The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-31
UNLOADING.

ly strong Congressional Districts, the leadel
). of the party became alarmed for their futur'
= Having held supremacy for fourteen year
y they saw evidences of such changes in popr
lar sentiment as threatened . subversion {
the Republican dynasty, not only at Washing
ton, but throughout the States, in all affairs
from Postmaster and Constable up to Cover
: nors, Judges, Senators and President The
saw the tide of popular opinion and sentimen
4 setting in upon them with very powerful
current They saw the foundation upo
. which they seemed to stand crumbling ava
:. beneath their feet They felt that hundred
, of thousands of their adherents had deserte,
them in disgust and despair, and that grea
: many more had held aloof from the polls will
3 sullen indifference.
The party organs became "like sweet bell
tangled, out of tune and harsh" Prominen
Republicans began to criticise one another
with caustic severity. Brilliant party Journals
began to speak out with great deal of can.
dor. Leading politicians were dissected and
analysed as to their public course. President
Grant and his Cabinet were hauled over the
Goals with freedom utterly shocking to him
and his imperial court of fatterers, depend
ents, obligees, creatures, servants and syco-
plants Political nalfeasances began to be
exposed, descanted upon, censured, investi-
gated and denounced. Names before tinselled
over with thin and glittering show of re-
speciality, were roughly handled and ex-
posed il. natural colors. Perhaps the unhap-
piest men that ever rose by impu1ence from
were the leaders and chief officials of the ma
tional Republican party after the popular re-
vulsioa of 1874
Something had to be DONE and that, as q
witty Republican journalist remarked, with
profane CELEBRITY" in order to keep the party
from descending to the hopeless rellm. The
chief complaint among the people who had
before voted with the Republicans was that
there was great deal too much stealing and
swindling carried on by the Federal ap-
pointees They saw public debts swelling
and public expenses increasing, but they did
not desert their colors They saw an army of
incompetents raised to important positions,
but they did not murmur. They saw vitality
important public interests neglected, and were
still silent; but when they saw how men went
into minor positions poor, and emerged thence
in three or four years with Independent for
tunes, without being able to account for |
wealth SO sudden and prosperity SO remark
able, they became indignant.
They felt that they we're robbed, but they
could not tell how. They knew that it was |
their own life.blood, financially speaking,
that nourished and fattened the tribes and |
swarms of ofice-holders and vagabonds, but
they did not exactly know the process BY
which they had been robbed and cajoled.
They knew that, while the masses Of the peo-
pie grew poorer and found the problem of
subsistence more and more difficult, few
men intimately associated with prominent
Republican officials became quickly and enor-
mously wealthy. Murmurs of discomfort,
angry rebukes, scathing comments, probing
remorseless reviews and unstinted
marked the columns of all the
Republican journals in the Re-
public.
A stranger to the politics of this country
might have assumed that party thus damned
n the house of its own friends must needs be
beyond the possibility Of redemption.
But the Radical fuglemen were not to be
lismayed or disheartened as long as there was
he ghost of chance left to them. Something.
hey confessed, must be done. They must
vait for reaction. They must put their heads
ogether and contrive new measures. They
must put the best obtainable men in front.
'ut, above all other things, they concluded,
hey must free the Republican party of the
oul reproaches and stains that rest upon it.
'efore Congress adjourned they took their
ne, and the order was sent up and down the
mes of the great Radical Republican army to ="
urge the ranks of all the notorious villains
he couutersign is, "Unload "".We must"
ley say, disclose all rascalities perpetrated
nder our dynasty, prevent their repetition, i,
nd bring the offenders to justice. Uaload s
,rutinize the accounts, vouchers, returns +,
i'd reports of all custodians of public prop o.
.ty or public money. Make the thieves q
isgorge Put honest men TO the. front 8
isclaim and disown oil relationship with
liains, especially such as have already been :,
stected. Attack our rings; attack our SNUG 81;
ers; attack our crooked whisky men; attack w
e Credit Mobilier; attack the salary grab at
srs. Charge upon the spectators. Timber go
, the batteries pointed against Arkansas W,
Id Louisiana. Give the cold shoulder to =,
o carpet baggers, and shake them off as an 81
cunbrance. Let the Niger rest for while ii
ID work the outrage factory on short time. n,
et us unload and ge. rid Of all our re- q
caches. Let us show to the people here ce
ter that, although our past villainies have &C
ZEN of base and infamous character, we have r.
rown off the whole load and are now ready
lead a virtuous, sober, righteous life before tn
Q people" oh
We suspect that the people, after all, will
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