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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-09-12

The Republican of yesterday morn
ing calls Chief Justice Ludeling, John
Ray and Governor Warmoth ssdebased
whites" and wishes the fact known in
Maine. It also ANNOUNCES to the citi-
zens Of New Orleans that they belong to
Gen. Grant in the condition Of paroled
prisoners. Tell us some more.
n. @. Times, 4th.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-09-12
THE t)PEl)uSAS JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
For the Opelousas Journal, ]

For the Opelousas Journal,
TO MISS III. x. M. PERKINS, ON THE PRE-
SENTATI0N OF THE BANNER TO TIL
HANCOCK GUARDS " OF 0PEL0UsAs. La.
SEPT. 8, 1858. fl 49,.
Thou fashest in my soul to seem
A star.like being from on high;
Th embodying of an Eden dream,
A Rainbow in fairy sky,
A radiant shadow on life's stream
Whose holy beauty cannot die,
Whose glorious image is more bright
Than bodied visions robed in light.
The rich hair bathes thy forehead's snow
AS dark clouds hathe glaciers cone,
And shades thine eyes impassioned glow,
And sinless thoughts their glory throne
Upon that spirit brow-and oh!
'Twere mirrored in the Parian stone
That angel brow as pure and white
As waves that foam in oceans night.
And oh that form, too wildly fair
To be shrine for mortal's love,
A seraph's sainted beauty's there.
A shadow from the world above;
No spirit in the twilight air
Transcends thee-scarce of mortal mould
Whom dream-toucked glories SO enfold
\ Thine image lie in memory's shrine
A vision and an angel thing,
I And oh the thoughts that round it twine
A brightness DER the spirit fling;
Earth has no beauty passing thine, f.
And round thy memory glories cling;
As round the saint the halo fame,
The incense of the heart to claim.
L may not see thee moreno more
Bewildered by thy beauty's blaze,
Yet star is fixed forevermore
Within the spiris's sky, whose rays
Shall gild life's dark and desert shore,
And light the winter of its days,
And smile IN beauty's seraph form,
Al angel halo in earth's storm!
ORION"
Washington, La, Sept. 9th, 1868.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-09-12

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRoR,-Take
care what thou sovest, as if thAl vert
taking care for eternity. That wing,
Of which the scripture speaketh, hat is
it Yesterday, perhaps, some evil t. epta-
ton came upon you-the opportud y Of
unrighteous gain, or Of unhallowe in:
lnaRce, came, either in the sph pt
CO. u a1eagare, OF society,
solitude. If you ysg st. the
there did you plant a SCI iss
and sorrow Tomorrow, II
will threaten discovery; al j
alarmed. you will cover i
bury it deeper, IN falsehood =
crisy. In the hiding bosom. EE6it.
full soil of kinGred vices, $ dies
MT. but thrives and III aHher,
and stu other g ~ syI sther
around ths asculssa that
single seed OF corruption, thefs Springs
up in the soul all that is horrible in
habitual lying, knayery. or vice. The
evil deed may be done, alas in mo.
ment--in one fatal moment; but con.
science never dies; memory never sleeps
guilt never can become innocence p q
remorse can never, never VIII peace
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-09-12

It is exceedingly bad husbandry 10
harrow up the feelings of your wife, to
rake up old quarrels, to hoe a grudge,
and to SOW discord.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-09-12
OnELegislativc Attilas.

