The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-05
COJlSIIATTA.

ers and journals, and congratulateS It's
thieves gang on the audacity with
which they snubbcd the House of Rep
resontatives, outraged the law and in
suited the people Of I1ouisinnn IT Coy.
fully announces that the Shotgun cam
1paign" has been checked, and felicitates
itself in the belief that thievery is to
reign, ia Louisiana still to put 1t more
mildly that moderate counsels have
prevailed. ..-- ara, .a afs
II is not often that humor and vice
consort together. There Is usually 9
severity, a sharpness, in the aspect and
words Of men who rob and fie. But the
Republican has tasted vice, and feelo no
loathing. Indeed, vice has set well
upon It's stomach: vice has inflamcd its
fancy. 1t is drunk With vice, and laughs
and shouts and howls strange songs.
and reels IN Bacchanalian dance, in
the carnival OF rasca1ity III which 1t Is u
principal figure, and which it thinks is
TO 90 on. W.f ..ls ett Auetl
We do not propose to enter into a dis
cussion with the Kellogg organ just
now. as to the effect the failure of the
impeachment movement may havcupon
the campaign. We stated that the 40
ton of the House in abandoning the
struggle. had RENTED the redemption
Of the State TO the people. Werely upon
the people, we have confidence in them,
and we believe the masses of them will
do their part IL the ''solid men" Of New
Orleans do not dishearten them by their
moderate counsels," their compro-
misc propositions, and their general in
differences. What we fear most.
are moderate counsels." What the
Republican pretends to fear most, is n
shotgun campaign 'Whatit, Id truth,
fears most Is o resolute. uncompromising
effort on the part Of the people to whip
Kelloggism and Grantism out of Louisi-
ana. The RepubHcan knows there has
been no shotgun business In Louisiana
which was mot provoked by the afro
cious villanies of the leaders OF it's own
bands Of robbers; yet. it daily fills its
columns with references to Coushatta,
and habitually refers to the DEMOCRAT
as 'Coashatta. - The purpose Of this we
presume, is to identity the killing Of six
Radical scoundrels, who had organized
negro mob to attack the whites of Cou
shatta at n ball aud butcher men and
women, with the policy OF the Demo
cratic party and the \, record Of
the temporary editor ofithel DEMookAr,
who had something to shy In the cam
paign in 1874 IN North Louisiana.
H We very confidently assert thnt the
Democrats and Conservatives of this
State have no intention OF conducting
"a shotgun campaign. -" The prowling
thief fancies he hears the click Of pis-
tol or OF, o shotgun In every sound that
falls upon his ear end he starts in terror
at the very noise made by hisEown feet
upon invaded ground. His conscience
Is his accuser. He knows he is an out
law. q scoundrel, q robber.s He knows
that he ought TO be shot down In his
tracks by the first honest man he meets.
Consequently, he lives III q state of ter.
ror. He Is constantly expecting to be
dealt with by the strong arm Of his VIC
Tins. His dreams are haunted by gen
tlernen with loaded shotguns and PTS
tolls. The y. case ; Is very similar
with the leaders OF the Radical party
IN Louisiana. They have carried
Oh. such reign Of plumber and profit |
gacy: such q reign Of lawles sness and
oppression: they have so outrageously
the rights, and plundered the
and Industries Of the State
they have been such inveterate and
malignant, thieves. that they approach
every election under, the shadow Of Fed
eral bayonets, terror stricken with the |
belief that the people they have SO
scandalously pillaged are going to meet
them with shoteuns, pistols and bludg,
cons. This, and a purpose to create the
abroad that the Radicals
are prosecuted saints, and the Demo
Gratis and Conservatives murderous
is all there is in the Republic
cans twaddle about shotgun cam
paign and Coushatta. aBuH
We are not surprised to find the Re-
publican lowering constantly about Cou-F
Wo AOiHcuuUcA VutS 10 nave
written something like this: srhe eagles
have struck down their prey and swept
away; now let the Radicalized buzzards
'quat upon and fiutter and chatter
,ver the carbon" The buzards are ga
herring. The hyenas Of their party, Nor
on in the Senate and Blaine in the
House, prowl ever In the cemeteries Of
he war; bowling, scratching up the
orpses of the slain and crunching the
zones with their grinning teeth But
he Republican meaner creature, the
uzzard OF Radicalism- -lazily flies from
,olfax TO Coushatta, feeding on the car
ion there; and when its foul stomach
, gorged with the noisome feast 1T
1ipes its filthy beak, and, with the blue ,
les OF SANDER swarming around it,
quats its ugly form upon the corpses
nd shifts with relish the. delicious
tench. lnn 9at NJ tiaa ft \,
THE ARMY DISGRACED. M
There was a time when it was an honor