The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-05

January 18th, pertinent, caustic and vigo
GUS article relating to recent troubles
Louisiana. The writer seizes the sale,
traits of the great drama enacted at the S
! Louis Hotel, and sketches the circumstance
OF the affair with equal ability and elegane
. of style. He holds the mirror up to our OF
, pressors SO that they may see the true pictur
which they are going to make in history.
Louisiana Troubles.
The visitor to the Capitol of Washington
will remember the painting filling a nicEe il
, the rotunda of DeSoto discovering the Mis-
sissippi River. The naked Indians are shrink
: ing before the grand old Spanish conquista
dores, clad in the gorgeous panoply OF civil
lized warriors. After the lapse of nearly tire
centuries and half scene has been enacted
at New Orleans near the mouth Of the sam,
river, which may form the subject of futur,
painting The scene alluded to was the en-
trance of Gen. De Trobriand Gan officer of til,
United States army into the Legislative Hal
Of the State of Louisiana, and the dispersion
Of the people by military force. The two
scenes may be considered to represent the
first and last phase of civilization on the grea,
American Father of Waters
The dispersion of deliberative Assembly
under whatever circumstances, by military
force forms serious epoch in the history OF
nations. We believe the dispersion Of the
Louisiana Legislature by the simple dictate
Of military commander is the first event Of
the kind to be added to the history of the
| United States We have read of sucn things
in the days of Cromwell and Napoleon, and
they are of frequent occurrance in the
piebald Governments Of Spanish America.
1t is also announced by telegraph that Gen.
Sheridan has requested the President, by a
simple proclamation, to define the civil status
Of all opposed to the Administration as "ban-
ditti," intimating that they can then be tried
by drum-head court-martial, and he can soon
manage the rest.
| plan, and has worked admirably amongst that
hybrid race in perpetuating the power Of wan
ing Presidents; but whether the "plan" will
find favor with the American people remains
to be seen. II those in office can proclaim
their opponents ''banditti," and have them
shot by military courts-mar!ial, the ranks of
the deposition" can be thinned in II most
convenient manner. Gen. Sheridan's recent
exploits among the Indian tribes of the North
west eminently qualify him to act the part of
the Duke of Alva among the helpless "ban-
ditti of the Pays-Bas, and the political h ere-
tics of Louisiana may be slaughtered with as
gious heretics Of the Netherlands.
A "bandit," according to the military lexi-
con Of Gen. Sheridan, may be former
planter, once the owner Of broad acres worked
by lis own slaves in peace, prosperity, and
contentment, who cannot understand why he
should be disfranchised in the land Of his ma
tivity, or why the home he is qualified to cul-
tivate and adorn should be made desolaiion
by carpet-baggers aud recently emancipated
slaves? These "bandith," as Gen. Sheridan
is pleased to call them, are the only men in
the South who can read and write are the
only men who have the instincts of civiliza-
ton or any knowledge Of Governmental
rest are recently from Africa or New Eng
land.
The whites formed an association called the
"White League" for the purpose Of rescuing
their beloved country from receding into bar
barisnl, and its Government from falling into
the hands of a greater set of miscreants than
Spain ever sent to govern her worst colonies |
As for Gen. Sheridan, we shall only echo the |
voice of civilization when we say, ''Shame |
upon the blood hound" AS for Gen. Grant, |
We venture to say that his well Unknown adhe- |
sion to his friends and partisans has led him |
to inflict a grievous wound to the Republic of |
which he is the Chief Magistrate and sworn
Protector.
Times have changed in New Orleans since
Gen. Jackson (that grand old hero) was in
military command Of the forces Of the United |
States, concen trated there for defense against |
l foreign foe. Gen. Jackson, in the face of |
he enemy, considered it necessary to pro-
claim martial law in New Orleans. He was
1t the head of the army the idol of the troops,
md a favorite of the people. He was sum-
noned before Judge Hall and fined one thou
'and dollars for a breach of the civil law.
The grandsold hero, patriot and statesman
bowed to the laws of his country, paid fine,
md thus achieved a civil victory which was
greater than the military victory over PAX
'nham. Gen. jackson is dead Recently we
lad Butler in New Orleans; now we have
Sherman. Bah! By the Constitution of the
United States the Federal Congress is the SUI
,reme judge ofthe qualification gifts own mem
,ers and, by the constitution of every State
GLOWING this model, e ach State Legislature
5 the supreme Judge of the qualification of its
wn members, subject always to an appeal to
he courts-never to the sword. This Gen.
)e Trobr.and has made him self a name in
history and nothing more He was only
older, and obeyed orders; but woe is the day
n the history Of the Grant Administration
7hen the representatives Of the people we're
riven from their hall at the point of the
ayonet This sad episode gives no reason
o despair of the Republic, or to lose confidence
n Republican institutions; ON the contrary
he result, as it has ever done, will prove their
trength.
The people-the supreme power-will drive
he Administration from Washington as their
lyrmidons have driven the legislators of
louisiana from their hall; but it will not be
y military force-it will be grand, it will be
ignied, it will be the sublime moral force
the will of great and an intelligent .peo- ,
lie, who have subdued continent for liberty
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