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

Blaine's action in the House was the initis
move in the diabolical scheme to IRE th
Northern heart and to perpetuate the Radios
dynasty, even though in the Accomplishment
OF their purpose it be necessary to trampl
upon the law, and to ignore the constitutions
rights OF the States We say to our Southern
people and to the anti-Radical people Of tn
whole country that the coming contest is t
be struggle r6utrdnce, and the common
enemy is giant, whose overthrow con onl.
be accomplished by concert of action, and {
most determined and continued fight. Mil
lions of money, the powerful influence of the
Administration, and the military of the Gen
victory for the dominant party. That the
State will be overrun with troops to awe the
people into submission to the odous usurpa
ton which was set up by the President, and
which has been sustained by a partisan and
subservient Senate, we regard as a settled
fact. The vote of Louisiana is needed, and
Grant has given his henchmen every assur.
ance that they shall have all the military as
sistance they may require to rivet the Radical
chains more securely upon our people. We
speak by the card when we assert that it is
the knowledge of this fact that has embold-
ened the Radical majority in the State Senate
to stiffen its neck and refuse to make those
concessions which were part of the unwritten
contract of the compromise. Well and truly
has Radical Senator declared, on the floor
Of the Senate, that the infamous Returning
Board was the "artillery Of tho Radical par
ty," and that they could not afford to relin-
quish it. A Radical leader has declared that
the people may bring out their shotguns, but
that the Returning Board would be retained
and maintained at any and all cost.
We are fools and idiots if We do not learn
wisdom by experience. We are blind if we
do not see the plain and unmistakable mean
ing Of the recent acts Of the Radical party Of
the nation and the State. We will be false to
ourselves. false to the great and immutable
principles upon which this government was
founded if with the lights before us we lie
supiuely waiting for the letters to be placed
upon our limbs. We must rouse ourselves to
a thorough appreciation of the danger of the
situation and take such steps as will best en-
able US to thwart the cunningly devised
schemes and malignant purposes Of our enc
mies-the sworn foes of constitutional liberty
and of true Republicanism.
Since writing the above we nave read
letter from the Washington correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, under date Of the
30th ultimo, which corroborates our views, as
the following extracts will show:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80. 1876
The Republican plan Of campaign seems
now to be fully agreed upon. It has been de-
termined, as l have already foreshadowed in
this correspondence, to substantially fight
the campaigns of 1868 and 1872 over again.
Extensive preparations are being made here
in Washington to provide for the regular sup
ply Of outrages in the South next summer.
It has been determined by the Radical man
ayers to make Louisiana and Mississippi the
theater. Of the outrage campaign. The ap-
pointment Of Mr.. Billings, to succeed Judge
Durell, was made at the instance of the note
rous Packard, and will be confirmed under
Morton's whip and spur, despite all oppo-
sition.
Mr. Billings was appointed because Pack
ard recommended him to the President and
the party managers here as the man best
qualified to prostitute judicial power to po-
htical ends, and as the man least likely to be
with conscientious scruples about
doing the bidding of his party superiors,
whatever that might involve Accordingly
Mr.. Billingss confirmation will be pressed by
all the party interests It will be urged in
tue Republican caucus that his confirmation
is necessary to the success of the party pro-
gramme; for it is not Louisiana or the inter-
ssts of the Republican party of that State |
" hich is involved, but the harmony Of the |
grand programme by which the managers
hope to carry the Presidential contest Of next |
year.
Billings is to he confirmed District Judge /
If Louisi ana; Packard is to have control Of |
he party machinery, and between this time |
md the meeting of the National Republican |
Convention it is designed to secure the pres
,nce of Federal troops in louisiana to over
I'VE the State.
In Mississippi the Republican party is to be
thoroughly reorgan!zed and placed under con-
rol Of
SENATOR ALCoRN,
rho is TO have the entire Federal patronage Of
he State at his disposal. and Ames, with his
altered and weakened faction, is to be sent
orthwith to the rear. Every effort will be
made by the Radical managers in Mississippi
o provoke the whites of that State to violence
y melting the negroes to acts of insolence
nd bestiality. The people of Louisiana and
Iississippi may make up their minds to en-
lure system of persecution from now until
no close of the Presidential campaign COM
jared to which the enormities they have suf-
cred in the past will partake of the nature Of
ght infections, if not of actual blessings.
Why these two States should be singled out
y the cold-blooded and remorseless mon
tiers who manage the Republican party am
t loss to say; but it is probably because it
) thought that the white people who live
,ithin III cir borders can be more easily pro-
oked to acts Of violence than can the whites
other Southern States, together with the
sct that 10 these two States the local Repub-
can managers are known to be more des-
crate and abandoned than is the case else
here in the South. I am aware that the
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