The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-13
THE ASSASSINATION ISLANDER,

| We referred yesterday morning in much
| less severe terms than we would have used
had the atrocious calumny originated here, to
an article of the Chicago Tribune in which the
BULLETIN is falsely accused Of having advo-
Gated the assassination Of its political op-
ponents,
In replying to that scurrilous article, we
pointed out the inconsistency of the Tribune
in defending the recognition of Kellogg,
whose usurpation it had repeatedly and justly
characterized as an outrage on republican
government, as an unmitigated fraud, and as
disgracetul illustration Of the equally selfish
and foolish policy Of the present Federal ad-
ministration.
We have not examined the advertising COL
umns of the Chicago Tribune for an explana-
ton of its sudden "ehange of base upon this
question, but the comments Of the New York
Mutton upon the ''sommersault act" Of some
Of the 1ribunes congeners are so appropriate
that we take great pleasure in reproducing
them
The newspapers and constitutional law
yers" who undertook two weeks ago to show
that the expulsion Of the five members by
Gen De Trobriand and the soldiers was law
full and justitiabe, must not now begin ap-
plauding the settlement. and pretending it is
what they always recommended 1t appears
from the vote of the House that these five
members were lawfully returned: that they had
the right to sit and vote in the Legislature; that
in leaving their names off the roll, the Return
ing Board acted traudulenty. 1t appears, too,
from the recomme ndation to the Legislature
to seat them, that the Legislature is the
Judge Of the matter, and nobody else. and
that the majority present on the 18th of Janu-
airy was alone competent to pass on their
qualiti cations. As a matter of fact, however
their qualifications were passed on by mill
tary officer and fifteen soldier, called in from
the street by an insubordinate minority
There never was even a semblance of right
about the matter and yet We have had tor
some weeks to listen to great quantity of
smart nisi pries sophistry; MIR. Conkling, as
might have been expected contributing tour
teen columns of it, showing that the pres
ence Of the five members made the Legisla
ture riotous mob, and authorized armed
Interference with its proceedings. The per-
sons and journals who treated us to this will, |
however now 20 about looking as wise as
ever, wagging their heads and giving advice,
in full reliance on the popular forgettulnes..
But ought folly Of this sort, which it is no
exaggeration under the circumstances to call |
criminal to be forgotten in month or two :
AS regards the course Of the BULLETIN We
stand by what we published yesterday morn
ing in answer to the Chicago Tribune and as
the Radical organ here has seen fit to repub-
lish the mendacious accusation of tina. |
far-off journal, we desire it to be dis
tinctly understood that our language in reply |
must be taken as referring with at least equal
force to the propoJators Of the falsehood. In
that reply we used the following language:
1t is we'll known to every one in New Or
leans that during and before the January
troubles the BULLETIN, SO far from advising
or counseling assassination, invariably re-
tcrbearance, not only towards the