The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-23
THE WISDOM OF FORBEARANOE.

We are in receipt of a well-written COM
municaticn signed " Tchoupitoulas, in which
the writer, who seems to be seriously I'M
pressed with the great danger, not only to
Louisiana, but to the Republic, growing out
of the late alarming manifestations both here
and at Washington, takes the ground that
the people have not acted wisely in quietly
resting under the wrongs recently inflicted
upon them. He is Of the opinion that we
should have risen en- masse when the outrage
was perpetrated, and have demanded from
President Grant to give us the Governor of
our choice and to force the usurper, Kellogg,
to withdraw. The writer proceeds to predict
that twelve months from this date Grant will
be SO securely fixed in his seat that he will
be prepared to defy the people with his bayo-
nets, and will probably prevent, by force of
arms, the assembling Of the next Congress.
There is much force in the arguments adj
vanced, and, theoretically, it would have been
proper for the people of Louisiana to have
resorted to revolution to maintain the rights
which brutal and irresponsible soldiery
trampled under their feet, with as little con-
Germ as Cromwell evinced when he boldly dis
solved the Long Parliament. Practically
however, resort to the sacred right of
revolution by the people of this or any other
Southern State, would have been suicidal 1t |
would have been doing precisely what our
enemies were praying for us to do.
1t would have been the realization Of G rant.
Williams, Sheridan Il Co. s most cherished
anticipations; it would have resulted in our
humiliation or in the virtual subjugation of
The South. "Banditti is mild term to
hose which would have been applied to us,
md worse than all, the sympathy and friend
hip of the country which have been so ear
testify and unmistakably expressed for US,
would have been frozen in an instant, if not
hanged into active hostility. The act Of dis
diving the Legislature of Louisiana was as
ross an outrage to Massachusetts, as it was to
IS, and Massachusetts is in a position to re-
ent the affront, whereas we are in an attitude
7here self-restraint and patience are the most
eroic virtues.
The friends of Louisiana and of civil liberty
q the North, while denouncing the act of q
heridan and his troopers in no uncertain :
hrases, are a unit in the belief that we ex-
ibited true wisdom and exalted patriotism .
y our digni6ed and manly course. Resist
nee, armed resistance, might have given us
'mporary relief, but it would have crystal
ed the sentiment of the country against us,
nd have retarded a return to the simple faith
the founders of the Government by, who "
N say how many years?
The New York Herald said that if ever there a.
as time when resistance would have been -
stifiable, it was when the soldiers marched ~
to the House Of Repre- sentatives of Louisi- p
a and elected members at the point of the v
yonet, but the Herald was careful to add u
at, while resistance, under the circum- LII
noes, would have been justitiaJle, it would
We been madness. With as, in our present as
ndltIon, prudence and patience are GER Fl
My the highest wisdom, as well as the most al
alted valor. all
The battle which was begun in our State "
use is being fought all over the broad "e
d, and Louisiana :" is the watchward Of cll
edom. We have no fear of the future, for
nation is aroused, and the hearts Of the W
'ple everywhere beat in accord with ours. az
conspiracy to overthrow the government, M
cred into by the men VINO should have oe
n its able defenders, has been discov- 40
d, and the treason will be punished as it !
erves. OF
When we lose confidence in the patriotism icy
ne masses of the people of this country we po'
Il be prepared for the Empire" which aS
correspondent regards as SO imminent. aea
en- the people next speak they will con- oef
'e Mr. Grant that the Empire" in the III
,uage OF Senator Thurman, sis about the Par
EST bubble that ever was found in an
lfy head y