The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-11
MR.. SCHW1NG'S POLITICAL HEAVEN,

Mr.. Schwing's article in the Picaytne of Mon
day. Our belief that Mr.. has acted con-
scientiously makes us lay the greater stress
on what he has written.
In the sixth paragraph of his article Mr.
Schwing says:
"This resolution would require of us
merely what all have done during two years
acknowledge that he (Kellogg) is de
facto."
He then goes on to prove this by avowing
that every man who holds office in the State,
| including E. John Ellis, who gets his commits
sion from him as member of Congress elect,
| acknowledges him; and then in the eighth
paragraph, he says:
FINALLY, it is no more than ell have been
compelled to do during two years, backed as
he is by an unjust General Government.
Now, in this latter paragraph of Mr..
schwing, lies the whole gist of the matter.
Never, for one moment, in the past two years,
have our people voluntarily acknowledged
Kellogg even as de tacto Governor. He has
again and again lied and avowed that we did,
but we never have. The past two years have
found us engaged in one continuous outcry
against the iniquity of his usurpation, one
unceasing effort to smash it to pieces. We
have, in the usually stern formalities of the
official sphere, "been compelled" by the
bayonets of 'an unjust General Govern
ment," to submit; brute power has overcome
us, but it has never made us cease to appeal
to the world outside of us, and at last our
appeal has been heard and needed.
Yes, Mr.. Schwing ''an unjust General
Government has brutally forced us to submit
y TO the forms of a vile, despotic usurpation,
but it has never done more, and we thank God
our people have been saved the humiliation
before the world of licking the feet of the
accursed power that has forced us.
Again, Mr.. Schwing, in paragraph ten,
says:
1.-The proposition came from Judge Wheeler,
and with assurances from him of the most
satisfactory character, SO far as concerned the
Congressional Committee, whose report would,
beyond doubt, have been secured in our
favor"
Ye Gods in what foul atmosphere do we
live. What pay the price of recognizing
Kellogg; of condoning his past iniquities; OF
turning our backs on the man we really
elected to the gubernatorial chair-John Nc
Emery, who has laid himself on our altar for
our good-pay this monstrous, this.impover-
ishing, this beggaring price for Congression-
al nit A.
do you speak by the card, Mr. Schwing, when
you tell US that Congressional Committee
report in our favor could be bought at all,
much more at the cost of our shame and de-
graduation Did Phelps, Foster and Potter
offer to sell us their ''report?" Neuer, nerer.
Did we dare to offer to buy it No; we
opened the fostering sore of Louisiana's
troubles to their amazed eyes, and they went
away with their own untrammeled opinions
of the nature OF the disease.
The Hoar committee came and saw the sore,
they smelt it, and they are bound to loathe it.
If they can 60 back to Congress, and 'report"
against us, let them do it. 1t may make our
suffering longer, but it will seal their doom,
and that of the party that has inflicted on us
all our woes.
Again, Mr.. Schwing says in the same para
graph, and in the same context ''And any
violation of faith by the Republicans (of the
Hahn Crowd would have secured terrible
denunciation of their conduct on the floor of
Congress by Republicans.
Indeed Well, this would be terrible pun
ishment to body of sensitive gentlemen,
perhaps, but if Mr.. Schwing can demonstrate
the susceptibility of Lowell, Demas, ct id omne
genus, to denunciation on the floor of Con-
gress, even by Republicans, he will earn
medal at the hands Of this community, who
are so unfortunate as to be afflicted by them
Why, Mr.. Schwing you ran clear off the
track that time. The leaders of that Crowd
are political and moral pachyderms.
You had as well try to penetrate barn
door with peas from the pop-gun of school
boy as to try to penetrate their consciences
~ with the fercest artillery of rebuke. You
forget, sir, that the whole lives of the men
who rule that Crowd are lie, and you could
no more trust them than you could the Irish
mans flea. There is nothing truer than that
every time an honest man puts his finger on
one of them, he would assuredly find him
" not there"
Finally, Mr.. Schwing sums up "what
would have been the results" had the scheme |
of adjustment been carried out, and "what
would result from the non-ad justment plan !"
We confess the picture overwnelm us. They
are as wide apart as heaven and hell, and
quite as antipodal. But Mr. Schwing has
done great injustice to the subject, for he has
treated us of results wholly on the basis of
cold, naked, heartless diplomacy, leaving out
Of all consideration the morality of the act
which is to evolve his political heaven
He has utterly ignored the fact. that up
to this moment the Congress of the