The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-05
THE MILITARY COUP D'ETAT.
LOUISIANA UNDER BAYoNEr RULE.

TdE 4lklTAkY UOUP VETAI.
LOUISIANA UNDER BAYONET RULE.
Another blow, aimed at the liberties OF 9
free State, has been driven into the heart o.
tyranny and usurpation. Another outrage
planned and perpetrated against the people O.
Louisiana, has recoiled on the heads of those
outlaws of civilization who have combined
under Mr.. Ulysses Grant and his chosen tools
in the South to wrest from the people and
from the free States Of America the most
sacred monuments of free citizenship, repre-.
sentative government, and as its essential first
fruits, an untrammelled representation in theil
Halls of Legislation The history Of January
4, 1875, in the Capitol of Louisiana, will ''spin
forever down the ringing grooves of time, " and
will carry with it warning to all free people
to beware Of the influence of standing army.
It will teach more for the future than
for to-day. It will shear laden breast
full Of sad experience" to the free States of
the North. It will bear an earnest, q solemn
warning, to the party that is to succeed to
the present regime, that the military arm
must ever be subordinate to the civil power !
As an element in the great political third term
problem, in which the whole tenure of civil
government in this country seems necessarily
to center at this time, Louisiana was, arith-
metically, of little consequence. But the
great point toward which Mr.. Grant and his
seem tending is to destroy every
vestige of free representation in the Southern
States by the use of the "Union forces" and
to bind the Administration letters on the
whole American people.
To this end, every aggravation OF force,
every outrage Of military display. that could
inAame the pride, or insult the dignity Of
citizenship was coolly planned and
executed. For weeks our citi-
zens have been greeted by the daily parade
ind drill Of armed forces in their streets, and
he mastering and marching Of cavalry, ar
illery and infantry in the quiet haunts of
and trade. Our children suspend |
heir studies, wonder at the steady march Of
roops, and, startled, stop to listen to the
ing of muskets ON the quiet banquettes in
heir morning walk to church. The CONNER
ial navies of the world are turned aside, and
rowded from our wharves, to make way for
be iron-clad monsters of the United States
avy, which frown from the peaceful waters
our port.
The hero Of deserted and desolated fields
agriculture, of smouldering villages and
utraged hearth-stones, is sent to stimulate
nd envenom, perhaps to supersede the
onest and chivalric soldiers who have tenn
cred their military power by the gentle
'anly courtesies Of civilized society.
All these things bring us up to the climax
n the day when the burdened and oppressed
eople of this State looked for the redemp-
on that, in free country, springs from an
onest victory at the polls over band of
shonest and plundering ofice-holders |,
When the hour arrived for the constitu-
onal assembling of the Legislature elected :
7 the people, and absolutely admitted by !,
@ board for strangling returns, the
my of the United States was marshaled, /.
ID when the organizing of the House !
Representatives showed working force
ainst the Kellogg usurpation, General of
e Federal army marches his troops into the :
ry halls Of legislation, and before the :,
'eaker's chair dictates the roll of member !,
lip and the organization of the House
It would be difficult for human depravity to :,
nceive or tyranny to execute graver out
&c on the Constitutional rights of people
lied free But with the outrage comes, or
IL come, the recoil of the peoples verdict :,
it'll the full development of the nefArious r.
aeme by which the tyranny of Grantism
ks to perpetuate itself upon an unwilling y
ople, the sober sentiments of Northern "
nservatism will apply the rod Of political 7
:rection. and the malignant and brutal '.
Icy of the sporting ring now in power at
will pass away forever.
l decent regard for the opinions of the
ole American people; fidelity to the consti-
ional safeguards of our theory of govern :.
mt truth to the heroic record of our own
rtyred State honor to our fallen braves =. =
l protection to the trusts imposed by the =.
at future of our State and people-an re- .,
ire of us patient bearing with the present -
l manly struggle to maintain our cause
The last and forever, with faith undimmed
disaster and hope undiminished by tenn y.
AIRY defeat Undismayed by force and un- -,
lated by threats, our people will patiently -
steadily work on and upward to their full
itical redemption. -.
LOUIS A. WILT. -.
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