The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-27

1HB IEW REBELLION ISLANDER.
I'd The enemies Of the people Of Louisiana an
j. Of the South, often and persistently chare
Of that the spirit Of rebellion is alive among u
in that the hand of Executive Federal powt
Of alone smoothers it.; that when the repressiy
force of the Central Government is removed
g, new rebellion will break forth. This is th
l. assertion and argument of the Radical Reput
% licans, who claim that their party, if contir
n ued in power, will hold the rebel spirit il
J. chains, but that their opponents, if they OF
II tain control of the Government, will unchai
I. the monster Of civil war and again subject tn
# Republic to bloodshed and devastation.
r After making due allowance for that parti
g san creduhty which eagerly receives wha
: seems favorable to the recipient, and for tina
Q seems plausible and credible on its own side
more readily than disagreeable truth thor
, oughly proven, when against it, we must still
i wonder that belief SO unfounded has OBJ
tanned such wide acceptance. That the be-
liefis earnest and sincere in the minds of a
prodigious number Of the American people is
a fact well known. With US it is a sheer and
bald absurdity, but with myriads in New Eng
land and the North it is welcomed, cherished
and defended as a cardinal dogma Of the Rad
ical creed.
The naked truth is that there is nowhere
within the borders Of the Southern States any
disposition, latent or open silent or e1-
pressed, to rebel against the authority and
laws of the Government of the United States.
No candidate of any party has been tolerated
by any audience in the expression Of pur-
pose to rebel. No journal in city, town or
village in any State has advocated renewal
Of the war or counseled disobedience to the
laws and resistance to the officers of the
Union, whether civil OF military. This is the
tenth year since the soldiers of the Confeder-
acy laid down their arms, but there has been,
during all that long period, no single case Of
armed opposition to an officer of the Federal
army in the execution OF his orders. We can
scarcely conceive of an order from the COM
mander -in-chief which sergeants guard
of United States soldiers could not
execute unchecked in the rudest noun
tain country south of the Ohio |
That grievous provocations have been
repeatedly offered is very we'll known; that
these have caused no rebellion, no insurrec-
ton, no resistance and no opposition, either
organized or unorganized, ought to convince
the most prejudiced that the disposition to
rebel does not exist.
Then as to the motive for rebellion no one
can give to rational Southern man reason
why he should again take up arms against the
forces of the Union. The organized and dis
ciplined strength of the united South was
once matched against the strength of the
united North ; what hope can to-day be held
out to any ambitious Southern soldier or ad-
venturer that any smaller array Of Southern
iorce would meet with any more success ? (
Do we not all know that the first collision t
With the troops of the Federal Government |
would instantly unite all thecpeople of the t
North against the South? Do we not know I
hat as soon as the first volley was fired '
hirty millions of people would at once cease t
0 reason upon the cause of revolt or to in c
uire who was in the right and who in the t
7rong? Do we not know that they would 4
% longer look at the law or the justice of re- 2
istance, but consider and act only upon the
nipple fact of resistance, construed as I'M a
Irrigated treason xCan any five, or fifty, or a
We hundred thousand of our Southern peo- t,
le be made insane enough to think that S,
ley would be joined, even in just insurrec- Il
on, by the remaining seven or eight millions b
the South? Our people are not children, IL
Or are they SO disordered in mind as to c,
ager lives, fortunes and the well-being of all ia
HON they hold dear in bloody game where NJ
the chances would be against them in a G.
tito Of thousand to one. CT
In the absence Of the disposition to rebel; Ell
the absence Of any sane motive for rebel lie
on; in the absence Of all adequate means Of
lccessful rebellion; with the traces of
oomy, bitter, costly, bloody and unsuccess- is
war CHASTITY and red in their memory, W
ny will political calumniators continue to sb
no against the people of the South this
allow SANDER Of contemplated new rebel M
IN? ~
Our people have of, red heroic non-reist- vi
ce to all the cunning and audacious ad
tempts of Grant and his supporters to force st,
EN- into revolt. They oppose forbearance to
insult and patience to provocation, and to hi
is policy they will steadily adhere, in the
iding hope that the hst-changing senti- in,
ent Of the ruling masses Of the. Republic q,
II rebuke the abusers Of power and bring an
ief to weary and heavy-laden people. he
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