i It is impossible for lis to do justice tc
the enormities of our Radical Legisla
ture, without devoting an undue share
of our columns to their daily exposure
1t would fill one whole edition and con-
sumo all ones time to keep up with the
diabolic fertility of mis- -hief and viaainy
of this unparalleled body. The political
history of this country, of all the States,
may be searched in vain for examples of
like folly, audacity, venality and disre-
gard of all the rights and interests Of the
people. H..
These self-styled representatives are
legislative Attilas who are impelled by
the barbarous spirit of devastation and
desolation. Their highest ambition is
that no stone may be left on another, and
no grass grow where they have camped
They treat the State and the people as
enemies whom it is good service to i'm
poverish, to oppress, to cripple, to des-
troy.
When protest or objection is made
to any of their schemes, the answer is
readily made by McMillen and his van
dalic horde, "What rights have rebels,
is it not our duty to grind and crush
them?''
Their whole scheme is thus described
by one Of them. ''The confscation and
DISTINGUISHING acts of Congress were al
together too mild we. of this Radical
Legislature, must complete their work
and clean out the rebellious people. Let
us then quadruple their taxes. Let US
increase the expenses of the government
ten times what they We're. Let US ex-
tend the powers and salaries of our Rad
ical officials. Let us create every sort
of monopoly for organizations composed
of our own carpet-baggers. Let us es-
tablish Pr@torian band, and armed po-
lice to enforce our laws. Let US have a
school system which will give to the
chief of the carpet-baggers the most alb.
solute control and ownership of all the
children of the State, and then, when
these and a score of other equally eff
cient measures for the Strengthening of
our grasp ON these contumacious rebels
shall become laws, we will turn our at
tention to fat little jobs for the faithful of
our party, beginning with that good
young man Warmoth, and running
through the whole list of the suffering
patriots. This is what our predeces-
sors in 1864 did. Hahn, Fish, NAPLES,
etc, feathered their nests by confsca-
tions. This is our chance. and we mustn't
throw it away. Was not this the course
of William the Conqueror, and of all 9TH
er successful and victorious invaders?
Why should we not have our Doomsday
Book ?"
There is no exageration in this pic.
ture. A reference to the reports of the
doings and plannings of the Legislature
in session on Dryades street will con-
vince any disinterested observer that the
men who are controlling and directing
that body have no other object but to
bankrupt, degrade and ruin this State
for their own advantage. They may we'll,
with bitter irony, repeat Grants excla.
nation, "Let as haze peaee''-in that
sense, in which Tacitus so tersely des-
cribes the great victory Of an Imperial
desolator-"they create desert and call
itspeace. - N. 0. Times.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-09-12

The negro question is already prov.
ing fruitful Of dissensions among the
Radical ranks at the North. In accord.
ance with the asserted principles of the
Republican party. the ''colored boys in
blue" demanded fellowship with the reg.
ular organization in New York, an were
sustained in their demand by a few of
the leading politicians. A deadly quar-.
rel ensued, which almost ended in break.
ing up the organization and could hardly
be quieted even after the proposition
was withdrawn. Chicago has also been
the scene of a similar conflict. The
Irish aud German tanners swore death
to the black tanners if the latter were al.
lowed in their professions, and it, conse-
quently, was thought prudent to exclude
them. Other localities have witnessed
similar trouble, and none but the blind
est can now fail to see that the only true
friends Of the colored race are to be
found among. the people with whom
they were born and brought up, and
with whose interests henceforth their own
must be to great extent identical.
N. 0. Times.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-09-12

b. A. MARTEL. GEO. W. HUDSPETH
B. A. MARTEL & MUDSPETH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OpelOusas, La.
Having formed partnership for the prac
tice of law, will attend to professional bust.
ness in St. Landry and adjoining parishes
Opelousas Nov %, 1867.
JAMES WI. PORTER.
AT RNEY AT LAW.
Office an Opelousas near tho Court House.
Will practice in the Courts of the 9Th Judi.
cial District comprising the Parishes of St
Landry, Calcasieu, Lafayette and Vermilion.
Opelousas, Nov %, 1867.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-03

