The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-28
THE MARCH TOWARDS EMPIRE.


excuses which the President has made in
defense of his conduct towards louisa,
What has been done here IS but the foreru
ner of what will hereafter be attempted ell.
where, if determined stand be not at on
taken by all those who revere the glorio
traditions of the past, and value the safe
and continuance Of constitutional liberty
The President and his advisers would n
dare to blot out every vestige Of liberty, n
seize and control every State Government
one and the same time tits only by gradu
entertainments upon the rights of Peep
that tyrants move forward to accomplish the
designs One State must fall first, and th
people at large must become famiiarized wit
outrage and usurpation, which they are eA
pected to condemn, then to endure, an
finally to embrace. Louisiana was selecte
as the State to be placed under the rule of th
bayonet and so far tyranny has triumphed
for the superserviceable tool who was place,
in power by Grant as Governor of the satrap
of Louisiana yields more power by the aid 0
Federal bayonets than does any European
sovereign over his dominions
If the scheme Of those who wish to trampl
upon republican government and erect an En-
Pire upon the ruins of the Republic has no
proved as successful as was expected by the
consplrators, it has been because Of the gal
liant and heroic stand made by the people Of
Louisiana, and the warning given by us of the
common danger to all.
What transpires in one State is rarely seri-
ously noticed in another. When Judge
Durell issued his midnight order the Admin
lstration did not think that the people OF
Louisiana would SO strongly denounce that
deed Of unparalleled infamy and protest in
such Il manner as to call the attention of the
whole American people to the full measure of
its iniquity.
They sadly, and to their cost mistook the
spirit Of Lousianians, who never have and
never will slavishly yield their sacred rights
Had the interlocutory order of Judge Durell,
which determined the election of 1872 in
Louisiana, in defiance of the will of the people
as expressed at the ballot-box, been passed
over in silence, no protest made, no voice
raised, and had the people of Louisiana yield
ed prompt obedience and acquiescence to this
order, precedent would have been estab-
lished, which would have been fatal to civil
liberty.
Although this order of Judge Durell will
forever remain a foul blot upon the history of
American jurisprudence, it cannot be used as
precedent for similar action, for it has been
DlarpI der fba lpy nf
ton. -
Maddened at the exposures made, foiled in
the very inception Of their conspiracy, and
chagrined that their shiboleth of ssrebel"
was all in vain, the GRANTEES beliey-
Ing like Caesar that if right and Justice
were ever to be violated, they were to
be violated for the sake of reigning, and, in
spired by a deep-seated spirit of revenge at
the persistent appeals made by the people of
the State of Louisiana to the people of the
United States, they determined on more
vigorous measures, in order to coerce the
people OF Louisiana, and to crush out the y,
last vestige of that spirit of determination
which was 50 well exemplitied by the COM {
nittee which presented their statement of S
grievances to Congress, in spite of the inso- .
ent assertion of the Attorney General to the i
eject that the Presidents mind was made up a
md nothing could change it.
And here pertinent question may be
sked. Had the President been Democrat T
nd the Congress Democratic, would Judge o
)ureu, or any other United States Judge. o
ave dared to issue so extraordinary an order? -
Would Judge Durell have dared to issue said II
rider If he had not previously received assn is
ances OF the support of the Administration p
SO doing Decidedly and emphatically, no. 2,
The American people having witnessed one
ep in the march to empire, it was necessary,
the carrying out of the conspiracy, that
Mother should be taken. t.
On the 18th January, 1875, the House of
representatives was entered by armed SOL
ers, acting under commands from Gen
herldan, who had been previously instructed 1a'
ON Washington, and they controlled the or nc
OF the House. This is the second so
ep and, IN reality, the beginning of Empire. LEI
r whenever Legislative body can be con- n 80
oiled by bayonets, the Republic is dead 1.-THE it
Sc IS one which demands immediate; and ia
'termined action on the part of tho States. ma a
The country can not exist with one part 7 !
70 and another ground under the iron heel of
despotsm. reg
The cause of Louisiana is national cause. 40 u,
the present members of the Legislature
Louisiana choose two United States Sena- boz
rs to the Forthwith ConcraSs opJ an +bo cir
IMPOSITION Of the Legislature depends the =.
litlcal character of the men to be chosen: %,
that the bayonet has really ousted two sto
majors OF one party and given their seats to sor
Others OF the opposition party. der
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OUR MOTTO I'VE will trust in the Nor !
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