The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-09
THAT OLD, OLD STORY.

AAos POAtACal uOuucSC1IPt, LILO OAAon8'
Times, is very much alarmed because tn
"South is about to reappear at the Nationa
Capitol as political unit, with an organiza
ton almost as perfect, discipline almost al
rigid, and policy almost as subtle and far
reaching as that of the Jesuits." This il
sensational, if untrue, and indicates the line
Of declamation-not argument-which Ger
tain class Of people at the North have con
Guided to adopt as an Offset to the unpre
cedented reaction against the policy of hatred
and ceaseless war against peaceful and long
oppressed community, upon which the Radi-
cal party has lived and fourished ever since
the armed contest between the two sections
came to an end at Appomattox.
The grauamen of the charge against US is
that our chosen representatives in the next
Federal Congress will act together, instead of
falling in the traces of the bummers and
thieves who assumed to speak for us ON the
strength Of bogus elections and bayonet-sup-
ported State organizations, set up by United
States Marshals and Custom House officials.
This, We cincerely hope and trust they shall
do as they would hardly act otherwise with
out dishonor. They will certainly be ga
political unit a" in so far as the punishment of
the high officials who constitute the Wash
ington rings is concerned, and will undoubt-
eddy support no man as Speaker of the next
House who cannot show q perfectly clean
record. They, like their constituents, care
mach less for whatever honors and emol-
may belong to Federal Offices
than for the paramount object Of
being at length considered and treated
as citizens of one common country, and
as therefore entitled to the full measure of
rights appertaining to every citizen of the
United States. They can never constitute o
numerical majority Of either House of the Ma
tional Legislature unless they are backed by
ut least one-third of the Northern Senators
and Representatives, and whenever this result
is obtained they will exercise their undoubted
share of delegated power in shaping the
policy of the Democratic party. That policy
is embraced in very few words-free trade,
! hard money currency, and the absolute nom
of Federal ofice-holders and Fed
oral bayonets in the legitimate administra-
ion of State effairs by the legitimate voters
hereof That policy we mean to uphold by
III constitutional means, at the polls and in
he halls Of State and Federal legislation, and
bitter as the pill may be to the carpet-bagger
md his Great Father in Washington, We feel
assured they will have to take it noleas voiens
within the next eighteen months.
The "truly loil" Bourbon element which |
till controls the remnants Of the once great |
nd overahadowing "war party" may not
90 it; but it is, nevertheless, fact that their
1AsrERs, the American people, from the
North and the South, the East and the West,
AVE come to the conclusion THAT THE WAR is
YER, and that the camp followers who will
lot cry. Hold, enough SO long as there is
dollar of public money to be stolen, must
70 sent to the right about, and that honest
,en from all parts of the Union should take
heir places. We are not quite sure that our
delegation will be political
nit; but We most sincerely hope the worst
lars of our political enemies will be realized
. that respect, even at the cost of hurting
ne sensitive nerves of every Chicago patriot
the Times and Inter- Ocean pattern.