The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-09-22


worthsness and crime downward congratulate them upon
and improvement in the religion morality
W here without the Catholic test they had not word to saw
tne word which they dared the ce
MS ar and beautiful idea Of the reyv6caion exaaon
nationality was above the vulgar abuse uttered in the
sang phrases OF party dialects There who accused
these The they relied for aid and
port brushing the dust from their when leaving their pres
enc rushed into the order corridors which led to our
were night and day crowded with native American
who came to feel in midst that they were the descendants
giants and the soldiers Of the Republican All was great and
glorious within wallis We had secret was secret to be
Kept by nation and to be national There was no
in our midst The storm Of nvee abuse that ragged
WITHOUT did not reach sauctua We had lanterns
the holy spark of lofty patriotism kindg hearts the glad and
lights of the past umne pathways pillar
fire. moving through the wilderness guide the chosen host to the
Land Of Promise
You speak Of secret meetings. societies How was the re
gon to which you belong which belong eabhed In the
dark and gloomy aod of the beneath the dmes Of the Imperial
City, where the filth and corruption the Old World rolled the de-
um Of power and iy the honeshead persecutd Chris
ans met alone in the dismal abode with senns their DOORS and
while the conseca priest from the altar held to their orspfu
gaze the symbol of redemption their torches burned dmy in the
heavy atmosphere and ghe the surrounding darkness even as the
light Of Gods TRUTH gncg from Mount Calvary umined their
breasts Et5"t - -I5I
Theirs secret meetings having Heaven am as we had
eouh"y loOkeu 10 Heaven we looked Earth
After the love of God the love country full the heart
and fills with the hoest and purcst affections we erred we erred
In the search Of truth We erred being no purer worthy
sympathy worthy consideration respect than those who
IN their unho triumph would honor with debg pity
1t from the midst Of death that great and living principle of
Christianity issued forth into the world regenerae redeem m
erng humanity and to all hearts toward Heaven where the
light of Gods mercy shining councils we had
expected the Destiny ISSUE might be our prospects
will be thward might be hopes will be crushed but it
idle is than childish their part disturb the sere
tude of conscience by denuciaon abusive epets
curry hearts the consciousness Of high motives and lofty
fall must will fall like Spartan trusting that if this days
lights the Thermopym the womb of me the ges Of its
bountifulness will bring forth SALAM1s and PLATEA Avowng
to excite the sympathy of strangers that
mone in their endeavors their native land We will fall with
the unshrinng and suen defiance os-no like
and coward begging mercy and pity from those would have
spared. a4- "."
When spoke the dangers evils foreign influence they
questioned motives and denied the pointed
returns referred to the statistics Of the country showed them
that within the last eleven years from the st of December
the lst of December 1851 there had the States
34395 Foreigners They bowed acquescence but denied that
this immigration gigantic and overwhelming as could be %
ious the country We pointed the disorders which had taken
place. the riots Of these the violence Of their proceedings their
brutal assaults upon the Constitution the public auctions of the
sciences of men, tagging place in the light of Gods They told
with Judge Ros there be ny bidders will be no sae
l
be nothing be so and there will be bidders and there will be
no sales"
Who fill parish prisons your worhouse your peniteniares?
Not the hone aboes and artisans who enjoy
quiet and repoenot Native Americans but the paupes
nals of other lands against whom would safeguard Republic
but whom inAexbe and dreadful fatality to lead you
and feed maintain and defend the face of the ruin
and desolation brought to our doors. - r.U
Ibeg leave to submit few facts your consideration
By table published the Compendium of the Seventh Census
giving the number Of convc in the prisons and peenaies the
States out of every ten thousand Of the population of natives
and foreigners in that number is follows: a..
In Maine Of every thousand is five foreigners
In Kentucky, six to
| In Mississippi, ten to two.
| In NewYork, three to
| In Tennessee fifteen to two.
| In Vermont, eight to
| In South Carolina, twentyeight to
! In Alabama, fifty to
| In Georgia. six to one.
! In Indiana four to
The average all the States is fraction less than six to
capital oense of hundred and twenty convictions
which took place about eighteen MONTHS States viz in
Pennsylvania Missouri Louisiana New jersey Massachu
sets Maryland there hundred and foreign
ers to eighty-wo Of natives
! Now, make citizens Of them! -.