The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-07
RADICAL wILEs.

Senator Morton, and indeed every Radical
leader who will place himself foremost in any
scheme where Justification and assurance is
needed, may always count with certainty upon
the support of the Chicago Inter- Ocean the
holder and more unblushing the effrontery
which dictates the pursuance Of any course
that has for its object the seizure Of power,
to which it is not entitled, or the perpetuation
of the wrongs which constitute the bulwarks
Of a corrupt party, the frmer and more posi-
tive is the stand taken by the ring organ in
Chicago in support of the daring freeboot-
ers. Just now it is using its utmost
endeavors to support the efforts of the Indi-
ana sorehead who feels so bruised over the
Mississippi election, to set aside and nullify
the verdict Of the people of that State as ex-
pressed at the ballot-box. Almost in the same
paragraph this party trumpet thunders out in
the loudest tones the fact that the negroes
were largely in the majority, and squeals in
the most plaintive style that the poor blacks
were intinidated by the more powerful whites.
The organ seems to have but two tones, one
the brazen shout of party power, and the
other the pitiful whine of poor maltreated
lover of the party lost in q wilderness where
Democratic horrors surround him.
In late issue this paper says, in reference
to the proposed Mississippi resolution of Nor
ton, that The Democrats fear the investiga-
ton, and will strongly oppose the passage OF
Senator Morton's resolution" That the Dem
ocrats will oppose the investigation is most
certain, not, however, that they have any
cause to fear the result, were it entrusted TO
the hands of men who would make the least
effort to have justice done, but because they
know that if the resolution passed,.a similar
committee to that sent to Louisiana would be
chosen, whose verdict would be made up by
the ring in Washington BE- fore it left the cap.
ital, and whose only labors at the scene of the
any and all corrupt sources that could aid
them in their plans of utilization and poiti-
cal plundering, and to carefully exclude all
such as would in the slightest degree tend to
display the flmsiness of Morton's pre-
tensions or the rottenness of the Radical
party in that State. Even as 1t is the Demo-
Gratis are not the most bitter opponents to
the passage of the resolution; by far the |
strongest opposition comes from Ames and
his band Of plunderers. who tremble lest
even the most careful efforts to screen their
villainies should fail and the whole corrupt
course o. himself and his party be laid bare to
he gaze Of the entire country. It is to this fac
ion Of the Republican party that Norton and
he Inter- Ocean must look for those who fear
IN Investigation; the Democrats could chal-
enge one had they any assurance, or even
my right to hope, that it would be carried on
n spirit Of fairness and justice.
1t has been very much doubted if Morton
'ver intended to have his resolution pass, or
it did, to have any active committee ap-
'ointed under it; many persons are of the
'elief that it is merely intended to choke off
he threatened Investigations by the House
nto Radical short comings andcorru ptions, by
verting the attention of members to his
esolution against Mississippi. Whichever
tatement of the case be true, one thing
certain, that the opposition that is strong est
ONES from Radicals of the same class as
[orton and his journalistic supporter, rather
IAN from those whom it is intended to in
lre