The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-08-10
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One national enormity after
another has been fastened upon
our people, until they have become
possessed of a feyerishly excited
desire to flee the country, to rid
themselves of present outrages
andprospeetive dangers. Hondu-
ras, Mexico, Europe--anywhere,
seems to them to be preferable, at
! present, to the land in which they
were reared, and around which
| must cluster SO many pleasing
| heart born memories. 93ssE
These evidences of expatriation
manifest anything but honorable
or enviable actions. They are, to
say the least of them, evidences
of political cowardice, to which
/ might be safely added lack of
financial sagaeity. SIT 10 euug
Our exchanges force upon our
minds the conviction that this
moving mania is as widespread as
the circumference of the South,
and in some instances threatens
to almost depopulate entire COM
munities. Recently DIR. Durham,
Of our county, has gone on tour
of inspection to British Honduras,
with the view, if he is pleased, Of
endeayoring to cOlonize with
native-born Southerners small
portion of that delectable land.--
1t is well to reconnoiter before
moving, and we do not doubt,
after q thorough investigation OF,
and personal acquaintance with
the natives, laws, manners, GUS
toms, and disadvantages of that
new land, that the Doctor will
return wiser and better satisfied
man, willing to remain where he
was, and advising others to do
likewise.
i Tt has been said that "West-
ward the star Of empire takes it's
way,n but now, amidst the Aztecs,
in the Halls of the Montezumas,
along the highways marked BY
the ensanguined footprints of Cor
: tez and Pizarro, and their thou
sand .cOld.hearted and blood
} thirsty successors, down to the
doubly-dyed villain and assassin,
Juarez, it is not altogether certain
that the sstar of empire would
not be eclipsed by the sun of a
, fatal destiny, or obscured and lost
in the clouds of anarchy and con-
fusion which hang over that land
81 like a pail Of death.
The man who leaves the United
J States, doubtful and distressing
as things are with us, and seeks
Z to better his fortunes in any OF
! the empires or republics above
! enumerated, is making bad worse
! We advise our friends, who con
J template a change of base, to re
member that immigrants even in
: governments of the most liberal
!, and best administered laws
Z where civilization, the sciences
4 and arts flourish and are encour
Q aged, and where the political
4 moral and social structure OF so
! ciety is unexceptional, meet witt
T a sufficiency of embarrassment
and perplexities; but when the,
8 contemplate going into a countr,
,, composed as the South American
u republics are, of mixed, mongre
a breeds of Africans, Indians, Mes
< tizoes, Sambos, Lazzaro's, Poems
, and '.whatrnots,n where publi
y and private feuds blend together
4 and revolutions and civil war
'r follow each other with the rapid
! ty Of thought, it viii be infnitel,,
worse, and itwould be advisahi
q for them to pause and reflect, AM
y sscount the COST before rushin
q wildly into what might prove .
x them vortex of political, socia
e, and financial ruin. biGo1 3 ilam.