s5 600 coo loaned would be repaid from the
profits of the tunnel within three years there
after. Mr.. Sutro has prosecuted his under
taking with an energy worthy the grandeur
and importance which must attach to it should
it succeed. Beside the hearty cooperation OF
the Legislature and people of Nevada, aud OF
the mining companies interested, and OF the
Committee of the House on Mines and Mining,
TO whom the subject was referred, and OF the
press of the Pacific States and the mining in-
terests, his project is indorsed by such dis
tinguished experts as Professor Bowen Of Har-
ward; Baron Won Beust Chief of the Mining
Department of Saxony; Bernhard Won Gotta,
Professor Of Mining and Geology at Freiburg;
julius Wessbach, Royal SaXonian Mining
Councillor and Professor; DR.. Won Dechen, Chief
OF the Mining Department and Privy Councillor
of Prussia; H.. Koch, Royal Prussian Chief
Mining Councillor; Bruno Kerl, Professor at
the Royal Mining School of Berlin; Michel
Chevalier the French Economist and Senator;
A. Daubree, Inspector General OF the Mines of
France; and many others of like eminence and
special familiarity with the subject The con-
struction of a single tunnel like that proposed
would demonstrate to practical miners aud
capitalists the utility of such enterprises
wherever operations have been prosecuted on
fssure veins to depth that renders the cost
equal to the income, and would thus lead to
the prosecution of other similar enterprises
by private capital. The case is unique
and peculiar one. The consequences of with
holding the aid will be the speedy destruction
and loss of the private capital now invested
in mines to five times the value of the aid
sought; while the consequences of granting the
aid will probably be to add very heavily to
our annual product of gold and silver, upon
which we rely in some measure for the dis
charge of the national debt. The prospect that
the Government will be speedily repaid the
amount advanced seems to be more immediate
than in the case of any similar aid it has ever
given. The only question, therefore, seems to
be, not whether the aid should be extended,
but on what terms. With every allowance for
the energy with which NJ. Sutro has prose-
cuted the work, in the hope of enlisting pri-
vate capital in the enterprise, it would seem
reasonable that, if the Government furnish
the entire means of bringing it to successful
conc lusion, and sustain, as it must, all the
risk of the operation, it should be paid not
merely the principal and interest of the
amount advanced, but a perpetual royalty on
the proceeds of the operation of the tunnel,
which might wisely be devoted to the endow-
ment of schools of mining or other similar
purpose, or to the payment of the national
debt.
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result. There have also been some changes
in our favor-probably fully as many as there
have been against us. But the result has not
depended to any considerable extent on these
changes. The returns show an increased vote
in the State, aud prove conclusively that this
increase has been in favor of the Democratic
party. This is the reason why that party has
obtained upwards of one thousand majority in
this election.
We have before taken occasion TO show that
the Union party never had anything like the
majority in Oregon which the elections of 1862
and 1864 indicated. On these occasions the
large Union maiorities were due to the fact
that the Democrats did not come out to vote.
Governor Gibbs, in 1862, received less than
half the number of votes which had been
thrown in the Presidential election of lS6Oi
yet he was elected 10y over 5000 majority.
Since the war, the Copperheads who were
'holed up have been coming out. Men voted
this wear who had not voted since 1850. AT
any time since 1862 the Democratic party in
this State would have been able to press the
Union party very hard, simply by setting to
work and coming out in full force at the cleo
tions. But we would have been able to main
tain our ground had it not been for the large
accessions to the Democratic vote from the
classes before described.
This election, therefore, is no indication Of
the result elsewhere. Most OF the other
States have little or none of this rowing, un-
settled population, The people who partici-
pated in the great war are as firm and deter
mined as ever to maintain their principles
and work out the results they have been stri-
wing and fighting for. No person of intelli-
gence and oandOr will mistake the result of
our election for an indication that the Union
party will meet with a national defeat. We
have as large a vote in this State as we had
two years ago, and the Democratic triumph
is due to the increased vote which that party
has received from the classes who have been
drifting in this direction for several years
past. They have been gaining on us in this
way since 1864, reducing our majority in
every election; and this time they have out
voted us. Let none of our friends be de-
ceived by this result into belief or fear that
a Democratic triumph in Oregon under these
circumstances pOrtends the defeat of Grant
and ColfaX.
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4 PO litical Barkis,
The ". Y. EUening Post

