The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-03-21
THE GREAT

1he work goes bravely on. Mao
ness, injustice, and intolerance are rous-
ing the people from a dangerous lethar
gy, and the signs now promise the com
plete overthrow of the revolutionary
rump, which b. its tyranny and mis-
rule has brought the country to the verge
ofruin, and would not hesitate to precipi.
tate another bloody collision, ifthe least
political benefit was promised by a resort
to Wms. The Buffers, Logans, AShleys.
Sumnefs,And such like, who live by
agitation and sttrift, and trade upon the
mistortunes of the coaaatury' have done
their bes, during the last frSee years to
prevent the possibility of reconci'ia;t'fon'
and to keep up comnotion. Wit ,ont
it they would cease to exist. Hence,
peace is the last thing these selfish dem
agogues desire, and against it all their
violent energies have been directed.
1t is only necessary to look at the de-
plorable condition of the country to-day
in order to learn what vast injury may
be inflicted by adisciplined faction, such
as now controls the Legislation OF Con-
gress. Ten States are governed by the
bayonet, in order to force negro supre.
macy down the throats Of the white pop.
%luation, and to manufacture votes for
the Presidential election, Those rich
States, which contributed over three
hundred millions in staples alone to the
annual wealth Of the country, are pros
trate, impoverished. and desparing,
under the military domination. Their
commerce is lost, tlrei4 markets are DIES
troyed, and ruin stalks abroad through
their fields and cities. The people of
the North are compelled, not only to.
bear their own heavy burdens OF taa
alton, but must also make up the dtf
Of the non-produeing South, and w.
port, besides, the costly dtspotismRich
O rules it as Poland is governs
Is it to be wondered at, then, Wat in
dustry should languish in the Northern
States; hat manufactures should be
paraIyzed, that commerce should fall off,
that the internal revenue shonld dimin-
isE, that tens of thousands Of mechan-
les should be idle, that confidence should
have departed, that alarm should seize
the public mind, and that vague and
approximations should be univer-
No for these are consequences
as natural as cause and effect. If the
whole social and poll ical organization
is convulsed as ours has been-frst by
tour Jears Of civil war, and then by
three years Of willful and wicked agita-
designed expressly to prolong and
pmbitter sectional strife-such results
Pe inevitable. They could easily have
been avoided by a policy of prudence af-
/ r the close OF the war. But faction
was dabninant and dictatorial, and was
cent upon mischief. After plunging the
country into an enormus debt, and squan-
the wrung from al over
:axed people, these J%acobins have now
'2tered4on the last scene Of their in
drama, with the deliberate de-
;iesG of seizing the Presidency by a
fraudulent impeachment, and subvert-
ng the Government: - "a" -. ii"
IA people have submitted until for
" Pance has ceased to be a virtue.
phey now sre before them but one of.
# two alternatives, either to sacrifice
nd surrender their liberties, or rise up
Nd crush out, with q mighty will, these