The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-10
A NEW ORLEANS MERCHANTS
APPEAL.

Northern Mems IntercesslOn With the Ma
tional Government the Sole Hope of Lou
a-DiscOuragemento Of the Citizens.
To the Editor of the New York Tribune:
SRI inclose you a letter from the Hon
John M. Sandidge, of New Orleans Mr.
Sandidge is an old friend of mine. knew
him during the year when he SO ably repre-
sented his State in Congress. Mr.. Greeley
knew him, and liked him. I will vouch 70,
the truth Of every word he utters. and inclose
you this letter that you may see that even the
best citizens of the poor and ragged "pro-
vince OF Louisiana are being driven to des.
| peration.
New ORLEANS, Dec. %, 1874.
| pleasant Christmas to you, my friend,
and to those you love- May no Returning
Board ever corspire to, defraud you, no
Government vampires be- domicied about
you. You did our Returning Board" an in
justice in your letter of November II, by sup
posing my election thereto had been prompted
BY some sense of decency-'' the which you
will better understand when informed that
after six weeks of plotting and manipulation,
the vote of the people has been reversed, the
board declaring Radical Legislature elected.
II it was not that we have become used to
such infamies, and learned to know that the
Government at Washington maintained them
sion-we would make holiday job of clean
ing out the whole concern.
This last outrage, like preceding ones, would
not have been perpetrated but for assurances
from Washington that any action taken here
to perpetuate the "powers that be-" would
be maintained by the power of the nation,
and to-day troops are quartered all through
the city, and have been for weeks, while gun
boats and ironclads are anchored out in front
Of the city. We have this hope alone, that,
as the times shall come when it may be done,
the just judgment of the Northern and West
ern men will be made to reach to every de-
partment Of the Government, and the defam-
ers of truth-robbers of right-be buried out
of sight. This is the third time our election
has been ignored-set aside and We know
that In each case the outrage proceeded from
support at Washington.
What can we do? That retributive Justice
will overtake those who have conspired to
strangle liberty and right, 1 am sure; their
days Of tribulation will be greater even than
ours. did not accept position on the board
the purposes of its organization were too well
known, but we will count upon your bust |
ness men,"
Pardon me for such letter to yours, SO
kindly written My excuse is the heart
sickness of the now fully developed curse to |
be imposed upon us for another period. |
Your friend, JOHN NJ SANDIDGE
have known you and your grand paper for
twenty-five years. I take the daily, and |
never felt more proud of the Tribune than
low, as l see its strong arm raised, as with its
prototype Of yore, to choke the foul tyranny
against poor Louisiana. I was there
when Dure]l in a drunken speech issued the
order which destroyed the last vestige of
political liberty. 1t was witnessing this in
amy that made me a Liberal Republican.
President Grant has no manner of excuse
or his action. He knows better 1t is for
IS, the solid business men of the nation, to
Use up and proclaim through the Tribune
hat the tyrants power must be stayed
A. B. FARQUHAR.
York Penn Dec 81 1874