The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-29
LET Us PREPARE FOB THE BATTLE,

been quite apparent that the people Of thi
State and Of its metropolis can not prospe
. under the regime which has held power her
since 1867. It has been equally apparent tina
the Executive and Congress Of the Unite,
= States would keep Radical officials in powe
in Louisiana indefinitely. let the people vot
as they would. The State has had no govern
. ment of our own proper, legal and unimpedet
choosing since the military supersedence of th,
State authorities of 1867 We have since tina
date been ruled directly from Washington
City. The creatures of Radical President
and Congress have control ed all our more i'm
portant public affairs, and by the same power
dynasty has been fastened on us whose stern
grasp has only been loosensd within the pas!
few months, but which still rules supremely
and sets our true people at defiance.
The rule of the stranger, the adventurer
and the vagabond, supported by negroes here
and by demagogues at Washington, has cost
Louisiana, in robberies, in expenses, in de-
probation of property, in the expulsion and
extincti on of capital, in failure of protection,
in destroyed confidence, material loss of not
less than one hundred and fifty millions of
dollars. Except for the presence of the vaga-
bond usurpers all property in Louisiana
would have been worth more than it is now
by that sum. Except for Radical interlopers
and their Washington hackers our State
would have been this day as prosperous and
progressive as Georgia or any other Southern
fofa al fxo d IL.
What we want therefore is to get rid, effect
ually and finally, of our local oppressors and
In order to do this we must get rid Of the CEN
trail expressing power. Under Grant or any
other ultra Radical President, our city and
State can not prosper. We have been an
noyed, insulted and plundered for very long
and sad time, and We have been SO tied hand
and foot that our own strength, our own num- |
bers, and our own chivalry have avalled us
nothing. We have been obliged by q Presi-
dent who hates us and who is the representa-.
tive Of the great party whose members hate us,
to submit to the indignity of obeying officers
whom We never elected, courts which we
never established, and laws to which we never
consented
Right in our sight and with our full knowl-
edge Of all that was going on, we have been
plundered by the meanest gang of scoun-
drels that ever entered Jail or wore mana q
cles What has made the infiiction all the :
~ ore calling is that we have been obliged to ,
appear in the eyes of the people of both con-
.inents as submitting to the tyranny of a few r
'alti lis who could all be driven from the State
BY regiment of resolute school-boys. :
We assume that all honest white men in i
Louisiana concur in desiring to be rid of
rule SO destructive and humiliating, and we =
believe that time is lost in attempting to add
proof of what all intelligent Louisianians s
Know, that such desire can only be accom- b
,lished by breaking down the power at Wash
ngton by whose sanction, management, pat
onage, money and soldiers our humiliation O.
nd spoliation have been accomplished and Il
prolonged. How is the Central Radical :,
dynasty to be overthrown? What have we \
. do towards that most devoutly prayed for .
esult? How can the electoral vote Of Lou :
llama be made to count against the Radical i
arty? :,
1t is evident to us that this can only be done :,
y thorough union Of all anti-Radical ele. g.
tents, without respect to names, or afilia- Il.
ons, or prejudices Detestaticn Of Radical a.
N must be the common bond Of union
nong us. We must affiliate ourselves, at p,
asst for the election of 1876, with the grand =,
my of those who are working to defeat the ~
ar pa1 ~ Wa
ith that of the strongest, with the party that to
IS already carried the outer strongholds of RAJ
9 Republican party. that has entrenched ot1
elf securely in the popular branch of Con- ar,
ess, and that rules majority of the States. of
10 vote of Louisiana must be given where it IF
Il most assuredly count against Grant or in
latever other enemy to our State may be f.,
minated by the Radicals at Philadelphia ,
r that end it behooves our patriotic people, IN,
ung and cd, to be upon the alert, with ~,
ldy hands and watchful eyes to observe and r. :
feat all schism ana discord. An anti ~;
dical convention ought to be called at h,o
ne early date in autumn, with the view of ~.
pointing committee for the State and of -.
'roughly organizing all opponents of
dlcal tyranny.
After our State has lost two hundred mil.
rs of dollars by the war, and after suf =
ing since the war a damage to the extent of .. "a
, hundred millions more. inflicted by h,,o
amer class of enemies, surely it is a matter lin
'eoo' BUSINESS anu grave moment Tor rail
good people of Louisiana to contrive and hi
cute some final exodus from this grievous Nav
abominable condition of bondage When tnr,
country at large is about to make gigan- n =
effort to get nd of Radical cor the
'tion, and to lead the government back taot
, the true channel of purity, economy, con
lily and justice, Louisiana must not twe
oh the struggle in idle imbecility, nor r
st she suffer her cohorts to be led away ar
n the action or to be in any manner d. mat
I'd or disorganized under the influence of o;ve
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