The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-23
10 TRUCE wITW THE RoaUEs' ROosT.

The EpSSlDU Vi bB' lf't 'oisstNhS =
idly approaching its close. Only iew
laws remain for work, and yet there mas
been very little OF good consuinpia.e"
rbe people will review the career of TINS
worry extraordinary body, look at the
figures which represent its cost ana con
olude that the compromise has been
dead failure. and that the General AS
sembly to which tgave birth has proved
only n delusion unless much Is accom-
p,ished IN the next week. The House
has passed n number of very excellent
hil,s which the Radical Senate has. IN
one way or another killed oil whlle
bowlnu in consort with Kellogg and the
Republican. about retrencbment and re
form. And, in the face of this fact, at
the latter end of the session, when the
Senate has given every evidence that "
will consent to no reforms, the House Is
divided upon the policy OF iinpeach-
ment. those opposing 1t Affirming wa.
such a course will prompt the Hadlcal
Sepate and Executive to defeat
the reform measures that the House mas
adopted, Those Of the Democratic ana
Conservative members Of the Legisla-
,ure who expect to accomplish the re-
demptjon Of Louisiana through the IN
strumentality Of reforms accomplished
by measures TO conciliate Kellogg ana
his band of plunderers. are putting their
faith IN "a plan Of salvation based on u
scheme of damnation."
After many weeks Of the session, the
Senate has failed to sustain the House
in any important and practicable meas
IRE Of reform. Az late az Monday
Last. measure of vital interest to the
welfare of the city OF New Orleans, to
The passage Of which nine-tenths OF Its
taxpayers and business men were look
ing with hope and anticipation. was
virtually defeated by the Senate, and
there Is little hope that that body
will concur I'm any Of the really
hept,cjal measures OF the House.
The Radical cry Of reform was
simply a fraud. and Il is wonderful
that any sane man, conversant with the
career Of that robber organization
should have been for moment deceived
by IL. For eight years, upon the eve OF
every election. the Radical chiefs have
howled reform! reform reform And
In every instance there have been shall
low pated Louisianians who have lis
tened to the cry as though 1t were al
angels song of hope; or, Louisianian'
with itching palms who made II pre-
) text TO treat with the enemies OF theil
! state. The heavens have for months
past been resonant with the same OLE
Radical song and everywhere we fine
crossroad politicians; members OF thu
Legislature hunters after jobs. aspi
| rants for ward constableships pub
) fishers after printing contracts, listen
ing. as In an ecstacy, to the wheezenet
OF cracked voices of Kellogg, Packard
, and their dusky Senators in the disma
concert.
We are told there are Democrats anc
Conservatives in the House, even now
with Kellogg and the Senate befor
them, knee deep In broken pledges ant
with lying promises of reform still no
upon their tongues, who trust 50 i'm
plicitly in Radical professions of reform
: that they refuse to imreach a Radica
official for his crimes. This is a re
markablc spectacle The Democrat
, and Conservatives in the House can
not have forgotten the uncompromis
: ing policy upon which they wer
elected in 1874. They cannot hav
forgotten that tho fight of the people il
that canvass was squarely against kel
logg and Radicalism. and that the wa
cry. from one extremity of the State t.
the other. was. mo more concession
to. no more terms with Radicalism.
viii any gentleman who opposes tn
p, impeachment Of Kellogg, and Is read
to sell the Radical plunderers anotbe
/. four years lease of power anu licens
: for the barren promise of fe'
, reform measures, tell us when tn
!. bugles OF the people who elected hir
J, sounded truce with the rogues roost &
:, robber band of carpet baggers and sea
:. awags who, for eight years, have curse
this land2 The war the people opene
on Radicalism in 1874 requires now tn
# Impeachment of Kellogg, and the me
# the people sent to the front In 1874 mus
I hold up the standard of the people an
q discharge their duty boldly. There
!. nothing TO be gained by concessions I
!. the Radical party. After all its profes
+ sions Of peace, the people are still cor
# fronted with the Returning Board n
it constant menace to their liberties. A
= ter all its professions Of reform, II
|. branch Of the Legislature has enacte
q no measure of retrenchment. This
Il It's history during the past eight years
, What more is to be expected from Il
O II has made promises only to brea
a them No man can point TO an homes
10 and beneilcent act in its wretche
% record of villainy. What right, then, ha
y any sensible man to counsel moderatio
u or forbearance toward its chiefs, no,
q that they are where we can strik
themp The cry Of reform is as NEAR
ingless now as heretofore. and the couf
10 try will have little patience with thos
l. who give heed to 1t, and little trust /
o those who accept it rs an honest ute
a ance. When the people hear Radical
le shouting reform, reform, they seem I
D. bnnr tho b,,u1a hlacf IF tho rs,hh,r Il ~,