The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-19
UNION FOB THE SAKE OF VICTORY

Y UNION FOB THE SAKE OF VICTORY
The opponents of Radical usurpation
Louisiana need not dream Of IN easy victor
next year. II Louisiana is redeemed fro1
her long and dismal thrald dom by the votes {
her citizens, her escape will be as it were b
the skin Of her teeth. To the frauds of al
past elections will be cumulated the weight Q
large election fund contributed by the North
ern Radical rings of spectators and poll
ticians The eight electoral votes of Lou
: isiana form too large an item to be overlooked
by those who will struggle for supremacy q.
never partisans struggled before. Politica
life or death is the ISSUE Either must thu
Radical party elect their candidate for the
Presidency next year at every cost of money
and audacity, or they must accept
condemnation by the people as their
alternative. They ara doomed, but we
may be assured that they will die very hard,
and only after such struggle as has never
before been witnessed on this side of the
world. The vote of this State is necessary
for their success and every exertion will be
made to get it, or, if they can not get it, to
keep it away from their opponents by any
requisite amount of Justification and general
scoundrelism. If Democrat is elected to
the Presidency and suffered to be installed,
the Radicals will scarcely care to have the
control of Louisiana, even if they win it by
fair voting; but if the Radical candidate is
elected, or holds on to his place and power
in spite of an adverse election, then the Rad
icals in Louisiana will be ready to take full
advantage of their Irregularities and frauds.
In the coming election we shall deal with
mortal enemy wholly desperate and without
scruples. Every possible advantage that
malicious cunning or long and wicked ex.
perience can suggest will be taken by those |
to whom defeat will leave nothing but reputa-
tions soiled by uncounted public misdeme can
ors. The Radical leaders in Louisiana, if de-
feated, must collapse into gang of insight.
fcant partisan adventures, the luckies.
among them not being willing to remain here
under Democratic rule to enjoy the base fruits
Of their fraudulent labor.
What must we do to circumvent and defeat
his determined, desperate and INSCRIPTIONS
gang of marauders who control the negro
7ote of Louisiana Have we any time to
ose in arranging our plans of action For
'ur part we see no other way than to inau-
yurate the contests at once and with downright
arnestness of purpose We must put ourselves
rom the beginning upon the line Of offensive
License. We must assume the initiative and ;
ontinue it without the least relaxation. We
ave been many times defeated by audacity /,
nd aggression and now it is time to turn
pom the enemy their own guns. 4
Preliminary to this must be cordial and t
omplete union of all those who are opposed i
} Radical supremacy in this State or in the E
ederal Government. It therefore becomes a a
uestion of much practical importance how y y
} secure the desired and absolutely essential il
nifty of action. 1t is study which the wise, h
le unselish and the patriotic men of the I
It'll Radical party must make their first, last J.
i'd constant solicitude. The preponderance e
negro voters is by no means such as is h
presented in the late pretended State CEN Ct
IS, but the negroes are marshaled in an array b
compact, wieldy and obedient, that their II II
rty will scarcely lose one vote in o hundred I'd
the State. This solid union must
met by a union of ti-Radical voters
ually solid and more cordial and energetic.
Q have no votes to lose, we have no strength
waste, we have no friends whom we can
ord to ALLEVIATE.
To secure this essential unity all considera- So
ms and claims merely personal, all proceed In In
GO on account of past adhesion or past SER sb
es, all thoughts of rank and graduation, fro fro
lst for the time being be laid aside. The no
i.Radical party must for this occasion be sff
literally organized as not only to take in 1 wi
who are not Radicals, but to receive them str
terms of strict equality. The organize ric
a must be in the absolute and primitive on oa1
Sc of the word democratic and utterly
ore all pretensions, all aspirations and all =
ms, SO that the member who may cast his see'
t vote in November, 1876, shall be the wit wit
lal in every respect to him who may have 1 hea
70 through twenty campaigns. wal
q ordinary times and as political contests s sao
q formerly conducted there was room to MOI
rate personal aspirations, because then Wv
strife was often between sets of candi- ing
, Gus
% pstWeen WnOm tnere was but the Bhad emf
of choice and with roouIts from, rrh;oh SON.
~ ~ A'' AAoAu ""ion flow
lie was to be hoped or feared. All this is Car
nged, and we are entering upon an inter- a ans
inc strife with relentless enemies who aim love
rolong the ruin which they have caused. it's it's
ewing that the auccass of tho P,d;oo, but
~ ter
y next year Will greatly endanger the neet
liberty of the republic, we must at all n f0r
of personal sacrifice prevent that party heig
, obtaining the eight electoral votes of we :