The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-09
BY THEIR RECORD SHALL THEY BE
TRIED.

Radical party is to be tried before the people
in 1876, not upon what they profess, not upon
what they promise, not upon any po'
litical theory, but upon what they have already
done. They are to be tried upon their record,
and that record is made up of all their legis-
lat!on, good and evil upon all their Official
conduct from the President down to the most
ignoble postmaster. They are to be judged
BY their fl uits They are to be measured by
their works. They are to be arraigned before
the bar OF public opinion, and they are 70
stand by their innocence or fall by their guilt.
They can not arraign their opponents Ihe
challenge is with US, and it is for them TO
clear their skirts as best they may. The kadl-
Gals stand before the high court of the people,
charged with q multitude of gross feionles
Thew can not shift the ISSUE They can not
| becloud the prosecution with counter attacks
They can not escape the trial, and they are
| obliged to stand OF fall by such verdict as six
millions of American voters may see tit to Ero-
nounce in Mover Der, 1876.
We hope our opponents will not ignore the
position they hold. They stand accused be-
fore the country for manifold acts OF wicked
malfsasance in Office. They have held
supreme power for fifteen years. They made
civil war, which cost the country half
million lives. They have created national
and local debts amounting to eight thousand
millions. of dollars. They have inaugurated a
cruel and most destructive plan OF internal
tax and excise. They have imposed duties
without reference to the commercial interests
of the country. tThey have fastened upon the
Republic an elaborate and cunningly con-
trived system of paper credits, The result Of
which is to put gold into the pockets OF privi-
legged bankers and untaxed bondholders, but
10 impoverish the people and disarrange the
measure of property values. They have COW
cred with the shelter of their political power
innumerable hordes, gangs and rings of pub
lie plunderers.
hundred times more wealth has been
acquired by political adventures and specu.
ulators under Radical protection than has ever
before been won in an equal period in the
history of the Republic. Whether national
or local all their legislation has been in favor
of traders, spectators, jobbers and ring mas
ters. They have flooded the country with an
irredeemable representative OF currency,
whose evils are equivalent to an annual loss
of more than a tenth part of the net earnings
of all the producing and industrial classes Of
the nation. They have wantonly increased
A. nf nrft
are, in time of profound peace, three times
as much as was ever known before their ad-
vent to power, SO that, aside from many costly
State governments under their control, the
Federal Government is by far the most ex-
travagant and costly establishment now ex-
listing.
No party in this or any 9th country has
done so much to demoralize the public as the
Radical party in this country. They have
made systematized villainy familiar to the
minds ofyoung and old. They have poisoned
the very springs of public honor, and by pam
pering, fostering. honoring and UNFOLDING
thieves and rogues they have taken away the
reproach of political turpitude. When honor
and honesty are again installed in public
places the Radical dynasty will stand forth
upon the tablets of our history as conspicu-
Gus for audacity and wickedness
The verdict of history upon the Radical
administration in Louisiana will declare it
much the worst, most extravagant, and most
inefficient government borne by any common
wealth, nominally free, in modern times. Its
rule has been a mockery of all just and fitting
legislation. In the day Of Louisiana's mourn
ing and poverty, the dynasty of spoliation SET
tied down upon her in a spirit of wanton ex-
travsgance to waste her substance, to swell
her debts to blast her credit, to cripple
her resources to cool her friends, to
heat her enemies, to tarnish her fair
name, to expel capital, to hamper her
commerce, to stop her progress, and to
to discover and apply remedies for her griev-
GUS maladies, the new school of rulers, in
their avarice and fanaticism, ignored alto
gether the sufferings of the State and the
wants of the people Instead Of needing real
wants and the pressing and immediate de-
mands for measures of relief the vagabond
adventures studied new schemes of outlay,
proposed new and larger expenditures, and
bound new burdens and taxes upon the
shoulders of our struggling people.
Every Southern State cursed with Radical
dynasty has a similar Indictment. There has
been no limit to Radical sudacity, and r .dical
plumber has only foupd an end where there
was nothing more to steal
With such record to carry, will the Radi-
cal party be SO foolish as to believe that the
Democratic party will allow them to shift the
issue and divert the discussion to irrelevant |
They are on trial They are ar
raigned. indicted and accused for manifold |
crimes and misdemeanors. They are at the |
bar of pubic opinion. 1t is for them to clear
their record as best they may. The Demo-
Gratis of the country, believing them guilty,
are resolved to drive them from place and |