The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-12-09
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mails than the Express, and we have
often had occasion to admire its sound
and steadfast conservatism. From no
other paper would we accept admoni-
ton or rebuke so kindly: we only wish
that there were thousands more OF pa
pers to speak the sentiments which
animate the editors and mark the gen
eral tone of the Express. But we are
inexpressably panied that so true a
friend should fail TO appreciate the ex-
treme gravity Of the troubles which
have befallen us, and the troubles still
more grave which iinpend in the evil
DAYS near at hand.
Our land is invaded, our citizens
slaughtered in cold blood, our slaves
cited to rebellion, and to promiseuous
butchery of our wives and children
and we are asked to ''keep cool" One
half of the Republic, and that the
most populous, and claiming to be the
most enlightened, eannonizes the as
>sassinsin our midst as saints and mar
tyrs. The press, the pulpit, the To-
| rum of the North resound with denun-
ciatiepsif we dare avcnge the blood of
our slain by the justpunishmont efthe
slayers. And we are asked to keep
cool!p We are told that large ma
iority Of the people of the North sym
! pathise with us, that handful of fam
atics sympathise with 0ssawattomie
/ Brown. Yet careful perusal of the
hundreds of Northern papers that
come to our officeshows us that scarce
ly one paper in hundred stands up
| boldly for the South, Of the papers
that make no martyrs crown for Brown
| of the papers that exhibit some trace
of reason, nine out of ten are clamer-
Gus for the pardon at the most vulgar,
mendacious, brutal and bloody outlaw
that ever disgraced the land. The ey-
idence of sympathy for us is rare and
feeble; the evidence of sympathy for
the ruffian Brown and his crew is vio-
lent and overwhelming In Iced it is
but too plain that the North, wilfully
or unwittingly, is banded together as
one man for our destruction. In all
the earth outside the Southern line
there is not State, scarcely commu-
nifty which understands, appreciates or
truly cares for that institution which
brings us into "irrepressible conflict"
with a population twice as great as our
own and daily becoming more implaca-
BILE in their enmity and more insoIent
in their behavior. The very last out
rage that can be inflicted on a people
has been inflicted on us. The ramifi-
| cations of the plot are traced through
out the entire North, the accomplices
of the assassins are found among the
most active and influential men of the
North and they are blatant in their
avowal of it. If there are other influ-
entail men who take part with us
against sedition and enacted civil war,
we know them not. They are silent.
And now our best friend comes forward
and asks US to ''keep COOL"
We have kept cool. For thirty years
we have patiently brooked the growth
and arrogance of the abolitionists.
Timid at first. they have become the
overshadowing power of this unhappy
country. The destiny of the Repub-
lie is at length in their Keeping; the
Constitution is violated in every letter
by their high-handed outrages /; the
little conservative spirit left at the
North is awed by their braggart
strength; the rights of property of
every sort are now at their mercy;
and they openly avow their determine
ton to make the South one wide scene
of rapine and carnage. Nor is there
found in all the North one man of
courage and command enough to stand
up and rebuke them. Yet are we COM
manded to keep COOL" We are to look
upon the pixies forged in Northern
workshops by Northern hands and
paid for with Northern money, to be
placed in the hands of savage negroes,
drunken with delight of murder, and
by them plunged into the breasts of
helpless women and children, and
keep COOL"
We have kept cool. Under provo
cations thousand-fold greater than