The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-13
GEN. GORDON'S GREAT
SPEECH.
HE GIVES GRANT A HARD RAP
Titus Oates the Prototype of the
Modern Carpet agger.

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Modern Carpet-Bagger.
We have received pamphlet copy Of th
great speech OF Gen. Gordon, on Louisian
affairs, delivered in the United States Senate
on the 29th Of January. Among the man
good things contained therein, we find til
following telling hit at Grant and mos
striking and felicitous comparison betwee,
Titus Oates and the present carpet-bag de
claimer on Southern outrages Read tn
following passages
Mr. Gordon Other testimony from equal,
respectable Republican sources could be intru
duced. But, sir what is the use, when none
but those VINO defame are believed? Whe1
your own Republican committee, appointed
by Republican Congress, is charged with
making embarrassing report. 1t cannot have
been forgotten that General Grant himself
made tour OF the Southern States since the
war, and that he reported what he saw and
heard. Yet even General Grant was charged
with ',chHenashing' the Southern people.
General Grant has not been in the South
since, and all the Information ,ch reference 10
dinates, has come through those ,chose business
and interest 1t has been to Islander that people
for the last nine gears.
MIR. President, as illustrative of these times,
L shall now read paragraph from the history
of Titus Oates and the great "popish plot"
which, with the change of dates and names
would fifty describe the present condition Of
the South. If you will substitute for Titus
Oates the ''carpet-bagger' and Southern peo-
pie for Catholics, you will have perfect
daguerreotype of Southern society under the
rule Of adventures.
Speaking OF Titus Oates, the great proto-
type Of the present carpet-bag declaimer upon
Southern outrages, the historian says
{" He caused a written narrative of con-
spiracy Of the Jesuits to murder the king and
subvert the Protestant religion to be drawn
up and laid before the king"
The king saw they were monstrous false
hoods, and paid no attention to them. He
then, says the historian:
Enlarged his fiction, and in September
made deposition before Sir Edmondbury
Godfrey, justice Of the peace. He added to
his story at various times; and the substance
of it finally was that the Jesuits
were the authors Of the great fire Of 1866, and
that they were then plotting to burn all the
shipping in the Thames. At a given signal
Professionals in the kingdom.
Some color was lent to the suspicion by the
death of the magistrate before
whom Oates's deposition had been taken.
The body was carried to the grave with every
demonstration of popular excitement. Sir
Godfrey was styled martyr to
the Protestant cause. "The capital and the
whole nation" says Macaulay, event mad
with hatred and fear. The penal laws,
which had begun to lose something of their
edge, were sharpened anew"
"Almost in moment he was raised from
oeggary 10 wealth.
Just as the carpet-bagger has been in the
south.
Says Roger North
"He walked about with his guards, as |
signed for fear of the papists numbering him. -
Fit archetype OF our political adventurer,
seeking the guard of United States troops to
protect his person; and, like our modern Titus
Dates, he was, says the historian, "called, or
most blasphemously called himself, the savior
# the nation"
We have many saviors among US. laugh
er.]
"Whoever he pointed at was taken up and
committed"
As in Alabama, as I shall presently prove
lpon the authority of Federal official
Ellis example was initiated by multitude
# the most despicable wretches of London,
me of whom swore that he had been offered
and $500 to murder the king"
How many assassination plots have our
ituses discovered? Laughter.
''No lie was too gross to be believed against ,
he Catholics (the Southerners.) No evi.
ence was suffered to weigh in their favor, {
t last the utter imprObability of Oatess |
tory, his frequent self-contradictions and his
bad character began to be consid-
red" S
A few more revelations of the characters of i
ur Bullocks, Bodgetts, Kelloggs and Lude- :
ngs will uncover the real character Of our .
ateses.
Sir. history will never record truer story 7
the state of affairs at the South than that a
hich is here given, except that where Eng l.
nd had one Titus Oates the South has a
undred. Every negro and every Republican 7
lied in broil is canonized as a modern Sir I
odfrey, and martyr to liberty and the r
it'll
All. Mr.. President is it any wonder that a
eople SO circumstanced and SO systematic
lily slandered are FESTIVE ? ..Bereft of all pos
bility Of defense, disarmed, plundered and
owerless; every friend who defends or lifts
e voice OF sympathy in their fearful cruel .
non denounced IS sympatnizer with MUIR 9
'rers and assassins! o, sir, is it any Won 8
II they are FESTIVE?
Is it not rather source Of unmingled sur
Use that they have not long since yielded :,
cir hope and madly followed the tempta- !.
ons of despair?
An Organ-Grinder's Discontinue. e