The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-11
THE DANGER WE HAVE ESCAPED.

d Now that the pitfall prepared by the Re
4 publican members of the Congressions
. Committee for the unwary feet Of the Con
e servative members Of the Legislature has bee
unmarked and exposed now that the text Q
! the adjustment" has been published, tn
! people Of the State will Judge whether Their
> was not ample cause for the amazement ant
! disgust that 50 agitated this community OF
Saturday last, as soon as it was made known
that the Representatives Of the people hat
fallen into the pitand had agreed to the insid
ious arrangement. The popular indignation
was what might have been expected from a
people who have suffered SO long and
endured SO much, rather than ac-
quiesce in hateful usurpation of their
State Government, when they saw that all the
fruits of their long suffering were about to be
bartered away without their consent; that all
they have been so long contending for was
about to be tamely surrendered that they
were to be pledged by their agents hereafter
to wear the calling yoke Of the usurper with.
out murmer that the high prestige they
have won in the eyes Of their countrymen by
their fortitude in suffering, by the sacrifices
they have made and the constancy they have
exhibited in the defense Of their rights,
was to give place to the SCOTS and jeers and
contempt of mankind by a capitulation at
| the moment when their cause had been es-
poused by the great body of their country
men. A strange faulty must have blinded
the eyes of our Representatives not to have
foreseen that athunder-clap of public indigna-
ton would follow such humiliating consum-
nation.
The scheme aoas artuuy scontrired by crafty
politicians to ertricate Grant and his Radic q
Congress from dilemma in ,chich they can
neither Gdrdnce nor retreat riHo,k disaster to
their party. 1t was intended not only to ex-
tricate Grant from his Louisiana complica-
tons. but to secure the triumph of his
military Intervention in our local affairs and
to quiet Kellogg in The enjoyment of all the
fruits of the usurpation. Such were the real
objects of the adjustment And these OBJ
jects are but ill-concealed under glittering
and deceptive preamble which connects the |
election Of 1872 with that of 1874, as if they |
were not separate and distinct events en-
trely independent Of each other, each stand
ing upon its own merits. These two elections
were thus linked together as prelude to the
+" joint resolution " which the Conservatives,
who might be admitted to their Seats were
required to pledge themselves to support, as
q precedent condition of their seats being
awarded to them. This "joint' resolution -
horn concealed in the rose-the serpent
,oiled under bouquet of flowers.
Who can read the resolution detached
rom the hypocritical preamble, and not see
hat it contained the whole gist Of the adjust
aent, and exhibits the cloven foot of Grant
nd his Attorney General, Williams
Resolved By the General Assembly of the State
Louisiana, That said Assembly, without ap- t
rowing the same, will not disturb the present c
late government, claiming to have been
lected in 1872, known as the Kellogg govern r
lent, or seek to impeach the Governor for
ny past official acts, and that henceforth it Il
Ill accord to said Governor all necessary and Q
'gltlmate support in maintaining the laws, a
nd III advancing the peace and prosperity of ).
le people OF this State, and that the House -
Representatives as to its members, as con- "a
ituted under the award of Geo. F. Hoar. ID
llliam A. Wheeler, William P. Frye and -
.muel S. Marshall shall remain without +
lange except by resignation or death of &C
embers, until a new general election: and ST
at the Senate as herein recognized, shall m
so remain unchanged except so far as that q
'dy may itself make changes on contests.
This was the resolution which our Repre- -
natives were about to pledge their honor -
support. This was to be the lame and i'm =,
tent conclusion of the two years struggle w.
lich our people have made to free them 49,
yes from a hateful despotism r
We have made narrow escape and should ~
oit by it. We have been saved as by a -. :,
racle from acting as cstspaws for the very y.
n who have fixed the odious usurpation
on us. and of being called upon to suffer -.
told evils without even the poor privilege -
opening our lips in protestation of the -
ongs and insults offered US. Let everv ,r r'
n who loves his State and is proud of the -
ne achieved for her in the past BY her $500
'le sons be thankful that we have avoided eA'
pitfall which was prepared for US. ~,