The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-20

filled his imagination. Sir, what does this FEEDER
} al official say? I take an extract from the tele
graphic report:
He went to Alabams from Illinois in 1868 that
he was and had always been Republican, and
that he had spoken during the last campaign IN
Selma for the Republican State ticket. He said
that he thought he knew the general condition OF
the State well any could that his Official
and professional duties took him to all parts OF IT.
and that there no county in which Repub-
lican could not live and advocate principles, even
IN an offensive manner, without modest ton.
| He thought the effect of sending troops to the
| State was injurious to the people and State, and
| there had been no time when they were needed,
| or when the country would not have been better
without them. When asked if negroes could
vote ii troops were not stationed there, he replied
| that it made very little difference. The negroes
would not vote any way If they were not massed
| by their leaders. The negroes had 10 interest in
politics and were simply used by men who could
not remain in powec but for the negro vote.
ROOTS OF DISORDER AT TIE SOUTH
Mr.. President, is there no higher and broader
| plan upon which We may consider this question?
| Are there no causes for the disturbances at the
South other than those which lie upon the sur
face! Has the craftsmanship of the country
hausted itself, when, denying the testimony from
| the high sources have mentioned, and giving
credence only to the testimony of interested par
tisans, it proceeds to legislate upon the mon
strous idea that the Southern people are mad
with an insane hatred Of the black race, and the
still more insane disregard of every consdera-
ton which moves other men? Is no appeal to be
made to reaso and to the philosophy of human
action DO the Southern people differ SO widely
from the rest Of mankind that the laws
OF action which apply to others are nappli
cable to them? They have the same instincts
OF se.f-defense, the same love Of self
government, Of justice, of humanity. of peace,
and OF law: the same pride of race: the same de-
v0tlon to liberty and detestaon OF tyranny which
have marked the AnSlo-Saxon race and crowned
1t with honor at every step OF its progress and in
every quarter OF the globe. Sir, what does rea-
son teach us Are the Southern people 80 blind
ed that they would seek to make an enemy of the |
negro upon whose labor and good will all their |
prosperity depends? Are they so lost to every
impulse OF humanity that they should seek to |
destroy race to whose fidelity during the war,
when an army was in their midst with freedom |
sritten upon its Banners they intrusted with per-
feet confidence their wives, their homes, and their
children-a race which, faithful docile, and law
abiding by nature, has only been made arrogant,
aggressive and laWless under the tut =lage Of bad
men in their midst Such assumptions are neither
By reason nor supported by fact.
Where then is the source of the widespread
discomfort at the South Sir, the early history
OF TINS country ought to furnish an answer. Our
fathers pleaded 10 justification OF revolution the
Eaet that the King OF Great Britain had sent
among them judges dependent upon his WILL
and swarms OF men not interested in their welfare
70 hold the offices, to levy the taxes, to harass
lhe people, and to eat out their substance
These expressions are no less CALLING to us than
hey were to our fathers. It is not an answer to
'ay that these men are subjects of the same
government. That was true i'll the case OF the {
,olonists. The Senator from Indiana (Mr
Iorton) says that we ought not to !
'bject that the people of his State
invite settlers from the East and from {
,ther sections, and give them Offices. presume I
he Senator waits, even if they are honest until
hey secure homo and become domlciled before !
e makes OF them governors, judges and men, a
'ers OF Congress. But with all the gentIeman's v
osPltality and all the hospitality Of Indiana 9
M JON hIn IN paying the very highest tribute t
tate should receive to her confidence and her
ONES sEcA men as 1 have described her folly i
'ould be equaled only by that of the man who, I
ccording, to Esop, warmed the viper in his p
osom only to receive bis fangs. "
Il In
Now, sir, to return to an analysis of the causes q
Inch produce the anomalous condition of airs P
! some OF the Southern states. These States
re governed by those who are not only strangers a
our sympathles and hostile to cur interests ! p
ut who are often corrupt. No more clrrupt Il
oyernment can be found upon earth. There is 81
+, no greater truth, no more philosophic maxim t.
and the craftsmanship which ignores it is sim
ly emprlcal..,than that the character Of gov al
'nmenG senslbly affects the character OF the citi-
IN. When government is pure and lust p
Id rlghteously administered private virtue ia -
rengthened and the citizen is elevated but "
men government becomes;corrupt, when judicial
on; when public theft is galvanized into re- OF
ectabls thrift by the glitter of official
alton; When political integrity is banished sa
om public place, and pollution is left-wher-
er government makes its track then the | 81
undations Of society give way, and all its con- dc
rvative forces are dissolved. jhe same copdi- | ru
N OF public affairs would produce like turbu- nj
nee IN any STATE in this Union. Give to each SD
ate the government OF Louisiana a Governor
reed III office by such means with Judge and pr
~ dependent upon his WILL the highest judicial tn
lcers impeached for fraud or embezzlement. IN
voice OF the people silenced bva Returning !.
ara convicted OF the grossest frauds, intelll- en
nee and virtue depressed, and ignorance and
q crowned as administrators of law. Offices pc
ed with political adventures with such cor pc
ptlons aud such defiance of public sentiment, pc
now long would 1t be before we should wit wa
IS throughout this land scene of unbridled :.
7nse, perfect saturnalia of sin and shame and nit
nth.
But, sir, we have one hope left. Talleyrand ste
d he knew one who was wiser than Voitare llk
more understanding than Napoleon and ali
alsters, and that one was public opinion. for
'r, there Is great public opinion in the Sc ne
ited States-an American sentiment which is ID
hope OF Louisiana and the talisman Of the
18th. And ia tho name of Louisiana and of pal
anon Inheritance of seif-government appeal ont
N the bar OF the Senate to the bar of that rer
erlcan sentiment. It is higher than the cas-
ates, more powerful than parties. twill not per-
us longer to hold out hope to Louisiana, only ,
|
whisper In her ear the high-soundlng words in
sell. government and of CONSTITUTE ,nal law. bro
lie these words mean to her but the pompous sta
opings which cover the dead body of pros Coz
Le commonwealth. 1t will rot permit us far
ger to hold in vassalase large body of our get
ow-cOuntrymen, who are indicated by their or
! words and acts and by your Republican Com. bro
tee, and who, when their trials and persecu- bea
Is and wrongs are known, whatever NAV have wol
their Mistakes their follies or their crimes feel
stand indicated before the bar of the future, the
OF Him who shall judge us all, as furnishing She
xample of heroic endurance and of patient for, coo
rance under wrong unparalleled in history ing
lustrous IN despair. wit
THE GOLDEN RULE IN sTATEsMANsHIP MOI
ut, Sir, there is another general truth which tho
ut not to be overlooked in discussing the I'M was
py condition OF those States and the causes pial
CHI produce it. 1t is this: That nothing but a fir
motion, disorder and blight can be the lot Of the
people whose rulers retain power by arraying mes
against race, and labor against capital He and
protects labor against unjust laws and iniuui. int
exactions is a benefactor as well as wise npo
maker; but he who for the sake of Office would blow
on the minds Of tba LII. lat