The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-12-08

fT. One of the editors of the Louis
Vile Courier has recently returned
from Brazil. He says the {" South,
poor. ruined, and desolate as she is, is
worth hundred Brazils yet. TN. Q.
Times.
Pray, why should we leave our pleas
ant homes in the sunny South to hunt
new ones in Brazil or Mexico? VIII
il add to our interest or happiness to
settle permanently in the Empire of
Pedro ii 7? Indeed, we are opposed to
any general emancipation to Brazil or
any other country. We repeat, in all
seriousness, why should we leave 7 Of
our once fair, happy and prosperous
land. it is now lamentably true
amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is
seen.
And desoIation saddens all thy green"
Yet, will immigrating to other lands
ameliorate our conditionf Not at all.
It may be answered, because great
change has taken place-because our
social relations have been broken up,
our property destroyed, our political
rights denied US, the military quartered
among US, defying civil authority and
sustaining a system (the Freedmen's
Bureau) ingeniously contrived to an
noy and harrass US almost beyond hu-
man endurance-in fine, because we
are a conquered people, suffering all
the humiliation and wrong which con-
querors are apt to impose, with small
prospect for change for the better.
This is all very bad, we alIow--it il
sad to think of hard to bear, but it may
be borne, and it may be wiser for US to
endure all which now so heavily presses
upon US, than to risk the experiment Of
new homes in a distant country, among
strange people, speaking an unknown
language, and whose habits of thought
and action are so different from our own
It is q trying thing for men of middle
age.or past that period of life, to chang,
their locations or habits, to break az
the associations of time, TO leave al
that has become dear to them by thousan'
memories, and go far away to strange land
never to return to the scenes of TIER earl!
joys and sorrows. Besides, where would
citizen of the South find o more lovely re
giOn than the one he had left behind him wit
tears of regret ~ te
There is another consideration Not man
are able TO leave even should they desire i
The young men, without families or incun
hrances, might manage to get out of th
country but, under the circumstances, Is
manly in them to go and leave others to
tate they are unwilling to sharef Is it nc
aduty for all to remain, help one anOthe
and await common destiny4 Why shout
we be forced from our native land and tn
homes we love 1t is the very thing on
to go and leave them with their brother n,
grOes, to the possession of the fine climat
and rich soil which they have SO long envie
and coveted. Let us stay where we are.
is our country. We were borne here, it wa
the homo of our farthers, it is our heritag
and let US cling to it, die on it, and rest
last IN its friendly bosom. II we are true
our selves and give way to no unmanl
meanings or vain and pitiful supplicatioI
for pardon and favor, when we have done /
wrong in the sight of mad or God and hay
only been the victims of greed and powe
we shall not fill dishonored graves. II
time will come when justice will be don
If not tous, to our memories HH
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers"
Error, wrong and injustice will not o
ways prevail. RetributiOn, although Ion
delayed, is as certain as the existence
God. We say say to the people of the Sout
bepatient, remain where you are, do Il
best your circumstances permit and abb
the viii of Heaven.