The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-12
STAND FIRM.

One Of the highest attributes of manhot
is firmness. Courage and patriotism exhibite
+ in moments of great danger and excitemei
have often been evinced by men who ha'
afterwards succumbed to the persuasive II
huences of time or of poverty, and weak
flung away advantages they had won. Giorior
victories have been thus FILTERED away ny a lac
of ,irmaess, and men who had by gallant an
noble conduct in emergencies won for then
selves the admiration, respect ana gratitude
their people, have, when pinched by want, Q
wearied by prolonged struggle. in moment
Of Ianentable and inexcusable weakness
rashly thrown honor to the dogs and con
sented to become disgraced forever in tn
eyes of all honorable men.
There are men in this country, aye, in thi
community, to whom a nation once gave un
bounded love and homage, but who hav
sunk UNNECESSARILY beneath the contempt 0
and moving finger of scorn points at then
ever; and perhaps their own consciences
scared they must be, are their most terri
BILE accusers, inficting the most poignant
agony.
The men who, IN the Legislature Of Louis
lana, confronted the armed minions Of the
Washington Despot. and, with rare
courage and dignity, maintained the
honor of their State - the men who,
with Roman 6rmness and heroisn,
faced, undislnayed, the misused soldiery OF
the nation, have made names for themselves
as bright and glorious as any that have been
enshrined in the pages of history and in the
hearts OF all men who love liberty. They
stand out to-day as worthy descendants of the
illustrious men who achieved for America her
independence, and will furnish to succeeding
generations the most conspicuous illustrations
of dignity, tirmness and courage-of what
men, conscious of right, dare do in the face
Of overwhelming odds and every species Of
and brutal outrage That they
will be true to themselves and to the great
principles Of which they are the champions,
we are well assured. They have made case
Tor their tellowcountrymen everywhere, and
will await patiently the verdict which will
soon be uttered in thunder tones by the peo-
Die Of the North, East and West. The New
louisiana case in this telling and forcible |
anguage:
The law condemns the President, and the |
acts, so far as they are known, fail to even
his act. Il
Thus stands to-day the verdict Of the
lation-a verdict not rendered, but sus-
pended. The people have been reused as
hey have not been for years, for the ques-
ion is one which transcends the boundaries
# Louisiana and concerns the whole country
t is not merely whether bandilti rule in that
State or whether it is plundered and mis-
governed. The passions Of its people, their
rrors and sufferings, become secondary to
he question whether the President Of the
United States has dared to lay violent hands
lpon inalienable rights The country turns
rom New Orleans to Washington. There
1as the deed done tina. stirs the American
eople. They demand to know whether in
he United States rebellion still lingers or
surpatiou has begun, and it is not to Nc
merry or Wilt or Kellogg that they address
1e question, but to Grant.
Tie grand protest of Speaker Wilt. when
e was forced from the Legislative Hail, de-
7ryes to be written in letters of gold, and
ill immortalze him :
In the name of the people Of United I
tates, and in the name Of my bleeding State,
nd in the name Of the God Of Justice,
gain enter my solemn protest against this
reference. Gentlemen of the House OF {
representatives, your Legislature has been i
vaded and taken possession Of by the mill y
ry forces of the United States. Under
ese circumstances do not consider i; my {
lty I" longer remain. !
The protest Of Thomas Vaughn, the old
an eloquent from Caddo, was equally o
and: "
NJ. .SpeaL.r--A general of the United I
ites army has placed his hand upon nv Il
oulder and commanded me to leave the .,
or Of this House. As member of this
dy, duly elected by the people of Caddo
rish. and as an American citizen believing b
1t the rights of American freemen are not al
all dead, desire to enter my solemn pro-
t against this outrage.
With such record every Lonisiauan may
justly proud Of his State The man who =,
uld dim the lustre that these acts have -
own over our Legislators and the State, by =
npromise or any such weakness, would de-
ye-well he will receive what he deserves -
AT MIR. FOSTER. OF OHIO, THINKS OF 1T. g
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heard MIR. Foster of the committee say to Ia