The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-11-30
Hon. s. s. Cox Offers Conso-
1ation to the Radicals.

Hon. Samuel S. Cox recently
made speech in Buffalo, New
York, which is so full of consola-
tory advice to the defeated Radi-
Gals that we must give a few
extracts. He tells them, in the
following, the use of minorities.
He says:
| l would especially congratulate
you, my unrepentant, truculent
Radicals, that you are marching
on, with melancholy music and
furled flag, to take that place so
long and so honorably occupied
by the Democracy-the position
of a respectable minority. Do not
undervalue the position! In it
you may earn the plaudit of Ar
temus Ward to General Washing
ton: ''He was useful.n Mr.. EN-
erson, the transcendentalist, said
at Cambridge, this summer, that
there was great utility and hope
in minority. The right and exer-
else of criticism-the virtue that
disdains to follow power, to fatten
on its rottenness, the Independent
and aggressive dash, are the attri-
butes OF an honorable and unter-
rifed minority. These may be
yours. The hour cometh when oar
majority will dictate political ac-
tiOn; be sure we will not lessen
your usefulnes by following your
example. We will not ostracise
where we cannot answer. We
will not villipend where we cannot
| praise. We will not imprison
where we cannot agree. We will
not mob where we cannot ar
que. We will not teach forbear-
ance to the South while forgetting
it to our neighbors. We will try
and be as christian in the future
as in the past.
In one sense, it is quite pleas
ant to be in the minority. You
not only escape responsibilities
and troubles, but you escape the
cry of the vultures and the jackals
who follow the live lion till he
drops. You will find minority a
healthy state. No party ever
needed it more. hope you will
prepare for it's duties better than
you did for those of the majority.
When he comes to Ohio, he
glows with flowery rhetoric in the
following terms: '5 . .sa
To swamp forty thousand ofthe
Republican majorities oflast year;
to gain in nearly every county; to
defeat the black suffrage by
thirty-five thousand; and to elect
a Democratic Legislature and un-
seat the President of the Senate,
Senator Wade, is rather astonish-
ing! It is said that in New Zea-
land there is a splendid flower,
white as lilly, which, when its
| petals open to the sun, resounds
with the report of artillery in the
tropical forests. This was the way
Ohio effloresced! Is she not white
and radient? The thunder there
of, is it not the very music of the
spheres 2
| Yet it is sad 10 see the fall come,
| though it brings us the fruits
The russell leaves, the gray morn,
the fading flowers, the voiceless
birds, and the wind moaning it's
requiem over the grave of summer,
are a part of that Providential
order which regards as well the
fall of a little sparrow as of a great
party. My Radical friend, you
have been used to seeking the
ways of Providence through polit-
ical events. Study them with
this election in view, and tell me
if I am right when say, ''God is
holding you over hell for some
wise purpose" He may not drop
you. Perhaps / might, in my
finite view of your deserts
Whether he does or not, may de-
pend upon the quality of your
pantaloons. If they are shoddy,
farewell If He suspends you for
a time, to inhale the incense and
hear the applause of the pit, it
: may be as a warning not to draw
politics from hate and malice,
which do not come from above,
but follow us in the benignant
: teachings of good will to all.
eI 70 Says the Albany Argus
I kLCAoxro~,., 4I,opT1c God for tho Ap.