The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-02
COMPROMISE AND THE FORCE BILL.


There is no reason at all for believing tina
successful adjustment or compromise of thu
Legislative middle in this State could have haG
any influence. on the Force bill. Afflirs il
this State afford no pretext for that most ultra
and extraordinary measure Decent Repub
licans, in and out of Congress, are disguised
with Louisiana Radicals, her vagabond legis.
lators, her greedy officials, her subsidized
Radical press, her boisterous legislative SQUAD
bles, her dispatches from lying Radicals, and
with the innumerable complaints that go up
to Washington from whining place-hunters.
The Force. bill is an alarming measure, as
completely SO as any ever proposed 1t has
hung over the heads of the Southern people
for long time 1t was framed in the minds
of Grant, Williams, Morton and Wheeler
more than year ago. Its outlines have been
studied and approved by all the leading
Radicals in both Houses, by Cabinet chiefs
and by the leading incumbents of Federal
Offices. 1t is an army BILL and accords well
with the spirit which rules in army circles.
1t is bill which subordinates the civil to the
politico- military power.
It is bill to conjoin the party power of
Gen. Grant to the military and naval power
of the President and commando in chief
1t is part of the great scheme to put the
central authority out of the reach of
the States, to subject the popular
branch Of Congress to the less numerous and
more independent Senate, to build up the
combined power Of the Senate and President |
and to finally constitute an oligarchy, headed |
by the President, advised by wealthy Senators,
sustained BY naval and military aristocracy
and force, and paid by the controllers of
massed and centralized capital, who get back
from the government ten dollars for every
dollar that they lend and give.
Such bill, SO planned, so aimed and SO
supported, has at no time been contingent
upon anything which the Conservatives Of
this State could have done or said at any
time since July, 1874. Had the terms Of com
promise been, if possible, more humiliating
than those last rejected; had they been begged
for in a spirit as abject as their condi-
tons were adverse to US, our surrender would !
not have had any effect on the final adoption
of this outrageous measure. '
The BILL or something equivalent to it, is a
paramount necessity to the Grant party.
A ruling element in Radical Republicansim is {
still the negro. The party must have always
something to demand for the negro on one :
side, which the average white man of the .
South may be reluctant to concede from pre- t
maturity or other cause. The next element I
Is Southern disturbance, acts of violence, real
or invented, greater less. The Force bill
Is intended to provoke such disturbance 1t
is sklfully contrived for that purpose
The bill is not aimed at Louisiana, the Rad
icals having control here already, hence no
Of our people, however debasing
could in any manner have affected the great y
measure, the bill on which u
Grant depends for saving his reputation, the m
bill on which he bases all his hopes of re- i,
election, the bill which is to create the feel ..
ng which he claims to exist in the South al
llready. :,
Loulslanas salvation from ruin lies in the no
iefeat of Grant and his ultra Radical party. 81
lie may be, he probably will be, paralyzed by or
n overwhelming force and flood of public
pinion before the end Of his current term.
Tut in the meantime we are without an escape tn
rom the heavy hand Of executive and partisan WI WI
granny otherwise than by the will and act of H(
he people Of the republic at large Humil mi
y will not buy Radical favor; it will, in our TIC
ase as always, provoke more abuse. ~ ~,
We cannot compete with the White House sb
nd Custom House cunning. For trickerv un
nd fraud we have no matches for the lagos 40
the Grant party. The leading Radicals -. 'l,1
ore will give up nothing which they can hold
Their by their own strength or by the help of po
9 INSCRIPTIONS faction to which they be- sol
ne. To get money they want quorum in mi
Q lower House. Having obtained quorum pre-
ey will do nothing in exchange if through Tn
lud they can avoid it. po'
We won victory. We were robbed of its Ma
Its by fraud and arbitrary power, which con
we passed without Congressional action to pow
Duke or check them. Bayonets have nall
nquered votes, and the winners need not NJ,
expected to give up their base gains with II
y honest intent. Lou
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