From The N. r EUening Post
The World says
eff we can carry the election, it makes little
difference on what platform or with what can
didates."
The World reminds us of the preacher who,
seeking an appointment in a pro-slavery
church, in the old slavery times, promised
that in his sermons he would carefully avoid
all illusions to either politics or religion.
The World is like Barkis, very willing
creature. 1t will support anything or any
body. 1t assured the public few weeks ago
that there was not the least difference be-
tween Pendleton and Chase, and it appears
to be ready now to follow any leader, on any
road, under any flag, and against anybody, to
victory.
Perhaps victory does not lie in that direc-
ton. The World has been a good deal scolded
at by rabid Democratic journals, lately, be-
cause it gave some signs of sound statesman
ship and political principle. The Washington
InteiHgencer called it aspy; the Day Book spoke
of 1t as snake in the grass the Georgia Con-
SttutiondHSt denounced what it called the
Worlds ''treachery and deceit" and the Gin
cinpati Enquirer assured its public "the views
of the World in regard to negro suffrage are
not shared by any other Democratic paper, or
by any other Democrat East or West, to our
knowledge"
Let the wrath of these zealOts cease. The
Worid, which has been eating humble-pie for
two or three weeks, bolts its last huge mouth
full this morning, and has really earned for
giveness.
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The Oregon Election.

From The Portland Oregonian
The opponents of Grant in this State as
sumo that the result Of our election indicates
a certain defeat of the Union Republican party
throughout the country this fall. 1t is per-
haps but natural that they should talk in this
wise and endeavor to magnify the importance
of the little victory they have won in Oregon.
But all candid people will admit that the cleo
tion in this State is no test of the result else
where. There are reasons for this which are
perfectly obvious, and which our friends in
other States, as well as here, ought to be fully
acquainted with.
AS the tive parties were evenly balanced at
our last election, and our opponents had been
increasing in numbers for some time in more
rapid proportion than ourselves, lowing to
the situation and surroundings of the State,
and to the fact that large numbers of Rebel
refugees had for some time been drifting in
this direction), it would have been surprising
If the Union party had been able to fully
maintain its ground. For the last four years
population has been steadily Aocking into
Oregon from the so,called border States of
the West, and from the Territories adjacent
TO us on the east and north, This population
has been, in large part, composed of those
whom the civil commotions forced to leave
their former places of residence. They were
Rebels or Rebel sympathizers, and of course
all OF them thorough going "Demoerats -
Those who were not active RebeIs were of the
rowing, unsettled class who find it irksome TO
live in older communities, and who patnraIiv
vote the Democratic ticket. The tendency 9f
these classes of population has been for
several years in this direction, and the in
creased Democratic vote shows that they
have come in large numbers during the last
two years. The returns show that the
Union vote throughout the State is as large
as it was in the last election. There is a
trihing reduction in some counties, but a
propOrtionate gain in others. No doubt a
few persons might be found here and there
who have changed from the Union to the De-
mocratic side during the past two years; but
fhe number is very inconsiderable. They are
100 small a FRACTION 10 account for the general
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the Convention will probably reassert with
the most strenuous emphasis. The Chicago
Convention proclaimed the strange doctrine
that part of the States can determins tn
Iults OF suffrage for themselves, aud that the
other part csnnot. The Constitution con
cedes to every State all the rights it comedies
to any, and we suppose the Democratic Ma
tiopal Convention will set forth the
Constitutional doctrine on this subject, AMI
reclaim for each State the right to say who
shall vote in its elections, and the right TO
be represented in Congress by such persons as
voters legally in possession of the elective fran
chise may choose.
We trust there will be no such nonsense in
the platform as that this is exclusively white
mans gov srnment, for this was never at any
time Democratic doctrine. The Democratic
doctrine is that this is a government OF the
people, and that it is the right of each State to
determine who are the people qualified for
political functions therein. When State has
freely decided this question, it is the duty of
the Federal Government and all OF the other
States, to respect its decision. 1t is all one to
them whether any particular State allows its
negroes to vote or not. II is none of their
business; and our political woes have all come
from the States and the Federal Government
not minding their own business. Here in New
York we allow negroes to vote on a property
qualification.
In our circumstances this is a sound rule
but whether sound or not, we should regard
it as a piece of impertinence for the National
Convention to tell us that we ought to change
it. The same exemption from outside inter
meddling which we claim for ourselves we are
bound to ooncede to every other State. The
Southern States at present, find themselves
in a new and anomalous condition. and negro
suffrage being present fact, each must g.
termine for itself what, all circumstan ces
considered, it is best to do about it. The
National Convention has no call to dictate, nor
even to advise, their course.
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A Frank Confession.

