New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-04
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at is but a little while since the glorious
effort of John Wilkes Booth gave fresh
hone to the friends Of liberty, and canon
lied the name of the heroic youth IN the
! hearts of all who believe that resistance
to tyranny is obedience to Cod
1.-THE name of John Wilkes Booth will
90 down TO future generations along with
that of Brutus.
when the merciless petty tyrants that
now perpetrate the most hideeus crimes in
the name of liberty in this stricken land
shall have passed into the gulf Of oblivion,
their very names forgotten their deeds IN
recorded, the name Of John Wilkes Booth.
the young American patriot of the nine
teenth century, growing greener with each
revolving year, and brighter with each
fresh triumph of human liberty, will be
the watchWord of freedoms children until
the last syllable of recorded time. I'D
Crosse Democrat.
Probably the paper from which the
above elegant() extract is made has a
larger circulation in New Orleans than any
other paper published outside OF this city.
When the extract which we quote was read
in the Wisconsin legislature on the 10th Of
last month, Senator Clark, a leading Dem
ocrat of that state, said:
He must protest against Brick POme-
rOy's getting into private conversation with
him and learning his sentiments, and then
publishing them as originating with him
self.
Do Senator Clark and men like him I'M
derstand that such ebullitions Of folly and
passion, indulged perhaps for the amuse
ment of the spectators, become stern reali-
ties in these Southern states? Do they
know that from the seed they so recklessly
scatter may come harvest of lawlessness.
of outrage, and Of murder? In the South
sentiments like those expressed by the La
Crosse Democrat inCite the passions and
gladden. the hearts of the disloyal clements
in politics, in society, and in the church,
and retaTd the development of that true
loyalty and kindly feeling toward the gov
eminent which must precede complete
and prosperous Reconstruction.
Men in the South who would inaugurate
new rebellion, who would again wade
through "seas of blood and build
pyramids OF bones" grasp at such sen
timents in Northern papers and from
Northern men as drowning men grasp at
Straws, and triumphantly hold them up be-
fore their ignorant and lawless and des-
perate followers as evidence that the North
is now ready to fight on their
side the battles Of another rebellion They
arouse the slumbering passions and cheer
the hopes and ambitions Of conquered
rebels by pointing to such evidence that
the North is on the verge Of civil war, and
will avenge the wrsngs (D and the dead of
the South. Shame on the Northern papers
and Northern men who thus for party, or
for interest, or for money, wOuld deceive
even enemies to their ruin!
Shame on such traitors to their education,
their civilization, and their country! If
the South is again devastated by civil war it
will be because of such blind leaders Of the
blind. These gulf states are already like
fax which one spark may fire, and peace
and order can 7o,o be maintained only by
the iron hand Of a military commander.