The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-09

| Of the most violent, or he will be suspected.
Service in the Confederate army Is the test OF
| merit. Seventy -four Confederate ohcers taKe
| their seats in the next House, and but twenty
two Union officers. The Southern Democracy
has settled upon line of policy. The North
| ern Democrats have none except getting into
Office.
In one State they hold to hard money, in an
other to imitation; in one State they are protec-
ii ,nists, another free ders; they mold 10 no
opinion in common on banking and trans
portation. or other questions of political eco
nomy and national administration. The South
has a policy, the North none, and the South
will in consequence rule the party. The Con-
federate soldiers will be pensloned. 1t is not
in human nature for Southern men to tax
themselves for the support Of Union soldiers
while their own cripples are starving. Claims
will be advanced for the payment OF Southern
property destroyed in the war Payment will
be demanded for the slaves. All these things
the South will insist upon If 1t come into
power. And the Northern Democracy is
pledged to support the South. By their
principle of doing away with invidious dis
tinctions they are pledged to place the Con-
federate soldier on the same footing as the
Union soldier.
By their repeated declarations, never re-
voked, that the emancipation proclamation
and the freeing of the slaves are unconstitu-
tional, they are committed to payment for
property unlawfully taken away. tell you
that an inventory has been taken of all the
slaves emancipated. In law phrase, the evil
dence has been perpetuated, and the South,
backed by its Southern allies, will demand
payment If the Democracy succeed IN gain
ing power they will reconstruct the South on
white basis. Slavery cannot be restored,
l. ka
is the fashion of the Democrats to sneer at
the bloody shirt as they once sneered q,
bleeding Kansas and freedom shriekers. But
the stories of violence in the South are true.
As early as 1865 Congress sent investigating
committees there and has sent them every
year since.
Thousands and thousands of dispositions
have been taken from men OF all political
parties, of all shades of belief. The damning
evidence is piled mountains high. Thousands
of men have been killed. They tell you OF
President Grants interference. That inter-
ference was in the interest of humanity and
peace, and saved hundreds of lives There
is no necessity for killing just now, for the
influence of the terror remains. Why, at
the election in Alabama the other day, one
county which gave 1882 votes for Grant gave
but so Republican votes. In another county
the Republican vote fell from 500 to 8. The
terror did this. In the spring Of 1868 Louisl-
ana gave $4,000 Republican majority. That
summer 1000 murders were perpetrated, and
in the fall ths State went for Seymour by
$4,000 majority. In other States 1t is quite
as bad.
The South is now on its good behaviour,
for it desires to get control of the national
government But if united Southern vote
is necessary next year there will be scene
of blood. It is claimed that the Northern
Democrats have submitted to the constitu-
tional amendments. They have not. There
is not Democratic Senator to-day who will
acknowledge the legality Of the amendments.
| They will not attempt to repeal them, but
will ride over them as the North rode over
the fugitive slave law.