections the
gentlemen composing the Select Committee
on Louisiana and the Southern States, who
have volunteered to come down here to CLEAN
the political aftermath, should arrive to-day
and we shall, therefore, be enabled very soon
to inform our readers just what they propose
to do.
The entire committee is composed as fol-
lows G. F. Hoar, Republican, Of Massa-
chusetts ; VIM. A. Wheeler, Republican, of
New York ; VIM. P. Frye, Republican, of
Maine Charles Foster, Republican, Of Ohio;
VIM. Walter Phelps, Republican, of New
Jersey - Marshall, Democrat, of Illinois,
and Clarkson n. Potter, Democrat, Of New
York
The able, admirable and truthful report |
which was made by Messrs. Foster, Phelps
and Potter, has been accepted by the entire |
committee and given to the world, and Messrs.
Wheeler, Hoar, Frye and Marshall, as we nm
derstand it, come in an entirely unofficial and
purely voluntary character. They are proba.
bly, anxious to see the exact status with their
own eyes, and have ocular demonstration of
the facts SO forcibly enunciated by the three
gentlemen who preceded them This is yery
natural, and we may say laudable curiosity,
and they will be afforded every facility for
gaining information.
We have nothing to fear from the truth.
md we must regard the members of the com
nittee as worthy Of our respect and consider
ton. treating as nothing worth the insinua-
ions which have been thrown out that thew
lerely come to save the party from its :
iemna and to whitewash the actions of =
.ellogg and his handymen Emory and Sheri-
an.
The Radicals here do not hesitate to assert !"
lat the Commute has bseh sent expressly to q
It up . terrible blood and thunder story
'out outrages that do not and never did -
list; to manufacture for party pur- =
'ses history of horrors; to furnish y"
cd for those blatant demagogues, Morton ~
d Logan, and to fire the Northern mind =
eparatory to the next Presidential cam W
ign. The Radicals here are not good au- r.
ority on any point, and we prefer to Judge ~
. members Of the committee by their acts, r
itch will speak for themselves Mr.. Fos- ~
:, the chairman of the previous committee 20
s reported when he came here to be strict ~
rty mar, but he has established beyond a
adventure that he can rise above the mere -,
'tisan and tell the truth sin scorn Of con.
uence." ~
let us then meet this new committee fairly,
gentlemen who do not come with minds ,
dy-made concerning US, but who are open we
conviction and amenable to argument Or
III truth and justice on our side, we chal- az
ge fair and impartial investigation and t th,
leve that Louisiana, despite the dreadful tiv,
lonS-continued misrule to which ant
has been subjected despite her ' We,
sequent poverty and the almost hope the
condition of her people, will compare Ion
orably in point Of morality and respect 1
all lawful authority with any State in oon
Union. Where one negro has been dis con
rged here for his political opinions Of
ldred operatives in manufactures of the COZ
tn and East have been discharged for az, 81;
RS, and for every murder that is not di- me,
ly traceable to kelloggs infamous follow nat
or consequent upon his usurpation, OF
e are ten in New York. We therefore t ua =
come the committee, believing it to be in witt
ch Of the truth, and will aid it in every Jan
to attain it. We are pleased to know y,
the Committee of Seventy has taken t taiI
Der steps to have the people represented all
aould it be deemed advisable to go into poll
country in order ia inou;re into +bo den
b,os ~. tire
40 lo eA''eu 'nefe' We nope our thei
lsel will be prepared to accomnany the tbar
mittee, for we are confident that when vote
facts that led nm tn the trophlsS .. ro,e, beer
Coushatta are fully understood, the a To-,
hern people will put very different Retr
truction upon them from tina. which has adde
arrived a. by the studiously false repre- .essl
atoms of the Radical press. such
and
r their special benefit We advise bon IL II
to pay a visit to-day, between the hours W.