The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-13
" An Oasis in a Desert. "

nave passed into history: GAN is
lost except honor !" From the day
Of Lees surrender, up to the pres
ent hour, we have heard boasting- |
Iy re-echOed from press and rOs-
trum, the hustings and street cor
ners, Z" the South has lost all ex-
cept her honorw Can she go
farther and not loose that? Quien
Sdbe D.? Gentlemen of tried pa
triotism and eminent abilities tell
us not-that policy henceforth
must alone be our watchword;
that ''principle" is, as it were, non
ems, and must give away to the
"ineXorable logic of events'-pale
its intellectual fres' before the
advancing CLEAN of the bayonet-
'Glimmer, as funeral lamps,
Amid the chills and damps
OF the vast plain where death encamps,"
and subside forever beneath the
black tide Of anarchy and ruin.
All for immagined "expediency."
Nom onsRe ticitum hoaeStum.
In this hour of excitement,
croaking and despair, when the
greater portion Of the crew have
"given up the ship to the mercy
of the angry waves of fanaticism,
it is indeed as ''an oasis in a
DESERT" to hear the faithful chal-
lenge Of a friendly sentinel "on
duty" ringing a clear and distinct
shalt, what comes here!m to the
Radical rampage Of the hour, that
will soon, if not halted in it's on
ward course of destruction, pre-
cipitate in its wonton fury, our
fair land into the frightful abyss OF
irretrievable ruin. Such ''chal
lenge' is the following noble Ian
guage of that faithful sentinel
McCranie, of the Ouachita Tele
graph:
much of the advice now pressed
upon the South to accept military re
construction proceeds from disquietudt
and fear. 1t has no foundation in prin
ciple. but in preeipitate desire to
conciliate an usurping and relentles
power. The people are told that they
are conquered, and in some measur,
they are but need that deter a nation
from resisting by peacible aud consti
tutional means every effort to drag
them headlong into hopeless vassalage
A man may he unhealthy, the victim
of a chonic disease which promises f
do its work speedily and thoroughly
and yet should he not, and does he not
manully resist its encroachments
None are so powerless and so DEGRADED
as those who, having the means of re
sistance to wrong and oppression, hav
, not the courage and manliness to re
sist. An effort is made TO tread GU
every vestige of Southern independents
} by the creation of loyal negro party
which, while it shall degrade the Soutt
will at the same time perpetuate tn
rule of the Puritan and the Radical
, We are invited to accept this benifcen
proposition to reconstruct the State
, and told if we do not military despot
E ism will continue. And there are mer
wo be tito them hereafter who counst
l acceptance of the infamous terms ter
dered, in order, as they say, to reliev
the country of military government
. the government under which we hav
!. lived two years, and which is infnitel
: preferable to any negro governmel
U the world has ever produced! b.
s what guarantee have we that recon
struction as per the Bill of Opprobium
$50 called by Albert Pike,) will d
away with military rule ! The onl
q assurance given is in that rope of san
e the bill itself, which provides onLy fl
d Radical representation in Congress
e and which provision Radical Coz
/ gress may repeal at any moment al
upon the slightest pretext. That
! all.
T but suppose we are re-admitte
will we then get free of military law
If so. why are Missouri, Kentuck
k and Tennessee, States in and of Il
q Union, parts and parcels of milital
= districts ! Is it for such trihin
II worthless, hap-hazard vagaries as the
n that the advocates of military reco
struction ask the Southern people
IS sign and seal the bond of their country
- and their posterity's infamy? Aba
yourselves, you people who have fac
n death in every shape, and who are Il
q inheritors by natural right of the tit
of SOvEREIGNs, and let the car of Ju
q gernaught pass over your neck'
h Repose confidence in those who wou
impale liberty itself Bow meek
l. apd time Won shall sfon 4Lo rrb;-Irr;