From the ~ Y. Commercial Advertiser,
"If we can carry the election IL makes littl5
difference on what pleitOrm or with VIII }t can
dldateS. 1t is eNpeJlent to pilcn our
demands in so low a key as 10 give Republicans
an excuse for deSertiug their party. A party in
power can sately do many things which party
out of power cannot attempt without ruin. #
If we can but carry this election we snail
thereafter have Swarms of prOselyteS, and shall
experience no difficulty in establishing any rea-
sonable policy. Even the Republican party
VIII look at public questions through very dir
feIent eyes after q great Democratic victory. It
behOoyes us to have 'gumDlion' en- )ueh to
take hold Of things by the right cad. IN. y
World.
In the above language, our contemporary re-
veals the sole motive which actuates the Demo.
cratic party. "If we can carry the election, it
makes little difference on what platform, or
with what candidates" Principles are out of
the question. Success we aim at, and to
achieve it let us resort to any means fair or
foul; so says the metropolitan organ of the
great unwashed, and it but reiterates their
sentiments. In their grab for spoils the De-
mocratic leaders are willing to jump for
ward, or Jump backward, to achieve sue
cess. They are gathering here from near and
from far not to protest against wrong and in
justice, not to assert and maintain principles,
not to rescue the Government from those they
style Revolutionary radicals, " but they come
simply in order to elect President who will
feed them at the public crib, and permit
them to run their arms into the public trea-
sury. "If we can carry the election, it
makes little difference on what platform, or
with what candidates." These Democratic
leaders are willing to nominate Pendeton,
who opposed the war, believes that the negro
is brute, and advocates the payment of the
public debt in greenbacks, or they are willing
to nominate Chase, who supported the war,
believes that the negro is man and bro
ther, and who advocates the payment of the
public debt in accordance with the terms
agreed upon And this is modern Demo
cIacy
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Universal Niger Suii'rage-The Great
Issue OF the Campaign.

From the ~ r. Herald.
Many muddle headed newspapers argue
that the present quasi settlement of the South
ern States under military rule determines and
closes the great point OF niger suffrage, and
that this is not an open issue of the present
campaign. We pronounce this fallaoy an
impudent pretense, big lie and snare
There is no other issue but this, and the whole
canvass turns purely and simply upon this
point of the political status of the niger in
the Southern States and the right OF the
States themselves to regulate that status. Uni
versal niger suffrage aud the correlative op-
preston of the white man are the points that
divide the parties and the people. All Demo-
crats--by which we mean all men who are in
sympathy with those Democratic principles
mat are the basis of our Government-are
on the one side, and all who in their hearts
ilIp.9- hate democracy and popular liberty, who
IlstlnotiVely oppose the supremacy of the
people IN the Government, are ON the other
ana tlese count upon exercising a control
against the people, keeping the people down
and themselves in Office by the Manufactures
Of bogus vote to be made from the brutal
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-02-13
Notice!

MARY SHrLER. widow of JoLn Sbuler.
M deceased. and Selinda Fisher and Jo,
seph Fisher Samantha Butcher. Willis Butch
err Selina F,sber. Alexander Fisher. Minerva
Hvsel Ebepezer Hysel. Mary Graham. Gehiel
Graham, and the minor beirs of said Jobn
Sbuler. to-wit: Peter shuier and Sarah
Sbuler ali of Gallia conntv. Ohio. will take
notice that a petition was fled against them
on the sth day of January, A. b. 1868, in
the Court of Common Pleas. within and for
tbe the county of Gallia. by George Shuler. and