The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-20
POST BELLUM HEROES.

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There are a certain number of people d
TIE North who, having carefully Kept ou'
of harms way during the late unpleasant
ness" are endeavoring to make up iol
their lack OF heroism at the appropriate
time by cheap display of fighting ardor now
that this "cruel war is over THESE mill
tary Pecksniffs keep firing the Northern
heart against the incurable and undyinl
Southern rebels, and talk necessarily Of the
danger to be apprehended from the election
Of several ex-Confeaerate generals to the
United States Congress.
According to the Chicago Inter- Ocean. the
Washington Chronicle and other pet journals Of
the Grant-Shepherd Ring, itishighly improper
for the Southern people to elect any man who
took sides with them during tho ,a.e war; IN
other words. they should either vote for car
pot.bssyers and negroes, or select tho mean
est white natives OF their section, tho co Tardly
fellows who shirked the duty of common de-
Tense by convenient self-exile, aud the still
viler creatures who rushed into the ombrac IS
OF Ben Butler and the like Of him as soon as
they could d. 50 without risking their pre-
>ious carcasses, and who, under tho eupho.
Nous title of "scalawegs," have ever since been
coming money out Of their countrys misior-
tunes and oppression.
These are the men whom tho In,er-Oce1n
admres and whom it affects to believe we
should not hesitate to select as our Standard
bearers and political leaders
Here is Gen Gordon, for instance, who
represents Georgia in tho Senate, to the in
tense disgust Of that bellicose sheet and Of
the yalorous post -bellum heroes Of which it is
the appropriate organ. The idea that q
Democratic Legislature should have quietly
ignored such pure Southern patriots and
statesmen as Foster Blodgctt, Sam Bard,
and other choice specimens Of Georgia
scalawaggery, to vote for On ex-ollicer
who fought CALAMITY against that Union which
Che Inter- Oced. chaps are now so ANXIOUS to
defend against imaginary aggression, is really
too Tad. Had they picked up Alexander Il.
Stephens, they might have been excused on
the ground that this eminent trimmer and
perpetual fault finder did vastly moro harm to
tie Confederacy, OF which he was the second
executive officer, than any member OF Lin
coins Cabinet ever could do; but some
how or other the Georgia Democrats
couldn't SEQ it, and allowing the
eccentric ex-Vce President to DO returned to
Congress by the votes Of the negroes and
carpet-baggers, they cast their Legislative bal
lots for John E. Gordon, who ever since ho laid
down his arms and was restored to his rights as
a native born American, has ncvcr ceased to
proclaim his attachment and devotion to the
Union, and whose word in that respect is 90
much better than any scalawaS's bond.
Isn't it abou. time for these senseless and mis-
chieyous war shriekers to op their sickoning
tgaddle, and let by-gones BIO by-gones?
Are the Southern people children or idiots,
and must Chicago penny aliners and Wash
ington Ring organ grinders do their thinking
and prescribe their voting on the war plat
form, upon which every Northern skulkcr
and bounty jumper has been standing ever
since the distant smell Of gunpowder no
longer propels them to the rear of the Fed
ernl baggage train2 All the real soldiers Of
the WARMTH the single exception Of Piegan
lIunchausen Sheridan-are now living under
tho impression that the war actually came to
m end in the spring of 1865, and that such
men as Gordon, Baauregard. Johnston, Hood,
and their less conspicuous but equally
rebsllious comrades have somo rights which
even ''bomb. proof warriors" of tho Inter-O Ocean
pattern are bound to respect In spite of the
rawlings of these bowling dervishes OF the
Ring. however, we believe that the great mass
Of the American people, North as well as
South, firmly believe that the war Is over,
aud care very little if man once wore gray
uniform, provided he shows by his present
conduct that he accepts in good faith the YER
dict of battle, and having given his parole to
the victor, will hold on to his promise with
scldierly honor and patriotic fidelity.