The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-11
REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL AND PO-
LITICAL SITUATION IN
LOUISIANA.

We take the following pertinent extrac
from an able letter from this city to the S
Louis Globe Of the Sth inst:
The situation presents no new features
and the people Of the entire State seem I
9 have become settled in the conviction tbs
d nothing can be done to ameliorate their cor
dition until the next Congress ASSEMBLIES
There are, it is true many rumors of com
promise, but they may all be traced directl
T to the Kellogg usurpation and its supporters
: who would be glad of any arrangement tina
would secure to them even a semblance O
, recognition and this recognition they will
never get.
The Conservative members of the Legisla
ture still maintain their daily sessions, ant
their constituents support them in their posi-
ton of uncompromising opposition to tn,
usurping skeleton OF government. They de
mand simply restoration Of the statu quc
OF January 4, and will accept nothing less
They must be replaced in the positions from
which they were expelled by bayonets, all
military interference or intimidation must be
withdrawn and the legal Legislature of Louis
lana, as it existed January 4, must be recog-
nized as sovereign body, superior to the
dictation Of Grant, Sheridan, Kellogg, or any
one else, and left to manage their own affairs
The attempt to patch up compromise (of
| based on the condition that if the Con-
servatives were restored to their positions, the
Legislature should make no attempt to i'm
peach Kellogg. but recognize him as the
legitimate governor, is such trans parent
Radical scheme, and 50 clearly concocted at
Washington, that / am surprised it should
have received consideration for one moment at
the West
OF one thing rest assured however, such
scheme will never be consented to by the peo-
ple Manifold indeed have been their suffer-
ings and misfortunes for the past six years.
but with confidence that another year will
bring them relief, they are willing to bear the
burdens until then, well knowing that q De-
mocratic Congress will rights their wrongs.
Another point which the Conservatives cannot
afford to concede, and which would be tacitly
conceded by such compromise, is immunity
to the usurping officials for their misdeeds;
for when the legitimate Government Of this
State is restored then will come day of
reckoning for these scoundrels, and full well
they know it.
The knaves who have been plundering and
degrading the grand old commonwealth in |
the name of Republicanism (?) will find that |
they are answerable for their crimes and will |
be held to strict accountability for them,
and they will learn that an outraged people
can, IN the free and unrestricted exercise of |
their privileges as American citizens, consign |
them to the Penitentiary at Baton Rouge
where they should and would have been sent
long ago, had it not been for the Caseys and
the Dents and the Grant family generally.
1t is matter of some satisfaction to the
people down here to find that the press gen.
orally at the North and West is disposed to do
them justice, but there are some exceptions.
notably one, sheet so contemplate that /
cannot forbear mentioning it although it's very
name sinks in the nostrils of all honest men.
allude to the Chicago Inter- Ocean, whose cor
Phelps, came down here and
neaked around the bar-rooms and slums of
he city concocting the most shameful lies
nd misrepresentation. His letters are COM
'etent testimony to prove him bare-faced.
liar, and his false statements of
interviews with Gen. Ogden and others have
'een proven to be malicious and willful fabri-
atoms.
His last achievement, in which he ISLANDERS
ONE OF the most prominent and reputable
Gentlemen in the community, was published
fter he had reached a safe distance from
he city but the fact that he was here
urlng the past few weeks of terrible excite
lent, manufacturing the most shameful libels
pom the community, and was allowed to 90
nharmed, although recognized, is evidence
an important nature in the matter of in
mldatlOn.
In the midst of the misfortunes and afflic
ons which are bqrdening the community, it
as been decided to abandon the Carnival
celebration, and the usual festivities will be
nitted, much to the delight of Memphis and
ther provincial towns, whose crocodile tears
regret family hide their exultation When
le cats away the mice must play, and the
tile interior towns may have their fun now.
ut when the skies clear away and the sun
lines once more upon the old South State,
IS Majesty OF the Carnival will resume his
lperial sway, and prove that here alone in 10
e United States is the Carnival supreme. 70
nder our sunny skies, in the midst of all the til
oral wealth peculiar to this climate, the 81
ardi Gras revels are grand, but snow and te
9 are antagonistlc, and when better DAYS tn
me again, Fat Tuesday in New Orleans will $ g
ice more be the great event of the year all ~ ~
er the country. DocToR PoLYGLor. n
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