The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-15
GRANT AND SHERIDAN's OUTRAGE.
Some Pointed Press Comments.
THE PEOPLE MOVING.
New York Tribune, 9th.

q THE PEOPLE MOVING.
d New York Tribune, 9th.]
n Our readers will see by the papers of
u day that the indignation of the Loyal Nor
at the New Orleans transaction is fast il
. creasing. It is advisedly that we use Il
d phrase which twelve years ago was common
:, chosen to denote the flower of the Northel
!, meant nearly all of us who preferred COUNT
t to money, hated oppression, respected Il
q laws, and loved liberty better than part.
9 These are the men who now exclaim mo-
q loudly against the enormity of Gen. Grant
+ offense in Louisiana.
The call which we published yesterday he
u received formidable list of fresh signatures
among which the world will recognize th
Y names of some OF the staunchest adherents {
the Republican organization and the steadies
t friends of the President Take the men VIII
, fought in the Republican party when it wa
inspired by q noble ambition and directed t
grand purpose-the men whose polite
were always self-sacrifcing and heroic-an
you will find them nearly unanimous in thei
: sentiment upon this affair. Every hour Q
the day brings Us fresh voice of protest. !
} is, perhaps, too soon to judge correctly Of tn
intensity Of the general indignation, but
looks now as if the people were rapidly get
ting very mad indeed.
Two years ago, when KELLOGG was fraudu
lently and forcibly installed at New Orleans
the North looked on with divided opinions
The action Of the President was then utterly
inexcusable to be sure, but it had at leas
some show of apology, some faint pretext O
sanction, in false Interpretation of the law
and many persons also believed that Kellogg
was elected, and imagined that that made the
Presidents interference all right But every.
body sees at once that in the present case
| there is no question of majorities and re.
| turns. It is Of no moment Just now who was
| chosen to the Louisiana Legislature or how
the House was organized
Grant all that the Kellogg party claims on
these points, and the usurpation remains az
bad as ever. 1t was none of the President
business whether those seven men whom he
turned out of the State House were lawfully
admitted or not. It was none of Mr.. KEEL
losg's business whom the Legislature saw fit
to admit to membership. That question be-
longed exclusively to the Legislature ITSELF
The crime of the President was not so much
that he decided it wrong as that he presumed
to decide it at ALL. -
If he had sent Gen. Sheridan with squad
Of men into the Supreme Court, to clear the
bench and decide the pending question
of the constitutionaity of the enforce
ment acts by court-martial, he would not have
committed greater wrong. The country
would not have wasted time in considering
whether such decision was intrinsically
just; it would equally have been an outrage
Just or unjust.
The country has seized as if by intuition
upon the salient points of this affair, and the
sophistries of the carpet-bag party in Con-
gress and of the two or three Administration
papers at the North which reflect the bitter
craftsmanship of the Capitol are not likely to
deceive it. We seem to be approaching one
of those rare political movements when the
people, stirred by some genuine, honest i'm
pulse forget the ties of party, shut their ears
to the entreating of the party leaders, and
take the management of things into their own
hands. Such movements are always sponta-
neous, and if the gentlemen who are wasting
their breath and ingenuity at Washington and
elsewhere trying to stave of the crisis were
wise in their generation they would know
that they are irresistible.
A GROWING OUTRAGE.
From the Utica IN. ~ Hearaid--Adm. Rep.l
We insist that the Constitution OF the Uni. |
ted States was trampled under foot when a file |
of soldiers, in the uniform of the Government, |
marched into the State-House Of Louisiana, |
eJected one set OF officers and prepared the |
way for another. No such unconstitutional |
act, under such circumstances, can be wit |
messed by the people of this country without
The deepest concern. The history of the ma
ton does not offer its parallel. The action of
Monday must be undone.
The republican party, through it's Presi-
Dent and Congress, must undo it at once. It
must come to the rescue of Louisiana, hedped
N by bayonets, shattered, ruined. There
,an be no longer delay. Every other ques-
lon must give way to this one. Delay will
20 justifiable only until the Congressional
Committee can return and report. If this
'rowning outrage shall precipitate the crisis
Tut OF which the salvation Of Louisiana is to
70 evolved, then the State is to be conpratu-'
ated that the unseemly sight of Monday had
N occurrence.
1t needed such scene and such choas on
op OF all else that has occurred to convince
sluggish nation that something must be
one. It needed such q scene and such
hoas to demonstrate that peace can never
ONE to Louisiana until it is brought alb initio.
o long as the future offers promise of new
Boards, new rebellons like that of ,
'enn, and new reinforcements of Federal ,
roops, it Is pregnant with chronic choas.
RESPONSIBILITY
From the Albany IN. ~ Express-Adm. Rem. ! ,
Kellogg, whether he is or is not the legal .
GOVERNOR of Louisiana, {has no right to in
'rfere, either in person or by agent, with the
rganization of the Legislature, or in any ,
tanner to interfere with the admission Of /.
lembers. I. seems clear to us that Gen. De
robriand entirely exceeded his authority and .
oused his discretion.
We trust that the President will promptly
sown accountability for the affair, and disa-
wv responsibility for it. Has not the Repub- /
can party learned by this time that Federal
reference in the affairs Of the Southern
ates, except in cases of great emergency, =
aver questions Of Law and right is it not =
parent that the Republican party will seri. g
Isly wound itself if it sustains the high.
nded proceedings Of the military in New L.
cleans? We propose to place ourselves on -
cord as entirely opposed to the action of a,
IN. De Trobiand -
MILITARY DESPOr1sM. H.,
From the Boston Advertiser-Rep.l -
Military despotism is the proper term to :.
scribe the Government now existing in ~
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