The New Orleans Bulletin

REALIZING THE SITUATION.

The Republican, the property and official organ of the usurpers of the State Government, is becoming seriously alarmed at the growing dissatisfaction of the people. The rumors of vigilance committees strike terror in the hearts of those who have imagined themselves safely and securely installed in the positions they have snatched from the lawful owners. The mutterings of the people are growing louder and louder, and their wrongs and grievances are assuming a shape that make the perpetrators tremble for their safety. They are right in their fears. Their own consciences tell them that the people have just cause to rebel against the oppression and outrages that have been put upon them.

They see and realize fully the fearful condition to which the country has been reduced by an imbecile and corrupt government. They know that the people have tolerated and submitted with unparalleled patience and forbearance to all kinds of spoliation, usurpation and tyranny. And they begin to feel, now that the end of the tether has been reached, that the time has arrived when forbearance must cease; that self-protection, self-respect, personal honor and true manhood demand that no more concessions be made for the sake of policy and expediency.

We are not surprised then to find the columns of the organ overflowing with cautions and threats to "the partisans who are trying to brew a storm." We are not surprised—nor are we intimidated either, in the slightest degree—to find its advice to Attorney-General Field, its appeal in behalf of the militia appropriation, and its sinister allusion to the police and to Gen. Longstreet. We are not surprised at this display of trepidation on the part of the pensioned organ. The outburst of the people may abruptly end the political career of its patrons, and that timid sheet may find itself swallowed up in the vortex of the brewing storm.

That the people are in earnest no better proof is wanting than the four columns of yesterday's Republican. In one column a citizens' patrol is seen; in another, a vigilance committee is discovered; in another an ornamented lamp-post looms up in the distance, and in the other, the demolition of the present hideous dynasty is mournfully depicted.

There is no concealing the fact that something must be done for the redemption of the State—The remedy is in the hands of the people, and if they choose the yoke that grinds them to the earth can easily be snapped asunder. Poverty and misery, confiscation and ruin stalk through the land, whilst the usurpers and despoilers revel in luxury and the wealth extorted from a too submissive people.

Let not the people, then, heed the idle and puerile threats of the Republican. They are like the boastings of the robber who, detected in his crimes and seeing no escape, makes bold to resist and to fight. But his fuming is only effervescent, and rapidly dissipates when the gag and the nippers are applied. We have only to be determined and firm—resolved to help ourselves and rely upon a just Providence to give us victory in the good cause of justice against wrong, liberty against oppression, honest and intelligent government against fraud, corruption and ignorance.