The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-12
..ULD HICKURi,AyD .sLITrLE PHIL.

II Is True CuaL tleu. JACKSON was an slrDtfrlr'
military captain and dognatie and self
willed statesman. He did many things which
he should not have done. But he was Away,
on the side of civil liberty, an Undoubtee
friend OF his whole country, and, withal ;
man OF genius.
ThA attempt to excuse the acts OF Sheridan
in New Orleans by the acts of jackson on the
same field is characteristic OF the ignorance
and higotry which constantly show themselves
III the columns. Of the Cincinnati Gazetie.
jackson. confronted the enemies of his conn.
try. Louisiana was newly acquired territory.
Its population was variegated and disoval.
Jackson commanded an ilI-organzed and ill
,sy.drped army of militiamen from Kentucky
aud Teir,a-see. He was about TO meet vete-
ran British troops fresh from European scenes
o. glory Hlaw he met them is matter OF
history, which tie Gazette would distort and
tarnisn: but il is >cert lin that his exercise OF
extraordinary martial powers was rendered
necessary by the peculiar situation Of affairs
within thu city he wast about to defend 1t is
also certain that it lat no bad effects be-
hind it.
No such situation EXISTS to-day. There is
not conglomeration tof Frenchmen ard
Spaniards, buccaneers and snugglers, creoles
and mongrels, disloyal II the American arms
aud flag gathered together in New Orleans.
There Is Just the situation which weu Z exist
III Cincinnati II partlsa1 administration at
Washington should undertake to defeat the
wishes and interests of the people of that city,
expressed at the ballot-box, by sending hos
tile commander with troops to eject one set OF
Councllmen and PIT in another set. The
narTow-min led plea that the people
OF Louisiana are rebels aud traitors
will only serve as cue for hate with Radicals
who want preteXt for nursing their incura-
BILE wrath against the South
The people of Louisiana are full as patriotic
as the people Of Ohio. They have no more
idea of firing on the dag OF their country to
which the honestly renewed their allegiance
ten years ago-than have the people OF Chic
They are inst as much concerned in the we'll
being of the American Uainn as the people Of
Ohio 1t is when they are plundered. and
when a PARTISAN administration approves the
plumber; it is when they peacefully right
themselves and PARTISAN soldier is sent in to
haudcuff them at the point of the bayonet. in
order that they may be quite destroyed
it is when they are bullied and beaten
down as 4 nest Of bandith by a.
wooden headed fool in brass buttons, that
they. What That they fly to arms
No. That they resort to assassination: No.
That they scheme and intrigue? No. None
of these things has indicated The malice and
rejoiced the heart of the Cincinnati Gazette.
hOODcu, TOODeu Ol tuelr IUeFllcS anu
their property, ruined and insulted, they
simuly, in the name Of God and civil liberty,
protest. They ask the American people, bone
Of their bone and flesh Of their tiesh sprung
from the same Anglo-Saxon sources and
warmed by the same pure blood, they simply
ask the American people in the own language
not to stand by and see them bu.chered like
dogs. as Sheridan advises. That is all.
The very head and front Of their offending
Hath this extent, no more.
Nor do those who make this plea belong to
The class known a. politicians. Sheridan
calls them banditti." Yet never saw the
world such strange bandits bandits in the
ong white robes of the bishop bandits with |
he qui!l Of the accountant behind the ear
bandits bent With age and honorable deeds |